There's probably a silent majority down to $1k or less capital who feel disheartened because markets are finally getting hot and they overtraded or held the wrong coins. You feel sidelined by choice and annoyed that you stuck around this far but won't benefit from what's coming... If you have money to trade with you aren't out. Here's what I'd be doing over the next 2 months to try and see that 1k turn into about 25 to 50k. As bullish as I am on BTC and ETH $1k to turn into $2k will take a lot of time. If this is a short but wild bull run time isn't on your side. Again a 2x in normal conditions is great, but you are in a different situation. I'd be looking at 1 to 2 microcaps sub million or close to a million marketcap. Focus is on utility because you can't afford rugs here. Teams that stuck around, charts bottomed and slowly heading up, and you would feel confident that they would have rugged or left by now if they were scammers (many teams that stuck around through the lows aren't going to leave right as things get hot). If it was me I'm taking 450 and throwing it into two projects. I'm going into those telegrams and I'm asking lots of questions and really learning about the team. I'm looking for a 3x on both, enough to take 50% profits at 3x on both. In a perfect world you are looking at being at 2,700 now. Now you have 1,350 to do the same with 2 more projects. Now you have exposure to 4 projects, you are looking for one to 10x, one probably does a 3x, one does nothing, and one flops. Back of the envelope math is now putting you at about 5,000 with one token, 1,350 with another, 450 with another, and then 200 with the last one. Now you are at about 6,000. The 10x one you sell 50%, and you have 3,000 to play with. Now you are going for 3 plays with a higher 5 million marketcap. You are looking for 2x plays. You are looking for plays that are already moving, already being shilled, you are just hopping in for the ride. Let's say two of those work out, one does nothing. Now you have $5k to play with, $3k still in the original plays. Here you are at $8k, close to $10k, you start getting excited. Now you start thinking you'll turn $10k to $100k, wrong. You are getting ahead of yourself. You are going to send $1k off the exchanges, you need to have something realized. You can lose this amount tomorrow in an hour. Now you are back to $7k. You are going to re-assess what you have, sell anything that's going down or flat, keep what is hot and has the momentum. Probably have $1k parked in the best coin you have, this will hopefully be your moonbag that sees another 5x or 10x while you are busy trading. You are upgrading now to $2k trades, and you are going to look for 2x trades again, if momentum allows it 3x plays. 2k double is 4k, you have 3 trades doing that. Your 6k is now 12k. You find the best one of those 3 to hold onto, you sell 50%. You leave another 1k moonbag. You sell the others. Now you have 10k to play with, now you are going to play with 5k sizes, being more conservative with 50% to 2x profit taking. You are going to upgrade and trade higher marketcaps, more "safe" plays. Again you are playing what's hot, you are jumping in and riding it. Selling 100% of the trade if you hit a 2x, or 50% if you really think the momentum s there. You hit one of those with a 2x, now you are at 15k but holy cow your original moonbag that you should have held longer did a 10x, you make another 10x. You are a genius. You are at $25k. $5k gets off the exchange, you now have $6k in realized profits with $20k to play with. You can start playing 10k sizes BUT you are trading alts or high marketcaps, you need to slow things down. 10 to 20% swing trades are fine, if the market is still hot $5k microcaps. Your goal is simply to focus on making 5k over and over again. You aren't trying to double $25k you are trying to make $5k again and again. You do that 5 times and you doubled your account. You have 50k and you are a genius, you are going to turn 1k into 100k! Wrong. You send off $14k, you now have $20k of REALIZED profits in the bank. Now no matter what happens you turned 1k into 20k. Now you can go a little more aggressive but you aren't trying to get to 100k. You are trying to make 5k and 10k again and again. You'll make it to 80k and be so close to $100k, wrong. You already realized $20k profits, you already hit $100k. YOU ARE DONE. It all goes off the exchange. You turned $1k into $100k. You stop here and you are a legend. You keep going, imagine the pain of being back to $10k. If $100k won't change your life then you can leave $10k to $20k but you need to move that other money into long term investments or SPEND it so that you won't be tempted to fund your account. If you blow the remaining amount after you've cashed out the stupidest thing you'll ever do is fund the account again. A lot has to go right in this perfect case scenario but so many good stories, comeback stories, or the best traders have fought through a situation like this. If it doesn't work out then maybe it's best to focus back on your job, business, or family for a while. Leaving this space isn't a failure, sometimes it's just an expensive lesson and reminder to focus on the important things in life.