Staring at the monthly chart all night, my palms were sweaty—price has already fallen dozens of times, turning into a nearly flat line. Normally, such a market would have no one daring to short anymore. But the reality is completely opposite: the number of shorts is higher than at any point in history, and confidence is especially strong.

In the chat groups, it's all "rebound then short" and "it's hopeless now," as if the decline has become a law. Gradually, I realized a truth: before a real bull tail starts, the shorts must be "nurtured."

The main players rely on routines like sideways trading, gradual decline, and fake breakouts to repeatedly teach the market that "rising is untrustworthy"; retail investors find psychological comfort through "trend memory" and "short consensus." When the entire market is shouting "it still needs to fall," the trigger for a reversal has actually already been lit.

After realizing this, I made a decision different from most: instead of obsessing over longs or shorts, I shifted my focus to the profit opportunities in the cross-chain ecosystem. A friend immediately challenged me: "The market is about to take off, and you’re not watching the charts? What are you doing with cross-chain yields?"

I asked him back: "When the whole market is debating long or short, what are the institutional funds doing? They’re deploying systems that can arbitrage stably regardless of market direction."

The most lucrative window during a bull tail often comes with intense cross-chain capital flows and the explosion of DeFi yield opportunities. Cross-chain aggregation DeFi products operate like fully automatic yield harvesters—whether the market surges or crashes, they can automatically identify the most efficient yield points across various blockchains and DeFi protocols.

This illustrates the difference between two ways of thinking: one watches the K-line to bet on direction, while the other seeks certainty in a volatile market. When the market starts moving, who makes money isn’t necessarily those who guessed the right direction, but those who found sources of yield unaffected by market direction.