[00:01] and I wanted to maximize my ability to make money without the extreme risk that choose one of these three boring paths that are basically just tried and true ways to make money in crypto. In fact, one of these paths has made me an
[00:14] additional $43,000 over the last couple years versus just buying and holding me a total of $43,000. It's made me more than that. Uh but versus buying and just holding Bitcoin, it's made an additional $43,000 on top of that. And the point of
[00:28] investing in a space and you're not making money, it's not always what problem. You know, sometimes it's the problem is actually your strategy and investing in that space. And with crypto, there's just a ridiculous amount
[00:44] and and a lot of them lead to you losing money. Uh but there's actually a couple again, really boring ways uh that end up making you quite a bit of money, but the the problem is psychologically, they're
[00:58] not easy for everyone to do because they are boring. They're they're not fun. Uh adrenaline-packed as the rest of the space and they do require, you know, some amount of discipline, which a lot of people, you know, struggle with that
[01:10] when it comes to investing in crypto or investing in general. And personally, I have made a ridiculous amount of money investing in crypto between 2020 and 2024. And I do want to say out the gate that in 2025, that was actually the
[01:22] first year where where I've actually lost quite a bit of money investing in crypto. I I I lost money before that back in 2017 when I first got started. I money. But since I've been doing this like more, I guess, professionally and
[01:35] stuff, I've done really, really well between 2020 and 2024. But 2025 was the first year that I took a pretty major hit investing in crypto. And 2025 was obviously, you know, a pretty a pretty brutal year. But part of the
[01:49] problem, at least for me personally, was I wasn't following my own rules. Had I know, these boring strategies that I'm about to to lay out, even in 2025, I have made, you know, probably a fortune in 2025 had I followed these rules. Uh
[02:04] risk. I, you know, I maybe I got a little bit too greedy with alt season least so far that I've been in crypto, there there are very few market environments where these strategies don't do well and and don't end up
[02:17] time, again, these are boring strategies. So, you know, as I start "Ah, these are stupid." Like that's the point. Like they're stupid, they're exciting. That's why people don't talk about them. That's why people don't make
[02:31] don't do them. But they absolutely do work and again, one of them you know, made me $43,000 extra over just buying and holding Bitcoin, which is pretty dang insane. Okay, the first strategy is what I call the 80/20 rule or in the
[02:44] OCA, I call it the Paladin class. And I say this is like the overall best advice. Obviously, I'm not your financial advisor. But I do think most people would probably benefit from doing this strategy versus a lot of the
[02:56] riskier, crazier a lot of stuff, frankly, that I do, I don't think most really risky and extreme and, you know, sometimes you get a crazy hard slap to the face like I did in 2025. And basically, this strategy involves
[03:09] holding 80% of your portfolio in Bitcoin and then the other 20% in alts. And really, it's 10% 80% Bitcoin, 10% like blue chip alts, so like, you know, moderately safe alts and then 10% in, you know, like, you know, whatever high
[03:23] Now, there's a couple reasons this is really just a killer, killer strategy. And really, it works best when combined with uh strategy number two, which I'm but the first one is uh you know, a lot of people say just hold it all in
[03:36] to do. You can do that. But I would guess a lot of you guys watching this you don't want to hold it 100% in Bitcoin. Like you're here to go out on the risk curve because you want to take on some risk to potentially make some
[03:49] reason you're investing. So, this the way this works is you have 80% of your portfolio in something, you know, relatively safe. Bitcoin has done really performer. I don't think there's a lot of doubt, at least in a lot of people
[04:03] eventually going to hit like a million dollars a token or 500,000 dollars a the next decade. You're not really concerned or worried about that. You just know it's not going to be anything insane and so you're like, "Yeah, I
[04:15] everything into it you know, for whatever reason." So, you have 80% there. At the same time, you have 20% of your portfolio sitting in something like these are a lot of asymmetric bets. You know, they they could 10x, they could
[04:27] 50x, they could 100x or whatever or they could literally all go to zero. Um the have to put a lot in to make a lot of money. If you put in $1,000 and it 50x's, you've just made $50,000. You don't need a ridiculous amount of money
[04:40] in there to make a ridiculous amount of money. And so, the the reason I believe this is kind of like an ideal portfolio setup for a lot of, you know, retail is it keeps the majority of your money relatively safe in Bitcoin and then you
[04:54] risk and you still have that potential like upside moonshot. You can make a ton don't have your life savings invested in alts. You don't have your life savings, moon, which which could be really,
[05:08] because if you're wrong, you lose everything. And like I said, this pair with the second strategy. Like I believe these two are, you know, kind of sympatico. They go together. You know, they're yin and yang. But of the two
[05:21] this second strategy is a little bit more powerful because it kind of works have 100% in alts and this strategy would still typically, as long as you're not completely horrible,
[05:34] space. And that is every single time that you have a project or an investment double or triple, you take your initial off the table. And this is actually a hard rule that I used to have for myself back in, you know, like the early days
[05:47] doubled or tripled, I took my initial off the table and then I would take kind of profits along the way. And this makes it really, really hard to lose money in crypto because, you know, odds are the majority of the tokens that you have
[05:59] majority of the tokens that you have held have at one point gone up and done like some insane numbers only to come back down and kind of round trip. And we Like we've had cycles where alts have done, you know, amazing. Okay, Akash
[06:12] and then it came all the way back down. Even some of the worst performing tokens in my portfolio have at one point done a 2x or a 3x. You know, odds are a lot more at a certain points. And so, if you
[06:24] had a strategy of every time it doubles or triples, you took your initial off really hard to lose money, especially if you're taking like, you know, maybe the your initial out, when it triples, you take a little bit of profit and then
[06:36] problem with this strategy is that, you altcoin or whatever has momentum like this it's during a really bullish time period, you know, in the market or at
[06:49] least with that token. And it makes it really hard for you mentally or because you start to imagine how big it could potentially grow. Um it it starts to feel you start to feel like all the things that you you told yourself about
[07:02] token must be true because it's already gone up 2x or 3x. So, you know, they told you it was going to go up, it goes up and so now you're like, "Now they're know, another 100x." So, you you know, like you don't want to miss out on that
[07:15] going to make so much less. It's really, really hard to sell those reasons, this strategy is just psychologically hard to execute. And, do. It used to work really, really well. Uh as I've gotten, you know, as I've
[07:31] successful, uh you know, I've kind of fallen into that trap sometimes where I'm like, "But it could go up so much you know, longer. It it could be go up constraints on me and like, you know, when I make content, I have like a a
[07:44] for a month. If I talked about something for a video, I won't sell anything for a know, just even keeping track of those time periods and then like knowing and sell, often I forget by a month later. Those things make it a little bit extra
[07:58] a voice in the space, it it just kind of is often easier to just kind of hold it less attention on it. But usually when there's a lot less attention on it, you know, none of you guys have that same issue.
[08:13] those kind of things. And again, you know, just go back through your portfolio. Like have they been up a 2x or a 3x? And if you can go through them have at certain points." then you know you could have made money, you just
[08:26] opinion, this is one of the most overpowered strategies that you can execute in the space and it it's just like a stupid easy way to make money be made in crypto, but but often it is rotational as I'm
[08:40] then go down. You got to be able to capture some of that as it goes up strategy is Stoic Meta and I swear this is not sponsored. I wasn't paid to, you something I've been testing for years. I've been doing this since 2023.
[08:55] to pump off and people were like talking about all these AI strategies. Alt this. It kind of sucked, but then they came out with this new strategy and I was like, you know, I want to test this. However, a slight disclaimer because the
[09:08] only way to do this is using binance.com and that isn't available to US investors. They did seed the original $30,000 that went into this account. So, they put the $30,000 in and said, "Hey, anything that this account makes,
[09:21] the extra on top of that." But I was never paid. I never signed a contract. whatever I want, you know, all that kind of stuff. And this is literally 3 years ago. That is So, I've been testing this thing for 3 years. And it's actually
[09:34] different versions. I've done the Stoic Meta, which is like their base model. confusing with some of their namings. They have Stoic Meta long only and then Stoic Meta and that one's done insanely good. Stoic Meta long only hasn't done
[09:48] so far. I don't know. maybe that's why it hasn't done so good where Stoic Meta meta Bitcoin Uh, but this has been a killer killer strategy. And I And I just got to like
[10:01] say it that because it really has performed extremely extremely well in beating the gains that you would have made buying and holding Bitcoin over the past 3 years. So So back then, 3 years ago, had you put that $30,000 into just
[10:15] held it for those 3 years, you would have made $137,922, insane gain considering it was just absolute perfect timing to start this
[10:30] thing. Like they they timed it to a T. But had you put it in Stoic Meta, and which their whole claim is that they beat Bitcoin's gains. That's like their Stoic Meta, it would have been worth
[10:42] Stoic Meta, it would have been worth $181,810. that's a difference of $43,000. So you would have made an extra $43,000 using Stoic Meta than just buying and holding Bitcoin. And I should say this
[10:55] is like post the $30,000 cuz at one point, for whatever reason, they took in. I don't know, they had to like pay some bill or something. So they took some bill or something. So they took that $30,000 out, and so that $181,000
[11:08] is actually the total number minus that $30,000. Had they had that $30,000 and it'd be $210,000 that it's been, you know, the account would be sitting at today. So it's actually made a ridiculous amount of money over the the
[11:20] today, I've actually never taken any money out of this. I I've only kept it in. I thought about taking it out, but then I just I don't know, I didn't know in alts, but, you know, those haven't been doing
[11:33] really well in 2026. I I really do. I still have, you know, majority of my money in there. We'll see if I if I'm wrong, if if I'm right, I think I'll be redeemed, vindicated in 2026. But even still, this this is like a safe boring
[11:46] way for me to just have that money working for me and and making money. And it's been making quite a bit of money. And this strategy is completely automated. Again, unfortunately, not accessible currently to US citizens. You
[11:58] just hook in your API, and and then it just manages your money for you. It's basically just investing in Bitcoin, and somehow I I actually don't know how they do end up actually having some edge
[12:11] little bit smaller drawdowns when Bitcoin's price goes down, and, you little bit more when Bitcoin's price goes up, and they've historically over the past 3 years done a ridiculously ridiculously good job, and and they're
[12:24] really under hyped for how good that they've done. Like they don't get a lot and yet they're just absolutely slaying it over here. You would think they'd get they're AI-based and all that kind of stuff, but they don't for, you know,
[12:36] whatever reason. And that's it. Those are my three boring strategies to make money even when the market's, you know, not going in your favor. I hope in 2026 it is going to go in our favor. I'm I'm believing that this is going to be the
[12:48] you know, we have alt season and all that kind of stuff, and, you know, I I you're curious about seeing my entire portfolio, or you want to see every time I buy and sell various tokens, as well as different weekly video market
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