The Fate Game on the K-line: Why Crypto Traders Are Obsessed with Mystical Predictions

Fortune-telling has become a trend in the crypto world, but the way it’s played here is unique—embedding fate directly into candlestick charts.

On December 13, a content creator focused on crypto metaphysics released a tool called “Life K Line.” Users simply input their birth information, and AI generates a K line chart from age 1 to 100, depicting their life fortune trajectory with red and green candles.

This creative idea caused a sensation on Twitter—its first tweet garnered over 3.3 million views, and within just three days, website visits and API calls exceeded 300,000. Users frantically shared images, and many were surprised to find that the generated K line trends closely matched their own past life paths.

More ironically, despite clearly marking “for entertainment only,” a token with the same name as the tool was launched less than 24 hours after its release.

What exactly makes an entertainment-based fortune-telling app stir such waves in the crypto community? Behind it lies a deep undercurrent of trading metaphysics, reflecting a collective anxiety explosion in the crypto circle.

The Mystical Traditions in the Trading World

Believers in metaphysics are not few among traders, and Wall Street is no exception.

The most renowned market analyst of the 20th century, W.D. Gann, was deeply involved in combining mysticism with technical analysis, using astrology to predict market trends. Investment master Soros, in his book “Financial Alchemy,” admitted he would judge market risk based on back pain severity—when the market was about to reverse, his back would become intensely painful.

However, these stories have long remained in legend; Wall Street traders rarely openly admit to relying on metaphysics for decision-making. Feng shui formations, lucky charms, and market-reading masters are private matters—if colleagues find out, they are considered unprofessional.

The crypto circle has broken this taboo.

In an industry already imbued with mystique, metaphysics seems naturally compatible. Traders will speculate on Bitcoin’s future prospects based on birth charts, and decide whether to enter trades according to daily fortunes. In recent years, discussions of metaphysics in crypto have continued to rise, with more and more people trusting or simply curious about this approach, and a large number of crypto influencers on Twitter now feature metaphysical analysis as their signature style.

The craze for “Life K Line” is a concrete manifestation of this trend.

Many users discuss their “life trajectories” seriously or jokingly within communities. They don’t see themselves as superstitious but rather as engaging with market uncertainties in a more entertaining way. Once hidden in the shadows of Wall Street, trading metaphysics has now become a public topic on crypto social media.

Why the Crypto Market Is Especially Prone to Metaphysical Needs

Uncertainty breeds psychological compensation

The crypto market is a perfect breeding ground for anxiety.

24/7 trading with no circuit breakers, sudden surges and crashes can happen instantly. A single tweet from a big influencer can cause a market cap to evaporate by hundreds of millions of dollars overnight, and carefully crafted project founders can disappear in a flash.

Traders are constantly facing “unknown risks,” and what’s most terrifying isn’t the risk itself but the “unknown.”

Economist Frank Knight distinguished two concepts in 1921: risk, which is quantifiable probability (like rolling dice), and uncertainty, which is unquantifiable unknown (like whether a war will break out tomorrow). Humans instinctively fear uncertainty; when risks cannot be quantified, they subconsciously create “illusory certainty” to soothe anxiety.

Metaphysics is the perfect vessel for this illusory certainty.

When confused, opening a trading almanac at least provides a clear indication. A crypto astrologer with 51,000 followers once used Bitcoin’s “birth chart” (created at the genesis block time on January 3, 2009) combined with planetary cycles to make predictions: Saturn signals correspond to bear markets, Jupiter signals to bull market tops. He claims to have successfully predicted the December 2017 bull market peak, the 2022 bear market, and the 2024 BTC high point.

Predictions that tie specific dates to celestial events provide traders with clear “waiting signals” during market confusion—even if the signals come from space.

“Don’t open positions during Mercury retrograde, full moons tend to crash, and the chart shows a Bitcoin bull market next year”—these judgments don’t require complex technical analysis or reading obscure whitepapers; just believing in “destiny” suffices.

A 2006 study from the University of Michigan found that stock markets in 48 countries had 6.6% lower returns during full moons than during new moons. But it’s not the moon influencing the market; it’s collective superstition affecting trading behavior—when enough people believe “full moons cause crashes,” they sell in advance, and crashes actually happen.

In the crypto world, this collective anxiety is amplified many times over. Especially during bear markets, all “fundamental analysis” and “value investing” become jokes, and metaphysics seems more credible.

Self-reinforcing cognitive biases

The reason metaphysics continues to be popular isn’t just because it alleviates anxiety but because it “seems genuinely effective.”

It’s not that metaphysics itself is accurate, but that cognitive biases in the brain keep reinforcing it. The most typical is confirmation bias: when you believe “full moons cause crashes,” you remember all the crashes after full moons but ignore days when prices rose or stayed flat. When “Life K Line” shows this year as a bull market, you attribute every small rise to “chart validation,” and interpret dips as “short-term corrections that don’t threaten the overall trend.”

Crypto social media further amplifies this bias.

Tweets like “I followed Tarot card signals to long ETH contracts and made 20% in three days!” are widely shared, liked, and spread. But traders who follow Tarot signals and lose money won’t post about it, so they remain unseen. As a result, the information flow is filled with successful metaphysical predictions, while failures are filtered out.

For example, during the lunar eclipse window in March this year, no matter whether the market rose or fell, people could rationalize: “Top already in,” “Delayed validation,” or “Needs other planetary angles.” If BTC just happened to dip during that period, the prediction would be repeatedly cited as “divine prophecy.”

When BTC crashes, traders desperately need explanations. Technical analysis says “breaks support,” macro analysis says “Japan’s interest rate hike,” but these are too complex or uncertain. Metaphysics offers a simple answer: “Saturn retrograde, crypto enters a bear cycle.”

This explanation requires no understanding of market trends, policies, or data—just belief in celestial influence. It spreads rapidly and becomes a consensus.

More importantly, the ambiguity of metaphysics makes it impossible to falsify. Masters say “no trading during Mercury retrograde,” and if you lose money, it’s because you ignored the advice; if you profit, it’s because your chart was uniquely suited for retrograde. Tarot cards showing “significant volatility soon” mean both rises and falls are considered validation.

This characteristic of “anything goes” makes metaphysics unbeatable in the crypto circle.

Traders aren’t necessarily superstitious; their brains are just using the most energy-efficient way to process information: remember what’s useful, ignore what’s not, and replace complex analysis with simple explanations. Metaphysics isn’t popular because it’s accurate but because it always appears to be.

The invisible value of social currency

The third reason for metaphysics’ popularity in crypto is that it has become a form of social currency.

Discussing technical analysis can lead to disagreements, but metaphysics has no right or wrong—only resonance. “Your life K line is accurate or not” is widely discussed, not because everyone truly believes it, but because it’s a topic everyone can participate in, with no professional threshold.

One example illustrates this well. Readers kept asking if we could add a fortune-telling feature. As more people asked, we actually created a “Today’s Fortune” section on the website. They may not rely on it for decision-making, but it provides a shared topic, a daily psychological comfort ritual.

Saying in a group chat, “Today Mercury is retrograde, I won’t open new positions,” no one questions your “unscientific” approach; instead, someone responds, “Me too, let’s avoid this wave together.” The essence of this interaction is mutual confirmation of anxiety’s reasonableness.

A Pew Research survey in 2025 shows that 28% of American adults consult astrology, Tarot, or fortune-telling at least once a year. Metaphysics is no longer fringe culture but a widespread psychological need. The crypto community just turns it from “private use” into “public display.”

In a market without authoritative answers, metaphysics doesn’t provide solutions but companionship.

The Real Issue Behind K Line Charts

Why did “Life K Line” explode in popularity? Because it expressed in crypto’s way what every trader secretly feels but dares not admit: our sense of control over the market is just as fragile as our control over fate.

Seeing “Life K Line” show this year as a bear market, you won’t actually exit all positions. But when losing money, you feel less guilty; when missing out, you find more comfort:

“It’s not my fault; it’s my chart’s cycle being off.”

In this 24/7, year-round, unpredictable market, what we truly want to predict isn’t the trajectory of life but a psychological support that keeps us at the table. Metaphysics provides exactly that support.