Last updated: 26 mars 2026
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Tactics
Advanced market analysis for crypto traders — hands-on frameworks for reading cycles, positioning and research.
Most crypto content tells you what happened. Tactics is about what to do with that information. Each article in this section is built around a specific analytical tool or framework — the kind used by systematic traders and quantitative desks to read market conditions before making allocation decisions.
The focus is on crypto-native signals that have no direct equivalent in traditional markets: on-chain cycle indicators, BTC dominance dynamics, open interest and funding rate analysis, liquidation maps, and the capital rotation patterns that repeat — with variation — across every market cycle.
These are not trading signals. They are frameworks for reading the market — tools that help you determine where in the cycle you are, which category of asset is positioned to outperform, and when conditions have changed enough to warrant a shift in strategy.
Assumes familiarity with the foundational articles. New sections published regularly.
Market Structure
Market Structure
Reading the Crypto Market Cycle — Total Market Cap, BTC Dominance, Total2 and Total3
The four macro charts that tell you which phase of the cycle you are in and which category of asset is likely to outperform — a positioning framework, not a prediction tool.
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Market Structure
BTC Dominance — Deep Signal or Noisy Metric?
How to read dominance on multiple timeframes, why stablecoin expansion distorts the signal, how ETHBTC confirms rotation, and a checklist for distinguishing genuine signals from false breakouts.
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Market Structure
Identifying Market Tops and Bottoms in Crypto
MVRV Z-Score, Puell Multiple, funding rates, realised price and long-term holder behaviour — a weight-of-evidence framework for reading when conditions are historically extreme.
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Market Structure
Crypto Sector Rotation — How Capital Moves Through a Bull Market
The rotation hierarchy from BTC to ETH to large-cap alts to memes — how to identify which phase is active, when to rotate, and how the reversal plays out faster than the rally.
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On-Chain
On-Chain
On-Chain Cycle Indicators — MVRV, SOPR, Puell Multiple and NVT Explained
How to read the four most established on-chain indicators — what each one measures, how they signal cycle tops and bottoms, and how to use them together as a weight-of-evidence system.
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On-Chain
Glassnode in Practice — Building Your On-Chain Dashboard
A six-metric dashboard, a 15-minute weekly review process, and a framework for combining on-chain data with price action — how to turn 900 Glassnode metrics into a coherent, actionable view.
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Derivatives & Positioning
Derivatives & Positioning
Reading Open Interest and Funding Rates
How to combine OI and funding rates to identify overextended longs, crowded shorts, healthy trends and exhaustion setups — the four derivatives conditions that repeat across every market cycle.
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Derivatives & Positioning
Liquidation Maps — Reading CoinGlass to Find Price Magnets
How liquidation clusters are constructed, why they act as price magnets, how cascades work, and how to combine the heatmap with technical levels to identify the highest-conviction setups.
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Derivatives & Positioning
Spot vs Futures Basis — Reading the Premium as a Sentiment Indicator
How the basis between spot and quarterly futures tracks sentiment across the full cycle, what contango and backwardation signal, and how cash-and-carry arbitrage creates a structural cap on speculative excess.
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Derivatives & Positioning
Trend Signals and Funding Rates — A Combined Framework
How to combine MA-based trend signals with funding rate data to filter crowded trades, identify contrarian setups, and avoid entering when the market is already positioned against you.
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Derivatives & Positioning
Funding Rate Arbitrage — The Crypto Carry Trade
How to collect Hyperliquid funding rates with zero directional exposure — buy spot, short the perp, earn yield every hour. The mechanics, the basis signal, risk factors and how to read the live signal.
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Research Workflow
Research Workflow
Token Research Routine — From CoinGecko to On-Chain in 30 Minutes
A structured framework for evaluating any new token — FDV and unlock analysis on CoinGecko, holder concentration on-chain, protocol usage on DeFiLlama, and valuation context against comparable projects.
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Research Workflow
The Analyst Tool Stack — Combining CoinGecko, Glassnode, TradingView, CoinGlass and DeFiLlama
How the five tools work together across three use cases — macro positioning, token evaluation and trade timing — and how to read the divergences between them when they disagree.
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Research Workflow
Identifying Altcoin Season — Signals and Positioning
The leading indicators that precede altcoin season, how to distinguish genuine rotations from false starts, which categories lead each phase, and how to build and exit exposure without overstaying.
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Pine Script
Pine Script
What is Pine Script? A Trader’s Introduction
What Pine Script can build, how it works bar by bar, the anatomy of a script, and how to get a working indicator on your chart in under five minutes — no programming background required.
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Pine Script
Pine Script Library — Ready-to-Use Scripts
A growing collection of Pine Scripts built around the Tactics frameworks — copy directly into TradingView. Starts with the BTC Dominance zone indicator.
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Risk Management
Risk Management
Position Sizing in Volatile Markets — A Framework for Crypto
Four position sizing frameworks adapted for crypto volatility — fixed percentage risk, ATR-based sizing, conviction tiers, and cycle-adjusted portfolio allocation — plus the five rules that prevent account-ending mistakes.
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Risk Management
Managing Drawdowns — Hold, Cut or Add
A data-driven framework for diagnosing three types of drawdown — bull correction, late-cycle distribution, and bear capitulation — and the staged response for each: when to hold, when to cut in stages, and how to accumulate at the bottom.
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