1/ # 3.1 Overview of the Strategy

This is the most important thread in the threads. This is the overview of how to do. You need to come back and read this when you have read everything.

2/ You will start with some funds.

If you are an existing trading use the funds you have. If youre new, put in only what you are prepared to lose. The moment you put it in, assume its lost.

3/ I don't recommend starting with more than 1-2K USD. You don't need more than that because the difference between having put in 1K and having put in 10K is just a few trades in a run.

4/ Your task is to get the highest gains by the most likely, low risk, direct means possible, whilst taking into account both the market and your own skill level. Thats it. Everything else such as liking/disliking "tech" is irrelevant. Believe in nothing.

5/ Youre going to invest that money in crypto tokens to achieve the most x's per unit of time and constantly be on the lookout for ways to optimize that value (X's per time). This does not mean you're going to invest in some x10000 degen plays.

6/ Regardless of your starting sum, your strategy stays the same. You DO NOT increase the risk level because you have a smaller amount of funds. You are aiming to get compound x's.

7/ What in the current market and likely upcoming market is going to get you the most likely highest X's SAFELY.

Always be on the lookout for ways to optimise your portfolios gain over time.

8/ Theres no set timeframe for how long you hold a token, its all about X’s / gains , and what delivers the most for your money. Don’t base your decisions on holding something based on your friends, the community.

9/ Base your portfolio on what YOU THINK will perform the best for your money. You are not basing whats good or bad on 1 factor, but instead weighing up the pro's and con's of each investment and comparing them with each other.

10/ You have to approach it from a risk/reward/statistical analysis POV.

You need to GUESS what an investment can do over a timeframe usually by using comparison and looking where its at on its PA narrative.

11/ If theres nothing to compare it with, then guess. This takes experience. You are not looking for good projects, you are looking for good investments that will get speculative PA.

12/ You may get a fast 5–6x, but dont then sit waiting for the final 2x to happen and miss out on other gains elsewhere. It if stalls, take the fast x’s and move on.

Just make sure you have confidence that whatever you sell it for will outperform it.

13/ There is no formula or guide on when to move investments. You will learn this only through experience.

14/ Everything in your portfolio must constantly justify its presence. Being a great project is not enough. It must be the most effective use of your money in the current and upcoming market.

15/ This does not mean constantly jumping from one thing to another. Evaluate things over the timeframe of the current market and the next few months.

16/ Will what youre holding perform the best over that timeframe, if theres something you think will more likely do better, then change. Its that simple. I was $DOT for a long time. I don't hold it right now. I don't care how big a project it is or the gains it got me.

17/ The project doesn't care about me. I owe it no loyalty. I'm not believing in its potential gains blindly. I look at it objectively. The moment it no longer became the best use of my funds for the current and upcoming market in regards to the above strategy, it was gone.

18/ How do you react to the changes market?

You will be operating on a spectrum composed of three factors: risk, skill and market conditions.

19/ On one end of that spectrum is higher risk, higher skill, good market conditions and on the other end lower risk, lower skill, less good market conditions.

20/ What is skill? Its how much you understand the BS, how good your research skills, how immersed you are, how much time you are spending in crypto, how good you are finding info, how good you are reading the market. This takes time.

21/ You need to 'do' crypto at the risk level on that spectrum based on your skill, and also based on the current market conditions.

22/ You will by default on the right hand side of this spectrum. From this you will move funds to the left depending on your skill and the market conditions. Moving from trade to trade attempting to optimize for the highest/likeliest safest x's over the upcoming timeframe.

23/ As you move away from the risky end of the spectrum toward the lower risk/lower skill end of the spectrum, what changes? how do you apply lower risk?

24/ You do so by focusing on quality platform adoption and over a longer term. At the far end of this side of the spectrum it could just be HODL'in $ETH or $BTC.

25/ Are the gains likely lower on this end of the spectrum? They can be yes, (but not always) but they are safer for you.

26/ As you move further up you can increase the risk, starting with lower MC platforms getting adoption.

27/ As you move up to the high risk end of the spectrum you can do plays which are higher risk high reward, things which you see shilled and perhaps want to ride for a few X, but ones which you'll need to watch very carefully.

28/ Someone here will ask "What about stablecoins?", I don't use them except in exceptional circumstances. I use adopted platforms and $BTC, because its impossible to know when the market will turn.

29/ By sticking to adopted platforms, when the market comes back, so will my investments without me needing to impossibly time the bottom and risk missing out.

30/ Should you use stablecoins/tether up? If you are worrying about the market and theres nothing you feel safe in. Tether up. What you shouldn't do however is use stablecoins as a strategy to make gains by trying to guess/predict the market.

31/ Understand that your portfolio can be composed of multiple layers at different places on this spectrum. In bad markets you might have 80% of your portfolio on the right hand side in adopted platforms, and be using 20% further to the left.

32/ You need to adapt based on your skills and the market conditions. When the market is bad, move to the right. BUT.. don't try guess the market or listen to idiots who think they can. You move based on the current market, not an idiots prediction of the market.

33/ Some people can learn to do crypto at the high risk end. Most can't. You need to objectively look at how you perform. If you are trying it for a year and it still isn't working. You need to accept you probably can't do it and drop down.

34/ Don't base the skill level you play crypto at based on your opinion of your skills, base them on how its perform.

35/ How do you take profits? You take profits to FIAT when you hit portfolio dollar targets. You can do this across all tokens in your portfolio or across a few that have performed well. Take profits to FIAT and do not put them back into crypto.

36/ What targets should you use? That depends on you. It could be 10-20% every 10x, or 10% every 5x.

What about your taxes? Find out the percent and factor it in. Its only one more trade.

37/ Your portfolio will go up and down. You won't get it right everytime but you should over time be achieving higher lows and higher highs as the market moves.