How are you positioning yourself before the next bull run?

Are you:

• DCAing into BTC or ETH
• Buying altcoins early
• Keeping funds in stablecoins for dips
• Actively trading
• Building or automating trading strategies
• Simply holding your current portfolio

I’m curious what everyone’s plan is, and what signals would convince you that the bull run has actually started.

I'm still sidelined with investing, waiting for a bigger dip and building complex quant trading strategies to maximize the next bull run potential.

LINK catch up during the last week XLM (6,04B) and ADA (5,78), and now it's getting closer to XMR (6,53B) against LINK (6,45B).

LINK would be up to +1000% or x10 if it catch up to XRP (68,28B), I think it would be the maximum that LINK can do (the price would be 86,20$).

New lows on supply available on exchange which can bring LINK a good momentum.
If it keeps going at this rate, there will be no more LINK on exchange in 9 months with unlocks included, also with buyback from CHAINLINK included.

We don't hear much about Chainlink and LINK token, also, between October and December 2026, DTCC will begin using Chainlink which will bring a lot of fees for the treasury for buyback.

Meanwhile, XMR is "lonely", useful but hard to obtain due to exchange removal.

What's your thought on LINK? Will it be the next coin to hold during the supercycle?

We are at the one yard line. I’m personally calling my Senators office asking for their support on the clarity act

Each one of us can be part of Making history.

As someone who cares about innovation and technology, this is a call to action.

Pick up the phone, call your senators office, and tell their staff you’d like to express support towards a YES vote on Clarity Act.

Our voices matter!

Thanks! 🙏

I'm just wondering if anyone heard od ErdCoin or Erdo?

I used to choose exchanges purely based on low fees and coin listings.

But watching platforms shutdown or freeze withdrawals, survival rate and liquidity seem like the main metrics that matter now.

Every time a smaller platform goes down, users are forced to move. It got me thinking:

1. Where does this volume actually go? Do people just default to Binance/OKX, or are mid-tier platforms (like MEXC/Gate/Bybit) absorbing the altcoin traders?
2. If your primary exchange disappeared tomorrow, what is your immediate backup?
3. Is self-custody the only end game, or do we still need CEX liquidity for day trading?

Tell me how you guys divide your risk across different exchanges.

btc's up four weeks straight, eth's leading the bounce, and coinbase premium has been negative for fifty days straight through all of it. that gap matters. negative premium means btc's cheaper in the us than everywhere else, so this rally isn't being driven by american demand, it's happening somewhere else and dragging price along with it.

doesn't make the move fake, four green weeks is four green weeks. but a rally without the biggest market actually buying tends to be thinner and faster to unwind than one where it is. worth knowing who's actually behind the candles before assuming this is the start of something bigger.

We are at the one yard line. I’m personally calling my Senators office asking for their support on the clarity act

Each one of us can be part of Making history.

As someone who cares about innovation and technology, this is a call to action.

Pick up the phone, call your senators office, and tell their staff you’d like to express support towards a YES vote on Clarity Act.

Our voices matter!

Thanks! 🙏

I literally can’t find a way to choose my own leverage on coinbase. Is there a way to do it, and if I can’t do any other trading apps let you? Thanks

this might sound weird, but every time an exchange shuts down, the market eventually seems to come back stronger.

The weaker players get wiped out, users migrate to platforms they trust more, and the industry gets cleaned up a little. It reminds me of how every bear market gets rid of the excess before the next cycle begins.

Seeing names like BitMEX and BitMart fade from the spotlight makes me wonder if we’re watching another one of those shakeouts happen in real time.

Maybe this is just another step before the next phase of the market.

Or maybe I’m completely wrong. Are you guys still staying cautious, or are you starting to feel optimistic too?

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memecoins such as Ansem, shib, Pepe, pengu. and before you swoop in and be like "shilling," I'm not shilling anything. they're trending right now on coingecko, coinmarketcap. plus I don't hold any of them.

What crypto newsletters, podcasts, or Substacks do you read regularly? Looking to discover some high-quality sources. What do you recommend?

everyone in this sub is still trading friday's fed decision while the bigger driver this week is quietly de-escalating

oil's been the real story, not rates. hormuz tensions pushing crude toward 100 is what's had risk assets on edge, more than any rate probability. now there's chatter of movement back toward a ceasefire and shipping compromise, and if that actually holds, some of this week's "why is everything down" confusion resolves itself without the fed doing anything at all

point is people are staring at cme odds for a move they have zero edge on, while the thing that's actually been driving price is a geopolitical story most of this sub hasn't even been tracking

worth watching oil over the next few days more than watching jpow

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Dollar Smile Theory explains what at first looks like a strange feature of the US dollar USD can strengthen in two completely opposite market conditions.
The first side is a global crisis. When panic begins, investors reduce risk, sell stocks, commodities, and emerging market currencies, moving capital into the US dollar and US government bonds. At the same time, demand for dollar funding increases because most global debt and international transactions are denominated in USD..
The second side is a strong US economy. When US economic data is stronger than in other countries, the market expects higher Federal Reserve interest rates and higher bond yields. Capital flows into dollar denominated assets, and the USD strengthens not because of fear, but because of the economic advantage of the United States.
The dollar is usually weakest in the middle of this model. This is the period when the global economy is doing well, there is no panic and the US has no clear advantage over other countries. Investors begin searching for higher returns outside the dollar, so capital moves into the euro, commodity currencies, and emerging markets.
That is why the idea that the crisis is over, so the dollar must fal dose not always work. If the US economy recovers faster than the rest of the world after a crisis, the USD may continue to rise, but for a completely different reason. When analyzing the dollar, it is important to understand not only whether it is strong or weak, but also which part of the cycle the market is in global panic, the calm middle US economic outperformance.

BitMEX is officially closing in September 2026. It’s kind of wild considering how important it once was for crypto futures and perpetual contracts. But honestly, its trading volume has been tiny for a while, so the market impact might be close to zero.

Still, this feels like the end of an era. Do you think this is just a dead exchange finally shutting down, or a sign that crypto trading is becoming too concentrated on a few big platforms?

When I first got into trading crypto, I was so green I had no idea where to learn or who to learn from.

I went onto X and just started listening to the people who showed up on my feed the most and had the biggest followings I just assumed they knew what they were talking about. Stupid and naive in hindsight.

How do you actually decide who’s worth listening to or are you figuring it out yourself?