Hello and welcome to my Bull Market Survival Guide.

The goal for this guide is to help provide a framework for anyone interested in participating in the crypto markets with a view of making money.

This is not a “how to get rich” guide, or “how to find the next 100x gems”, or anything like that. I do not guarantee profits, and frankly, I think most people that trade crypto will lose money.

This guide is designed almost to help you not lose money, and hopefully, over time, actually make some! If you follow my guidance and ideas, I do believe you will set yourself up for a better chance of success compared to most people.

Why do I feel as though I have the authority to write such a guide? A few reasons.

1. I bought my first crypto in 2017 and have been full time in the space since early 2021, and have witnessed how the market operates through a couple of cycles.
2. During the 2021/2022 cycle, I turned $30k into about $15m (on paper), and then lost 80% of it back. I learned many hard lessons along the way, and now know what not to do.
3. Prior to crypto, I was a professional poker player for 15 years. The crypto space is often called a casino, and trading crypto is a lot like gambling. I don’t disagree, and a lot of the principles I learned through poker apply to crypto as well.

So here I am creating this guide to pour all my knowledge and experience into one place. I truly believe this is valuable information and will save a lot of people a lot of money and heartache, as well as letting you sleep better at night, and, hopefully, improving your financial position in life.

This is not an “intro to crypto” guide either, so I will assume you have a base level understanding of the crypto space.

<aside> ⚠️ This guide is an unfinished work in progress. If you’re reading this and want to join my community where we are all working together and helping each other thrive in crypto, you can do so by picking up a Denizen (https://opensea.io/collection/denizens-of-zenacademy) or 333 club pass (https://opensea.io/collection/the-333-club and then joining our Discord server: https://discord.gg/zenacademy. I will be sharing some of my own personal high conviction ideas in the server.

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A lot of people think they need to be super smart, a math wizard, or an expert trader to make money in crypto (or any financial market). In my experience, this is far from the truth. You might see the occasionally flashy story of one genius who made millions by doing something technically sophisticated, but by and large, most people who make money in crypto do it in a much more boring way.

The reality is that the single most important thing you need to “make it” in crypto, in my humble opinion, is patience.

Patience, and having a good strategy, will allow you to outperform 95% of people in this space.

Let’s begin by looking at what it means to have a “crypto strategy”.

Module 1: Creating Your Strategy