2026-01-15 20:21:29

Recently, I discovered an interesting market phenomenon and want to share with you the "definition differences" between retail investors and main players.

The common saying online is like this — if you can single-handedly move BTC by nearly 8,000 points, in most people's eyes, you're just a retail investor. Conversely, if you can suppress 800 points, online public opinion immediately labels you as a "main player" and claims you're exceptionally powerful.

This comparison really hits close to home. Both are about influencing prices, both are about pushing the market through funds or operations, yet the labels attached are completely different. The question is, these definitions themselves are worth pondering — what exactly constitutes strength, and how should the standards be set? The stratification of market participants is vividly reflected in this process. Behind every fluctuation of BTC, various funds are competing.

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HashRateHermit

· 3h ago

Even pulling up to 8,000 points is considered retail investors? Then how much do I need to pull to break even, haha

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MoonRocketman

· 9h ago

An 8,000-point rally versus an 800-point sell-off—essentially, the difference in logic is a cognitive bias in the angle of the momentum vector... The true main players have long calculated the intersection point of RSI momentum and Bollinger Bands channels, while retail investors are still struggling with the rise and fall.

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OnchainDetectiveBing

· 9h ago

Laughing out loud, calling retail investors when pulling 8000 points? Then what do we, this group of people, count as, haha

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HodlVeteran

· 9h ago

Ha, this logic is indeed absurd... Pumping 8,000 points is retail investors, but suppressing 800 points makes you the main force? Over the years, I've been played by this double standard. Only after stepping on many pits do I realize that the right to define is always in the hands of public opinion, and we are just leeks—no matter how you cut it, there's a reason. This is the true face of the market; if you can't handle the market, then everyone is a bad guy.

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MetadataExplorer

· 9h ago

Wow, this logic is really amazing. Pulling 8,000 points is retail investors, pushing down 800 points makes you the main force. The market rhetoric is really double standards.

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FancyResearchLab

· 9h ago

Ha, this is a classic case of "theoretically fair, but actually all about narrative"... Pulling 8,000 points? Retail investors. Dropping 800 points? The big players. Lu Ban No. 7 is working here again, tagging everything inaccurately. Basically, it's a double standard game of public opinion. Let me test how absurd this logic can be.

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FloorSweeper

· 9h ago

Laughing to death, this logic is just absurd. Raising the market by 8000 points is called retail investors, while dropping 800 points somehow makes the main force? The market public opinion and aesthetic are truly unparalleled.

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