The current tactics for harvesting retail investors in altcoins are all the same. In the early stages, spot holdings are highly concentrated in the hands of the project parties and platforms, then the price is pumped several times and goes sideways to attract market attention. High funding rates start to eat into the shorts, and once the shorts have been sufficiently squeezed, a crash starts to take out the longs. Throughout this process, the positions of both bulls and bears are clear at a glance. No matter how skilled you are, you won't know when the crash will happen. It will only crash when you can no longer hold on, and by then, the shorts are already dead. The longs are also dead during the sideways trend and the crash. If you participate, you will definitely get harvested.