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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: DragonTales ✸  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: OT: Bitcoin FOMO
Date: 11/15/24 5:57 PM
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So, is it foolish to allocate 1-5% of one's portfolio in case this revolution continues?

I think we've had this conversation before, but I think it's reasonably low risk to just use some moving averages. Jump in when the price is rising, and jump out when it's not. Jim's "buy when it's down 75-80%" has worked so far. I'd guess it might have done better using a 50% threshold, as then you could have caught the January 2018 and March 2020 relative bottoms too.

I started backtesting at EMA 5/25, and quickly found there were way too many whipsaws. And tried numerous SMA's too. I have come up with something reasonable for me, which is pretty darn conservative, so a little less than a year ago dipped my toe into the BTC world. Right when the ETF's showed up. (There is also a BTC micro Future - MBT at Interactive Brokers, which is 0.1 BTC.)

My strategy is conservative enough, that barring an overnight "It's a scam!" plunge to zero, I felt comfortable putting in 5%. But I hadn't touched BTC before I'd done CaptKerosene's 100 hours of research. And I won't buy any other Crypto products.

So far so good. It's always nice to start an MI strategy on an upswing - BTC can go down quite a ways and I'd get stopped out with a profit.

I wish I could figure out how to share a screenshot in Google Drive or Dropbox without sharing my whole life. It's a good looking back test.

In general, I'm willing to participate if the price is going up. No different than using BCC or other timing systems really. (Right?) :-}

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