A simple way to get better results with medium- to long-term trades is to buy spot near the end of a pullback, then use part of your funds to open a small coin-margined long position. Once the price has clearly stopped falling, rebounded, and started moving steadily upward again, begin adding to the position. Aim to close it near the next swing high, while selling your spot holdings as the price rises. This lets you keep selling spot at high prices, rather than behaving like most people: greedily holding on for even more when they’re in profit, then panicking and selling at a loss after a sharp drop erases those gains. You don’t necessarily have to rely on a bull market after Bitcoin’s April 2028 halving to make money. The year before the halving is the real golden period: volatility is relatively low, and adjustments are mostly on the daily-chart scale, making it easier to hold trend-following positions. Keeping liquidation risk under control is an essential skill during this cycle. Prices are low then, so volatility is also low. Later, when prices are higher, the wicks become deeper, making trend-following positions much harder to hold. You need a sufficiently low liquidation price to stay in them; otherwise, you’ll mostly have to trade small swings and take profits or cut losses promptly. After the halving, volatility increases and long wicks become more frequent. There may be a weekly-chart-scale correction each quarter, so profits can actually be given back much more easily.
Take SOL as an example. After this pullback, if you buy the dip or add to your position around 100–96, you can hold on for at least 142. There’s resistance around 144, near the 150 level. When the price first reaches this resistance, you can close your long early around 141. It may then retest 137–131; only after breaking through 137 for a second time will it move on to challenge 150 again. Then, after reaching the resistance above 159, around 154, it will need to retest 137 once more. Only after breaking through 150 again will it head toward 166–173.
Take SOL as an example. After this pullback, if you buy the dip or add to your position around 100–96, you can hold on for at least 142. There’s resistance around 144, near the 150 level. When the price first reaches this resistance, you can close your long early around 141. It may then retest 137–131; only after breaking through 137 for a second time will it move on to challenge 150 again. Then, after reaching the resistance above 159, around 154, it will need to retest 137 once more. Only after breaking through 150 again will it head toward 166–173.