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Remember that Reddit user who made $50 million dollars on a Gamestop trade? Check out some of his content (here’s his Youtube channel) and you’ll begin to see that there’s a legitimate and replicable framework for the consistent value extraction behind his market-defying performance. Even better news? The style of investing that brought him ludicrous success… Continue reading Defying Crypto Markets, Gamestop Style: Understanding Deep Value Investing

In an asset class that has been historically perceived as very-high-risk/very-high-reward, altcoins are a step above. We often hear of 1000x returns for some smaller-cap altcoins, others return 100x in a month, it feels like nearly every cryptobro has a story of a 5x return. And while the volatility can get pretty nasty, the truth… Continue reading Why Do Altcoins Outperform Everything?

Take a look at the top 200 cryptocurrencies from late 2017 and it’s a completely different landscape from today. While the top ten are all still alive and kicking (even though some have taken unceremonious drops in price), many of the biggest cryptos of 2017 have now fallen into relative obscurity. Of the top 200… Continue reading What We Can Learn from Failed Cryptocurrencies

Technical analysis (abbreviated as TA) is the strategy of interpreting an asset’s past price movement to guess where price will be in the future. It is a way of distilling market information to make a better decision on purchasing or selling an asset. In its purest form, it involves looking at a chart, identifying price… Continue reading Altcoin Technical Analysis: How to Make Money Analyzing Crypto Charts

$500 million in free money? Sounds too good to be true. If you’ve followed altcoin news closely over the last week, you may have seen some buzz around a new token called $ENS. The high-level version: Ethereum, early in its existence, created a service called ENS (Ethereum Name Service) and finally launched a token representing… Continue reading Airdrops 101: Your Guide to Free Crypto (No, Really)

(This is a five-minute read) Without data you’re just another person with an opinion.” – W. Edwards Deming I write about investing in altcoins for a living, and as I see more and more new investors come to the space, I see more and more misconceptions about how altcoins work, grow, and behave. To help… Continue reading Five Underrated Metrics for Finding Explosive Altcoins

(This is a five-minute read) In the last few weeks, I’ve begun to realize how many of the sharpest and most successful minds in crypto have poker-playing backgrounds. Here’s a non-comprehensive list: CEO of Three Arrows Capital, investor Su Zhu​ Cofounder of Ethereum, Mihai Alisie​ Macro trader and game theorist Jordi Alexander​ Pseudonymous legendary prop trader Light​ Poker player-turned… Continue reading Poker Wisdom for Crypto Investors: Avoiding Traps and Finding an Edge

(This is a five-minute read) Or, at least, that’s what the internet says. After parabolic moves by Bitcoin, common wisdom tells us altcoins pump shortly after. On the heels of this latest Bitcoin all-time-high, will it happen again? We can never be sure, but we can use data from the past to better inform our… Continue reading Crypto Mythbusting: Do altcoins really pump after BTC moves? A data-backed analysis.