The upcoming market trend.
You will feel that BTC is no longer rising as strongly as before and is leaving altcoins behind.
You will feel that altcoins are no longer dropping sharply as before and can rise while BTC is consolidating.
You will feel that the market is no longer rotating just through memes or other PvP substitutes.
You will see the intensity with which all the old coins you gave up rise again within the time frame.
"Help, I don't know what to buy, no positioning, just found out I missed the breakout, and now it may rotate to altcoins, what should I do now?"
Let's prioritize.
1. The first best thing you can do is not lose money.
And the only best way to lose money is to short-sell out of revenge (because the instinctive feeling is anger from missing out) - revenge entry short or stubborn bearishness.
Yes, the bearish position may still be correct, but this is from the perspective of thinking about how to continue the bull market and what to do (my point of view), unless you really know what you are doing and are very selective, don't short-sell because you are going against the trend.
Conversely, missing a bull market, while others have already made huge profits, and then going long out of revenge after the drop, missing the timing, is no longer buying on dips but catching a falling knife.
2. The second best thing is to switch to a mindset that we are indeed on an upward trend now and will continue for a while. 'Upward trend' ---- this does not mean there won't be any pullbacks, (but it means higher highs -- higher lows -- higher highs -- higher lows) a continuous cycle, actively accepting it. With this, buying 'anything at any time' allows you to exit relatively unscathed.
So assuming you have figured out 1 and 2, great, you are no longer losing money and are on the path to making money. Now this proves your belief is high, and you just realized this is a buyer's market.
Then the third thing is indeed to buy 'on dips' at the right time and try not to buy at local tops. FOMO peaks at local tops, and most people buy at local tops every time, even if the price later makes higher highs, pullbacks will still hurt.
You yield to local lows, prices making higher highs, which is different from doing the same in a range or downtrend environment, because if handled poorly, the penalty for missing the opportunity is not so great.
Therefore, developing a mindset of buying on dips is a good thing.
Soul-searching question: How do I buy on dips?
The complexity of trading and the depth of research, and the complexity threshold of the technical analysis you use is almost irrelevant, it can be as simple as buying a long enough moving average to catch good dips, and you need to have confidence that you will make money instead of losing it.
"Finding an effective moving average is very simple, but understanding the market conditions is hard, but only the latter can make the former work."
So now I have given you the conditions.
① Classic support and resistance,
② Find the right EMA and buy on dips every time it touches.
③ Buy a large position.
Once you buy on dips, the price should surge in the next few days (either up or pull back a bit), your wallet is growing, and everyone's focus is on taking profits.
If you are using leverage, I would say to take out 70% after you profit while expecting higher, also to limit the capital rate costs, as they are important.
If you hold spot, I would say to focus more on the big direction at the right time, and then certainly sell at the overall market top.
So that being said, you haven't lost that many opportunities to make money; you are just dealing with different situations, and I hope you have accepted that now.
The profit potential in the market is endless, and that's a given. The market will never die.