Retail investors will always behave like retail investors until they gain maturity, while whales will continue acting like the wealthy investors they are. And yet, many still fail to understand this.

When HYPE was at $10, people said I was going “too hard” into it. Back then, it had a market cap of around $3–4 billion. And guess what happened? It outperformed the rest of the market, delivering a 3x return, while 80% of altcoins hit new lows. You can apply the same example to almost any other large-cap project (excluding memecoins).

Retail investors often chase coins under $100M market cap, hoping for a miracle, while whales accumulate strong projects that have the potential to get even stronger. The only times the playing field levels are when liquidity flows into the entire market or when BTC’s profits are distributed into altcoins.

For years, high caps have remained strong, building momentum and forming bullish structures, while most altcoin holders have been left waiting and praying for the so-called “altcoin season.”

This is a lesson for the next cycle: before you invest, understand that going “all in” on BTC or ETH isn’t the only path. You can make money in altcoins too if you have the knowledge to identify which ones are truly strong and which ones aren’t.