2026-01-10 21:35:30

What goes through a crypto trader's head over the weekend?

Weekday mode: glued to charts, refreshing feeds every 30 seconds, analyzing every candle, calculating entry points, sweating over position sizes, checking portfolio value like it's a life-or-death situation.

Weekend mode? Completely different story. Markets still exist but somehow it feels different. The urgency fades. You finally have time to breathe, to think beyond the next 4-hour candle. Maybe catch up on sleep you've been missing. Or dive into research without that nagging FOMO. You know the markets will be there Monday morning—both the opportunities and the chaos.

The weekend gives traders that rare moment of perspective. Then Monday hits and the grind starts all over again.

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SatoshiHeir

· 01-13 19:48

Everyone, please listen to me. This article precisely confirms a core point I argued in 2017—the cyclical psychological nature of market participants fundamentally stems from fiat thinking destroying traders. It should be pointed out that true on-chain natives do not have the so-called "weekend pattern" at all, because the Bitcoin network operates 24/7 without sleep, while you are still enslaved by artificial trading hours... laughed.

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GasGuru

· 01-13 13:40

Not checking the market over the weekend makes me go crazy; I can't even pay off my sleep debt.

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ETHReserveBank

· 01-13 12:12

I'm still secretly watching the market over the weekend, I just can't stop.

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Degentleman

· 01-10 21:59

Weekend mode is really just lying flat, the usual craziness suddenly disappears, and it feels like the soul is gone.

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FlashLoanLarry

· 01-10 21:48

Weekends are for finding psychological balance, and Monday is back to crazy order placements.

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Tokenomics911

· 01-10 21:47

Can't live without checking the market over the weekend, and by Monday, I'm back to obsessively analyzing candlestick charts.

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SighingCashier

· 01-10 21:45

Weekends are forced to be off-chain, and then on Monday I have to jump back in, cycle after cycle, it's so exhausting.

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BearMarketNoodler

· 01-10 21:39

A true reflection of the weekend: the 15 minutes before the market opens at 8 a.m. on Monday morning are when I am the most alert, and then I start frantically placing orders again.

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