Your Altcoins Are Pumping. Don’t Mess This Up

Added: 2026-05-19

[00:00:00]Some altcoins are pumping hard right now, but for a lot of people, unfortunately, this pump means absolutely nothing. If you bought near the top, then a 50 or even a 200% pump can still feel insulting. But if you bought when everybody was bored or bearish, then this same pump gives you choices. This is the difference between paper hope and real profit. So, let's take a look at what is happening because certain alts are waking up. But don't confuse like, "Hey, it is green, so it is necessarily good." It definitely depends on your position, right? The same chart can means completely something different depending on when you bought it. Bitcoin is holding up very well. Bitcoin is not doing bear market kind of things at all. If you look where we are right now, this is the top until where we are today. If you compare that to the 2011 cycle, then it's nothing like it. If you compare it to the 2013 cycle, it's also nothing like it. Compared to the 2017 cycle, it is nothing like it. Compared to the 2021 cycle, it is nothing like it. So, for those who wonder why I'm like saying for months that we are not in a typical bear market, here you go. We are absolutely not. It's not even remotely close, right? It's if you overlay 2019, oh wow, hey, there we go. Again, the market itself, it is definitely not fantastic.

[00:01:23]It's not a bull market, but it's also not a bear market, and that makes it hard for bulls and bears because it's kind of neither. However, if there is one thing that is not different this time, it's all the indicators that we actually use to buy at these low levels.

[00:01:38]Look at the cash. We mentioned it many times. It went from 25 cents to 90 cents. Near as one of more of a high cap, did it decent 2X. Sui is now waking up. Even Link is doing something. That that's the signal. Link that does something, that's the signal, right?

[00:01:55]That that's like where the bears get completely invalidated, but many alts are moving quite fantastic right now.

[00:02:02]But again, for most people it doesn't even matter. And in this video, I'd really like to show you how you can make it matter. I am in the same market as you, as anyone else in this market. A lot of people are down, a lot of people are not down. My portfolio is completely free, for example. And it's not because I bought Bitcoin exactly at the bottom and I sold it exactly at the top. It's because I DCA in at certain levels and I take profits at certain levels, and I invested in a couple of nodes and presales and all of that, and some flopped, but some did very well. I'mma show you later. But most important, I'm going to show you how you can actually position yourself because you do not need that typical 10x miracle. Look, here's why crypto can be so psychologically brutal. I still notice it in the comment section that people are looking for reasons to be bearish, and it's getting invalidated the same way that their reasons to be bullish at the top got invalidated, and it messes with you. We are in the same market, but the same doesn't apply to us because I invest differently than you do, and you invest differently than somebody else does. Let me take NEAR for an example, right? And I'm not implying like, "Hey, yeah, if you just buy the bottom, everything will be fine, right?" Because who buys the bottom and who sells the top? The best gurus out there, they don't. Most people lose, and they lose hard. Matter of fact, Warren Buffett himself has a win rate of roughly 4%.

[00:03:28]It's not about how much you lose and how often you lose. It's how big your losses are compared to your wins. Somebody can look at this chart, for example, of NEAR and say, "Finally, you know, this coin is pumping." And somebody else can look at the same chart and say, "Fuck that. I'm still destroyed. Like, it doesn't matter. What is this? This is just a dead cat bounce. It's just going back down anyway. It's all bad." One person is waiting to break even and the other person is deciding how much profit to protect. And that's the thing because if you look at this, it's still far from where it came from. On the other hand, if you take it from the low until where we are right now, this thing did it 2x.

[00:04:04]And that's how I compound my profit [clears throat] to make money with crypto. Again, I did not make money with crypto. I didn't create a free portfolio by buying everything super low and selling everything super high. But if you look at the coin like Dash, for example, I'm already slowly taking profits the last couple of days, right?

[00:04:24]Could it go higher? Sure. But if you bought it anywhere like here on average, right? You DCA'd a little bit here.

[00:04:31]You're not going to DCA here whenever the top indicators are flashing pretty much. You're DCA'ing when the bottom indicators are approaching. You're also not going to wait for them all to flash because that day will never come. But if you bought it somewhere here, you might feel like, man, I need to go like this to to compensate my entire portfolio.

[00:04:51]But one coin is just one part of your portfolio. The way that I am doing it actually is I'm looking at a chart that goes down, goes sideways, bumps maybe a little bit. That's kind of what we are seeing at the moment. And we have a couple charts that went down and went sideways and that are pumping really hard right now. What I'm mostly doing is I have a lot of coins in this portfolio in this coin in in in this type of chart. I also have some coins in these type of charts. So what I am doing, I'm looking at this and I'm like, okay, you know what? Let me take some profits out of this one and put it into this one before this one goes up. Because if this thing decides to go up even further, then it probably means that this chart is going with it. Also, if this thing is going up further, I still have money in this coin because I'm not taking all my money out. I'm maybe taking out 20, 40% depending on how much it pumps. But if it goes back down again, then what? You can ignore all of this. Obviously, you can ignore all of it because you feel like this is nothing yet. This is not what I'm doing it for, and I get that.

[00:05:56]However, if you need a 5x over here, and you ignore this, and you still need a 5x over here, but you build up a lot more frustration in the meantime. Somebody who is actually taking profits a little bit and rotates a little bit, and I'm not talking about full trading, but just rotating, making sure that these pumps are not for nothing, rotating it into something else. What happens? That person maybe needs a 5x over here, and at a certain point, this chart might be back at the same exact area, but they need a 4x over here. Same level, different goals, different different reward that you need from that point. So, the market is getting a lot easier for you. Really, compounding profits is a way better way to reach your end goal than waiting and hoping for that end goal to come inside, and you don't have to be super active about it, but keeping your eyes open a little bit always worked. Look, most people are scared when prices are low, and they get confident after the pump.

[00:06:55]Then, if they finally get a good entry, they refuse to take the profits. It's Look, it's a two-step process. People who are looking at bottom indicators flashing, we're looking at a really low prices, right? Whether the bottom is in or not. And they still feel like, "No.

[00:07:12]No, no, no, it's going lower." You Look, if you already have so much trouble at the bottom process, then the top process is going to be the same type of problem.

[00:07:20]Plus, you didn't even ride it there. And if they are finally up, then taking profits, it feels like they're betraying like the trade or the thing that they stand for, and then they ride it down again, right? But, if you never take anything off the table, you would have not made money. You watch your number go up and down again. That's called round-tripping. And that's the thing like with a car, for example. I bought somewhere here. And most people, they probably didn't. Like they watched it go down brutally. Like this was dead. This was dead. Yeah, dead coins that are actually not dead can easily pump three, four X in a market that barely does [ __ ] And the people who here now feel like this is amazing, they're not doing themselves a favor, they're doing me a favor. So no, the goal is not to sell the exact top. That's a fantasy. We're not going to do that. If somebody ever bought the bottom and sold the top, they got lucky at most. The goal is to create choices, to make sure that you have a choice. If something now goes up a little bit, there's a camp of people that says, "This is nothing yet." And and and it will go down again. And there are people that say, "Could be, but I'm taking it, right?"

[00:08:30]Because for me, it's money. Can I take out my original investment? Can I lock a real win and leave exposure if the market moves up further? When the market gives you liquidity, use some of it. And for the ones who are watching this channel for over at least like one or two years, they probably can relate to this. This is why I like investments that can pay me while I wait. Back in the day, I bought some notes that are still paying me a passive income right now. And even with the market still relatively low, they're still printing me around $900 per month. And I'm not saying that to flex because it's $900, it's like not a huge amount, but it is more than I'm saying that structure matters and that whenever something is really low, you really want to believe in it. Again, there's not or not much profit to take around this level if you didn't buy here in the first place. Like last year somewhere we spoke about Truth, right? About uh Swarm Network uh that had a node sale. It was very profitable. They came out initial investment back then. It was printing money. And then together with the rest of the market, it was going down and it was sideways forever. It was like basically a USDC back then. And for the last couple of days it has been pumping a lot. So, if you feel like I may have invested in this then check it out because, you know, you might have some money that you are not aware of. So, take a look at that. Therefore, on the Alpha Factory, there's a link down below, we have a vesting tracker and you can fill in if you ever bought a node or pre-sale and then it helps you to fill in like, "Hey, what was the price initially? What have you invested?" And then it shows you exactly what you are earning, where to claim it, and what what you are making every day or every month. And for me at the moment, I'm making $28 a day. Yeah, that's groceries, more than enough for that actually. Like, I'm getting pretty fat if I all use that for groceries. But, until the day of today, it is still rewarding. Now, I'm not saying buy a bunch of weird nodes that are going around right now. The time will come and I will probably talk about it by then.

[00:10:31]But, I am saying that these choices were made in the same type of market as what we have today, where people are no offense, but coming in my YouTube comments section like, "Oh, it's all down. You must be wrecked." The Elysium alone made me $200,000.

[00:10:46]And that's one of the biggest wins out there, of course, and it has to compensate for a couple losses, but believe me, I did not lose 200k with nodes alone. So, all these things have been paying off, but it wouldn't if I back then thought like, "This is bad.

[00:11:02]This is not like this is not coming back. It's too low for me to buy right now. I want, you know, more expensive prices before I want to pay." So, let me help you hopefully a little bit by taking profit map. Like, how to create the opportunity to take profits. First, look, if you're still underwater, please do not pretend that you are in profit because the chart is green this week, right? Like, sure, certain charts are green. And it probably for a lot of people means that they are not down 80% but 70. But, you're still down. I'm in some of those positions. Wait for it to go up again a lot so I can play even or take it as a loss and move on. But knowing that this is lesson money, right? Because hopefully you're not going to make that same mistake again.

[00:11:47]Second, if you bought low and you are now in profit on something, then respect that position. And what I mean by that is take Sushi as an example. This was a pretty decent point, this whole February, you know, time frame was like when everything was flashing. So if you bought a little bit right there, you can say like, "Well, it pumped from 80 cents to 120. That's nothing." Yeah, then again, if you avoid the write-down and you buy it somewhere near the lows, right? And and you you notice that it it it made a gain of around 40%. Lock in a part of that. It can't hurt, right? It puts you again in such a better position to actually reach your goal way sooner. And then you are noticing that you are going to enjoy when a market is going down because you know that you have a choice. You feel like, "Hey, I took I took some profit and it's going down again. That feels like you got it, right? But also, you can literally ask yourself, "Hmm, should I buy right now?

[00:12:47]Should I not buy right now?" You you're so chill about it. It It feels amazing.

[00:12:52]Third, also, separate your bags into core positions, trades and cash flow positions. So have a bit of a plan. This is my long-term holding. This is Bitcoin. This is ETH. I don't want to take profit on that. That's my retirement money. This is the one that is actually going to pay me dividends.

[00:13:07]These are node investments, pre-sale investments, coins that I can actually legit stake for a decent five, maybe a 8% APY. And these are the coins that I feel like, "Hey, I can take profit on it." And whenever I do and it goes up even further, I'm not getting emotional about the part that I missed out on.

[00:13:24]Four, also, really important, pre-decide your levels before the candle is green.

[00:13:29]And this is helpful. Like this is not to show this. This completely free. This is made by John, a former community member, still a community member actually, but he's now working together with me on Blockchain Decoded. And he has made gtfo.finance.

[00:13:42]Do check it out because here you can actually set the coins that you bought, and you can set target levels to DCA out. This works so amazing because again, having a plan beats everybody.

[00:13:55]Like most people in crypto, let's be fair, it's not always that we can describe ourselves as the brightest lights in the room. And most people don't have a plan. They just buy when they feel like, "Uh [ __ ] I didn't need any tampons this week, so I can buy some crypto." And then when it goes down, "Okay." If you have a plan, you beat all of those. And that's probably 95%. Yeah, since crypto is player versus player, you win. These are just boring rules to protect you when the market gets exciting. Now, the biggest mistake, in my opinion, in crypto, is thinking that being right is the same as making money.

[00:14:30]It's not. You can be right on the coin.

[00:14:33]You can be right on the narrative, and it can still give everything back. Green candles are not the reward. The executed profit is the reward, okay? So, that's also the thing about the whole four-year cycle theory. The people who called for that in 2021, they feel like, "Well, I was right about it." Hm. You were right about the top, but maybe for the wrong reason. And the the danger is that they thought they were right, so they're going to repeat it. And yeah, that gives you a higher chance of being wrong next time. So, let me know. Comment one word down below.

[00:15:07]Taking, if you are taking profit, or waiting, if you're letting it ride. And if you want, in the next video, I will go deeper into how I split a crypto portfolio between core holds, trades, and cash flow. For now, remember this.

[00:15:21]Green candles are not the reward. Again, executed profits is the reward, okay?

[00:15:26]Not the green candles itself.

[00:15:28]Not the green candles itself. It's all super relative. For me, it means something else than for you, maybe. But, let's write that playbook together then.

[00:15:36]So, I would appreciate if you want to like the video. The next leg is going to be [ __ ] epic. And that's the cool thing. Most people are so not ready for it. YouTube or Twitter, it's all dead or still bearish. So, whenever things go up, can you imagine the amount of FOMO that's going to flow in, which kind of is the narrative for the pump that comes after? Please, be positioned before that pump, not during the pump, not after the pump, before the pump. So, before pump gang, thanks for watching. See you next time.