Bear Market War Stories with DCinvestor & Eric Conner

On this episode of Bankless, we welcome back DCinvestor and Eric Conner to share their multicycle bear market war stories. But that’s not all!

They also unpack why they keep on deciding to stay every cycle, what’s different about this cycle vs. previous cycles, the role leverage and macro conditions have played, and their hard-hitting, gigabrain advice for first-time cyclers and multicyclers alike.

Survive and advance, anon. We’re going to make it.

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Topics Covered:

0:00 Intro
4:03 Being a Multicycle Vet
11:31 Market Phases
19:12 Credit to Staying
26:03 High Conviction High Loss
32:37 Regulator Fear
41:31 Lessons From This Cycle
49:00 Leverage
56:34 Macro Conditions
1:30:50 The Merge vs. Macro
1:09:00 Advice for Newcomers

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Resources:

DCinvestor
https://twitter.com/iamDCinvestor

Eric Conner
https://twitter.com/econoar

Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation
https://www.amazon.com/Devil-Take-Hindmost-Financial-Speculation/dp/0452281806

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