So why have i been off of youtube for the past two weeks? What in the world is going on in the crypto market? And what can you do in order to find success in this market and start making money today, guys in this video we're gon na? Be going over all the answers to those questions and it's been a hot minute since we last uploaded over here on this youtube channel, and i got a lot of explaining to do it's been so long and i need to get back in the groove of learning. How to properly record video so slapped y'all with that good hook right there got ta hit this sponsorship message over from our buddies at ftx. You might heard them from their partnership with the home of the miami heat stadium. Some major league baseball teams, tom brady and steph curry ftx is the second to third biggest exchange in the world by trading volume and most other measures.

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I was bed written for like a week and a half and it sucked. Luckily enough, i was able to get a negative test a week before, but since then i've been getting caught up on all the work that i've missed. Now, if you guys don't know, i and i don't know if y'all are into horoscopes or not i'm a capricorn. I was born in the end of december.

I really find fulfillment in the work that i'm doing now, although the fever, the body chill the physical ailments, really did suck, i think what affected me the most was just the fact that i couldn't work uh. I haven't gone that long without working without being able to do anything in a while, i'm always still trying to stay productive, and it was just a very difficult part of my life because uh right, i would say one to two days before i had gotten sick. I planned with my ceo 24 videos to make on this channel. We had lined up all of our sponsors for this month and when i got hit with that, it really did take a toll on me.

So now that i'm finally getting caught back up onto things um and my momentum, i need to pick that back up. It's been rough trying to get started, but you know i do apologize for not being able to post any content in the past two weeks or so. I think i definitely should have kept people up to date. We did make some mentions over in our discord.

Connect to our patreon, but in terms of overall social media, i've been low key off of it, and that is just because i didn't want to bring too much attention and i didn't want anyone to feel pity about me being sick, because i knew i was going To get over it initially, when i did catch the illness, i didn't think it was that bad but progressively it was getting worse and worse by the day, and i really can understand why this is much more of a serious issue going on in the world. But aside from that, you guys i'm really thankful moving into the year that i had to deal with this before all the holiday stuff and i'm not going into the new year uh starting off slow. So now that we have about a week left before 2022 starts. I have a ton of plans and i'm very excited to see what we have lined up now with all that being said, you guys, let's hop into the computer and see what is going on in the market for today, all right, so the global crypto market.

For today's sitting at 2.25 trillion dollars now, bitcoin is still sitting at under 50 000 at 48, 470 at the time of filming this video. So, taking a look at what bitcoin's done over the past one year, this is going to give us a better idea of what we should expect. So, just a year ago, from today, bitcoin was sitting at 32 000. We made some tremendous movements where we even seen the price of bitcoin double since then, and right now still retracing now.

A lot of what the market is going to do is still dependent on how bitcoin acts, but it doesn't mean that there isn't any opportunity to exist in the market. Now what i've been taking a look at is comparing the active moving averages within bitcoin. So this is going to be what the moving average within a specific period of time for bitcoin. It would be clearly you can see.

We are well below the 50-day moving average and if you take a look at the 200-day moving average, we are still down about a hundred dollars. From this point it looks like if we are able to maintain at least the level of forty eight thousand four hundred thirty one dollars. We could see some more positive movement in the market today, but it looks like any time. Bitcoin does hit 48.

49. 000. It's a clear consolidation that we've been getting over the past few weeks. That being said, the indicators are showing that we are in more of a fearful market, but it looks like we aren't in that complete red.

So right now it looks like the barometer is balancing itself out, and that is just because we are still seeing a ton of other all coins in the market still making moves. Some of the big winners that have been ripping is one of our mentions that we talked about during the summer multiple times on our channel when tara was still pre-20. Tara luna had had an amazing rip, even touching 90 at a new all-time high, while the market still has been consolidating up about 40 in the last seven days. Now, just because you're not seeing huge action with bitcoin, it doesn't mean there is zero opportunity.

You will notice that there are still many high cap and mid cap all coins, where, if you are positioned correctly, you can still find yourself making great rewards during this time. A 40 increase in the last seven days on your portfolio would be a good amount of change and we still have a long ways to go. Other cryptocurrencies that i've been watching over the past few days is going to be solana. Now all the salon is at 177, it had a fantastic run over this past year.

Right now, we've actually been seeing more bearish activity for this crypto here. So if solana continues to drop, we could see support hitting 130 to 140, but if we do stay and maintain levels, i always expect solana to be a crypto that is at least 200 in a normal market. Now i get that number based on the current market cap and the utility that we're seeing between the protocols and the nfts and different use case utility apps that are functioning within their platform. I have been diving deep into some solana nfts and i'm telling you the process compared to what you would experience with ethereum and paying for gas fees and in waiting is absolutely tremendous in the difference that you have in improvements within just using solana versus something like Ethereum now this doesn't mean that ethereum is completely subpar and it's going to be irrelevant once ethereum is able to make some more solidified progressions that we can clearly see for their 2.0 upgrades.

That's when i believe we will start seeing ethereum absolutely mooning as well. In the meantime, with the size of ethereum's market cap right now, anything under four thousand dollars, i believe, is still a fair deal. Uh we did make some purchases when ethereum was going below thirty eight hundred dollars uh, but even now, with ethereum under four thousand dollars. You're still right on the line now i've also been getting a ton of questions on what kind of cryptocurrencies that you should be looking at.

Investing into the market today, avalanche in the last week had an amazing recovery. We did even see them drop near 80 dollars at a certain point and right now we are quickly back at 120 today, taking a look at d5 llama you'll notice that the total tvl locked into a lot of these protocols is still near an all-time high. We actually haven't seen a lot of money, getting liquidated off a lot of these crypto projects. What's most interesting is the total value locked on all chains.

We are now seeing tara luna on the number two spot, taking up a majority of other cryptos that have made tremendous progress over the last year. So a lot of you guys are going to be asking me brian. Is it too late to invest into tara luna? I really think 90 dollars is pretty high and i would not invest at a time like this. If tara luna's rip has gone, your attention and you've been able to do a deeper dive on what they offer and why they've been going up, and if you don't know that.

Let me just explain it to you real, quick as well. So the tara protocol allows for heavier focus on different, stable coins. When we have volatility in the market, we don't know what's going to happen next with the pandemic, and we don't know how much money the feds are gon na continue to print or whether we're gon na go into a lockdown or not. We see a lot of investors in trader moving their cryptos into stable coins, where it can be a hedge against any type of negative market.

Crypto volatility that we may experience with the tokenomics of how terror protocol works. If we do see more money going into these stable coins and we get terrorist supply getting burned, naturally, that's just going to increase the amount of price that we see here with all that being said, tara luna does have some great plans on expanding their ecosystem, and I do believe they're going to add some more amazing projects to their protocol, but at the time being in terms of just a technical standpoint, it is never a great idea to buy in when something gets hyped. This much or we see a giant green candle in the last week leading up to a new hall time high. Now, although we did almost see a 100 tara luna happen fairly quick, it doesn't mean that you are missing out.

The big lesson to note within the crypto market is that there is always going to be opportunity. I personally find it much more rewarding to be investing into the market during times like this, where bitcoin's in a consolidation range, and we aren't in that extreme greed like we experienced over the past few weeks. This is where a majority of the opportunity is going to be created and we look at the top 24 hour percent increases you'll notice, even 30 to 20 percent gains with a lot of the top cryptos. So what do i think is gon na happen? Next for the overall crypto market going into the year of 2022, and how can you find strategies to win and maximize your investment portfolio now, first of all, leading into the end of the year.

I think it's going to be unlikely for us to experience any type of huge upside. I really do hope i'm wrong, but the only reason i feel this way is just because we are getting so much news right now. With regards to the pandemic and different lockdowns and anytime, we get huge uncertainty and a ton of news going on in the world where everyone's so occupied with what may happen next, we often don't see too many investors having the confidence we need in order for the Price of bitcoin to start moving. A lot of this is gon na, entail big money and towards the end of the year.

It could go both ways. We could see bitcoin falling down, uh people cashing it out or moving their profits over into stable coins. But at the same time i just expect to see a little bit more consolidation moving over into the first quarter of the new year. And hopefully, while we get bit more confident and we get some more hearings on regulations or where the state of the entire world may be, that is when we could see more action going into the markets on the more optimistic side.

I don't expect a full crash to happen if bitcoin does pull back or have another correction, i do see that getting eat up very, very quick, leading up to the last few weeks within the crypto market. If you guys have been following along this channel, we have been reiterating at the point of taking profits whenever we see that extreme greed in the market, if you guys have followed along, you, would have locked those profits in and any buy entry right now could still Be very viable, especially if we predict a bitcoin to surpass the previous all-time highs of near 70, 000 of what we saw in order to win in this market. It's as simple as this diversify your portfolio. I still personally think crypto is the best asset class to invest into right.

Now it has the most amount of accessibility, ease of use, a lot of people get into it. There are a ton of exchanges that have the opportunity for you to sign up and start investing into the market today and with other comparable markets where we're just not seeing too much movement. Even till this day, crypto is still giving huge opportunities where, if you find the right altcoin, you can make great money on your investment. I think right now we are still very early in the overall development of the entire market.

With the beginning of the revolution of metaverse web 3 and even crypto games we're still in the pinnacle, and this is the time where you should be placing your eggs placing those bets just in case, we do get that next boom rather soon. For me personally, if we do get any type of huge market dips, that's going to be a green signal for me to enter more positions into this market. In the meantime, i am going to be rebalancing my portfolio because i still do have a majority of bitcoin and ethereum in my portfolios and i do see all coin season stirring up rather soon. Now i don't think this all coin season is going to be fully blown out where everything's moving parabolic uh to the moon, but i do think just like we've seen with tara, luna and other cryptocurrencies like avalanche.

We will be seeing some more great opportunities for swing. Trades for you to be able to make money in this market now. Thank you all so much again for watching this video all the way till the very end. Now we have holidays coming up.

I know we got christmas coming up new year's, so i hope you guys have a very safe and amazing blessed holiday season this year. For me personally, it just hasn't been feeling as christmassy. If that's a word like it usually has over the past few years and that just might have been me getting sick or me getting busy but uh, let me know if you guys feel the same way. This year's christmas - just it just, doesn't feel as christmassy, but hopefully that changed we got a few more days until then so guys.

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