De-Risking in Range-Bound Markets

The daily engine is built to catch a real market-maker cycle, and in a range-bound market there isn't one — just accumulation and, on crypto, plenty of wash trading. Nick walks through a Solana chart to show what a ranging daily looks like, how to filter it with the intraday feed, and why the double-confirmation trade is the safest entry when the daily and intraday agree. Then the habits around it: trading both ways with the real cycle in the back of your mind, switching to a different asset instead of forcing a range, why spreads matter, and why not overtrading — or trading weekends — is a discipline in itself.