Focus on a plan for long-term profits. Avoid and/or limit random trades to a small percentage because they usually lose money.
Starting out with cryptos? Which ones do I buy? Create your own portfolio using sample options below. Be flexible. Add your own favorites. Best, secure option for crypto newbies: How to Buy Your First Crypto with Exodus Wallet.
Positioning yourself before major market moves is your key skill. How to do this? Learn about crypto (BTC) market cycles with CryptoCrewUniversity. More links below.
Develop the ability to flex to alternative views.
Do not be locked into only one position. ~ CryptoSniper. Core Investment Principles: 1.) Set your percentages for performance (trading) vs stability (holding). 2.) BUY near the market bottoms. 3.) Take PROFITS near the market tops. You need to know crypto cycles.
At EnergyMe333.com we are long-term swing traders, not day-traders. Why? Stats show that most day-traders lose money. However, learning about day-trading and how to trade will increase your market knowledge and help you make profitable long-term trades.
Where are we right now? Summer of 2024: Understanding how to Read the Market. Are we in the beginning of the transition (flip) from BTC to BSV?
How to Identify the BULL Run: Phase 1 and Phase 2 | BUY in the: Golden Zone | Track the Moving Averages: 21 and 50 Day Moving Average and 50 and 100 Day Moving Average | When to SELL
At EnergyMe333.com we typically avoid the big exchanges and don't leave our coins on them for long periods of time. We no longer use Poloniex or Bittrex (bankrupt) and avoid the exchanges that are moving to centralized KYC. We prefer real-Defi. In 2023 we still occaisionally use Kucoin, but mainly rely on the swaps such as ChangeNow.io, ChangeHero.io, Godex.io and PulseX.com
How to Buy Crypto - Easy | Buy Crypto - More | Prices: CoinPaprika.com and CoinMarketCap.com
More on daily stock trading if interested. Please understand that the stock market is highly manipulated by computer trading. Steve Mauro's Beat the Market Makers: BTMM 01 | BTMM 02
Buy low and sell high. Do the opposite of the crowd. Buy near market lows / crashes.
Sell some of your coins (take profits) close to market tops. This cannot be overemphasized enough: During a bull (upwards) market, TAKE PROFITS. Take profits into USD, precious metals, or other cryptocurrency. Be cautious with the stablecoins. More on the Terra Luna/UST attack. At the next crash low, use those profits to buy more coins. Repeat this cycle. Always keep (HODL) a comfortable percentage of core positions. Try to keep a reserve so you can buy at market lows or cash out as needed. Pay off your debts.
80% to 90% of your portfolio should be in core projects that your trust. So how do you know which projects to trust?
Here are some key decision parameters. What is the founders' track record? Is there a strong community? Has the coin/chain been hacked multiple time without fixes? How strong is the dev community? How strong is the marketing community? What is the function? Where is the value? How much liquidity do you need? In other words, you may have purchased a smaller coin that has high profits 3 years in the future, but is difficult to sell at the moment (low liquidity).
More parameters for choosing: use case (functions/services/benefits), open source code, liquidity in a bear market, solo blockchain, market cap, community benefit, mineable, governance, understandable website.
Note: These are non-ETHEREUM selections because ETH is frustratingly expensive and slow. Most of the coins below are available on Exodus, Atomic Wallet, Metamask and Osmosis.
Barbell Portfolio Structure. Large amounts of steady, core, reliable coins/projects (HODL). Smaller amount of high-risk-high-reward coins.
Some key investment tips from Crypto Empire: Don't invest more than you can afford to lose. Keep core safety positions in high-volume, high-liquidity coins. See link above regarding stablecoin caution. Don't get overly attached to a project. Research your projects. Position yourself for future trends. Know when you want to ride out a crash.
This portfolio avoids crypto fashions
. Do extra research on fashion (quick narrative) coins. If you trade, use only a limited part of your portfolio to buy and sell quickly for profits. So currently there are no DAOs, no Game Coins, no NFT coins, no Wrapped coins* and no AI coins on this list. There are good coins in this arena, but they require extra research. How long do you plan to hold a wrapped
coin? Pursue these with extra money that you can afford to lose. * Where does the wrapped coin live (whose address?) and who controls it? Is it on an exchange? Many of these coins are still in development phases and need refinement. What percentage of your coins are staked? Again, find out how long it takes to unstake
and know that you may be stuck in a position for a longer time and unable to sell staked coins quickly.
Be sure to keep a moon bag
. What is a moon bag? Let's say your crypto goes up in value. So you take profits into USD, precious metals, other cryptos. But you keep just 10% or 20% in reserve. Why? What if suddenly the crypto goes up in value 1000x or more? You still have the reserve that you can cash out. This is what cryptocurrencies are famous for. This is why you need a moon bag.
Please understand that wrapped
coins/tokens and Liquidity Provider (LP) coins/tokens are IOU's, a promise to exchange for the original coins. Proceed with caution. Research first. Plan your timelines and know that if a coin company/exchange/address is frozen you may be stuck with LP tokens or wrapped tokens for longer than anticipated or forever.
BSV Wins the Day! Outlining the important Transactions Per Second (TPS) speed parameter. These 2024 numbers are approximate. A few examples:
Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) Currently at 100,000 TPS and moving to Teranode which runs at 1 MILLION TPS and more.
Bitcoin (BTC) runs at 20 TPS. Ethereum (ETH) runs at 40 TPS. These are generous estimates. Understanding the Bitcoin TPS S-curve limitation.
Visa and Mastercard run at approximately 1000 TPS. Ripple (XRP) and Stellar (XLM) run at 1000 TPS.
Other high-TPS chains include: Cosmos (ATOM) runs at 10,000 TPS. Velas (VLS) runs at 50,000 TPS. TON coin (TON) and BitGert (BRISE) run at 100,000 TPS. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) Teranode takes the cake, running at 1 MILLION TPS.
Find projects with beneficial whales
at the top with long-term track records such as CZ of Binance or Richard Heart of Pulsechain. What percentage of your portfolio are you holding and what percentage are you trading?
(Luna/UST combo removed after the May 2022 crash/attack. Founder: Do Kwon.)
Note: Many exchanges cen$or BSV. Bitcoin Satoshi Vision (BSV) can easily be stored in your desktop Exodus.io wallet. Since the date of this writing, it can also be purchased through Exodus wallet or at ChangeHero.io
This is NOT the Perfect Portfolio
. But it does work great for us at EnergyMe333. We hope it gives you tips to create your own perfect portfolio!
EnergyMe333 does NOT provide financial advice. EnergyMe333 provides Self-Education Tools. This is a starting point for your own research. What is your risk level?
__% BSV (Bitcoin Satoshi Vision), Binance Smart Chain (BNB - BEP20), Cosmos Hub (ATOM). HIGH Liquidity & HIGH Throughput/Speed (Transactions Per Second). Note: We are transitioning a big Chunk
of our long-term portfolio into BSV and BNB.
The only thing CZ did wrong is he was to good! [At routing bitcoin volume]~ YourFriendSommi
__% Velas (VLX), Toncoin (TON), Saito (SAITO), BitGert (BRISE). FAST, FAST, FAST. Cheap or no fees. Decentralized. High TPS. Alternative, independent chains that can handle WORLD throughput. Transactions Per Second (TPS) of 50,000+ to 100,000+. These are new and upcoming blockchains. These are long-term holds.
tied at the hipto Solana, so it is not as decentralized as SAITO or BRISE.
__% NEAR Protocol (NEAR) and PulseChain (PLS) and (PLSX). NEW DEFI Chain. Low fees. Decentralized. Cycle 1 Coin.
__% Ripple (XRP), Stellar (XLM), Jasmy (JASMY). STATIST-CBDC Coins. ****
Q-drop, QFS, ISO CompliantBigStateBigBankBigCorp-CBDC-conglomerate Coins: XRP, XLM, Proton (XPR), Cardano (ADA), Quant (QNT), Algorand (ALGO), Hedera (HBAR), XinFin (XDC), AZERO (Aleph Zero). Globalist (control-centered) corporate conglomerateMess. Caution: be sure to take some profits ASAP or sell-off these coins when profitable and purchase long-term coins. XRP and XLM HQ: San Francisco. XRP and XLM do not have the TPS to handle World throughput. XRP is a
printing machinesimilar to Tether. Important note: volatility. These coins may suddenly spike and then crash and fail. Take significant profits during the spike(s).
__% Litecoin (LTC), Doge (DOGE), Solana (SOL). FAST, Widely Recognized, Solo-Chain PAYMENT COINS.
networkproblems. However, when ETH gets congested (expensive and slow), the overflow may go to Solana (SOL)? Smaller amounts of these widely recognized, high-liquidity payment coins that can survive bear market downturns.
People's Money.Widely recognized as a payment currency (liquid) with retailers. Less globalist than XRP and XLM. Product: Faster-than-BTC/ETH, Cheap, Secure, Mostly-Decentralized Payment Coins. Litecoin is a copy of bitcoin, Charlie Lee, 2011, HQ: Singapore. Dogecoin is also a copy of bitcoin, Billy Markus and Jackson Palmer, 2013. DGB Founder is Jared Tate, HQ: Hong Kong, Digibyte is a copy of both Bitcoin and Litecoin???
__% Modefi (MOD), TokenFi (TOKEN), Chainlink (LINK), VeChain (VET/VTHO), OpenOcean (OOE). PRICE ORACLES and Strong Utility Coins.
__% Floki (FLOKI), Shiba Inu (SHIB). CLASSIC MEME COINS !
marketedas a
Fantasy Game Coin. Most meme coins are Pump-And-Dumps where only the insiders make profits (Pepe, Bonk). Use a limited amount of your portfolio only, maybe 5% or 10% to prevent losses.
This is a just-so-you-know caution: Bitcoin and Ethereum are SLOW and EXPENSIVE. BCH is still slow. This is why we prefer the Binance Smart Chain (BSC). Check out this Summary of BTC by Richard Heart, the founder of HEX.
More options?
Jackal (JKL) - hot file storage, on Osmosis? Also some classics: Theta/Tfuel (THETA / TFUEL), Reef Finance (REEF), Polygon (MATIC on Metamask Polygon Network). Classic ethereum coins that have been stuck for 2 years due to high eth gas prices: OMG, PPT, VERI (Long-term hold). Privacy: Beldex (BDX), Conceal (CCX)
TITANO** V2? HIGH-RISK gamble. For those with a strong stomach. Currently listed as inactive on many exchanges. Please verify the status of this coin before investing. Titano runs on Binance Smart Chain. TITANO HQ: Private. Product: Auto-Compounding Protocol. HIGH RISK - HIGH REWARD. Careful with this one. Do not invest more than you can afford to lose. However, if you hold SHORT TERM you can make good profits: buy at the bottom of a bear market and sell towards a top of a bull run. Product: Passive-Income-High-Risk-High-Reward Compounding-Staking Coin that compounds in your own wallet.
__% ***** SPECULATIVE: Small Test Amounts. These are NOT core assets. Only a small test percentage of your portfolio here. Passive Income-Reward coin options with anti-rug-pull-mechanisms? Test small amount first. Caution: be sure to take profits ASAP on these coins. BodaV2 (BODAV2) 19% BUSD Rewards.
***** We are all for the Beneficial-Whales that take profits in steps over time. It's the Rug-Pull-Whales that are problematic. Screen for anti-rug-pull-mechanisms such as: sell fee that benefits holders, liqudity locks, time-locks, maximum-sell-amount-code that prevents massive sell offs where max sell volume is limited to a percent/ratio per wallet address or treasury holding or time-lock. Screen treasury holdings for high liquidity coins. DAOs: The authors are pro-DAO but also realize they are in a rapid-development phase. So screen carefully and avoid the rug-pulls.
**** Please be aware that the Ripple (XRP) blockchain is private, centralized, and manipulated. Both XRP and XLM charge a coin fee to open a wallet. Both XRP and XLM have unlimited coins (unlimited printing). Hold XRP for short term gains (1-3 years) and translate profits into decentralized coins. Ditto for Binance. Binance is a centralized exchange.
**** Binance (BNB). Binance programming runs on Cosmos (ATOM). Be aware that Binance is also centralized, but is supportive and transitioning to decentralized projects.
*** Hex (HEX) is a Certificate of Deposit vehicle on the blockchain. HEX is currently on Ethereum, but will be moving to the new PulseChain when Richard Heart calls the next crypto market bottom (2023?). Richard Heart has been amazingly accurate in the past and we highly value his judgement in this area. Crypto Coffee: 6 Reasons That Reveal The HEX Origin Address's REAL Intentions (Proof).
** Small coins with high-risk, high-reward potential. Titano (TITANO) is a high risk rebase/compounding coins. Titano is keyed to Binance (BNB). This type of coin can be highly profitable and highly volatile at same time! Withdrawal fees. Make withdrawals in steps.
* LTC will be slow compared with Solana (SOL). Digibyte will be faster than LTC or SOL.