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🔎When to take profits?
It feels so good to be back.
ETH hit $4.7k. BTC hit $124k. These are prices we only dreamed about months ago.
But here’s the thing - in an uptrend, making money is easy. Keeping it is hard. In this issue, I wanted to cover how I’m taking profits on mid-long term positions.
Obviously, when we talk about selling mid-long term bags, you want to do that mainly in the late stages of the cycle and as close to the market top as possible.
No one can predict when exactly the top is in.
But there are a few top signal indicators that have historically been pretty useful:
Coinbase becomes a top 3 app on App Store (you can monitor this on The Block)
Ponzi schemes attract billions of $ in TVL (remember UST or Wonderland?)
Some big celebrities are suddenly turning bullish on crypto (last cycle, we had Elon Musk, Jimmy Fallon, and Mark Cuban shilling crypto near the top)
Everyone starts believing in the supercycle theory. Posts about “a golden bull run” get thousands of likes
People start flexing on Crypto Twitter (photos with Rolexes & Lambos, and posts such as “Is $10M enough to retire?” are all over your timeline)
Jim Cramer regularly shills BTC (never fade Jim Cramer as a top indicator)
The search traffic for 'Crypto’ hits new all-time highs (you can check it here)
Yes, every cycle is different in some way. But human behaviour doesn’t change, and historically, taking profits when multiple top signals flash at once is a good idea.
To give another practical example, when Trump released his memecoin in January, it marked a local top. Selling a part of your portfolio when something that seems almost too insane to be true happens has often paid off.
As a general rule, I also take profits (not big amounts, but I take some money off the table) whenever one of my tokens does a 3x.
To clarify — I don’t believe the cycle top is in, and I still have a lot of crypto exposure. September is historically a bad month for crypto, but my prediction remains that Q4 will be great for our bags.
With that being said, financial markets are a game of probabilities. Rather than selling everything at once, I think it’s better to take profits gradually on the way up.
But regardless of when and how you decide to take profits, my suggestion is to make an exit plan right now and write it down on paper. Because the higher we go, the harder it will be to sell unless you stick to a plan.
I wrote this issue because I heard countless stories of people who became millionaires on paper in 2021 and made more money than they ever dreamed of.
But when the bear market came? They lost almost everything because they never sold and kept increasing their targets.
If you’ll make enough money to become financially free, my advice is to take profits, pay yourself, and secure your future first before taking more risks.
Good luck in the trenches🫡
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The latest developments in DeFi
Chainlink started using its revenue for token buybacks
Coinbase added support for DEX trading via Aerodrome and other Base DEXs
Circle, the USDC issuer, introduced Arc - a L1 blockchain built for stablecoin finance
Alvara's mainnet beta launches on August 14th, enabling users to create, manage, and trade programmable asset baskets containing any mix of ERC-20 tokens
ETH treasury companies bought 1.8 million ETH over the past 30 days
Trump signed an executive order to allow crypto in 401(k) retirement plans
Autonity, a new L1 for trading autonomous futures markets, launched its mainnet
Monad announced the launch of its mainnet in 2025
DeFi App’s proposal to buy back 1.8% of its HOME token supply passed
Stripe revealed that they’re building their own L1 blockchain
Morpho has expanded to Arbitrum L2
Resolv launched a maxiUSR vault targeting a 20%+ APY on stablecoins
Lombard’s LBTC became a yield-bearing asset. LBTC is a liquid Bitcoin token that is now earning native yield via Babylon staking
Jupiter enabled trading pre-IPO stocks on Solana
LayerZero proposed acquiring Stargate in exchange for $110M
Rabby wallet decoded “Add Liquidity” transactions to help stop scams
Curve Finance turned five and reduced its CRV token inflation to ~5%
Sonic announced Spawn - a no-code AI-powered Web3 app builder
The SEC and Ripple ended their multi-year legal battle
That’s all for this week!
Until next time,
The DeFi Investor
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