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Exit Strategy
The balance between 'letting winners ride' and 'not roundtripping to zero' is thin.
95% either sell everything too early or hold back to zero.
Hardly any talk about this, so let’s dive in: 👇🧵
1. Mindset
1.1 Acceptance and understand the goal
Accept you won’t sell everything at the top—it’s not the goal.
95% of the people try this, and 99% sell too early or hold to zero.
Set a new goal: sell higher than you bought and leave with more money than you started.
1.2 Don't compare yourself
Seeing others make millions doesn’t mean you’ve failed if you don't hit that while managing a 4-digit portfolio.
$10k is a lot.
$100k is a lot.
$1m is a lot.
It’s all relative.
Chasing Twitter exceptions will make you roundtrip. Don’t aim for their numbers—focus on growing what you have.
1.3 Longer term view
Stop aiming to get rich and retire this cycle. Most will feel it’s not enough at the end, even with multiples of what they started with.
This mindset leads to roundtripping. Think long-term.
Each cycle teaches you many lessons, and if you can manage to also end up with a big cash increase into the next bear market, you can compound gains and knowledge in the next cycle.
Many underestimate it how powerful it is to have a lot of cash into the next big downtrend.
Don’t aim to make it this cycle—aim for the next or the one after.
A few might get lucky with big wins, but most roundtrip 5-7 figures chasing more.
2. Have a plan
Don’t plan with the euphoric you during parabolic moves and falling dominance.
Plan with the current you:
> How will I scale out?
> Where (target zones) will I sell more?
> What do I not want to see in the markets?
> What do I do when I do see it?
> What if a position moves early but super hard?
3. Selling habit and gradually over time
Selling during strong price moves is hard—you’ll feel like it will keep going and you’ll miss out.
Start now by selling small batches to build a habit and become more robotic.
Set a slow pace (e.g., sell 0.5%-1% every two weeks) and create rules for when to increase limits.
Focus on building the habit first—your portfolio will still grow. Later, shift to larger selling volumes as needed.
You have to have a plan with certain metrics and things you want to see to understand where to increase the selling.
Aim to capture the bulk of the move gradually, not by selling everything at the top.
4. Change your life
If a position outperforms the market and prints beyond expectations, forget your targets—secure the money.
Sell half or more, cash out, and change your life.
5. Lock it truly in.
If you sell but leave the cash or Bitcoin on the exchange, and euphoria kicks in later. Still overconfident from your last win, you’re back in—chasing the next 100x your favorite influencer found.
Cash-out or move it to a hardware wallet. Make it harder to access and keep it safe.
6. Stop rotating
You put $1,000 into a token; it’s now $5,000, and you sold. Great! Do it again, and it’s $50,000. You’re sitting on $50k, thinking, “One more time, and I’ll make life-changing money.”
Your money goes into the next “cancer-curing” altcoin. It dips, but in a bull market, dips get bought up, right? This time it dips deeper and doesn’t bounce. You hold, telling yourself, “diamond hands.”
It’s now worth $20k. You feel terrible but keep holding. The market nukes again, and you’re now a community member. A year later, it’s worth $750—you’ve roundtripped everything.
Stop rotating endlessly. Secure money and sell to cash out, not to chase the next plan. The longer the uptrend lasts, the more euphoric and irrational you’ll get. Protect your gains—take them out.
7. Example plan (rough draft for inspiration)
*Make your own plan*
A) I’ll start selling a mini amount daily/weekly to build the habit and starting today.
B) Once the Total Altcoin or 'Others' chart shows 1-2+ weekly candles in price discovery, I’ll slowly increase these amounts. (and will again increase after x)
C) If a play outperforms my portfolio or gives me life-changing money, I’ll take it out—no matter where we are in the cycle.
D) If we hit a key zone (BTC, Total Altcoin, or your preferred chart), I’ll increase my daily/weekly selling volume again.
E) Certain price action or indicator, whatever you like: If we see a blow-off top, a blow-off candle, or a bearish market structure break, I’ll sell X% or increase my selling volume.
F) Come up with things yourself 😄
Making it is simple, but keeping it isn't easy.
Have you heard about the gambler who walked away with $1M and never returned? Me neither.
Most will make it, but very few will still be good in the next bear.
This market is gambling on attention; attention will fade away.
99.9% of the tokens will trade lower again in the future.
Secure profits.
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