Happy Monday, friends! In today’s issue, I want to cover the grind and the mindset necessary to succeed in 2025.
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Professional cryptocurrency trader with a passion for teaching others.

Love it or hate it, you are not a computer. You are a biological meat bag filled with swirling hormones, fluids, and organic components. While many of us favor philosophy, the pursuit of truth/wisdom, and self-improvement, we’re still hindered by our biology regarding stress, anxiety, motivation, and discipline.

You see, the answers don’t all live up in your mind. The answers often live inside your body. There will be days you don’t want to trade, days you don’t want to backtest, and days you don’t want to scan the markets. While being kind to ourselves is essential, it’s equally important not to let poor planning and overreliance on our “feelings” dictate our actions.

Just as it is essential to set clear profit targets and goals for our trades and investments BEFORE entering a position, it’s equally important to set a pre-planned schedule and routine for our trading and investment activities.

Knowledge without action is pointless. It doesn’t do you a bit of good to listen to a long podcast about motivation if you don’t use that knowledge to make any fundamental changes in your life. Similar in crypto, while it’s helpful to have a baseline knowledge of the ecosystem, at the end of the day, we’re not working in the marketing department for any project or giving long lectures or TED talks about cryptocurrency evangelism. We’re here to make money.

Researching all these new projects and trading strategies isn’t helpful if it doesn’t inspire direct action. You will be much more sane AND profitable if you restrict your knowledge-gathering activities to more actionable intel.

There’s only so much time in the day, and you can’t be good at everything. It is better to niche down, focus on what you’re going to trade, and focus on the chains you’re holding positions on than to get spread too thin knowing a little bit about a lot.

Here’s to niching down for riches in 2025 friends.

Crypto Market Update
Stablecoin Dominance

A nice clean breakdown from our consolidation area and a Lower Low. Happy days for altcoin holders. Our portfolios are up nicely because of it. This metric is getting close to being oversold, so I expect a corrective move up to re-test the breakdown point of 5.75% within the next 3-5 days. Use this metric to take short-term profits on higher-risk, lower-conviction positions.

Stablecoin + Bitcoin Dominance

This metric got oversold over the weekend, and today, it is putting in a nice bounce. As we already saw that Stablecoin Dominance is down, we know this is purely capital rotation back into Bitcoin, as people are beginning to finally buy back into Bitcoin with some size and conviction and dump stables.

Too often, I would wake up early and be excited to get to the markets. I would log onto my computer and immediately consume all of my alpha newsletters, telegram & discord chats, and then start scrolling X searching for Alpha. Before I knew it, it would be the afternoon, and while I “felt” like I had done something productive for my trading account, I hadn’t done a thing but scroll social media.