As a trader you’ll hear me talk about risk management quite a lot — it’s not a sexy topic but it’s essential to protect your capital and steadily grow your stack. From a TA perspective this means assessing the risk-to-reward ratio, setting stop losses and knowing when to take (at…

Money doesn’t just fall out of the sky, right? Wrong. You just need to know where to look. Airdrops happen for many reasons but there are typically two categories: 1. Pro-active airdrops (sometimes called “bounties”) 2. Retroactive airdrops Early Bird New projects need to promote themselves in order to get users, grow…

Crypto is a very cyclical market, but it’s not just the (roughly) 4-year Bitcoin cycles that you need to keep in mind. In fact, the way that money moves within crypto is much more important, and I’d say that it’s even easier to time and use in your trading. Bitcoin’s…

A lot of newbies are always surprised at how much it can cost to send a transaction on the blockchain, particularly on Ethereum, where the fees have risen into the hundreds of dollars on more than one occasion. But why is this happening? …

If you pay attention to how some of the biggest players in crypto talk — think Alameda with its two famous Sams — you’ll have noticed that they often use the term Expected Value, or EV for short. Today, I’ll explain to you what this means and, most importantly, how…

Last week I wrote an article about staking — in summary you risk money to support a network or a project and can claim your assets with a 5–20% return when the lock-up period expires. This is a two-part series, and this is Part 2 about Farming, or more specifically…

At first glance, the words ‘staking’ and ‘farming’ could mean any number of things and newbies may be more likely to associate them with Dracula and tractors rather than cryptocurrency. But there’s a lot of lingo in any technical field and crypto is no different. …

If you want to be successful in any pursuit, the key is to think like the pros, and in crypto, this means — at least in part — understanding the way that quant traders view the market. This, in turn, requires a decent grasp of some of the fundamental structures…

Leverage — it’s one of those concepts that pretty much everyone in crypto is familiar with to some extent, even if it’s only from Twitter posts about people getting liquidated on insanely huge positions. …