You might have seen trading videos on our YouTube and articles on our website.
This document will help you understand:
- What type of trader are you, or do you want to be?
- How to allocate assets smartly?
- How to understand the chart?
What kind of trader are you?
- New Market Entrants – building initial exposure to digital assets.
- Day Traders — take positions daily, aiming to capture short-term price movements.
- Swing Traders – capturing medium-term price movements within cycles.
- Long-Term Holders – capturing long-term price movements
The objective is to establish discipline, structure, and clarity in an environment driven by volatility and emotion.
You can be all of the above, too. It depends on how much time you allocate for trading.
The Crypto Market Cycle
Cryptocurrency markets operate within multi-year cycles influenced by liquidity, adoption, and Bitcoin’s halving events. Historically, the broader crypto market follows a repeating pattern:
- Expansion: driven by new narratives and capital inflows.
- Correction: marked by rapid crashes (black swan events) and sentiment resets.
- Accumulation: where fundamentals quietly strengthen as volatility decreases.
- Reaccumulation and Breakout: leading to new cycle highs.
Understanding where the market stands within this cycle determines how aggressively or conservatively to deploy capital.
New Market Entrants
Objective: Build exposure across time rather than price precision.
New participants should avoid full exposure. Instead, apply layered accumulation—deploying capital incrementally as the market reveals structure. This method:
- Reduces psychological stress from volatility.
- Improves average entry cost through distribution over multiple levels.
- Preserves liquidity for future opportunities in altcoins, Bitcoin, or stablecoins.
Success at this stage comes from positioning, not prediction. This is also known as a long-term DCA strategy (Dollar Cost Average)
Swing Trading
Swing trading focuses on medium-term rotations—ranging from several days to a few weeks —based on trend continuation, range expansion, and sentiment cycles. Most of our videos fall under this header (if not otherwise mentioned). Effective swing traders:
- Identify high-probability setups within established structures.
- Trade level to level
- Avoid intraday noise and trade fatigue.
Discipline, not constant chart monitoring, is crucial for swing traders.
Long-Term Accumulation
For those focused on the next few years rather than the next month, long-term accumulation is the best strategy. Crypto’s long-term thesis is rooted in technological adoption and network growth. Ideally, you should:
- Identify fundamentally strong projects.
- Accumulate when the project enters an accumulation pattern.
This approach prioritizes time in the market over timing the market.
Long-term holders benefit not from reacting to every correction, but from maintaining conviction through complete cycles.
How to manage capital and liquidity?
Capital management determines survival in crypto. The market rewards those who deploy selectively and preserve liquidity:
- Keep a significant portion of the portfolio in stable assets during euphoric phases.
- You can identify euphoria with memecoin pumps, social media posts on crypto, and mainstream events sponsored by crypto projects
- Reallocate gradually when fear dominates.
Discipline in capital rotation allows you to buy strength, not chase momentum.
Disclaimer
The information provided by Altcoin Buzz is not financial advice. It is intended solely for educational, entertainment, and informational purposes. Any opinions or strategies shared are those of the writer/reviewers, and their risk tolerance may differ from yours. We are not liable for any losses you may incur from investments related to the information given. Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are high-risk assets; therefore, conduct thorough due diligence. Copyright Altcoin Buzz Pte Ltd.
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