YouTube video by Ben Simpson describing a simple crypto investing process: get into early-stage altcoins, hold through growth, and exit when projects list on major exchanges. Simpson presents his own performance (last 12 months +68%; last 24 months +154%), notes he has made only 25 trades over the past three years, and emphasizes time-in-market and early entry rather than frequent trading or complex bots.
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Up 68%.
Up 154%.
25 trades.
Coinbase and Kraken.
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The best investors in crypto aren't smarter than you or I. They are just making it far simpler than so many people. I know this because I've worked with hundreds if not thousands of clients over the last couple years working on their process and I've seen results right from, you know, elderly ladies to young males to every, you know, country place. No matter where you are, I have focused on this simple strategy I'm going to share with you and why it wins and why adding more time into crypto doesn't always equal returns. So this is a transparent, up to date performance portfolio of myself in crypto, currently the last 12 months up 68%. And that is not because I made so many trades, it's actually because I've kept things very, very simple. Now we do blur out all the trades here so, you know, we get them to our members, but as you can see, I've only made 25 trades over the last three years. And this is the performance, right? Over the last 24 months we've seen massive growth up towards 154% of my portfolio based on not taking so much risk. This is the same strategy that we've utilized, as I said, across so many different clients. And the reason why it wins is because of time in the market and getting in early. I see so many people overcomplicating it and trying to get into trading using AI bots, doing all these crazy different things to try and make a great return. But if you have a simple strategy and you into altcoins early, like syrup, like hyper liquid, like so many different projects that we get into and you hold and you sell, once it gets the major platforms like Coinbase and Kraken and you sell out, that is where you can make so much returns. So many people are getting information too late and they're investing off the back of influencers, talking about projects that have already listed, you need to get into projects early, you hold and you have a simple exit strategy. And that is why so many busy people are winning and not having to take all this time and attention away from what they're doing. They follow a simple process. Getting early, get out late. It's easy in theory, but if you follow a good framework and actually works.