A Fisherman's Windfall
A fisherman's windfall?
It's an animation still airing on Tooniverse these days.
One! Two! One! Two! Three! Four~♪
Especially if you're a kid from the nineties, there's no way you don't know it.
It was fun back then, and even now it does a decent job of killing time.
"I watched that and thought it was fun too…"
"Yeah, Black Rubber Shoes is a masterpiece."
"That's not what I'm talking about, you fucking bastard!"
Sora's language had gotten a lot rougher lately.
The fact that she was smiling made it even scarier.
I'm not even saying it as a joke, though.
The Gi-young-i Trading Pattern.
On the chart, Gi-young's sawtooth hair gets drawn in.
Then he throws his arms up high, and the rally comes.
It's an actual trading method.
The Gi-young-i Trading Pattern enjoys the trust of countless coin experts.
"Cut the crap."
"Motherfucker."
"Motherfucker's a bit much…"
Once she went as far as motherfucker, she started to give it a little credit.
Proving it wasn't particularly difficult.
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Chart analysis trading.jpg (feat. Gi-young chart) − Naver Blog
Experts explain technical analysis and the Gi-young Trading Pattern, summarized
Complete guide to the Gi-young Trading Pattern - Free Board − Coinpan
Nonsense graph interpretations… Cryptocurrency 'blind investment' advisory − SBS News
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A casual search was enough to turn it up.
It was a trading method widely used among actual coin investors.
[Coin chart + Gi-young drawing.jpg]
That pattern just hit whoaaaa
The success rate wasn't low either.
No—it had been proven to be quite high.
"No way."
"Accept reality. No matter how hard charts get, you can't just give up."
"Fuck."
This wasn't something to treat as a joke.
It worked not only in Korea but overseas as well.
Over there they use Bart Simpson.
Same sawtooth hair.
You could find the related memes in overseas coin communities too.
"One day you'll see a brightly smiling Gi-young and you won't be able to stop yourself from buying."
"You wanna die?"
"Hey, why?!"
"Stop joking and teach me for real!"
Sora still thought it was a joke.
She still didn't understand the profound world of investing.
Of course, there are plenty besides the Gi-young Trading Pattern.
There was no way the only rising pattern was that one.
All sorts of variations on the classic existed.
[Coin chart + three cats drawing.jpg]
One of them is even dancing
This is locked in
Gathered energy for a week, moon incoming
"Specifically you've got the Cat Trading Pattern, the Elephant Trading Pattern, the Pikachu Trading Pattern, and so on."
"…"
"You know what these methods all have in common?"
"Why would I care."
"You still haven't grown legs, huh."
Whether Gi-young raised his hand or a cat stretched its tail, it was the same.
What the picture actually was barely mattered.
What matters is that it works.
If it hadn't worked?
There would have been no reason for it to become famous.
It had actually predicted rallies multiple times.
No wonder it got popular among coin investors.
Sora still hadn't dropped her suspicious glare.
"Are you being serious right now?"
"Yeah."
"You're saying the things you just mentioned are techniques that work across the entire securities market, including stocks?"
"No."
"What??"
The history of the coin market wasn't long.
Compared to the stock market it wasn't even a quarter of a quarter of a quarter.
So there should have been similar techniques in stocks too.
There weren't.
This wasn't even said as a joke.
The reason it only circulated in the coin market.
"You know the biggest difference between stocks and coins?"
"Whether they have actual value…"
"That they've never gone down."
"?!"
It had no choice but to succeed.
Of course there were times it fell, but in the end the picture was always an upward slope to the right.
That's why similar charts keep getting drawn every time.
You always had to look at the essence of things.
Studying charts in the current coin market didn't mean much.
"Just roughly draw support and resistance lines under the premise that it's going up."
"…"
"Were you expecting something more?"
"It's my first time doing technical analysis."
She was a kid with dreams of becoming a trader.
The days of mocking her as a Pokémon trainer were already old news.
Even so, there's something for her to learn.
Technical analysis.
The hardest part of reading charts was none other than psychology.
When the auxiliary lines you'd drawn collapsed, your heart collapsed with them.
Because you couldn't see the future ahead.
"In that sense it's easy. Think of it like challenging Easy difficulty in a game."
"Okay."
"Oh, you're being obedient?"
"After making me do every weird thing under the sun, now you…"
Sora grumbled under her breath.
For all her complaining, she worked hard, and that was endearing.
She's improving little by little too.
The most important thing in stocks was persistence.
The most dangerous ones were those who strutted around on half-baked talent.
A super rookie who appeared out of nowhere.
Disappearing within a year was an annual tradition.
The days you stacked up brick by brick were never meaningless.
They became a huge help at the important moments in life.
Well, that's Sora's story.
I had to trade fast.
Knowing the direction.
Honestly, this was close to cheating.
What made futures hard was that the direction kept changing.
They threw fakes to deceive investors.
"Senior, are you going to trade?"
"Why? Want me to teach you?"
"You're just going to touch my stomach again. I hate it when my stomach hurts."
How boldly you could trade under the premise that you already knew.
There weren't many chances to watch that up close.
I'm not going to show her for free, though.
Sora's cheeks flushed red.
She might have realized something beyond just her stomach hurting.
— Chinese whale has sold Ethereum!
There was no time to care about that right now.
With coin prices rising nonstop lately, the war of nerves was fierce.
They'll want to create a correction zone.
Having it only go up was unsettling too.
The forces were holding enormous volume.
Realizing profits when the ants bought—that was the force.
A law that didn't change even on the coin boards.
They wanted an organic correction.
Only then could they create an even bigger rally long-term.
— The program is fucking solid!
But it wasn't happening.
As if an invisible hand were there, it kept propping up the support line.
To a certain point it would help with profit-taking, but…
What if it kept going higher?
Even from the force's perspective, that thought was inevitable.
They would get swallowed by an even bigger force.
The force itself would get shaken out like an ant.
— Chinese whale has sold Ethereum!
— The program is casting rainbow reflection!
So around this hour they fought violently.
The force trying to break it versus the program defending it.
The program was winning every match.
That was why the recent coin market had been climbing without even an organic correction.
Click, clack!
If you didn't know, it would be an unsettling situation.
But I knew the backstory.
They're doing unlimited buying based on stablecoins.
The funds were loaded.
The institution running the program could prop it up as hard as it wanted.
— Buy order has been filled!
I could ride it with peace of mind.
Pre-buying at the support line and taking the spread was the basic strategy.
"Senior."
"Yeah?"
"Senior, your bed smells."
"…"
"You sleep in a place that smells like this? I really can't believe it."
While I was busy trading, Sora was sprawled leisurely on top of my bed.
If it smells, then leave already!
If she wasn't even watching the trades, I had no idea why she was doing that.
I ignored her and looked back at the chart.
— Chinese whale has sold Ethereum!
Something felt off.
A zone that should have been blocked by the program.
The force succeeded in punching through it.
That can happen.
What I was watching was the big picture, after all.
If it stayed too one-pattern, of course it would get read.
— Buy order has been filled!
Second support line.
On the daily chart, a place that hadn't been broken even once in the last three days.
It would definitely bounce here.
Looking at the pattern so far, I'd been certain.
— The program has released rainbow reflection!
It broke through again.
And not just a brief lower wick on the minute chart—straight through.
…
About twenty billion won had filled.
Cold sweat rolled down my cheek.
Click! Click!
Two in the morning.
An hour when she would normally have been long asleep.
Rachel stared hard at the monitor screen in the dark room.
— Korean whale has ended the Chinese whale's ant massacre!
A war was unfolding.
But it wasn't a scale large enough to require immediate intervention.
The real one was the person using this fight.
Trying to snatch a fisherman's windfall from the clash between forces.
Ten million dollars bought in the Korean region. This has to be that Korean A from before.
She was calling him that for convenience.
It might not be the same person, but according to her own conjecture.
— Korean whale has bought Ethereum!
Sure enough, it was similar.
Once again he was using a trading method that milked the support lines dry.
Not on my watch.
She intervened directly.
Applying artificial manipulation to the program's defense.
— Sell order has been filled!
Counter-selling.
She collapsed the support line and created a correction zone.
And right at the timing when it looked like it would truly shoot.
— Sell order has been filled!
She broke it one more time.
Making it impossible to use support lines as a trading strategy.
How about it? What are you going to do now?
Of course their own objective hadn't changed.
You couldn't burn down the house just to chase a rat.
Even so, the reason she was selling.
Because she could clearly read the cards the other side held.
His asset size was estimated between one hundred and three hundred million dollars.
In contrast, the money she was moving.
We have hundreds of times that. Now then—just how far can you hold out?
This wasn't a one-time thing.
She would patternize today's response and build an even sturdier program.
Click! Click!
The fight between Korean A and herself.
Rachel's eyes burned like the fireplace blazing beside her.