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This is one of the weirder dips I’ve seen in a while.
Bitcoin is dumping. Majors look heavy. Volatility is expanding. It honestly feels like this could drag on for a few more weeks, but then you look across the market and some of the strongest names barely moved.
ZEC, HYPE, VVV, NEAR…
They didn’t really give you the classic “buy the dip” entry and that’s the uncomfortable part. You’re not buying fear at deep discounts anymore. You’re buying strength while the rest of the market bleeds. Do these eventually cool down (I hope so, but maybe they don't).
From an ROI point of view, it feels worse. It doesn’t feel like those easy cycle entries where everything gets nuked and you just scoop the obvious leaders, but maybe that’s the point.
Maybe this part of the market is no longer about buying the cheapest chart, perhaps it’s about identifying what refuses to die when Bitcoin starts dragging everything else down.