Short monologue by Kardec Trader (YouTube, Jan 16 2026) explaining why traders often miss large market moves. Central claim: healthy upward price moves require periodic consolidation (price discovery followed by price acceptance); extremely rapid, ‘‘rocket ship’’ moves create high velocity and risk larger, sharper drawdowns when they reverse.
A healthy chart needs, like to go up, consolidate down. Go up, consolidate down, go up, consolidate down. You know, there's some price, discovery, price acceptance. Price, discovery, price acceptance. So you need steady consolidation for a healthy move up. Yeah. When you're starting to see, you're starting to see a rocket ship, the same way that gravity comes back down and consolidates, because this is such a rocket ship, when it does finally come back down, it doesn't come back down a little bit, it comes back down a lot. Because the velocity, the velocity of the move is so extended that the same way that velocity goes up, velocity comes right back down.
