—— The 5 things you should do before the market really explodes.
✍️ | A bull market is not about making money by luck, but about winning a whole round through preparation.
You haven't missed a bull market; you just haven't made money in it.
In the last round, you hesitated to miss out, chased high after a surge, and lost everything in the pullback. You thought the problem lay in the market, but the actual problem was that you weren't prepared.
A bull market does not suddenly come on a certain day; it quietly happens after you repeatedly miss it, repeatedly doubt it, and repeatedly liquidate.
And when you look back and want to get on board, the cost has already become 'risk'.
So, this article does not talk about predictions, only about actions. As the bull market approaches, what preparations should we make to turn this into your real 'cycle battle'?
I | Allocation is more important than betting: what you have in hand determines how much you can earn in the future.
A bull market does not rely on 'picking a coin' to get rich, but on an asset structure that runs with rhythm.
What you should do now is:
Maintain mainstream positions: BTC and ETH are the foundation of the bull market, they rise slowly but are risk-resistant, and are the cornerstone of your emotional stability.
Retain potential positions: mid-market cap coins with fundamentals, narratives, and hype are the key ammunition for an explosion in the middle of a bull market.
Reserve on-chain positions: keep some USDT from SOL, BASE, and BSC, ready to participate in future memes, airdrops, and opportunities.
A bull market is not about who makes the most money, but about who loses the least and can still run steadily.
II | Improve your confidence in holding positions, don't get washed out by 'small fluctuations'.
When the bull market comes, the biggest enemy is not the crash, but yourself washing yourself out.
You thought 'if it rises by 10%, I should run first', but others took 60%; you thought 'a 10% pullback is a peak', while others turned back and tripled.
The reason bull markets are hard to catch is not that the market is difficult, but that you can't resist the temptation of unrealized profits and the torment of unrealized losses.
At this stage, you don't need to trade every day, but you need to establish your own 'coin holding discipline':
Establish a profit-taking framework (not 'sell when it rises by how much', but 'when it reaches which stage, start to sell in batches').
Set a bottom line for not easily taking losses (do not lose long-term opportunities due to short-term fluctuations).
III | Don't be fully invested, and don't be fully cash: get on board in batches and keep a hand of patience.
A bull market is a process of continuous oscillation upward, not 'a single big bullish candle changing fate'.
You are likely to blow up at local highs if fully invested, and you may never wait for an ideal pullback if fully cash.
The correct approach is:
Use 30-50% of your position to run with the trend.
Keep 20% of your position to participate in hot projects.
Keep 20% in stablecoins to guard against unexpected events or wait for the second wave of entry opportunities.
The biggest taboo in a bull market is to use short-term tactics for long-term gains. The real winners are never those who go all in, but those who have surplus, adjustment space, and patience.
IV | Continuously record and summarize, don't become an 'emotional player'.
The market is hot, and many people are starting to trade based solely on feelings, just looking at the hype to get on board.
But the more excited you are, the more likely you are to make mistakes; the more you trust your feelings, the more emotional you become.
Start doing it now:
Record your position changes and reasons once a week.
Every time you get on board, write down 'why you bought it'.
Every time you think about taking profits or cutting losses, ask yourself, 'Is this consistent with the plan?'
A bull market is a stage for compound interest, but the premise of compound interest is systematic rather than emotional.
V | Set up the on-chain battlefield in advance: in the second half of the bull market, on-chain is the stage.
What you see now is the rebound on CEX, but the real explosion is on-chain.
Meme coins, airdrops, narrative coins, meme tokens, project original shares... will slowly start on-chain.
And the threshold for these is:
Have wallets (Sol, Base, BSC, ZKsync)
Have USDT, have Gas, have habits.
If you haven't started using wallets, the bull market will only leave you with eating the chips thrown by others.
So start practicing now: open wallets, transfer coins, grab trades, join groups to keep an eye on hotspots.
On-chain is the main stage for retail investors, provided that you stand in the right position in advance.
✅ | A bull market only rewards those who are 'prepared'.
Everyone knows that a bull market 'might be coming', but only two types of people can actually make money from it:
Those who survived the previous bear market and still have positions.
Those who have prepared their positions, rhythm, position control, and strategies in advance.
A bull market is not about who is smarter, but about who can make fewer mistakes, hold on, and adjust the pace to continue living.
Remember one thing:
Opportunities are not determined by judgment but by preparedness.
The bull market is coming, are you really prepared?
