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Bitcoin disappoints while Markets Pro delivers 88% gains in 29 hours

Cointelegraph Markets Pro hands investors breaking alerts leading to multiple double-digit trades in a “dead” crypto market

2023 was anticipated to be the comeback year for Bitcoin. Experts predicted that the King of Crypto would soar to $50,000 or more, but it has only bounced back to about $26,000 since the bear market started in late 2021. Cointelegraph Markets Pro, despite the bearish trends ruling the space, has sent investors more than 150 winning alerts so far this year. 

Smart investors are not sitting on the sidelines and waiting for legacy coins to pop. Instead, they rely on Markets Pro — the breakthrough AI-powered crypto trading dashboard — to spot market-moving events before they drive select crypto prices up. As a result, they had the opportunity to jump ahead of gains like 50%, 61%, 80%, and even 88%.

Those gains were spotted by just one of the AI indicators — Newsquakes™ which is considered the fastest and most actionable newsfeed in crypto — built into the dashboard to track crypto market developments known to impact prices and create “flash” breakouts within hours.

PEPE — 50.35% in 5 hours!

On May 5, 2023, the listing of the PEPE token made headlines. The popular memecoin built on the Ethereum blockchain was launched in April 2023 and quickly became one of the most traded cryptocurrencies in the market.

News of the Binance listing hit the market at around 7:00 UTC. By 12:00 UTC, the coin grew 50.35% in just five hours. Most traders missed the move, while those with access to alerts from Markets Pro got the opportunity to take advantage of the surge.

SOMM — 61.88% in 4 hours!

On March 17, 2023, an announcement was made about Sommelier that made investors anticipate a potential price pop. Sommelier is a non-custodial, cross-chain platform for executing intelligent DeFi vaults which automatically invest a user’s funds based on a specific strategy.

Markets Pro picked up on the story and alerted members at 9:00 UTC. By 13:00 UTC, SOMM gained almost 62%.

OAX — 80.53% in less than 72 hours!

OAX is a native Ethereum divisible virtual token. The OAX Foundation, whose aim is to help the DeFi and crypto financial services sector flourish, issues the token.

A breaking news story appeared on the Markets Pro “radar” on March 22, 2023 about OAX.

Near the time of the announcement, the token was trading at almost $0.29. In less than 72 hours, it surged to $0.52.

Investors with access to the Markets Pro alert had a shot at nearly 81% gains.

FLM — 88.15% in 29 short hours!

On June 20, 2023 an unexpected announcement was released about Flamingo Finance. According to sources, Flamingo just entered into a partnership with O3 Labs. Which allowed Flamingo to bridge to 14 EVM chains.

The story broke at 09:00 with FLM priced at a little over 6-cents. Markets Pro picked up the story and sent an alert in real-time to members. A day later, the price surged to just shy of 12-cents, handing investors who had access to the intel a hefty 88.15% gain.

More recently, in the past two months, Markets Pro alerted members to 45.25% gains on LOOM, 44.42% gains on POND, and 41.17% gains on Bitcoin Cash. In the past 7 days members were alerted to unusual market activity on KAS right before it took off 21.27%. In the past 12 days a Markets Pro alert let members know about JOE right before it shot up 39.05%. In the past 13 days, an alert pointed to ARKM right before it surged 21.63%.

That’s not all. Just weeks ago an alert was sent out for VTHO netting 30% returns in just 15 minutes. The next alert could be going out at any time.

Markets Pro helps crypto investors win

In crypto investing, minutes often make a world of difference. Markets Pro strives to deliver actionable news as soon as it becomes available. NewsQuakes™ are sourced from a real-time aggregation engine, collated from over a thousand primary sources every minute and analyzed by an AI algorithm to determine which news stories could impact crypto prices now. These breaking alerts are delivered without human intervention. So, they are often the fastest way for market participants to know about major events in the cryptocurrency space.

Newsquakes™ spotted the market events that led to these and dozens more winning trades. Immediate alerts were then sent to members, so they could jump on the potential breakout tokens they liked. Newsquakes™ is among a handful of advanced AI indicators built into the dashboard to help crypto investors and traders find winning plays.

See how Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers market-moving data before this information becomes public knowledge.

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment advisor. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing or as otherwise specified. Live-tested strategies are not recommendations. Consult your financial adviser before making financial decisions.

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of September 12, 2023…

Bitcoin Technical Analysis: BTC Flirts With $100K as Market Awaits Directional Clarity

Ethereum up 20% in April while Markets Pro sees 379% gain in one day

A single Cointelegraph Markets Pro alert delivers a triple-digit winner in 24 hours for crypto traders.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro stunned traders on April 8th with a massive 379% gain from a single alert. The AI-powered crypto trading platform detects market-moving events as they happen. One of the indicators pointing to these events is the VORTECS™ score.

On April 7th, the OG Fan Token was getting ready for a remarkable rally. OG Fan Token is a cryptocurrency created for esports clubs to interact easier with their fans. In partnership with the blockchain mobile applications Socios.com, the OG esports club powered by the CHZ token aims to enhance the sporting experience. OG’s rally this week was followed by an interest spike in fan tokens like CITY and BAR.

The token was trading at $2.90 when its VORTECS™ score — a historical “snapshot” comparison between current and past market conditions for individual coins — rose above 75. Over the next 24 hours, OG’s price skyrocketed to $13.90. That’s a remarkable jump of 379%!

Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

Five days later, traders could have captured additional gains as OG took off again. On April 13th, a VORTECS™ score of 80 lit up. Over the next 24 hours, the token saw a rapid rise of 40%.

Anyone with access to Markets Pro had a chance to capture these gains which stand in stark contrast to Ethereum’s performance so far in April. Ethereum had the historic “Shanghai Capella” upgrade allowing token withdrawals to be made from the deposit contract.

The upgrade effectively unlocked $36.4 billion in staked ETH and drove the token’s price from $1,775 at the start of April to as high as $2,132 — a lackluster gain of just over 20%.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro, on the other hand, delivered multiple alerts that led to significant gains in the underlying tokens associated with those alerts. A summary of these results are provided in the weekly VORTECS™ Report. Since March 26th a number of winning trade opportunities stand out.

VORTECS™ Alerts

Rocket Pool (RPL) — 45% gain

RPL was one of many high VORTECS™ assets this week! On April 13th a strong score of 80 was flashing when the asset was trading at $42.18. The price soon began a sharp ascent, peaking at $60.97 on April 17th! That’s an increase of 45%!

A green score of 75 also briefly flashed on April 15th when RPL was trading at $52.53. Traders who bought this price point could’ve seen a 16% gain in just 2 days!

RPL is the utility and governance token of Rocket Pool, a liquid staking protocol on Ethereum. The project is the first Ethereum staking pool that is fully decentralized.

Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

Tweet & Trade Volume Gainers

Swipe (SXP) — 163% gain

SXP appeared on the Tweet, Trade, and Most Active On-Chain 24hr charts from March 28th-31st. At the time of its appearance on March 28th it was trading at $0.29 and on April 3rd it peaked at $0.764. That’s a whopping increase of 163%!

SXP is the native token of Swipe, a cryptocurrency wallet ecosystem that allows easy exchanges of fiat money on different transactions and trading platforms.

Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

Trade Volume Gainers

Icon (ICX) — 76% gain

ICX topped the Trading Volume chart on April 2nd when it was trading at $0.282. Just three days later, its price rose to $0.464, an impressive increase of 76%!

ICX is the native token of ICON, a blockchain network that aims to create a digital economy in which the ICON Network hosts other blockchain-based networks.

Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

A history of positive weekly gains

Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivered more than 204 alerts that led to double-digit gains in 2022. That is an average of four winning alerts per week and 17 winning alerts per month. This year the crypto trading platform continues to alert members to these kinds of potential winning trades regardless of market conditions.

With new upgrades to the platform, Markets Pro 2.0 now includes not only the legacy AI indicators such as — the VORTECS™ Score and Newsquakes™ alerts — but also a diversified range of new indicators including Top Exchange Inflows, Top Exchange Outflows, and Most Active On-Chain.

The additional indicators offer members of the Markets Pro community an opportunity to find more trading opportunities than ever before.

See how Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers market-moving data before this information becomes public knowledge.

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing or as otherwise specified. Live-tested strategies are not recommendations. Consult your financial adviser before making financial decisions.

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of April 24, 2023…

Bitcoin Technical Analysis: BTC Flirts With $100K as Market Awaits Directional Clarity

Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s 390% gain dwarves Bitcoin’s 33% rise

Cointelegraph Markets Pro alerts beat the market once again, providing seven trading opportunities based on four different asset indicators.

In Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s latest VORTECS™ Report, the institutional-grade crypto trading platform displayed how its members could have captured a cumulative 390% gain by following seven trades based on four different advanced data indicators. The report depicts trading alerts generated between March 11 – 18, 2023. 

The potential gains available to Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers significantly outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy during the same period, which would’ve yielded holders of Bitcoin (BTC) a 33% gain.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro uses indicators such as the VORTECS™ Score, NewsQuakes™, Most Active On-Chain and Top 5 Exchange Outflows to provide alerts for subscribers in real time.

The past three reports have included alerts with cumulative returns over 100%, showing that this advanced crypto intelligence platform churns out winning trade opportunities each week.

VORTECS™ Alerts

SingularityNET (AGIX) — 100% gain

AGIX’s price chart after a green VORTECS™ Score alert. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

On March 12, AGIX was trading at $0.30 when a score of 77 noted bullish historical patterns for the token. Three days later the price jumped to $0.60, an impressive 100% rise! Scores above 80 also flashed on March 14, when it was trading at $0.40. Traders who bought at this price point could have seen a 50% increase.

AGIX is the utility token of SingularityNET, a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) network on which participants create, share and monetize AI services at scale. AGIX is used for staking, governing and transacting on the network’s decentralized applications.

Radicle (RAD) — 23% gain

RAD’s price chart after a green VORTECS™ Score alert. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

On March 8, RAD was trading at $1.64 when a score of 79 noted bullish historical patterns for the token. Nine days later the price jumped to $2.02, a 23% gain. Remember, the annual return investing in index funds is roughly 10%.

RAD is the native token of Radicle, a decentralized network for software development collaboration.

NewsQuakes™

Prom (PROM) — 64% gain

PROM’s price chart after a NewsQuakes™ alert. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

A NewsQuake™ alert immediately informed Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers of PROM’s listing on Binance when the asset’s price was $4.49. Just three hours later, the price flew up to $7.34, a rise of 64%!

PROM is the native token of the Prometheus network, a blockchain-based structure where users seek to communicate worldwide. The platform aims to allow the trading of any data in a decentralized manner, and users need to spend or stake a certain quantity of PROM tokens to use the services and products.

Sommelier (SOMM) — 62 gain

SOMM’s NewsQuake™ alert and return data. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

SOMM also performed well this week, after a NewsQuake™ about its listing on Gate.io. Just three days after the NewsQuake™ informed Markets Pro subscribers of the listing, the token’s price shot up 62%.

SOMM is the native utility token of Sommelier, a non-custodial, cross-chain platform for executing actively managed decentralized finance (DeFi) investment strategies. The token is used for security, transaction fees, staking and governance.

Rocket Pool (RPL) — 24% gain

RPL’s NewsQuake™ alert and return data. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

On March 13, a NewsQuake™ alerted Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers that the asset would be listed on BitPanda. At the time, RPL’s price was $36.74. The next day, the price shot up to $45.48, an increase of 24%.

RPL is the utility and governance token of Rocket Pool, a liquid staking protocol on Ethereum. The currency is the first Ethereum staking pool that is fully decentralized.

Top 5 Exchange Outflows

The Top 5 Exchange Outflows indicator, launched in Cointelegraph Markets Pro 2.0, tracks the assets being removed from an exchange the most frequently over the last hour or 24 hours. If users are removing money from exchanges, it’s possible that they are less likely to sell.

MASK Network (MASK) — 59% gain

MASK’s position on the Top 5 Exchange Outflows chart. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

MASK was on the Top 5 Exchange Outflow chart on March 15, 16 and 17. On March 15, it was trading at $4.06 and its price peaked three days later at $6.38, an increase of 59%.

MASK is the native utility token of Mask Network, which enables users of popular social media platforms to send cryptocurrency, interact with decentralized applications and share encrypted content. MASK holders can vote on ecosystem initiatives via a decentralized autonomous organization called MaskDAO.

Most Active On-Chain

Wrapped NXM (WNXM) — 59% gain

WNXM’s price chart after a 205% increase in Most Active On-Chain volume. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

Like all the other dashboard features, the Most Active On-Chain chart had a great week for winning alerts. For instance, on March 11, WNXM was on the chart when it was trading at $18.15. Soon after, its price began to rapidly rise, peaking on March 18 at $25.37, an increase of 59%.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers yet again

Cointelegraph Markets Pro has a demonstrated history of delivering these kinds of gains on a weekly basis. Sure, the magnitude of the gains may differ from week to week, but they’re typically there — regardless of market conditions.

Additionally, the institutional-grade platform has diversified from its two original indicators: the VORTECS Score and Newsquakes™ alerts. Version 2.0 of Cointelegraph Markets Pro now includes indicators like the Most Active On-Chain and the Top Exchange Outflow, both of which provided winning trades last week.

The existence of multiple indicators is a form of risk diversification for members of the Markets Pro community. With up to seven individual indicators to choose from, members are no longer reliant on just VORTECS™ Scores or Newsquake™ alerts, regardless of their historical dependability.

See how Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers market-moving data before this information becomes public knowledge.

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing or as otherwise specified. Live-tested strategies are not recommendations. Consult your financial adviser before making financial decisions.

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of March 30, 2023…

Bitcoin Technical Analysis: BTC Flirts With $100K as Market Awaits Directional Clarity

Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers trading alerts good for 65% gains in a choppy market

Using proprietary indicators, Cointelegraph Markets Pro crunches real-time data to inform traders before the market moves.

Navigating the ever-volatile terrain of the crypto market remains one of the most difficult jobs for traders — but much less so for members of the Cointelegraph Markets Pro community. 

With an institutional-grade crypto intelligence platform at their service, Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers have been able to spot significant price movements for crypto assets before the market moves on a regular basis.

This prescient ability is actually the working of Cointelegraph Market Pro’s algorithmic tools, which are designed to spot coins showing historically similar signs to coins that have moved significantly in the past.

Last week, Cointelegraph Markets Pro alerts by the Newsquakes™, Twitter Volume and On-Chain Activity indicators led Markets Pro members to opportunities to make 65% gains with just three trades!

OAX (OAX) — 39% increase

Most Active On-Chain activity table from Friday, March 24. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

On-Chain Activity on OAX skyrocketed 405% on Friday, March 24, hinting at a massive growth spurt in the potential users of the platform. While this increase does not mean a price increase is inevitable (as the other examples show), it demonstrates how On-Chain Activity growth could be a precursor to massive price spikes.

In this example, OAX’s price increases 39% soon after the increase in on-chain activity.

OAX is the native coin of OAX Foundation, which strives to advance decentralized finance through tools, technology, applications and community support.

Arbitrum (ARB) — 14%

Arbitrum NewsQuakes™ listing from Friday, March 24. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

Arbitrum jumped 14% on news of its listing on the Crypto.com platform.

Newsquakes™ have been the Cointelegraph Markets Pro community’s most lucrative and trustworthy indicator. Historically, had one bought and held every NewsQuakes™ listing alert for one hour, one could have yielded as much as $120,000 from a starting stake of just $1,000 — that’s 120x profit!

ARB is the native coin of Arbitrum, a layer 2 scaling solution built on the Ethereum network.

OmiseGo (OMG) — 12%

Price chart of OmiseGo’s surge in Tweet volume Friday, March 24. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

OmiseGo jumped 12% in market capitalization soon after its Tweet Volume increased by 158% compared to its 30-day average. The Tweet Volume indicator measures public sentiment about a coin, which can precede a significant price change as seen in the example above.

OMG is the native coin of OmiseGo, an interoperable decentralized exchange and payment platform.

The Cointelegraph Markets Pro advantage

While most traders are left to fend for themselves in the highly competitive crypto trading markets, Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers find themselves in a community of like-minded individuals, fueled by algorithmic tools and institutional-grade data.

As such, members have had the opportunity to catch several winning trades each week and to actively learn from the trading experience. The Cointelegraph Markets Pro platform provides members with alerts like these on a nearly daily basis, based on real-time data, transforming any market environment into one capable of yielding gains.

Tired of coming in second to institutions and missing out on trading opportunities? If so, there’s only one place to go.

See how Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers market-moving data before this information becomes public knowledge.

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing or as otherwise specified. Live-tested strategies are not recommendations. Consult your financial adviser before making financial decisions.

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of March 28th, 2023...

Bitcoin Technical Analysis: BTC Flirts With $100K as Market Awaits Directional Clarity

Cointelegraph Markets Pro VORTECS Report Summary — 179% gains from 4 alerts

Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s VORTECS™ Score, NewsQuakes™, Tweet Volume and Most Active On-Chain indicators helped subscribers identify four profitable trades.

In Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s latest VORTECS™ Report, the institutional-grade crypto alerts platform displayed how its members could have captured a cumulative 179% gain by following four trades based on four different Markets Pro indicators. The report depicts trading alerts generated between Feb. 26 and March 4, 2023. 

The potential gains available to Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers significantly outperform a simple buy-and-hold strategy during the same period, which would’ve suffered a loss of 5% holding Bitcoin (BTC) and a loss of 4% holding Ether (ETH).

Cointelegraph Markets Pro used a variety of advanced data, such as its proprietary VORTECS™ Score, NewsQuakes™, Tweet Volume and the new Most Active On-Chain indicator, to alert subscribers of the potential for price changes before they occurred.

VORTECS™ Score

SingularityNET (AGIX) — 41% gain

AGIX’s price chart after a green VORTECS™ Score alert. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

On Feb. 26, the asset was trading at $0.39 when Cointelegraph Markets Pro members received an alert for a high VORTECS™ Score of 87. Five days later, the price reached its weekly peak of $0.55 — an impressive increase of 41%!

AGIX is the utility token of SingularityNET, a decentralized artificial intelligence (AI) network on which participants create, share and monetize AI services at scale. AGIX is used for staking, transacting and governance on the network’s decentralized applications.

NewsQuakes™

Liquity (LQTY) — 82% gain

LQTY’s price chart after a NewsQuakes™ alert on Feb. 28. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

On Feb. 28, a NewsQuake™ alerted Cointelegraph Markets Pro members to a Binance announcement that it would list LQTY in its Innovation Zone. Just five hours later, the price skyrocketed from $1.42 to $2.58 — a remarkable rise of 82%!

LQTY is the native token of stablecoin lender Liquity. LQTY holders can stake their tokens to earn a portion of the fees generated by opening and closing loans.

Tweet Volume

The Tweet Volume indicator measures a project’s mentions and activity on the social media platform Twitter. The rationale behind using this data is that widespread, community-driven discussions can sometimes drive an asset’s price up or down.

Akropolis (AKRO) — 40% gain

AKRO’s price chart after a 517% increase in Twitter Volume. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

The Tweet Volume Gainers chart continues to help subscribers track increases in interest and discussion — typically a bullish indication — as price movement goes hand-in-hand with Twitter hype.

AKRO appeared on the Tweet Volume Gainers chart on Feb. 27 when it was trading at $0.005. Just four days later, its price climbed to $0.007 — a 40% increase!

AKRO is the governance token of the decentralized finance protocol Akropolis, which aims to provide an independent financial ecosystem for saving and growing wealth.

Most Active On-Chain Activity

As mentioned in a recent article about the Cointelegraph Markets Pro 2.0 update, the new Most Active On-Chain data shows users the five tokens with the largest increases in the number of active addresses on-chain in the last 24 hours versus a rolling average of the last 30 days.

Yearn.finance (YFI) — 16% gain

Most Active On-Chain data from Feb. 27. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro

On Feb. 27, YFI topped the Most Active On-Chain Chart, showing Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers that it was the token that saw the biggest increase in active addresses on Polygon. At the time it was trading at $9,448, but four days later the price rose over 16% to $10,998!

How to reap the benefits of Cointelegraph Markets Pro

These gains, which cumulatively add up to 179%, occurred over the week of Feb. 26 and March 4, 2023. It’s perhaps too idealistic to assume that subscribers captured all of this value, but even those who captured a fifth of it would’ve earned almost a 35% return.

This isn’t the first time Cointelegraph Markets Pro has produced weekly returns like these, in fact, it is a regular weekly occurrence. During the week of Feb. 19 – 25, the institutional-grade platform used these same four indicators to alert subscribers to potential gains of over 64%.

Another important note — the alerts for each of these moves were triggered before the move actually occurred. It’s easy to spot ideal entry opportunities in hindsight, but Cointelegraph Markets Pro uses institutional-grade technology to help traders spot these opportunities in real-time, often before they happen.

There’s a catch though; only Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers are privy to these alerts.

For those tired of sitting on the sidelines while other crypto traders lock in gains, there’s only one place to go.

See how Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers market-moving data before this information becomes public knowledge.

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing or as otherwise specified. Live-tested strategies are not recommendations. Consult your financial adviser before making financial decisions.

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of March 16th, 2023…

Bitcoin Technical Analysis: BTC Flirts With $100K as Market Awaits Directional Clarity

Market volatility helps one crypto strategy outperform Bitcoin by 246% in 2022

A Cointelegraph Markets Pro score-based trading strategy reaped a 176% return in 2022 while Bitcoin plummeted 70%.

The word volatility is typically received as a negative by financial circles just the same way the name Lionel Messi is received in Brazilian favelas, yet volatility historically presents some of the greatest opportunities for gains, especially in the crypto markets. 

The crypto market experiences much greater price oscillations on average when compared to traditional markets, such as equities, bonds and Treasury bills. In 2021, the benefits of volatility were on full display:

Market proxies like the S&P 500 exchange-traded fund trust (SPY) climbed 27%, while Bitcoin (BTC) rose a whopping 140%!

Of course, the story is darker in 2022, but veteran Bitcoin investors did not find Bitcoin’s unceremonious drop from its high to be a surprise; in fact, crypto winters have historically seen Bitcoin’s value drop by over 60% at least three different times in the past, before rising again to see new highs.

The nature of volatility is that the highs are very high, and the lows are very low. However, in many financial circles, they only focus on half the sentence — the latter part is highlighted, and the former is tucked under a blanket and hidden in the back of a dusty cabinet.

The simple truth is that volatile conditions can provide some of the best risk-to-reward opportunities in the market, but investors need exceptional risk management skills and/or professional help to consistently reap the benefits of these opportunities.

“Volatility is the price you pay when investing in assets that give you the best chance of reaching long-term goals,” Gage Paul, a certified financial planner shared with a popular financial publication. “It is expected and could be viewed as a cost in meeting those goals.”

Let’s see how volatility aided Cointelegraph Markets Pros’ proprietary data algorithms to trade in 2022.

Over the last year, volatility returned to the crypto markets, pushing BTC as low as $15,500 — a drop of roughly 70% from January 1, 2022's $47,800 valuation.

Altcoins have swung even more dramatically — a phenomenon that has helped Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s quantitative algorithm, the VORTECS™ Score, post extraordinary results in automated live testing.

This chart from December 15 illustrates the results of the VORTECS™ Score’s performance since the start of 2022. At the time of publication, the return on investment (ROI) of the top strategy is now over 176%.

In a score-based testing scenario, for example, Buy80/Sell75, the algorithm buys a digital asset when the VORTECS™ Score goes above the first threshold of 80, and sells it when it falls below the second threshold of 75.

Without employing fancy rebalancing techniques, but simply dividing the portfolio between all assets that currently require an investment, the algorithm has delivered a return of 176% for its highest-performing testing strategy — Buy85/Sell80.

For comparison, BTC has dropped by roughly 70% since January 1, 2022, and an evenly-weighted basket of the top 100 altcoins has dropped even lower.

The only reason the VORTECS™ Score can deliver outsized returns like this is because crypto markets are volatile — presenting multiple entry and exit opportunities in a much shorter timeframe than usually enjoyed by traders in traditional financial markets.

That may be partly a function of the 24/7 nature of crypto trading, but it’s also partly because the risk tolerance of cryptocurrency investors is generally agreed to be significantly higher than that of Wall Street CEOs.

So while volatility comes with well-known downsides, including the risk of total and permanent loss, it also has major potential upside for traders who have strong research skills.

And strong research tools.

See how Cointelegraph Markets Pro delivers market moving data before this information becomes public knowledge.

Cointelegraph is a publisher of financial information, not an investment adviser. We do not provide personalized or individualized investment advice. Cryptocurrencies are volatile investments and carry significant risk including the risk of permanent and total loss. Past performance is not indicative of future results. Figures and charts are correct at the time of writing or as otherwise specified. Live-tested strategies are not recommendations. Consult your financial adviser before making financial decisions.

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of December 27, 2022

Bitcoin Technical Analysis: BTC Flirts With $100K as Market Awaits Directional Clarity