Crypto Popcorn Trading Strategy

Today I’m going to share a unique strategy that's been quietly generating impressive returns for those in the know.

⫸ I’ll share exactly how Popcorn Trading works. I’ll share historical data, I’ll explain why this message is so important at this moment in October 2023.

This can be considered a side hustle because it is a set-and-forget strategy - yet it only works in the early stages Altcoin Season, so timing is key. That is why our discount code is only good for this week.

What is the Popcorn Trading Strategy?

Imagine a kernel of popcorn. It sits quietly, heating, and then suddenly – POP! It explodes into something much larger than its original size. This is the essence of the Popcorn Trading Strategy.

It's about identifying cryptocurrencies that are poised to make sudden, explosive pumps, and taking profits on these 'popcorn moves' as prices are pumping.

With correct planning, you can safely capitalize on crypto pump and dump moves across a diversified group of high probability markets using our proven ‘Crypto Popcorn Trading Strategy‘. There’s no need to monitor, participate, or even know about these groups to benefit from the price moves.

Crypto exchanges to consider:

Bitget is a cryptocurrency derivatives trading platform that was established in 2018. It has grown rapidly since its inception and has managed to establish a significant presence in the crypto trading community. The platform primarily focuses on contract trading.

Bitget

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Changelly: 

When to expect Popcorn moves?

The Popcorn moves I’ve noticed in the past were always at the foothills of cryptocurrency bull markets.

What is the Popcorn Trading Strategy?

The Popcorn strategy involves a very different stop loss pattern than trend trading. Instead of trailing our stops behind prices, we have them set out ahead of prices as profit stops.

It is a buy and hold strategy for anticipating that many cryptocurrencies will make a ‘popcorn move’, which means that prices pop way up and then they drop way back down – just like popcorn.

The Crypto Popcorn Trading strategy is a method for trading Cryptocurrencies that takes very little time to manage after it is set up.

What Kind Of Investor Is This For?

This strategy is for the long term investor who is diversified with tiny positions in many crypto projects, and remain prepared to take profits with a portion of the holdings, should prices spike.

This while the main focus is a long term investment strategy, it also acknowledges that cryptocurrencies often do ‘pump and dump’ style moves that I call a ‘popcorn trade’ move.

Here Are Three Examples From September 2023

BICO/BTC 40%

GLMR/BTC 67%

FRONT/BTC 69%

We can observe that during a specific phase of Altcoin Season many cryptocurrencies have huge spikes up and then they come back down to nearly pre-spike levels.

When the excitement starts coming back into the markets, it could be a number of influences that cause prices to spike suddenly.

It could be real news creating a fever of investor interest, it could be fake-news causing fear and panic, or, these price moves could be the work of organized pump-and-dump groups that intentionally manipulate prices with organized ‘pumps’.

Many Coins Will Pump

Whatever the source that generate these moves, we can implement a simple strategy to capture profits in these huge potential moves, without participating in a pump and dump group, and without spending time monitoring cypto news channels.

Prepare In Advance, Spend No Time

Instead, with this strategy, an investor can be like a Canadian Grizzly Bear and prepare for probabilities when the season is right.

Position yourself during the right season and aim to sell out a portion of holdings IF prices spike to extreme highs.

Altcoins Trend Together

We know from past experience that the altcoin price patterns come and go in waves over and over again – know as Altcoin Season. 

We also know that the entire sector moves together as prices top out after a bull run and as prices make bottom formations after a bear run.

Here is an example Popcorn Move from LINK/BTC back in 2019.

When we review the price moves of LINK back in 2019 and compare the long accumulation pattern that we see in 2023, we can prepare in advance like an insurance policy.

When To Take Action?

The trading plan is explained in our Free PDF. Price levels MUST pass a specific place in ‘the stream’… that is, price levels must make specific technical price patterns as the trend changes direction.

In brief, we have three criteria for our signal:

• Break of the down trendline (or sideways range)

• 1-2-3 formation

• EMA Crossover

Here is a recent example with LINK/USDT price chart.

Many More Are Coming!

The Canadian Grizzly bear puts together the knowledge of the seasons to be exactly where a grizzly bear should stand to get the best meal…

… and crypto traders can position small and wide to catch the pumpers and fatten up our wallets every time this season passes.

This diversified approach will lay out many tiny trades across a select group of cryptocurrencies that have organized themselves through the AltSeason CoPilot Daily Action Matrix.

This group of coins stand out because of their technical chart patterns.

Make Your Money Do The Work

Just like the Canadian Grizzly Bear, we can identify the correct season to sit in waiting for the next altcoin boom and bust wave.

More importantly, with our strategy we can task our money with the job to sit in the waiting, while we do other things!

All we need is this objective and diversified approach that I like to call Popcorn Trading, where we behave just like the Canadian Grizzly Bear.

Our AltSeason CoPilot spreadsheet implements our crypto trading plan PDF on each of about 300 charts, daily.

This provides our team and our members with a clear, objective visual of when the next Altcoin Season is approaching and when it is finishing.

Our trading plan identifies the specific zone of the trend change, and we manually scan all the crypto markets to identify the charts passing that specific zone!

Then we can be like the grizzly bear, and take a bite of all of those that are passing our trading signal, or ‘that spot in the river’.

➽ How Does It Work?

1. Early Bull Patterns: Prices of the coin make early bull patterns. Occasionally, news gets amplified by social media and FOMO traders, causing one coin or another to do a 2x, 5x, or even a 10x move both up and then all the way back down, within a few hours or days.

2. Setting Up: Identify a range of promising cryptocurrencies based on the AltSeason CoPilot ALERT status coin list. Buy tiny positions and set out layered sell orders. – and let the markets do the work.

3. Diversified Strategy: This isn't about putting all your eggs in one basket. The strategy involves diversifying across promising cryptocurrencies, increasing your chances of catching a 'pop'.

What To Look For:

1. Low Market Cap

2. Long Lazy Bottom

3. Daily Surge of On Balance Volume

➀ Low market cap coins are easy to pump with very little incoming money.

➁ Long Lazy Bottom makes investors lose interest and slowly sell out.

➂ Daily Surge of On Balance Volume will not show ‘very much’ in the price movement but when we look at the same chart with the On Balance Volume (lazy bear) indicator - then we can get a picture of the ‘hidden’ buying going on in these markets before the big pumps take off.

➥ Here is an example that I shared in our Discord community on September 25th when BAKE/USDT price was at 0.1086.

➥ I documented more about this chart pattern with a special post:

Am I Too Late?

By the time you are reading this, the market has changed. You are never too late to catch the next ball that is thrown, but you must practice recognizing the patterns and the risk control rules.

Here’s what to look for today:

The AltSeason CoPilot gives us a shortlist of coins each day. The Daily Action Matrix gives us a quick list of charts that are passing the same trading signal zones you can learn about in our Free PDF.

This saves us HOURS every day. It clears our mind of wondering and watching the charts.

Drawbacks of the Strategy

1. It is only effective when prices have been on a downtrend and are now reaching historical low levels. (like we are in September/October 2023)

2. You do not get to have market orders above the market and a stop loss below the market – you must split up the coin you have into those that are set in sell orders, and perhaps a percentage of coin as a protective stop loss – or, no protective stops at all.

3. We are assuming the bottom is close enough and that we are willing to keep holding over a period of years to keep our positioning ready.

4. This strategy is extremely boring. Passive. There is nothing for you to do... in fact it is important that you do nothing.

Comparing Trend Trading To Popcorn Trading

While trend trading grows your position when you're proven right and waits for the market to signal when to get out, the Popcorn Method is to put on all of your trade at the beginning and then to feather your trade out and take your profits as the market goes higher.

Who's It For?

Whether you're a seasoned crypto trader or a newbie looking for a side hustle with potential, the Popcorn Trading Strategy is worth studying.

It's designed for those who believe in the long-term value of cryptocurrencies but also want to capitalize on short-term market movements.

How Can I Sign Up?

Get the Free PDF, learn the plan and go through the charts with our free community on Discord, or sign up for access to the AltSeason CoPilot Membership and gain access to the Daily Action Matrix that anyone can actually use!

ツSave even more! Use coupon code popcorn23 when paying in crypto and save an additional 25% off the annual membership! (valid October 4-11 2023)

In a future post, we’ll talk about Reverse Popcorn Moves: 

Once the trend gets underway, we are more likely to see ‘reverse popcorn’ moves. These sharp spikes down in price occur when too many traders put on trades and have their stop losses too close to the technical levels in the market.

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