I’ve been trading and living like this for a long time too, mainly because I’ve never played these kinds of charts with market caps of several hundred million—it's just too easy to get wiped out on both the long and short sides by the market’s manipulators, with buys and sells pushed violently in both directions. For long-term compounding, my advice to brothers is still to focus on the mainstream. If you really can’t resist playing and want to touch obscure coins, then at least go for ones with market caps of at least over 10 billion—at minimum, it’s a bit fairer.

Today, on Binance, it’s clearly the same: the market’s manipulators are tightly controlling the book and wiping out both longs and shorts at the same time. In the last bull market, 100x altcoins were flying around everywhere—if you just dared to buy and hold, you could take off. But in this 2025 cycle, most of the altcoins are basically cleavers. Just on Binance Exchange alone, there are countless altcoins listed through its Alpha program. If you really want to get rich trading altcoins by riding this wave, the odds are about the same as winning the jackpot on a scratch-off ticket. I think the period of tailwind for altcoins has already ended.