📊 Crypto Bull Market Timeline: Key Phases

✅ 1. Accumulation Phase

• 🗓 Duration: ~Late 2022 to Mid-2023

• 🧠 What Happened: Smart money (VCs, long-term investors) accumulated during deep bearish sentiment.

• 🪙 Strategy: DCA (Dollar-Cost Averaging), accumulate blue chips (BTC, ETH), avoid leverage.

🚀 2. Breakout Phase

• 🗓 Duration: Mid-2023 to Q2 2024

• ⚙️ Trigger: Optimism around the upcoming halving + macro stability.

• 📈 BTC/ETH: Began reclaiming key levels, altcoins lagged.

• 🪙 Strategy: Start rotating into quality altcoins, stay in strong narratives (AI, RWA, DePIN, etc.).

🔥 3. Acceleration Phase (Current Phase)

• 🗓 Duration: Q2 2024 to Present (July 2025)

• 🌊 What’s Happening Now:

Bitcoin dominance peaking

• Large-cap alts performing

• Memecoins & new narratives heating up

• Institutions entering via ETFs

• 🪙 Strategy Now:

• Ride strong narratives (e.g., AI, GameFi, DePIN, ETH L2s)

• Avoid FOMO into parabolic projects

• Scale into positions with a target to de-risk in Q4 2025–Q1 2026

• Use stop losses and partial profit-taking as risk increases

💥 4. Euphoria / Mania Phase (Coming Soon)

• 🗓 Expected: Q4 2025 to Q2 2026

• 📣 Signs:

• Mainstream media frenzy

• Celebs endorsing coins

• Ridiculous valuations & memecoin mania

• Altcoin pumps of 1000%+ in days

• ⚠️ Caution: This is the phase most retail enter — and get rekt.

• 🪙 Strategy:

• Exit 60–80% of portfolio as targets are hit

• Rebalance into stablecoins or yield assets

• Consider short-term trading only if you stay in

• Watch for reversal signs (blow-off tops, declining volume on green candles)

🧊 5. Bear Market / Distribution Phase

• 🗓 Expected: Q2–Q3 2026 into 2027

• 📉 Signs:

• Smart money offloads

• Prices drop 70–90% from top

• Narratives dry up

• Rug pulls and scams increase

• 🪙 Strategy:

• Sit in stables, BTC, ETH

• Watch for reaccumulation post-washout

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