Every narrative starts the same way. Quiet, then suddenly everywhere.
Volume follows it in. New markets open, liquidity shows up, everyone's trading the same story at once.
Then the narrative matures. The outcome becomes obvious, or people just move on. Volume drains out just as fast as it came in.
A market tied to a fading narrative isn't less real. It's just less interesting to trade.
Knowing where a story sits in that cycle beats knowing the story itself.
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