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Four years have passed. How do investors who only focus on altcoins feel? To be honest, the frequency of looking at candlestick charts might now rival that of reading ECGs. Dollar-cost averaging has turned into a form of fixed-term deposit, and this mindset truly tests people. But the key point is—this sense of repression may actually be brewing a counter-market opportunity.
First, let's state the core judgment: since the wave of adjustment in 2021 until now, most small coins have already fallen more than 90%. This is not a typical correction; it’s more like squeezing the bubble almost completely out. Some say it could still fall further? Logically, that doesn’t hold up. Any sector bleeding over 90% continuously, the ecosystem itself risks coming to a halt. We are now in the final stage of confirming the "floor price."
From a market cycle perspective, there are only a few truly worthwhile bottom-fishing opportunities in the past four years—count them on one hand. The previous instances were either rebounds caused by short-term liquidity recovery or pulse-like movements driven by macro policy stimuli, neither of which represented genuine bottoms. This time is different. The early January 2026 time window might be the last chance in these four years to "get in at low cost." If you miss it, trying to buy chips cheaply again will basically mean chasing high.
Why am I so confident? From the perspective of capital flow, the capital movement in early 2026 has already started to change… (original text to be continued)