Well, I think we agree that Bitcoin is going to 85k, but here lies the big dilemma...

Before or after hitting 102k

If you think there is direct manipulation, they will let you fatten above 100k to throw the death candle

If you think it’s a war between bears and bulls, they will let the work be done on its own since without the big players there are few buyers with enough capital after the recent drops

It remains a 50/50
The coin is in the air
Like in the series Dark: Tick tick tick, it will happen again (what you don’t know is if you wake up in the year 2050 or in 1930 hahaha)

Is there an altcoin season?
Before, the market grew with new capital and developed proportionally...

Last year, the capital that came in of more than 1 billion dollars is from investment funds, representing clients who, if they go to crypto, do so with a glance and are scared of so much volatility

That is why the new capital will remain in btc and eth and there will not be a massive spillover into the rest, but rather a more moderate one

Imagine that it is difficult for strong projects like ada dot ltc etc to take off, don't even imagine the rest where there are only fast capital adventurers

The dominance of the big ones is going to expand

Be careful, at the last jolt of the earthquake there is too much confidence and that is what they expect. Be careful, they may be fattening you up to eat you at Christmas.

This is the destination of the launches (with Bitcoin at its all-time high!) ...
Tip: either they make money in the first few days or then discard that type of investment

Whales have always played the same way: with influencer tactics, FOMO, and altcoin seasons, they attracted unsuspecting individuals eager to make easy fortunes, allowing the bubble to inflate and then bursting it, leaving a quake for everyone else. The market collapsed, and it took years to find new hordes of fish keen to bet on the crypto wave.

A classic Ponzi scheme where the last ones are emptied en masse. It worked a couple of times, and they feel it's easy to repeat the cycle again. But is it?

Something changed: the whales have been individuals or private companies taking advantage of the scheme, dodging regulations and taxes, even financing with the profits murky businesses in drugs, terrorism, and non-aligned governments. Uncle Sam was being left out of the party!

This year they are here with their large investment funds through ETFs, and the whales know it: they can no longer waste money inflating the market if there is a BlackRock that can counterbalance the trend. The cold war of crypto has arrived.

ETFs versus traditional whales: the funds come to disrupt the market and regulate it, for that they have to sweep away the whales, if they come for that: traditional manipulation is added to this opposing interest, and that's why there is a chess game in progress.

The whales want to manipulate upwards to sweep away the small ones, the ETFs want to counterattack at that moment to sweep the whales when they are eating and distracted. That's why this time is different.

There are too many people leveraged betting on 110k and the other half leveraged at 90k ... conclusion it will lateralize at 100k until these magic candles disappear... those at the top like to win by themselves if they move the market up or down at this moment they are making too many people win fortunes and they do not like competition

Bitcoin has already cleaned out the buyers who got trapped at the old peak of 67k in 2021, while Ethereum still has a hungry horde of holders waiting to recover from the ATH of 4800 (that's why it's struggling to break upwards) ... without the violent entry of ETFs supporting high prices, it still looks challenging.

last bullish trap?

there is a double wall at btc 102k and eth 4k if they break at the same time it confirms everything upwards

smells like manipulation again... be careful!

If Bitcoin goes back to 100k ...
Ethereum goes back to 4000 and we end up just like before the crash

If the market stabilizes for a few days, there is no way not to reach a new ATH for Ethereum near 5k

Did you lose a lot?
Is it all or nothing now?

EOS and IOTA are the two pairs available at 10x isolated margin that can recover the most if the holding is reversed.

It's a risky trade. Be careful!

Simple Investment Rules

If you have no idea about anything:
DO NOT use leverage or a maximum of 3x
(use your first months to realize how everything works)
DO NOT buy coins that vary greatly in price
(following those promises of making you rich in a month will only lead you to risk all your capital)
DO NOT buy meme coins or new listings
(they are made to move as a novelty or due to followers' sympathy, most have no utility or real project behind them)

If you are conservative: BTC, ETH, BNB, and SOL
If you risk more: BCH follows BTC and ETC follows ETH as their shadows
When you are more comfortable: ADA, TRX, DOT, LINK, AVAX, and LTC

The others are questionable: to give you an idea, a new launch with no history or proven utility enters the list among the top 50... Anything below number 30 should be left for when you have more experience.

Do you have 400?
Invest half (200)
Choose a neutral coin from a few days ago (neither very bullish nor very bearish)
If the current value is say 100 then buy 50 dollars at 95 and sell on debt another 50 dollars at 105 (5% down and 5% up)
With the remaining 100 dollars buy 50 dollars at 98 and sell on debt at 102 with the last 50 dollars (2% down and 2% up)
Wait to see where the market takes you, up or down, to identify the trend
Once you start moving, say upward, gently move the four limits you've set the money in that direction to repurchase what you are selling

With small profits each day you will learn with confidence and the golden rule: when things start going well remember that you are not Elon Musk

This ocean belongs to other whales, but you can swim calmly if you do not feel bigger than what you really are!

my idea is that he doesn't have usdt but that he has reinvested them to take advantage of the bull run, a little in many tokens and there an algorithm is activated to recover the usdt

when you sell, you are asking the exchange for USDT for your tokens and the system must respond to all those orders at once when there is panic...

ME MOVE THE ORCA
(Yes, read it again)
Is it a play on words?
Or is there something else behind it?

I'm almost sure that there is money available from Coinbase and Binance in BTC and ETH that is withdrawn just before the blessed new coins start trading...

By having the privileged information they get the astronomical returns of +1000% that they have in the first hours (ME MOVE THE ORCA) and then after the euphoria has passed they return with their pockets full to Bitcoin and Ethereum to resume the normal path of the rest of the mortal traders...

All the capital that arrived in the last few weeks to hang onto the crypto world with promises of easy money in a few days has disappeared.

The usual ones remain standing (the ones at the top who manipulate and the ones at the bottom who have a cool head to weather the storm).

I am surprised at how well Ethereum has held up so far: I expected the earthquake to take it to 3200, and that was not the case; I believe that if the market stabilizes at the end of the journey, it will break 5k.

it's Pepsi... you drink it when you can't find Coca Cola

Would you play a lottery that gives 100 as a prize or the one that raffles a million? ... that's human greed: they love to win easy money and when they lose it, they blame the system

rule 1: make 10x continuous profit? we would all be Elon Musk! Ant work: earn a little every day.

rule 2: do not follow advice from this forum (nobody knows anything, not even me).

no no..
ir Will be the end. Tether and USDC coidnt manage so many request for leaving positions all togheter and would loss the 1:1 ratio to US Dollar. Game Over for everyone.

Bitcoin doesn't look that strong but Ethereum seems solid and can sustain the market by moving sideways without confirming so low...
It will soon recover to 3800 and there is good demand for ETH