Who was Simon Mach before MyCryptoParadise?

A trader, though not yet in crypto. Simon grew up fascinated by markets and graphs. He wanted to be a pilot. Then a school friend introduced him to Bitcoin, around 2013 or 2014, and the flight plans quietly retired.

He had already traded forex and stocks, so he learned technical analysis and tried predicting Bitcoin’s next move. The conclusion became the spine of this episode. Analysis is easy to learn. Long-term results live in the mindset. Our free risk management guide starts from the same premise.

“In order for you to be long-term profitable in trading crypto, you actually need to have some kind of strategy. You need to have some kind of discipline.”

Why did a trading firm make a music album?

Because repetition is how habits form. Simon has been building MyCryptoParadise since 2016, and the stated mission is a crypto space that is less emotional and more focused on risk. The album compresses a decade of lessons into twelve songs that work like mantras.

“It’s like mantras, you know, mantras, right? So basically, if you speak to your head some mantras, you start act like it, you start act based on it. And I’m talking about building your discipline, building your good habits.”

It was not a marketing exercise. The album was made for our own traders, for them to be able to stay with the good habits, and released publicly afterwards. We covered the release on the Professional Trader album page.

What does signal over noise actually mean?

Jamil Hasan defines noise as the drama that ignores what the network actually does. For Simon, Bitcoin itself is the signal: the freedom of moving money without a third-party bottleneck. In trading, noise is everything that pulls you away from your own back-tested strategy.

Developing an edge that survives a three-year back test, he says, is not the hard part. Following it with discipline while the noise screams is.

“But look, this guy, Crypto Moon Carl or whatever, he’s telling me the Bitcoin is going to the moon. But my strategy is telling me it’s going down. So my strategy is telling me I should be short, but I’m not sure right now because of this guy. So that’s the noise.”

That moment of doubt is where a plan dies. The strategy said short. The influencer said moon.

Why put the lessons in music instead of a course?

Because a lecture slides off, and a chorus does not. Simon can tell a trader exactly what to do, but it’s boring and you will not listen. Put the same rule in a catchy song and it stays in your mind, gets repeated, and starts to change behaviour.

Popular music, in his view, mostly delivers a good feeling in the moment and nothing lasting after it.

“It’s just a noise, it’s like this kind of chewing gum to your ears, and I want[ed] to produce a steak. All right, a steak that is going to nurture your body and will actually give you something beneficial for the long term.”

His references are old-school storytellers: 50 Cent, Eminem, Tupac and Biggie, rappers he compares to Shakespeare. The album blends that hip-hop lineage with jazz so it stays listenable. The claim underneath is simple: you can send a message much better in the music than with spoken word.

Why do traders repeat the same mistakes?

Simon gives two reasons. People are like children who must touch the candle themselves before they believe it burns, however often they are warned. And trading the wrong way is chemically addictive. Uncertainty followed by a big win floods the brain with dopamine, while disciplined trading feels boring and uncomfortable in the short run.

“You can tell it multiple times. And the child still needs to try, like, himself or herself to touch the fire to really feel it’s going to burn.”

Some people, he adds, need to burn themselves five or six times before the lesson lands. The second answer is chemical: when you trade the boring way, in the short run it’s very uncomfortable.

Gambling-style trading is the opposite: a stretch of uncertainty, then a big outcome, and the brain wants that feeling again.

“You start to get the dopamine, the endorphins, I don’t know, these kind of great chemicals that makes you addicted, right? So it’s actually addictive to doing it the wrong way.”

Hasan’s summary, which Simon endorsed on the spot: these are not really songs about crypto, they are songs about human behaviour.

Is discipline learned or inherited?

Learned, and Simon does not hedge: of his younger self he says plainly, I have not been disciplined. Discipline gets built from a small and boring foundation.

“It’s about starting small. For example, starting to wake up at the same time and building from that, right? A lot of people try to be disciplined in everything at once. That’s very hard.”

Waking at the same time is not a trading tip, which is rather the point. The habit generalises.

What do markets reveal about the person trading them?

A lot, in his telling. Simon describes a bad early relationship with failure: he would fail, then punish himself for it. The reframe came later.

“There is nothing like failing, there’s always only lessons.”

He now calls failure this kind of beautiful feedback, and ultimately a gift. The market, he says, is a very expensive place to really try to understand yourself. It will exploit all of your bad behaviors.

Pressure is the mechanism: he believes the real personality of a person is always revealed in a crisis or high-pressure moment. The market exposed his distraction and hyperactivity, which produced rushed decisions that cost money. He fixed those traits in his personal life first, and the trading followed.

What does the song Like a Sniper teach?

Asked which track explains him best, Simon does not hesitate: Like a Sniper, and he calls it autobiography. He was not a sniper when he started. He was, in his own words, more like a soldier with machine gun.

“The song ‘Like a Sniper’ is all about being patient and about waiting for your perfect shot, just for the high probability shot.”

The image he keeps returning to is the rabbit.

“I thought that the faster I’m going to run, the bigger probability that I will get the rabbit, right? But I didn’t understood in the beginning. That the faster I’m going to go after the rabbit, the faster the rabbit is going to run from me.”

The fix is to set the trap, wait, and take only the high-probability shot. You can still miss, he admits, but the odds have changed sides. It is also a quiet lesson in crowd psychology: buying feels safest exactly when everyone else already has.

What should a listener do differently after this episode?

Simon’s immediate takeaways are unglamorous. Close the noise. Get educated. Build a trading system you have back-tested yourself, then follow only your own signals.

Every real strategy has losing periods, and he is honest about it. Traders, he says, need to treat their trading strategy like a marriage, not like a one night stand. He made the same point on Market Mamas.

His first book recommendation is Market Wizards. Asked what someone should hear in the album in twenty years, even if Bitcoin went to zero, he skips trading entirely.

The lessons are patience, discipline and the short-term versus long-term trade-off. As he puts it, it’s uncomfortable to take the cold plunge in the short run, but in the long run it’s beneficial for you. Hasan closes on the same idea: systems evolve, but people remain at the centre of every story.

Watch “Signals Through the Noise” on Crypto Hipster

The episode runs about 43 minutes and covers the album’s origin, the psychology behind repeated mistakes, and the routines that build discipline.

About Simon Mach

Simon Mach founded MyCryptoParadise in 2016. It began as a group of friends posting their trades in a free Telegram channel. It grew into an analysis and education company built around risk and process, not price predictions.

The company exists because the teacher Simon wanted did not. Nobody taught real cross-market trading, only meme-coin shilling. He taught himself from books, friends asked to learn, and the team grew.

Simon writes and speaks about trading psychology, risk management and disciplined execution. You can follow him on LinkedIn and on X. He also joined the Market Mamas podcast to argue that trading psychology matters more than strategy. The psychology side of the work continues at our sister project MyTradingCoach.

Crypto trading involves substantial risk and can result in the loss of your capital. Discussion of psychology, discipline and music does not change market risk. Nothing in this article is financial advice; it is education only, and past performance does not guarantee future results. Never risk more than you can afford to lose.