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Emir Taner
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Turn Market Dumps into Profit: Market Making for Grown-Ups

Most people meet a red market in two modes:

  1. panic sell, or
  2. “I’ll just hold, it’ll come back… right?”

Pros do something else entirely: they turn into infrastructure. They start making the market instead of being farmed by it.

From HODLer to Liquidity Provider 🧱

Take a simple example:

You’re sitting on $100K in XRP and the market nukes –15%.
Classic HODL result: you’re down $15K and all you did was refresh the chart in pain.

Now imagine that same position plugged into a Market Making (MM) program:

  • you quote both bid and ask
  • thousands of tiny orders run inside the volatility range
  • you collect spread every time someone crosses your quotes

Price still drops, yes.
But instead of passively eating the loss, you’re harvesting micro-PnL all the way down. That spread income becomes a live buffer against drawdown.

Why MM Loves Chaos ⚙️

Market Making shines when the chart looks ugly:

  • Volatility = more swings → more fill opportunities
  • Wider spreads → more edge per trade
  • You don’t need to “call the bottom” — you profit from motion, not predictions

The key shift is mental:
you stop asking “where will XRP go?”
and start asking “how do I quote around wherever it is?”

This Isn’t Magic, It’s a Playbook 📓

People like Tyler McKnight have shown in detail how MM-style strategies can turn a scary-looking drawdown into something closer to a managed, monetized volatility event.

If you want the numeric breakdown of how a –12% day can net a positive result when you’re making the market, not chasing it, his write-up is worth your time.

Most traders treat dumps as personal attacks from the universe.
Market makers treat them as billable hours.

Your choice: victim of the dip - or the one getting paid every time someone else panics. 🚀

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