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GM. This is Milk Road, the crypto newsletter that's more satisfying than beating your older sibling in an arm wrestle.
Hereâs what we got for you today:
âïž What to look out for this week
âïž Why most traders fail with leverage
đïž The Milk Road Show: Why Most Crypto Investors Pick Wrong (And How to Do It Right)
đȘ We have a new deadline for a whole cohort of crypto ETFs

WHAT TO LOOK OUT FOR THIS WEEK đ
We have a week chock-full of potentially market-moving events, alongside one of the strongest guest lineups in The Milk Road Showâs history!
So get out your Sharpies and prepare to mark your calendarsâŠ
1/ Macro đ
February Retail Sales data - Monday - a temperature check on retail spending
February Housing Starts data - Tuesday - are new houses starting to be built?
Fed Interest Rate Decision - Wednesday - will we get a rate cut this month?
Initial Jobless Claims data - Thursday - has the job market been growing or contracting?
February Existing Home Sales data - Thursday - are existing homes continuing to sell?
None of this data is really expected to surprise anyone. The market is 99% sure we wonât be getting a rate cut. đ
âŠso whyâre we talking about this at all? âCause after the Fed makes its rate cut decision, Fed Chair Jerome Powell will make a public statement, and take questions from the press.
And while all of this data will be looking at February, a lot has already happened in March.
Which means the markets will be going through J-Powellâs statements/responses with a fine-toothed comb in an attempt to tease out any changes to the Fedâs future plans.
(Do they think the economy is in trouble? Will they bring rate cuts forward? Have they changed their outlook?)
2/ Events đ
Nvidiaâs GPU Technology Conference (GTC) kicks off today (ending Friday), where theyâre expected to debut their new AI chip âBlackwell Ultraâ, and a new AI superchip âVera Rubinâ.
What does this have to do with crypto? Nothing directly â but Nvidia is essentially just a giant thermometer that measures the growth of the tech industry.
If the market likes what Nvidia puts down this week, it could help renew confidence across the tech industry (crypto included).
That said, crypto will still have a part to play at the conference.
Near Protocolâs co-founder, Illia Polosukhin, will be speaking on a panel hosted by Nvidiaâs CEO (Jensen Huang) â so bullish crypto news could well be born from this!
3/ Podcasts đ€
As far as guests are concerned, this might be the hardest hitting week in The Milk Road Showâs historyâŠ
On Tuesday, we have Raj Gokal â co-founder of Solana
On Wednesday, we have William Quigley â co-founder of Tether
On Friday, we have Adeniyi Abiodun â co-founder of Mysten Labs (the company behind Sui)
If youâre not already â subscribe to The Milk Road Show and turn on notifications!
(You wonât want to miss these episodes.)
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WHY TAKING ON LEVERAGE IS A TERRIBLE IDEA FOR MOST TRADERS đ
Donât tell PETA, but over the weekend, Crypto Twitter went whale huntingâŠ
Someone spotted a $376M Bitcoin short position, with 40x leverage!
The position was later increased to $380M, with a liquidation price of $86,593, as some deep-pocketed investors began trying to force a liquidation.
So far, it hasnât worked â but the bigger question floating around our PRO Discord channel last night was: what the hell does any of this even mean? âïž
Itâs a fair question to ask (this is a dense topic) â so, weâre going to break it down as simply as we know how, until it all just *clicks*!
Alright, here goes:
Shorts are a leveraged bet that an asset will go down in price â âleveragedâ meaning you're only using some of your money and the rest is borrowed.
A short position comes with what's called a âliquidation levelâ â which is a fancy term for:
âA price point at which youâve lost the collateral you put down, and all thatâs left is what you took out as a loan â so to stop you losing your lenders money, the trading platform closes the position and returns the loan automatically.â
(Doesnât have the same ring to it as âliquidation levelâ though.)
Now, @cbb0fe saw this short position and decided to rally some deep-pocketed individuals to buy $BTC in large enough amounts to push the price higher (~$86k), in an attempt to liquidate this personâs short position.
Why? âCause when shorts get liquidated, it creates forced buying pressure.
And in this case, that buying pressure would have amounted to ~$370M!
(Which could have pushed prices even higher, leading @cbb0fe and the gang to profit even more.)
Unfortunately for them, they couldnât float $BTCâs price up to that liquidation level:
Now, hereâs the lesson to be learnedâŠ
This kind of thing happens constantly.
Every minute of every day, different entities will be trying to push crypto prices in one direction or another in an attempt to force sales or purchases that will lead to a profit.
The more leverage (loans) you take when trying to capitalize on these minute-to-minute changes, the smaller and smaller margin of error you have to play with.
(In this particular case â a 3% move in Bitcoinâs price would have lost this trader $9.5M of their own money!)
And if you donât know what youâre doing, itâs VERY easy to rack up losses, fast.
This is why weâre so staunch about not taking on leverage â itâs a high risk game, for giga-brained traders.
If you ainât one of âem â youâre most likely going to get rekt.
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Binance is doing another marketing push. This time, itâs for their wallet where theyâre offering zero-fee trading for the next 6 months.
We have a new deadline for a whole cohort of crypto ETFs. As expected, the SEC has delayed decisions for $XRP, $SOL, $LTC and $ADA ETFs.
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