In the future bull market, many assets won’t rise like they used to—back then, a bull market could easily pump 10s of times, even dozens of times. With the BTC market now having only less than 4x upside space, if you want to get rich, you need to use many techniques and methods.

With limited capital—say only several hundred thousand, or just over a million—if you still want to reach more than $10 million, you have to do what I said recently: in the bear market, first buy spot at low prices, then at the major bottom use these cheap chips to go long on multiple-coin positions in a coin-margined model, and exit before the Bitcoin halving in April 2028.

Within this one-year period, this is the best time to use the upward trend to multiply the number of chips you hold. The coin quantity grows by several times, and then the price also turns up by 2–3 times; the overall profit is already very large. At this point, sell part of the spot at a high price and convert it into USDT, take a long setup for 1–2 rounds of big pullbacks to continue buying the dip, and then sell again in the later higher-price segment. Use only part of the USDT to do U-margined futures; even if you get liquidated once, it won’t deal a fatal blow.

I will never advocate pure futures trading only. I’ve never seen a trader who could stay profitable for seven or eight years by relying purely on futures. Such a person doesn’t exist, and can’t appear. The market is the true creator; no one is a god forever.

From the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside is the easiest time to make a sprint. The scenery along the way is still very pleasing. From the mountainside to the peak, the risk in the second half increases a lot. No matter whether you’re long or short, it’s easy to get worn down, and the higher you go, the more it feels like the cold.

From the second half of this year to March 2028 is a critical window that will determine whether each person can rise. In the small bull phase, it’s actually the hardest-charging part. After the bull market following the BTC halving (April 2028–November 2029), instead, it’s more like a choppy uptrend. Don’t just look at how high the price shoots—futures are easy to get stabbed by big needle-like moves. In that big-bull phase, only Bitcoin spot is the most profitable. The bull markets of other coins will end earlier, and capital will flow toward concentrating into BTC. Then short-term futures and the “guaranteed” profits from other coins are likely to be gained and then lost again.

From January 2027 to March 2028, there will be two major rally phases: 1) an oversold rebound at the weekly and monthly levels, with an upward cycle of about 60–75 days; 2) a one-way uptrend lasting about 4–5 months formed when the monthly MACD climbs above the zero axis, with an upward cycle of about 120–150 days. If you catch and hold these two upward waves, you can lie back early.

March 2024, when I reached my peak, was the best example from the previous cycle. First make big money by trading, and then the followers show up.