Turn crypto knowledge into a daily operating process: cycle awareness, BTC dominance, narratives, watchlists, risk sizing, invalidation, and journaling.
Module outline
Before you start
You can prepare a crypto trading plan with regime, narrative, asset selection, risk limits, execution rules, and review notes.
Lesson 1
Read crypto regimes without chasing every trending ticker.
Crypto often moves in regimes: BTC leadership, ETH catch-up, alt rotation, meme excess, DeFi revival, stablecoin expansion, or risk-off deleveraging. These regimes are not guaranteed, but they help frame attention.
Narratives matter because crypto is reflexive. Attention, liquidity, incentives, exchange listings, unlocks, protocol updates, and social distribution can all move price before fundamentals are mature.
The disciplined trader does not buy every narrative. They ask whether the narrative has liquidity, timing, catalyst, clean chart structure, and acceptable downside.
Example
If BTC is strong, dominance is rising, and smaller alts lag, the regime may not yet favor broad altcoin risk even if social media is loud.
Key points
Practice checkpoint
Create a three-bucket watchlist: majors, strong narratives, and high-risk experiments. Define why each asset belongs there.
Before continuing
Lesson 2
Build risk limits for high-volatility assets and leveraged products.
Crypto volatility can make normal-looking position sizes too large. Risk must be sized from stop distance, volatility, liquidity, leverage, and account drawdown limits.
For spot positions, the main risk is price drawdown and opportunity cost. For leveraged trades, liquidation price, funding cost, margin mode, and exchange risk matter. Cross margin can create account-wide damage if misunderstood.
A healthy crypto risk plan includes max risk per trade, max daily loss, max open correlated exposure, no-trade events, and a rule for reducing size after volatility expands.
Example
Holding five high-beta alt longs during a BTC breakdown is not diversification. It is one correlated risk cluster.
Key points
Practice checkpoint
Write a crypto risk policy: risk per trade, leverage cap, max correlated exposure, daily stop, and event no-trade rules.
Before continuing
Lesson 3
Review crypto trades through thesis quality, market regime, and execution discipline.
A crypto journal should capture more than entry and exit. It should include market regime, narrative, catalyst, funding, open interest, wallet/venue used, risk, invalidation, and whether the trade was spot or leveraged.
Crypto mistakes often repeat: chasing pumps, holding too many correlated alts, signing bad approvals, ignoring unlocks, overleveraging after a win, or trading thin weekend liquidity.
A weekly crypto review should end with one adjustment: remove one low-quality ticker, reduce leverage, tighten wallet hygiene, add event checks, or simplify the watchlist.
Example
A trader logs a profitable alt trade but marks it low quality because the entry was a social-media chase with no invalidation. Profit did not make the process good.
Key points
Practice checkpoint
Review three crypto trades or simulated trades. Label each as thesis issue, execution issue, risk issue, or operational issue.
Before continuing
Fieldwork
Build a complete crypto trading plan for one week: regime, watchlist, catalysts, risk limits, no-trade rules, and review template.
Glossary
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