There’s a time to be bullish. There’s a time to be bearish. And yes - there are times it’s perfectly okay to be neutral and sit it out. Not every moment demands a directional bias. But some people can’t help themselves. They see the slightest pullback and spiral into “the top is in” doom and gloom mode. Every red candle becomes a trauma trigger. Every consolidation becomes a warning sign of an impending apocalypse. I genuinely feel for those people. Because when I hear the insta-bears, I don’t just hear a market take - I see a scar. I hear a past trauma. It reminds me of someone who’s been cheated on. In their next relationship, they carry the weight of that betrayal. They flinch at things that aren’t threats. They bleed on people who didn’t cut them. A lot of traders are doing the same thing. They got burned on a setup - maybe a bad long during a fake breakout, maybe leverage too high into a sell the news event. Maybe they just trusted a narrative that didn’t pan out. And now they see every opportunity as a trap. Every bullish signal is just “bait.” Every pullback is the end. And they preach caution like it’s wisdom - but often, it’s just residue from the last wound. Discernment is key. But trauma masquerading as prudence is just another form of blindness. You don’t have to be a perma-bull. You don’t have to be a perma-bear. But if you’re always “something”…that’s not strategy. That’s unresolved damage. When the time is right, I will be bearish. You have only known me for a few weeks now. And in that time I’ve never had cause to be bearish. When the day comes I do develop a bearish conviction, I will write about it. But we aren’t there yet. Not even close. 🫡 From the depths — The White Whale 🐋