South Africa: Acclimatising to Alt Season – Part 3 – How to Invest in an Alt Season

Welcome to part three of our series of articles designed to help you understand alt seasons, a stage in the crypto price cycle when altcoins outperform Bitcoin. It’s an exciting time for the crypto investor, and given the amount of evidence suggesting that an alt season may be incoming, getting up to speed will place you in good stead to make the most of it.

In part one, we discussed the fact that altcoins now account for $1.3 trillion worth of the total crypto market cap of $2.2 trillion. We examined how entire ecosystems of software and applications have been developed on top of the key altcoin technologies like Ethereum, Solana and BNB and we promised to show you some key indicators to look out for when trying to decide if an alt season is on the cards.

Part two looked at some key metrics to keep an eye on when trying to predict the dawn of an alt season. We saw how Bitcoin dominance has been on a sharp downward trend since the beginning of 2021. We looked at the influence of Bitcoin investor sentiment as indicated by the Bitcoin fear and greed index and we looked at how…