The Complete Cryptocurrency Investing Expert Masterclass

What is money?

Before we talk about crypto investing, first we want to understand why we invest in crypto in the first place.
We are going to explore the history of money, payments and the importance of Bitcoin and crypto in the historical context.

We will also talk about the gold standard, the fractional reserve system, inflation, the characteristics of money, Gresham's Law and why Bitcoin is a better form of money.

The Dollar milkshake theory explains why the USD drinks up the liquidity of other countries. In this video, we look at Bitcoin from the perspective of the milkshake theory.

Why is crypto a better form of money? A better version of money made for the future of the internet: Web3.

What are the differences between blockchain, cryptocurrencies and tokens?

Why do we call the blockchain the most advanced accounting system in the world? Blockchains are decentralized,  secure, and distributed and achieve this by using hash functions, distributed computing, consensus mechanisms, and cryptography.

Why and how was Bitcoin invented?

The Bitcoin white paper written by Satoshi Nakamoto, lays down the Bitcoin blockchain.

Crypto prices move for a number of reasons. In this video, we look at different factors that influence the supply and demand of crypto assets. We will also look at some macroeconomic factors.

The future of money and ownership is Web3. These are some of the characteristics and use cases for Web3 and they can impact your investments.

Is crypto a novel asset class? How can this innovation change the way we invest and create new asset classes? Crypto is an innovation that is revolutionizing the way we work and making the world more efficient.

Where can you buy crypto? There are different ways to buy crypto, from centralized exchanges, OTC desks, Bitcoin ATMs, and on-ramp services, and you can also buy crypto from certain crypto wallets. Peer-to-peer services are also offered by certain crypto exchanges.

What are the different types of crypto wallets and how to keep your crypto secure? In this video, we cover all major types of wallets, custodial and non-custodial wallets, as well as cold-storage wallets.

Block explorers allow you to visualize all the transactions on the blockchain. In this video, you will learn how to track a transaction and check addresses on block explorers. 

What are the differences between Centralized Exchanges (CEX) Vs Decentralized Exchanges (DEX)?

In this video we will look at both CEX and DEX (on DeFi) and also have a tutorial to learn how to use an exchange.

What are the differences between spot and futures trading, and when should you use spot and futures trading contracts in crypto? How can you take advantage of both trading options?

In this section, we will go through the process of creating your crypto investment thesis, learning what tools can help you to find projects, and we will also learn about ICOs, launchpads and invest in early-stage crypto projects. We will focus on the frameworks, strategies and tools that will maximize your investments.

How to build your investment thesis? The investment thesis will guide your investment career. The investment thesis will give you clarity on investment opportunities, investment criteria and the financial model for your crypto investments.

HEre are two examples of investment thesis that will help you guiding your investments.

CoinMarketCap and CoinGecko are great tools for tracking all the crypto in the market. Let's do a deep dive.

Let's cover some of the Incubators, Launchpads and Accelerators where you can find crypto projects with potential.

Incubators, Launchpads and Accelerators can help you to discover projects early, but these projects might also be risky.

Learn how to use a launchpad. Learn exactly how to use a launchpad and to be an early-stage investor. We will look at the Binance launchpad, Seedify, Impossible Finance and DAO Maker.

What are:

• ICO = Initial Coin Offering

• IEO = Initial Exchange Offering

• IDO = Initial DEX Offering

• IFO = Initial Farm Offering

What are hackathons? Hackathons can also be a good place to find projects with potential. You can also join a hackathon if you have a project idea.

Invest like venture capital firms by following their investments. How to find additional VC information? Do you know where to find VC investments? Where to see fundraising data?

Following the "smart money" and crypto whales can be a good way of finding good projects.

Let's cover the different types of crypto projects. Layer 1 (or L1), layer 2 (or L2), privacy chains, cross-chain technology, DeFi, stablecoins, web3 infrastructure, meme tokens, gaming, NFTs, Metaverse, oracles, and decentralized identity.
Within DeFi, you will find sectors such as DEX, lending, liquid staking derivatives (LSD), CDP, derivatives, and asset management.

This video discusses the differences between blue chip cryptos, big cap coins and small cap coins. What are the pros, cons and risks.

What qualitative factors should you use to evaluate crypto projects? How to do your fundamental analysis?

A practical example of how to do qualitative due diligence on a project. This is one of the ways you can do additional research on a project.

Let's look at the quantitative factors. Looking at the numbers and ratios is also important to understand the potential of an investment. We will look at the project valuation, market capitalization, TVL, NVT, token distribution, inflation, and other factors.

A practical example where we do the quantitative analysis of two projects - Arbitrum and Optimism. We will look at many different quantitative factors and tokenomics.

The trend is your friend! Following the crypto trends can benefit your investments. Same examples of recent trends were the DeFi summer, the Metaverse trend and the AI trend.

Identify future trends/narratives early.

Tokenomics (or token economics) will allow you to identify future dynamics in terms of supply and demand for the project.

What is a vesting period, cliff, TGE, fully diluted market cap, and much more!

Tokenomics (or token economics) will allow you to identify future dynamics in terms of supply and demand for the project.
Organic and inorganic demand.

Do Your Own Research Techniques. DYOR to find underpriced projects.

Free Template for crypto research techniques.

Crypto tools for due diligence.

Defillama, Ultrasound Money, Token Unlocks, Nanoly, DeFiSafety, Dune Analytics, Artemis, Messari, Santiment, Glassnode, Nansen, Delphi Digital, DeBank, DeFiYield and Zapper.

More analytics tools to help you managing and track your crypto portfolio, also to find projects with potential.

What is technical analysis?

• Technical analysis aims to identify trading opportunities in price trends & patterns seen on charts

• TA believes that past prices can show the trends of future prices

• You NEED to make your fundamental analysis!

Time to look at some of the most important technical analysis indicators:

TA Basic Indicators:

• Price trends

• Chart patterns

• Volume & momentum

• Oscillators

• Moving averages

• Support & resistance levels

Technical Analysis: Volume and momentum indicators.

• Volume Oscillator

• RSI

• MACD

Technical Analysis: Oscillators:

• Stochastic Oscillator

• RSI – Relative Strength Index

• ROC – Rate of Change

• MFI – Money Flow

• CCI – Commodity Channel Index

Technical analysis: moving averages.

• SMA – Simple Moving Average

• EMA – Exponential Moving Average

• Bollinger Bands

• Golden cross

• Death cross

Technical analysis: support and resistance.

Support & resistance zone concept.

We need to be aware of some of the limitations of technical analysis! 

- An historical chart will not tell us much about the fundamentals of the project.

Bitcoin rainbow chart, stock-to-flow model and Bitcoin hashrate charts.

Look at the macroeconomics to make better investment decisions.

What macro indicators to look for?

• GDP growth

• Inflation, CPI

• FED funds rate & interest rates

• Money supply

• Unemployment rate

• Retail sales

• USD strength (Dollar index DXY)

Let's look at some practical examples of how macroeconomics and economic indicators impact the markets.

Some PoS or DPoS cryptocurrencies allow staking. This is part of the consensus mechanism to secure the network.

Ethereum, Cosmos, Polkadot, Cardano, Solana & many others allow staking.

Tutorial on how to stake Ethereum on RocketPool and Lido finance. Also, learn how to stake ApeCoin.

Most exchanges will offer some staking products. This is how to get additional yield or stake on centralized exchanges.

How to earn a yield on DeFi by doing liquidity farming and yield farming.

Yield aggregators are like asset management platforms that offer different products.

They offer the best “yield farming” options and automate investment strategies.

Let's look at different order types in crypto trading:

• Spot Order: executed at the current price

• Limit Order: executed at a predefined price

• Stop Order (stop loss/ take profit): will close the position at a certain price

• Trailing Stop: a stop order that updates automatically according to the price

• Stop-limit Order: combines both limit & stop order

Decentralized exchanges are decentralized and the funds are always under the control of the user. Let's learn how to use a DEX!

Futures and derivatives can help you do some short-term speculation, short-selling, leverage trading and hedging.

Use futures for market-neutral strategies. Market-neutral strategies can be used to protect against market volatility, arbitrage, airdrops, staking and other strategies.

Futures DEX in DeFi:

• DEX like dYdX & GMX offer crypto perpetual futures

• They allow you to go long or short

• They offer limit & stop orders

• They allow you to have high leverage

• Low trading fees & no gas fees

• They’re mobile friendly

Borrowing funds to increase one’s trading position beyond what would be available from their cash balance alone.

Make sure you take profit.
Take profit orders might help in some cases.

Limit orders can take advantage of volatility.

If you are an institutional investor, here are some banks, crypto custodians and infrastructure that serve institutions.

Portfolio management, risk management and portfolio construction are a few things that will help you become a better investor in the long run.

You need to adapt your investment strategy to your risk profile. Risk is the probability of incurring losses relative to the expected return.

Portfolio diversification will help reduce risk, reduce volatility and improve your portfolio performance.

Being a long term investor will help reduce risk.

• What’s your investment time frame?

• When will you need the money back?

What is risk capital?

The amount of money that you are willing to risk: If you lose it completely, your life shouldn’t be substantially impacted.

Understand the value between price and value. Sometimes, an investment might be underpriced compared to its real value.

Some important considerations when it comes to cash management:
1st, have cash for 3 to 6 months’ worth of expenses.

2nd, put aside a monthly budget to invest.

3rd, deploy your cash by dividing it through time and across your portfolio.

• DCA is the most well-studied investment strategy.

• It’s ideal for volatile assets like stocks & crypto.

• Set it & forget it.

These are winning principles. Following these principles will help you being a better crypto investor.

Portfolio asset allocation:

• Asset allocation aims to balance risk/ reward of a portfolio according to your goals:
  Risk tolerance

• Investment horizon

• Investment thesis

Portfolio management. Long-term investor wins over speculators.

Crypto investing is a power law, and diversification is still the key.

Even with little money, it's important to start investing. Try to choose a mix of high & medium-cap coins.

Portfolio rebalancing:

• Rebalancing aims to maintain the desired level of allocation.

• It is important to keep the portfolio at the levels of your investment plan.

• It will help lowering risks.

• It will help taking profits.