When to Sell: A Crypto Trader’s Brutal Truths About Tops, Alt Seasons, and Market Euphoria

When to Sell: A Crypto Trader’s Brutal Truths About Tops, Alt Seasons, and Market Euphoria

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The Set-Up: “Glasses Off” Serious

When someone in crypto takes their glasses off on camera, it’s the universal sign: this is serious. But let’s clear something right away—I’m not selling all my crypto today. Not tomorrow, either. The only time I’ll dump everything is if I’ve done so well I can buy half of Wyoming with 1% of my bags.

So why even talk about selling? Because most people never do it right. They get high on bull runs, ignore the signs, and ride their stacks all the way down. In the last cycle, less than 20% of retail traders walked away with meaningful profits. Everyone else lost.

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The Cycle of Every Bull Run

Crypto bull runs are strangely predictable:

1. Bitcoin pumps first. Institutions pile in, price rips, dominance spikes.

2. Ethereum follows. Liquidity rotates out of BTC into ETH, which surges toward new highs.

3. Top 25 alts catch fire. Liquidity spills down, mid-caps pop 3–5x.

4. Infrastructure and narratives pump. DeFi, AI tokens, RWAs, gaming—all take their turn.

5. Meme coins go nuclear. Peak euphoria. Everyone thinks they’re a genius until the music stops.

Every time, this rotation plays out. Every time, 85% of retail gets burned.

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What a Top Actually Looks Like

Forget charts and magic price levels. Tops are psychological events, not technical ones. At the top:

• Social media engagement is insane—crypto YouTubers posting nonsense still pull millions of views.

• Anyone posting bearish opinions gets mobbed and mocked.

• Celebrities, influencers, and “weekend traders” suddenly pile in.

• The market feels invincible. Gains are so easy even joke coins pump 100x.

And here’s the hard part: the top won’t feel like the top. It’ll look like every other dip, except this time the recovery never comes.

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How (Not) to Sell

The worst mistake: waiting for a magic number. Last cycle, everyone swore ETH would hit $10K. It hit $4.8K, dipped, and never came back. People who waited for $10K watched their portfolios collapse.

Another mistake: trying to “nail the exact top.” Almost nobody does. The right approach is to scale out. Sell in tranches once the warning signs of mania show up. Lock in profits while others are mocking you.

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The Smart Selling Strategy

1. Recognize rotation. As liquidity spills from majors to alts to memes, understand you’re moving into later innings.

2. Take profits early. Scale out when alts start 3–5x’ing and everyone’s talking “super cycle.”

3. Watch sentiment, not charts. Mass bullish arrogance is the clearest top signal.

4. Don’t wait for blow-off tops. Most cycles end quietly, not explosively.

5. Move profits out of the casino. Put gains into safe yield (bonds, stablecoin lending, 4–5% APY products). The biggest wrecks come from doubling down after a win.

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Why Most People Lose

Because they can’t sell. They think “just one more run,” and their greed blinds them. The funny thing? The people who make the most are often those who don’t care. My father, who barely follows crypto, bought ETH at $1K and sold at $4.5K because “it felt high.” He walked away 4x richer. Most plugged-in traders at the same time? Completely wrecked.

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Final Word

This market will give you multiple chances to profit. But don’t fool yourself—you are not the exception. You will not perfectly time the top. You will not hold through euphoria and magically sell at the peak.

The only way to win is to have a plan before the mania begins. Scale out, bank profits, and ignore the noise. If you don’t, you’ll join the 85% who leave every cycle with nothing.

Because in crypto, selling is the hardest trade of all.

Welcome to the new era of finance.