Recapping Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s Crypto Winter Recovery Summit

March 7, 2023 Coin Telegraph

The Crypto Winter Recovery Summit demonstrated how traders could’ve multiplied their investment by 120 while the market lost two-thirds of its value.

On its live summit, “The Crypto Winter Recovery Plan,” Cointelegraph Markets Pro revealed how traders could have mostly avoided a gut-wrenching 75% pullback in the crypto market while securing mind-boggling gains.

The Cointelegraph Markets Pro team argues that while hodlers tied their capital into a capitulating market, nimble Markets Pro members were able to capitalize on real-time, institutional-grade crypto market intelligence to capture significant risk-adjusted profits. The results were staggering!

Cointelegraph Markets Pro traders could’ve secured returns up to 120 times their initial investment — 12,000%, not 120% — using alerts initiated by the NewsQuakes™ indicator, one of several indicators found in its easy-to-use dashboard...

*Returns trading on news alerts. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro*

Meaning anybody who would have bought every NewsQuakes™ listing alert and held it for just one hour, from January 2021 until November 2022, would have turned every $100 into $12,000, and every $10,000 into $1.2 million. While over the same period, the crypto market lost two-thirds of its total value.

The secret to the outperformance is the Cointelegraph Markets Pro platform. During the live event, the Cointelegraph Markets Pro team argued that the platform is the most actionable crypto trading service in the world — and the results support this claim.

Last year, a small group of traders used the platform to generate an average of 17 winning double-digit trades per month, with some triple-digit winners mixed in:

148% gain on DIGG in 84 hours
127% gain on XMON in 36 hours
111% gain on EUL in 36 hours
152% gain on SANTOS in 96 hours
148% gain on STG in 12 hours

At its core, Cointelegraph Markets Pro is an institutional-grade trading platform that relies on artificial intelligence (AI) to produce alerts for potential price movements before they occur.

Historically, this kind of technology was privy only to Wall Street’s elite. Now, the same AI-driven technology institutions use to beat the market is available to retail investors.

“It’s really the only crypto trading platform in the world that alerts you to a combination of social media activity and big, market-moving news in real time… before most crypto traders know the information is impacting the market,” said Cointelegraph Markets Pro director Russell DeCorte.

The Cointelegraph Markets Pro platform is not a trading system or a trading bot; rather, it’s a robust, institutional-grade crypto market intelligence platform. The platform feeds traders alerts in real time based on its three flagship indicators.

1. NewsQuakes™

*Newsquakes™ from the dashboard view and the assets’ returns (on the left).* *Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro*

The NewsQuakes™ indicator delivers real-time alerts generated by developments that impact asset prices the most. Prime examples of NewsQuakes™ include exchange listings and partnership announcements.

2. VORTECS™ Scores

*The top VORTECS™ Scores of assets over 24 hours. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro*

The VORTECS™ Score compares a variety of factors including an asset’s current sentiment, Twitter activity, trading volume and price movement to its historical data and produces a score between 1 to 100. A high score suggests that current market conditions for an asset have historically been bullish within the last 24 hours.

Traders used the VORTECS™ Score to generate the following returns:

66% gain on ALEPH in 36 hours
44% gain on RAD in 48 hours
33% gain on HXRO in 24 hours

The opposite is also true for the VORTECS™ Score, meaning a low score typically correlates to bearish conditions for the asset.

3. Tweet Sentiment

*Twitter volume profile of five assets and their relative changes. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro*

This indicator measures the positivity or negativity of the chatter on Twitter surrounding an individual coin. The cryptocurrency market is extremely sensitive to sentiment, which is the prevailing attitude that investors have toward any given coin. The sentiment ranges from positive to neutral to negative.

Armed with these three powerful tools, traders were able to capture:

99% gain on MNW in 24 hours
125% gain on SWINGBY in 72 hours
208% gain on BSW in 4 hours
99% gain on PRQ in 96 hours
167% gain on WING in 72 hours

Here’s the craziest part — these gains were captured in a six-month period when the market dropped 60%. Picture reaping a 208% gain on BSW in four hours, while hodlers watched their portfolio tank by over half. The monetary appreciation is exceptional, of course, but the emotional gain may even be more rewarding.

Sophisticated doesn’t mean complex

While the Cointelegraph Markets Pro platform involves some complex AI technology, it was designed to be easy to use by an individual retail trader. The summit explained this with clarity; profiting from a Newsquakes™ alert, for example, can be a simple five-step process:

Receive a Newsquakes™ alert.
Go to the Newsquakes™ page on Cointelegraph Markets Pro.
Go to the Newsquakes™ highlights and sort by “latest” to find the recent alert.
Click the token name in the list to go to the individual token-listing page.
Scroll to the “most liquid pairs” section, pick an exchange and click “trade.”

That’s all there is to it!

Cointelegraph Markets Pro value

“Giant crypto trading institutions pay as much as $60,000 per year for this kind of information,” the Cointelegraph Markets Pro Crypto Winter Recovery Summit shared. “You’re about to get the bargain of a lifetime!”

While most investors’ crypto portfolios got clobbered in 2022, Cointelegraph Markets Pro users were able to get access to four winning alerts per week, 17 winner alerts per month and 204 winning alerts per year.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro users continue to crush the market in 2023. They’re prepared to discover the alpha no matter the market conditions. To join these successful users, membership is only one click away at the link below.

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 7th, 2023.

These 5 Cointelegraph Markets Pro alerts generated a cumulative profit of over 223%

March 2, 2023 Coin Telegraph

Coin Telegraph

Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s VORTECS™ Scores, NewsQuakes™ and Tweet Volume indicators helped subscribers identify five profitable trades.

In Cointelegraph Markets Pro’s latest VORTECS™ Report, the institutional-grade crypto trading platform displayed how its members could have captured a cumulative 223% gain by following five trades based on three different Markets Pro indicators. The report depicts trading alerts generated between February 12 – 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 a maximum return of 13% for Bitcoin (BTC) and 12% for Ethereum (ETH).

*BTC chart performance between Feb. 12 – 18, 2023. Source: TradingView*

Cointelegraph Markets Pro used the VORTECS™ Score, NewsQuakes™ and Tweet Volume indicators to alert subscribers of these price changes before they occurred. In a previous article, it was explained how using these alerts in conjunction with indicators can help traders find higher-probability trades on a consistent basis.

VORTECS™ Alerts

1. HXRO — 100% gain

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

The biggest gainer last week came from a VORTECS™ Score alert on HXRO. The asset was trading at $0.10 when a string of VORTECS™ Scores as high as 95 lit green. Scores this high emphasize that current conditions for the token strongly resemble bullish trends from the past.

Four days later, the price skyrocketed to $0.20, an incredible increase of 100%!

HXRO is the native token of the HXRO Network, which aims to make it easier to trade in crypto derivatives. People can stake their tokens, use them to take part in voting on changes to the network and get discounts on the cost of making transactions on the system.

2. Everipedia (IQ) — 29% gain

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

IQ continues surprising subscribers with consistent gains! Already a top performer in 2023, IQ saw a green score of 75 when it was trading at $0.07 on February 15. Just 13 hours later, the price shot up 29% to $0.09!

IQ is the native token of Everipedia, also known as IQ.wiki, which is an informative knowledge platform built on blockchain technology. The IQ token powers all application and governance processes for the platform.

NewsQuakes™

3. Polygon (MATIC) — 22% gain

MATIC’s price went on a steady climb alongside a couple of major developments. On February 15, a NewsQuake™ about Polygon’s partnership with Square Enix popped up when MATIC was trading at $1.27.

Traders who bought at this price point could have enjoyed a 22% price increase when the token’s price hit its weekly peak of $1.55 three days later!

On the same day, Polygon announced that it would soon launch the beta version of its zero-knowledge Ethereum Virtual Machine. This gives them a first-mover advantage in launching a public mainnet, a bullish development that leads to positive sentiment change.

MATIC is the native token of the Polygon network, a leading layer 2 scaling solution on Ethereum. The token is used for paying fees, staking and governance.

4. Radiant (RDNT) — 38% gain

*RDNT’s price chart after three NewsQuakes™ alerts. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro.*

A stream of listings for RDNT preceded massive price movements. Three NewsQuakes™ alerted Cointelegraph Markets Pro subscribers about the token’s listings on exchanges Gate.io and Bybit. Only a few days after this news, RDNT’s price rose 38%!

RDNT is the native token of Radiant Capital, a decentralized non-custodial liquidity market protocol on Arbitrum. Radiant users can deposit any major asset on any major chain and borrow a variety of supported assets across multiple chains.

Tweet Volume

The Tweet Volume indicator measures a project’s activity on the social media platform. The rationale behind its use is that widespread community-driven discussions can sometimes drive an asset’s price up or down.

The stock and cryptocurrency frenzy in 2021, driven by online forums like Reddit’s WallStreetBets, is a prime example of this idea.

5. Horizen (ZEN) — 35% gain

*ZEN’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.

On February 12, ZEN was in second place on the Twitter volume chart trading around $11.41. Just four days later, its price had shot up by 35% to $15.36!

ZEN is the native cryptocurrency of Horizen blockchain network. ZEN functions as a privacy coin, as well as a governance and utility token for users of the Horizon ecosystem.

How to reap the benefits of Cointelegraph Markets Pro

These gains, which cumulatively add up to 223%, occurred over the week of Feb. 12 – 18, 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 gained nearly a 45% return.

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, and only subscribers receive the Markets Pro VORTECS™ Report, which is jammed full of wins like these on a weekly basis.

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.

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of March 2, 2023.

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How to evaluate any crypto project using fundamental analysis

February 16, 2023 Coin Telegraph

Blockchain

Different from traditional markets, the crypto market has its own set of key questions to consider when analyzing a project and its assets.

Fundamental analysis is the process of finding the intrinsic value of an asset, with the goal to determine whether the asset is overvalued or undervalued. That information can then be leveraged along with technical analysis to decide whether to invest in or trade an asset.

In cryptocurrency fundamental analysis, the approach is somewhat different than that typically used to evaluate legacy market assets. Crypto assets don’t have the historical data required, because there’s usually no history of earnings reports or profit and loss statements.

For cryptocurrency analysis, all the available information on the asset needs to be sought out through research that includes investigating its use cases, its network, the team behind the project, vesting schedules, the list goes on. By looking at the right set of factors, traders can determine the fundamental value of an underlying project before investing.

Here are the 10 steps found to be most useful:

1. Read the white paper

Especially for long-term, buy-and-hold investing, it is critical to read a token’s white paper. This is the document that gives an intentional and detailed overview of a project. A good white paper explains:

The project’s goals
The use cases and distribution
The team’s vision
The technology behind the token
Plans for upgrades and new features
How the token provides value to users

2. Assess the claims of the white paper

Be skeptical because the people behind projects can bend, or even break, the truth.

This happens more often than most realize. For example, Michael Alan Stollery, the CEO and founder of Titanium Blockchain Infrastructure Services, raised $21 million in an initial coin offering (ICO).

He later admitted to falsifying parts of the project’s white paper.

It’s important to ask some hard questions and get complete answers before putting one’s money into a project.

Some questions to consider:

Are the tokens really distributed the way they promise?
Are they meeting the road map expectations?
Are they inventing a problem just to solve it?
What are other people saying about it?
Are there any red flags?
Do the goals seem realistic?

3. Look at competitors

According to some industry sources, nearly 40% of cryptocurrencies that were listed in 2021 no longer exist.

That serves as an important truth investors need to take into account; a lot of projects — close to half and it could be even more — fail, and fail miserably.

*Graph of deactivated cryptocurrencies on CoinGecko, by year listed. Source: CoinGecko*

Scrutinizing a project’s white paper reveals the use case the crypto asset is targeting and the problem it is trying to solve. One should then consider whether or not that use case is, in fact, viable and wanted.

Furthermore, it’s important to identify competing projects and examine existing projects this new one might replace, if successful. Bottom line: Smart investors are looking to see if this project is better than others or not.

4. Look at the team behind the project

A project is only as good as the team behind it.

The people offering the project must have precisely the right skills to make their project work. The white paper should have information about each member of the team, but doing some independent research can be helpful too.

Some questions to consider about the people behind any project:

Have they worked on other reputable, successful projects in the past?
What are their credentials? Are they experienced?
Are they reputable members of the crypto community and blockchain ecosystem?
Have they been involved in any questionable projects or scams?

What if there is no team? Then look to the developer community.

Find out if the project has a public GitHub. Check to see the number of contributors and activity levels. The more consistent development activity on a project the better.

5. Look at on-chain metrics

On-chain metrics are available by looking at data on the blockchain.

*Exchange inflow and outflow metrics. Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro*

The data can be pulled from websites or APIs — such as on-chain analysis, data charts and project reports — specifically designed to inform investment decisions.

Some of the data worth considering:

Transaction count — a measure of activity taking place on a network. The more activity, the better.
Transaction value — how much value has been transacted within a period of time. The higher this number is, the better.
Active addresses — how many blockchain addresses are active at any point in time. Again, the more active addresses, the better.
Fees paid — how the demand for block space is growing or shrinking for a token based on fees.
Hash rate — a measure of the network health in proof-of-work cryptocurrencies. The higher the hash rate, the more difficult it is to successfully mount a 51% attack.
Staking — the amount staked at a given time shows the interest level, or lack of it, in the project.

6. Look at the tokenomics

Invest in projects that create useful tokens, otherwise, the token may not have utility in the marketplace.

In addition, if the token is useful, it still needs to be determined how the market will embrace it, thereby making sense of the token’s price movements and allowing investors profit opportunities on an ongoing basis.

Some questions to consider:

Is the token useful?
How do people get the token?
What is the inflation or deflation rate?
Was it an ICO asset?

7. Market cap, trading volume, liquidity

Some of the most important analysis is about the financial metrics of the token associated with a project, including:

Market capitalization — the network’s value represented by the hypothetical cost to buy every unit of the asset. The “market cap” gives insight into the growth potential of the network, and it is calculated by multiplying the circulating supply by the current price.
Trading volume — the amount of value that was traded in a certain amount of time (daily, weekly, monthly). It points to whether a token has enough liquidity.
Liquidity — an indicator that measures how easily a token can be bought and sold. The more liquid a token is, the easier it is to sell it at its current trading price.

8. Community

When a community is behind a project, it tends to help the project’s token appreciate in value.

Social media, for instance, can have a significant impact on a crypto asset’s price action. Meme coins such as Dogecoin and Shiba Inu skyrocketed in price, in part, due to social media excitement.

Just recently, Solana’s BONK token got a huge price boost as social media activity pushed interest levels in the asset to new highs.

*NewsQuakes™ for BONK as social media excitement ramped up.* *Source: Cointelegraph Markets Pro*

A community that is backing a coin is a powerful catalyst, so here are a few questions to consider:

Is the community active and excited?
Are there a lot of shilling accounts?
Is sentiment good?
Are there plenty of developers?

Remember, a token’s price goes up only if there is interest and market action. The more people talk about and invest in a token, the more likely its price will appreciate.

9. Marketing

Currently, there are about 21,910 cryptocurrencies investors can choose from — that’s a lot of competition!

The team behind a project needs to actively market its token in order to differentiate itself from the crowd, and industry insiders are saying that it is now harder than ever to stand out.

In addition, with the continual advent of new tokens on the market, established cryptos are struggling to retain market share.

So, the team behind the project must actively build brand awareness, get customers and retain customers to improve sales and profits.

Some questions to consider before investing in a project:

Is the core team marketing the product well?
Do they have a dedicated marketing team?
Are they increasing market share or not?

10. If the core product is available, test it out

This one might be a little tough for someone who is just looking to invest in the underlying token of a project. However, let’s say one is considering an investment in Ethereum (ETH).

Since Ethereum is a decentralized global software platform, a functional, secured digital network technology would demonstrate for certain how the platform actually works.

Knowing this could definitely help inform a potential investing decision.

After all, if the platform is hard to use, time-consuming or otherwise creates more problems than it solves, it may be wise to steer clear of investing in such a platform until these issues are addressed.

So there it is — 10 steps for sound fundamental analysis to help evaluate the profit potential of any asset before any investing or trading.

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

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

Crypto Quick Hits: 8 simple steps to multiple weekly winners

January 31, 2023 Coin Telegraph

Two overlooked indicators are alerting traders to massive potential price increases.

Cointelegraph Markets Pro gives members access to multiple strategies for finding weekly crypto winners.

This article outlines how to use two overlooked indicators that, based on historical data, have been able to alert traders to massive potential price increases. These indicators can also be indispensable tools for asset discovery.

When these indicators are abnormally high, they warrant a closer look at the featured assets to investigate the reasons behind the abnormal volume dynamics.

Before diving in, it’s important to understand this point: Cointelegraph Markets Pro is made up of multiple, real-time, AI-driven indicators, that provide members multiple opportunities to get into select assets before — or just as — their prices take off.

These indicators can be used individually or in tandem to make informed trading decisions. And that’s why, every week, members can look forward to finding winning alerts.

The trading strategy discussed below relies on these two often-neglected metrics:

Below are eight simple steps to follow for this trading strategy:

Step 1: Go to the scanner and sort by Positive Tweets Sentiment.

Step 2: Look for assets with a 60% or higher Positive Tweets Sentiment.

Make sure to customize the scanner view first, so the Positive Tweets Sentiment can be seen. Then click to add the Positive Tweets Sentiment column to the view:

The Positive Tweets Sentiment, by the way, is the percentage of positive tweets about a cryptocurrency over the last 24 hours. The higher the better, but the target is at minimum a 40% – 60% increase.

Step 3: Look for assets with a minimum of 200 – 400 tweets over the last 24 hours.

Ignore all high-sentiment tokens with very few tweets because these assets are likely giving a false positive. The higher the number of tweets, the more likely that something positive is happening with the asset’s price.

Step 4: Find assets with Tweet Volume that are 50% or more above average.

Tweet vs Avg measures how much tweet volume an asset has today versus its 30-day moving average, so a value of 50% means that an asset’s tweet volume is 50% higher today than it is on an average day.

This indicates a significant and unusual increase in tweet volume. Such an increase tells us that something is going on with this asset, tipping members off to a potential breakout of its price.

To investigate these signals, one should verify the alerts by following the next steps:

Step 5: Look for divergence with price (flat or downward movements in the chart).

Let’s take a look at an example with Gitcoin (GTC):

Positive Tweets Sentiment above 60%? Check.

At least 200 – 400 tweets in the last 24 hours? Check.

Tweet Volume at least 50% above average in the last 24 hours? Check.

Now, let’s see where the asset’s price is going. It is best if it is flat, snaking sideways or otherwise dipping a bit.

Markets Pro 7-day chart for Gitcoin (GTC) on January 27, 2023

Step 6: Make sure there is sufficient trading volume!

Gitcoin is a small-cap altcoin, so it may be a bit tricky to find exchanges with liquidity to trade this asset. With smaller altcoins and other more illiquid assets, trading volume is volatile and inconsistent — so be aware of the availability and trading pairs.

A minimum trading volume range of around $200,000 – $400,000 depending on the pairs available on the specific exchange is recommended for optimal liquidity, but for smaller altcoins like GTC, the trading volume will be much less.

Step 7: Look at what the Twitter buzz is about.

Go to Twitter and find out what’s going on with the asset! Maybe there’s an upgrade, maybe it’s a protocol change, or maybe the company behind the asset finished a money raise.

Read the threads. Get a feel for what’s going on.

Whatever is happening, verify without guessing. It’s part of the due diligence process before taking the final step. This information is vital to determine whether to make the trade, wait and monitor, or pass on it.

Step 8: Set up a limit order to take profit at a comfortable rate of around 5% – 10%.

After — and only after — verifying the alerts using the steps above, don’t forget to set up the trade to take some profits. To beat the running rate of inflation, an easy number to use is 10% but that is up to each member to decide. By setting a limit order to take profit, one can lock in a successful return on every winning trade.

By following these eight simple steps, Markets Pro members can find multiple weekly crypto winners based on Unusual Twitter Volume and Unusual Trading Volume indicators.

This is just one of many solid trading strategies members can take advantage of by customizing their alerts through the Markets Pro platform.

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

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of January 31, 2023...

5 quick steps Markets Pro members used for 120x returns trading the news in 2021 & 2022

January 24, 2023 Coin Telegraph

artificial intelligence

Successful investors in the bear market turn to advanced machine learning algorithms and news indicators for trade opportunities.

Want to learn a real strategy to potentially make a lot of money buying and selling cryptocurrencies?

These secrets can’t be found anywhere else — but they are able to turn one’s entire financial situation around for the better in a very short period of time.

Here’s how:

We have often said that the key to crypto trading success is simple — one must get into select tokens before big price movements happen.

The key question, of course, is how does one get in front of rallies before select tokens take off? Well, what we’re able to share is an elegant solution to this problem that Cointelegraph Markets Pro offers its members.

One of the components powered by the advanced machine learning algorithms that make up Cointelegraph Markets Pro is the NewsQuakes™ indicator!

The importance of NewsQuakes™

NewsQuakes™ is by far the fastest, most comprehensive feed for tracking real-time, market-moving news in the cryptocurrency space.

Billions of data points are crunched in real time to find events that historically move crypto prices. We’ve discovered that three events move crypto prices the most:

Exchange listings
Staking events
Partnership announcements

Of the three, exchange listing announcements have historically created extremely profitable short-term returns. Take a look:

*Rocket Pool (RPL) chart with NewsQuakes™*

Anyone with access to Cointelegraph Markets Pro from January 2021 to the end of November 2022 would have received special NewsQuakes™ alerts on the latest market-moving news stories in crypto.

Anyone who bought every NewsQuakes™ listing alert sent out and then sold the position after one hour could have made a nearly 120x return on their money — turning every $1,000 invested into $120,000 and every $10,000 invested into a jaw-dropping $1.2 million!

Now, the easiest way to profit from this strategy is when a new asset is listed on one of the major exchanges, like Coinbase or Binance. Listing announcements drive price action like nothing else — they’re like pouring gasoline on a fire!

They often give tokens that were just listed a quick price jolt, which Markets Pro subscribers can take advantage of by simply buying them, then selling them one hour later.

How to take advantage of this price-shifting phenomenon

We’ll go over each of the five steps in the process below. But first, make sure to learn about Cointelegraph Markets Pro and take the time to set up NewsQuakes™ alerts.

One can set up alerts to be delivered to a favorite desktop and/or mobile device in the following three ways:

From the Markets Pro interface
From the Markets Pro mobile app
From the Markets Pro Discord server

In addition, one needs to set up an account at any of the listed cryptocurrency exchanges that allow for the purchase of a newly listed token. For those new to crypto, popular options include, but are not limited to: Coinbase, Binance or Binance.US, Kraken, Gemini and KuCoin.

Once set up with one or more exchange accounts and NewsQuakes™ alerts as shared above, just follow these five steps to earn big potential profits from NewsQuakes™ listing alerts:

Step 1) Receive a NewsQuakes™ listing announcement alert.

Step 2) Go to the NewsQuakes™ page from the main menu of Markets Pro, which looks like this:

Step 3) Scroll down to the NewsQuakes™ highlights. On the right, sort by “Latest” to find the listing announcement that was just received.

Step 4) Click the token name on the listing to view the individual token listing page.

Step 5) Scroll to the “Most Liquid Pairs” section.

There will be a list of all the exchanges where the token is available for purchase, so just pick an exchange and click the yellow “Trade” link. This will take the user to the corresponding exchange where one can buy a position in the token.

That’s all there is to it!

Even though past performance is no guarantee of future results, buying and holding for just one hour after a NewsQuakes™ listing announcement is a historically proven strategy for getting in front of rallies before select tokens take off.

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

All ROIs quoted are accurate as of Jan. 24, 2022.

2023 could be a rocky year for crypto venture investments: Galaxy Research

January 6, 2023 Coin Telegraph

Coin Telegraph

Around $30 billion was invested into crypto and Web3 startups in 2022, but will it be repeated this year?

Last year was a big one for crypto venture capital despite multiple high-profile meltdowns and the FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) tsunami that followed. However, the funds may not flow as easily this year, a crypto researcher warns.

The number of deals and amount invested by venture firms into Web3 and crypto startups was a little over $30 billion in 2022, according to Galaxy Research

Galaxy’s head of firmwide research, Alex Thorn, described it as a “monster year” that was only just eclipsed by the $31 billion in VC investments in 2021.

However, in a Jan. 5 report, Thorn stated that macroeconomic and crypto market conditions led to significant investment drawdowns in Q3 and Q4. This will likely continue into 2023, until macro and crypto market conditions improve.

Thorn noted that there were 2,900 venture deals in 2022, though the fourth quarter saw the fewest deals and the lowest capital invested in two years.

more than $30bn was invested in crypto startups by venture investors in 2022 across 2900 deals, an absolutely monster year that was only beaten by 2021. but that isn't remotely the whole story... pic.twitter.com/khduDKDZhd
— Alex Thorn (@intangiblecoins) January 5, 2023

If this trend continues, crypto and Web3 firms may struggle to raise funds in 2023, Thorn suggested.

“The macro, monetary, and crypto asset environment portends a difficult year ahead for all involved.”

He added that declining company valuations and stricter demands from investors will bring about a more difficult fundraising environment for entrepreneurs.

“Startups will need to be laser-focused on fundamentals, taming operational expenses and driving revenue in 2023,” he continued.

The United States regulatory environment will also have implications since America still dominates the crypto-startup ecosystem.

More than 40% of all crypto venture capital deals last year involved a U.S.-headquartered startup, according to the report.

“The continued importance of the U.S. to these markets, and its leading position, provide ample reason for U.S. policymakers to clarify and codify rules and regulations for the emerging space.”

Investor dispositions and crypto markets are cyclical, however.

Gene Frantz, a general partner at Google and Alphabet’s independent growth fund CapitalG, told Forbes last month that the 2023 year-end outlook and headlines will look a lot better than today’s.

“The current news cycle may be rough, but persistence and innovation combined with an improving economic outlook will restore the optimism that has always defined our [venture capital] industry.”

In a Jan. 5 report, Crunchbase also alluded to a slower 2023 for venture funding across all sectors. In 2022, global venture funding fell 35% from 2021, but the crypto sector remained buoyant for the year, offering a glimmer of hope for the year to come.

New research indicates boomers make better crypto investors

December 31, 2022 Coin Telegraph

Boomers

Boomers do significantly more research before investing in cryptocurrency than their younger counterparts, which puts them in a stronger position.

As a millennial, it’s hard to say this, but boomers are doing crypto better. They are taking research methods used in the traditional markets and applying them to crypto projects, according to a new report from Bybit and consumer research company Toluna.

The report says that 34% of boomers spend “a few days” doing due diligence on a project before investing — 50% more than other generations. More concerning still, “64% of North American investors spend less than two hours or don’t DYOR at all.”

Boomers are also more likely to focus their research on technical factors such as tokenomics, revenue and competitor landscape. Compare this with their younger compatriots, who are more likely to prize reputational elements such as a charismatic founder and “website aesthetics.”

This shows that being a digital and crypto native is not as big an advantage as people think. It actually pales in comparison with some of the Warren Buffet-style skills that older investors have honed over the years.

Maybe boomers are more likely to be retired and therefore have more free time than younger generations. It’s hard to say, but it seems the best way forward for young people is to get humble and learn from the oldies.

Even though crypto has many idiosyncratic properties that differentiate it from other capital markets, it still has enough in common to allow for a decent crossover in analytic skills. After all, the price of digital assets is highly dependent on the balance of market supply and demand, just like traditional markets.

Digging into the technicals can prevent the kind of poor decision-making that led to large losses in 2022. Several times I have felt really good about buying a token based on the project’s white paper and the strong narrative pushing it but found, on further research, that there were so many venture capital unlocks incoming that the selling pressure would weigh on prices for years to come.

Boomers who are used to crunching company numbers and calculating price-to-earnings and price/earnings-to-growth ratios can apply these skills to data from CoinGecko or CoinMarketCap. Younger generations need to learn why “circulating supply” versus “max supply” is important and why volume is critical.

Indeed, crypto projects resembling traditional value investments have held up relatively well in the bear market. Investors have become savvier about the difference between protocols that issue tokens as a glorified fundraising method and those that produce revenue and share it with holders. So-called “real yield” crypto projects are not dissimilar to dividend-paying companies — something boomer investors would be familiar with and perhaps drive some of their investing decisions.

This is not to ignore the importance of narrative and community in modern investing and crypto especially. For example, decentralized perpetual trading platforms such as GMX, Gains and ApeX Pro benefitted from the pro-decentralization sentiment following the FTX bankruptcy.

Researching this aspect requires a good knowledge of social media, especially Twitter, which is one of the main ways to access crypto’s prominent analysts, founders and degens. Investors use these tools to find narratives, assess where a narrative is in its lifecycle and gauge market sentiment in general.

But Millenials and Gen Z are not really at an advantage when it comes to using social media to assess trends because it’s not new anymore. It’s Web2, and everyone already knows how to use social media. In fact, youngsters turn their familiarity with social media into a disadvantage by over-valuing it as a research tool, while boomers are more likely to stick to the facts.

Traditional investing due diligence continues to set apart the men from the boys, just as it has done throughout history. As long as it does, boomers will outperform younger generations because they do more research and tend to be more patient when it comes to investing, which leads to higher returns than younger generations, who may jump into an investment without fully understanding what they’re getting into. If you’re looking for someone reliable and knowledgeable about due diligence, look no further than your parents or grandparents.

Nathan Thompson is the lead tech writer for Bybit. He spent 10 years as a freelance journalist, mostly covering Southeast Asia, before turning to crypto during the COVID-19 lockdowns. He holds joint honors in communication and philosophy from Cardiff University.

This article is for general information purposes and is not intended to be and should not be taken as legal or investment advice. The views, thoughts and opinions expressed here are the author’s alone and do not necessarily reflect or represent the views and opinions of Cointelegraph.

5 tips for investing during a global recession

December 10, 2022 Coin Telegraph

Coin Telegraph

The market may be experiencing some tough days, but that doesn’t have to stop you from finding ways to prosper.

The economy is facing an outlook bleaker than a Welsh weather forecast, and few are rushing to buy risk assets. Here are a few tips for weathering unfavorable market conditions.

Option #1: Save cash

There’s no shame in sitting on the sidelines and saving cash or stablecoins.

When bullish momentum returns, you will have plenty of dry powder to make big allocations. In the meantime, there are still lots of opportunities to earn yield across crypto markets as long as you trust the protocol you’re using.

But isn’t this timing the market, which is impossible? Possibly. But this is more about spotting momentum and general market trends as opposed to more focused price targeting or calling reversals. Larger trends are easier to spot. However, if that’s a bit risky, there’s another option.

Option #2: Dollar-cost average (DCA)

Have you ever been to a physiotherapist with a wrist or back complaint? You’re hoping for a quick and easy cure, but instead, you’re given a sequence of trifling, tedious exercises to do daily for three months.

Well, dollar-cost averaging is the investing equivalent of that. It’s not sexy or even very interesting but it has a very high chance of working out in your favor given a long enough time horizon. And these days, there are automated bots that do it for you, so that helps.

These first two options could be combined to create a strategy. For example, putting 50% aside in stablecoins waiting for bullish momentum to return, and putting 50% into the market in a price-agnostic manner. This tactic allows for some exposure to the market, which can help in resisting FOMO when the market rallies, even though your overall thesis remains bearish.

Option #3: Find assets that outperform

Decentralized perpetual exchanges have been the darlings of the bear market. Following the FTX scandal, traders flocked to decentralized options, crying, “where can I short?” Many went to protocols such as GMX and ApeX, which are up about 70 and 50% this year, respectively.

There will always be assets that outperform during bear markets but finding them is labor-intensive and going long during a downtrend is risky. So this strategy should be approached with caution and is best used by investors with the nous and experience to spot a good project and apply solid risk management.

Option #4: Use derivatives

There are many strategies using derivatives and combinations of contracts to ensure profit in down-trending and sideways markets. For example, using options to create a “bear put spread” that allows you to make money when an asset falls by locking in a good selling price at a reduced rate.

There are also pseudo-delta-neutral strategies that advanced yield farmers use to long and short both sides of a liquidity pool. This reduces their exposure to the volatility of the assets they are holding so they can collect the pool fees while reducing their downside exposure.

The hard part is not so much actioning these strategies — there are instructions easily available online — but managing them and sizing your position. The management and position sizes can make or break these kinds of trades. They can be profitable in a bear market but should be used with caution.

Option #5: Keep your head on while others are losing theirs

Unless you’re a free climber like Alex Honnald, you wouldn’t attempt to scale any kind of cliff without good safety equipment. The same goes for crypto investing.

What safety equipment? Well, an emergency fund that is kept in cash is a good starting point. It should cover about six months of basic living expenses and shouldn’t be used for yield, borrowed against or staked.

You should also have a sinking fund, kept in similar circumstances (read: highly liquid) to pay for large expenses that crop up such as car repairs or, say, getting stuck in expensive Singapore for a week while your outgoing visa is delayed. The sinking fund will give you that extra buffer of support so you can keep your emergency fund pristine and use it for genuine emergencies only.

Finally, recessions are hard, so remember to go look after your mental health. If you are worried about your portfolio or constantly checking the price, then you are making yourself less healthy and reducing the chance you will make good decisions when the time comes. Therefore, go outside, turn off the computer and play around.

Develop your life outside your investing and trading activities. If you don’t do that, where will you go when you finally make it?

Nathan Thompson is the lead tech writer for Bybit. He spent 10 years as a freelance journalist mostly covering Southeast Asia before turning to crypto during the COVID-19 lockdowns. He holds joint honors in communication and philosophy from Cardiff University.

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