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In today's video, I'll be revealing my hyper-optimized morning crypto routine that made me my first $1 million in crypto.
Most crypto investors end up in this endless cycle of chasing narratives but never end up making any real money in the space. But by using this one super disciplined, optimized morning routine, I was able to go from chasing the next hot narrative to consistently making gains in the market. So, instead of going through the multi-year process that I had to go through, you can watch this video to learn exactly what I have learned over my 6 years in crypto.
Firstly, let's discuss why having a good morning routine is so important and then we'll get into the exact steps that I take every single morning.
When I first got into crypto, my mornings were honestly chaotic. I used to go on to X; I used to scroll randomly; I used to go into YouTube; I'd take in a bunch of information. The market was pumping, so I'd feel FOMO. If it was dumping, I'd feel fearful. It just wasn't organized at all, which meant that my profits also weren't consistent at all. I'd go through periods of making a lot of money and then inevitably periods of round-tripping, chasing narratives, and losing all of my gains.
But everything changed for me once I discovered this one fact: discipline is the only way to create consistent wealth over time. The traders and the investors that end up making the most money in the market—these aren't the people that are sporadic. These are the people that have dialed in an exact system that they can repeat day by day by day to have them consistently making money in the market. So whilst everyone else relies on motivation, they rely on a system, and that is how you succeed in business life and very importantly in crypto.
So in this video, I'm going to break down the five-step 10-minute daily routine that I use every single morning. And then the last step, which is step five, is probably the highest leverage tweak that I've made to my daily routine, but it does add a little bit of time onto the routine. So, the first four steps will cover the first 10 minutes. And then if you want to go even further and add a very high leverage tweak that really changed things for me, then step five is going to be for you because I know some people have more time than others.
Now, obviously, in an ideal world, the longer your routine, the better because you're able to absorb more information, but people have jobs, time constraints, life gets in the way. So ultimately, you want a system that's sustainable every single morning.
So before I get into step one, if you enjoy content like this where I give you crypto alpha every single day, over the next couple of weeks, I have some amazing content planned for you that you don't want to miss. I'll be revealing my exact investment portfolio, the best vehicles to make your first $100,000 in crypto, and more. So make sure you are subscribed to the channel.
Without further ado, let's get into things.
Step one: start your mornings with intentional clarity. Your morning sets the tone for your entire day. If you want to be focused in the market, you need a hyper-focused morning. So, every morning at 6:30 a.m., before I even look at a chart, I don't touch my phone. I go straight to the gym. It doesn't need to be a crazy workout. It can just be a 20-minute cardio workout to get the blood flowing. It could be a walk outside in the sunlight. But you don't want to get in the habit of: wake up in the morning, reaching over to the nightstand, grabbing Coin Gecko or Trading View, and starting to trade. That is a terrible way to absorb information in the morning. If you want to follow a proper trading system, you need a clear head in the morning. And for me, that starts with exercise every morning before I even look at any charts.
After the gym, I sit down at my desk and I practice 1 minute of visualization. Just in my head, I close my eyes and I imagine what I want to get done for that day. And I like to clearly picture my goals for that day, whether it be investing or trading before I do a single thing. This helps ground me and it helps me attack the rest of my trading day. I believe that single habit is really important to remain grounded. So tomorrow morning when you wake up, instead of checking your phone, go outside, do a bit of exercise, sit down, ground yourself before you trade. And I think you'll be in a very good position to attack the remaining four steps, which is where the real money is made.
Oh, and another pro tip: To make the mornings even easier and to make your days more productive, you've got to be prioritizing sleep. I know this is a crypto video; it's not Brian Johnson. However, making sleep your number one priority is such an important thing because you're going to make better decisions. Absorbing information and learning is going to be easier. You're overall going to be less reactive and less emotional. You'll have less stress hormones allowing you to think more clearly. Leverage is built through sleep, through diet, through exercise. But good mornings can't be good without good rest the night before.
This leads me on to step number two, and this is intentional scrolling. So what I used to do every morning is I used to wake up and I used to just start scrolling through X. The problem with X is there's a lot of good information on the app; there's also a lot of noise, and the algorithm incentivizes you to be bullish on a bullish day and bearish on a bearish day, which obviously isn't very good for trading because ideally you want to counter-trade the market, not go with the herd. However, I still think X is an amazing place to find Crypto Alpha. So, it's part of my daily routine as long as I make it intentional.
So, here's what I do every morning: I scroll through a curated list on my feed. This will have the best Alpha accounts, the best traders, and the news sources so I can catch up with what I've missed overnight. Tree of Alpha for any major news, Walter Bloomberg—it's in a curated list. I also check the "for you" page, but I start with my curated list because the likelihood of getting noisy market commentary is much less if I know I'm following the right sources. So, the practice that I do every single morning is actually bookmarking the best posts so I can review them later. So, I'm very intentional; I'm not scrolling for the sake of scrolling; I'm scrolling for the sake of bookmarking the best information. This could be information that's extremely relevant to the market. Something from a macro perspective which could impact the way I trade that day. This could be an altcoin that is starting to show some interesting signs on X, or someone's analysis that I want to save, or this could even be a mental framework that I want to save for later.
Once I have my list of bookmarks, then what I do is I feed the links into Grock natively on the X app. Grock 3 is the latest model. And what it does is it gives me a daily summary. So, it packages all of these insights into one concise package of things that I can learn, macro takeaways, information that I want to absorb and remember for later. One thing you'll notice is that this is really intentional. I'm only on X for the sake of bookmarking the best possible posts; I'm not just doom-scrolling.
Now, here is a pro pro tip that I use and is honestly one of the reasons why I have an edge in the market and why I know so much about the market and I'm able to teach you guys about the market, and that is creating content. So if you really want to take your game to the next level, instead of just bookmarking and putting it through Grock and just getting a research report, if you can actually create your own tweets based on that information, you're actually going to trigger something in the brain called active recall. So how your brain works is that it only absorbs around 10% of the information if you read it. But you can absorb up to 70 to 80% of the information if you actively recall that information. That's why when you were studying for tests as a kid, like a spelling test, for example, you'd use the strategy of reading, covering, and then writing. The act of covering and then writing is your brain actively recalling the spelling of that word, and that helps you learn how to spell. It's the exact same thing in crypto. As you're writing, you're embedding those things into your brain. Now, you don't need a public X account; you can make it private, but you should use it as your public journal because then whenever you want to go back to some thoughts that you had, you can just go and scroll through your X feed, and if it's on private only you can see it. But having it in the app, I found made it easier to log thoughts versus having a different app like Notes. Even bigger bonus if you choose to make your account public because you could, by a stroke of luck, actually end up going viral, and that could create an entirely new business for you or it could create a new network for you. Even if you don't monetize your X, you can just find like-minded people who like your posts, and then you can develop research and trading communities together. And yes, it can take a bit more time, but the more you write, the better that information absorption is going to be. That's how you take just scrolling into active recall.
But this scrolling session, although it does a great job at understanding what's happening in the market, it doesn't do a great job of helping you spot and find altcoins that could be good trades for the day. So, this is where we get into step three, which is essentially your secret weapon.
Step three: watch list time. This is a very important step for reviewing the altcoin market because by now you have an idea of what's going on in the news through your lists. You have an idea of what trends are popular. You already have an idea of what the sentiment is, but now we have to work out the outliers in the altcoin market to find active and actionable opportunities.
What I start with is TradingView. I go through my TradingView watch list, which is beautifully color-coded based on active positions I'm in, potential positions I want to be in, and prospective altcoins that I'm simply just watching. This is a very high leverage tip that I'm going to give you: Be organized with your TradingView watch lists. I see so many people; they just have these big lists on TradingView. They're not organized, right? The best traders I know are meticulous with their TradingViews. They have folders for every single narrative. They're constantly updating the coins. They have major alerts set at key high time frame levels on all the coins, and they color-code them based on whether it's an active position or a prospective position. And that is so important because what you can do in your mornings is just go straight to TradingView and just go through your watch list to gauge where the price action is on the day. I find this quite therapeutic because you can just play some music, go through the charts, just get your bearings, work out where everything is. And I feel every single morning after I go through all my charts, I feel like I'm really on top of the market. If there's setups starting to break out, I'm now aware of it. And this step is basically a way of you getting the relevant price information that you need to open trades and investments that day.
So TradingView is first. The second thing that I do is go onto DVel. The first thing I do on DVel is I go through the sectors to work out which sectors are outperforming. This helps me identify which narratives are popping off. Is it AI? Is it RWA? Is it memes? I can clearly see that on the spaghetti chart. Then what I do is I go into the funding rate section. I like to see whether the market is overheated or if it's cooling off. For example, if prices are performing really well and the market looks good and it's consolidating in a bullish pattern, but funding rates are low, that's a great indicator that there's room to the upside. Whereas, if the market's pumped and funding rates are really, really red, that might be an indicator for me to go a little bit risk-off. So, I use the narratives that are outperforming in tandem with the funding rates on DVel to work out where the altcoin market sits.
The next thing I do is I look through my own spaghetti charts alongside DVel. So, this isn't narrative-driven; this is based on a collection of altcoins that I am personally tracking. Now, in the Mars High Club Discord, we have custom-built spaghetti charts for you to add to your portfolio. But if you like, you can also create your own. This is the best way just to get a quick glance of the outliers in the market because I want to know every day in the morning, are memes looking good today? Is AI looking good today? And out of each sector, what specific coins are running? Because often times what will happen is I'll wake up in the morning, I'll be like, "Oh, the Solana ecosystem coins are really high performing. What's happening on Solana?" Sometimes there's a real catalyst that you need to know about that you only see through price action. And sometimes there's no news, but you're starting to see prices uptick, and that is a sign that insiders are starting to accumulate those coins. That can be a trigger for you to look further into the ecosystem. Now, it doesn't mean you need to long the coins that have already pumped. But what it does mean is you can spot outliers, add them to your color-coded TradingView watch list, and then you can start to set alerts on those coins for breakouts because often times the leaders if the market goes to the upside do often end up outperforming, and these are the coins that you want to long when you long.
So after I do that, I feel like I have a great understanding of the coins that are outperforming. Now I just want to make sure I haven't missed anything. So there are two websites I look at to make sure I haven't missed a single move in the market. Firstly, CoinGecko. I just click "sort by 24 hours" just to see what I've missed. I also go into the category section and I see what categories are outperforming. And then just for an alternative visual representation, I go on to Bound to Bubbles. I scroll across the time frames and I scroll across the categories and I see if there are any coins that weren't on CoinGecko which performed really well that day because if they did, then I will also go on to the TradingView watch list and I'll add it and I'll see if it's interesting. If not, I'll just delete it. But all you're trying to do is be a filter. You want to get all the information possible, cast a wide net by going on to all of these sites, and then you want to basically be your own filtration device to work out which coins you actually end up adding to your TradingView watch list.
In crypto, it's all about being intentional and being aware. I'll use this example: Last week, I made a lot of money on the Launchcoin trade. I almost made a million dollars in that ecosystem. And the only reason I made that money is because I was aware. I'll literally tell you how it happened: I was scrolling through X one morning doing the exact same step that I told you about before. And I just noticed people started to talk about ICM. ICM this, Launchcoin this, ICM that. And I was like, "Okay, what is this?" I bookmarked those posts. Later in my day, I ended up researching the ecosystem because I'd spotted it in the morning. And then I decided that I actually thought that it had upside due to a variety of factors. The US wasn't awake yet. I thought that prices still had upside, and the market wanted to take a risk, but there weren't many hot narratives that day. So, I thought it was a great setup for a pump. I ended up putting a couple hundred grand in and turning it into over 3/4 of a million dollars. The only reason I did that is because I was aware. You never know what day is going to be the day where you hit a huge trade. What if the day where I found Launchcoin was the day where I was, you know, bored and I—I don't want to do my morning routine today. I'll skip it. Well, that could be one of my best trading days of the month, and I'll miss that specific day because I didn't pay attention. The reality is most people don't make money in the market because they simply aren't consistent. And if you can implement this routine every day and develop a sense of consistency, you'll instantly beat 95% of traders who simply just don't have the discipline to stick to a plan.
All right, so now we've gone through the first three steps. I want to get a little bit deeper. Now, step number four is going to walk you through how to spot altcoin outliers in terms of fundamentals and not price. Because although looking through charts and looking at price outliers can be a great way to find out underlying catalysts, we can actually reverse-engineer this and look at the data first to find coins that haven't pumped yet.
So, each day I spend a few minutes looking at a curated list of analytics platforms. I'll break down each one. My research begins with cookie.fun. Why? Because I'm really into AI agents. I think the AI narrative is huge, and it's one of the niches I spend the most time on. I want to see if there are any outliers in AI agents that I'm not noticing. I want to go into Cookie and look at the top mind share gainers. Are there coins that are gaining mind share but actually dropping or maintaining stability in terms of price? This is a good way to find coins where there's a discrepancy between mind share growth and the current price. These can be huge opportunities. Hey, Anon was a coin recently where I added significantly at $5.50 because it was gaining mind share but the price was going down; it didn't make sense, and then that ended up going to $8 to $9 a couple of weeks later.
Next, I use DefiLlama to look at ecosystems of interest. So, if earlier in our research we noticed that the Solana ecosystem is doing really well, I'll go on to DefiLlama and I'll look to spot outliers in the Solana ecosystem. And you can also use 03, one of ChatGPT's new models, to research on your behalf. I actually just did a dedicated video on this recently. We can link the video in the description below where I give you the best prompts to analyze coins on ChatGPT. A couple of those prompts actually incorporate DefiLlama. You don't even need to go into the DefiLlama website itself. Now, you can actually get that data through ChatGPT. I like doing both because I like the visual representation that DefiLlama gives me. But I'll go in with very selective curated prompts on GPT as well to use that as my research assistant to extract more niche pieces of data that is difficult to filter on my own. For example, are there coins in the Solana ecosystem which have grown by more than 50% in TVL over the last week but are below a $50 million market cap? That's a little bit harder to filter, but it's much easier to prompt.
And then lastly, the website I use to round up my analytics deep dive is Dune Analytics. So Dune's amazing because people actually contribute scripts onto the website. So any specific narrative you're really interested in, you can look at the dashboard. For example, if I'm really into the AI agent sector at any given moment in time, there's a great AI agent dashboard that I can use to find which ecosystems are gaining mind share within that sector. And there are all sorts of custom scripts you can search up. So I can't tell you which exact dashboards to use because that depends on what niche you are invested in and what you are interested in. But what you can do is go into the Dune Analytics search tab and search up custom scripts. I recommend finding three or four that you use every single day and putting them in your bookmarks.
And lastly, Dbridge is another website that I use. This is an additional one because this helps you understand on-chain liquidity flow. So, if you want to see if money is flowing into Solana or Ethereum or Tron or Base, that's a great website to do that. I usually give that a quick scan as well, just for a broad overview of the market because it has a good visual representation of liquidity flow.
All right, the moment you've been waiting for: step number five. Clearly, we're above 10 minutes now, but if you do want to add this into your routine, this might take an extra 15 to 20 minutes a day, but this is what really helped me get from 1 million to 8 figures. Like, this was probably the biggest change and the highest leverage change for those that have more time. If you don't have time to add this into your daily routine, you still need to be doing this once a week. But doing this once a day is seven times better because there's lots of news intra-week that you are going to find.
So what is this? Well, it's doing a portfolio review every single morning. What do I mean by that? I'll tell you. What I do is I get my portfolio up on one of my monitors, every single coin that I hold. By the way, please try and hold less than 15 coins because if you're holding 30 coins, you'll realize very quickly it's very hard to do this. Even I recommend five to 10 coins is honestly the sweet spot. Yes, you can have barbells, which is okay, but don't diversify too much. Try and keep within that 5 to 15 range, ideally 5 to 10.
Moving on with the strategy. Now, what I do is I've joined the Discord for every single one of these projects. So, I have a Discord folder which has all of the projects I hold. I'm in the Hyperlane Discord. I'm in the Tower community Discord. If you're in FraxCoin, join a FraxCoin meme Discord. Whatever you're in, if you're in Wiff, join a Wiff Discord. Whatever coin you hold, get into the Discord. Why? The founders, surprisingly, and the admins, they will drop a lot of information that is not available to the public in their Discord. These feel like closed private forums where people are able to speak their mind, and that is why you sometimes get very good information leaks. You also, importantly, are able to see what the community is feeling. You will know if a community's strong by being in the Discord. If everyone's moaning and complaining and the admins are being rude, that could be a red flag for the project. If you're in another one where the vibe's great, there's a bunch of loyal holders, the founders regularly dropping in and doing AMAs, that is a great sign that it is a serious protocol. So being in the Discord every single day is important because you're going to see the news first, and ultimately it comes down to awareness, right? There might be some sort of fundamental validation or invalidation for a coin that you hold that you weren't even aware of if you weren't in the Discord. So the only way to find out is to scroll through the Discord every single morning. So just create a Discord folder and join for every single project you're invested in. Also do the same on Telegram. Create a Telegram folder and join all of the Telegram groups because this is the only way for you to see every single day whether there is some positive or negative catalyst that could impact your holdings. Most people hold stuff, but they're completely unaware of what's actually happening in the ecosystem. And by being more aware of the ecosystem, what you're going to end up finding is that you find opportunities within the ecosystem. Like Hyperlane, for example, a lot of the Hyper EVM players are doing really well right now. Why? Because there's an entire ecosystem under the core holding, and you would have known about that if you were in the groups. That's also why it's important not to hold too many coins because you can't go down 15 rabbit holes. You can go down five, maybe, to push, you can go down 10, but this morning routine can drag out to 2 hours if you hold too many projects. But by far the highest leverage tweak I made was checking these folders every single morning because I do find a lot of stuff, both good and bad.
Sometimes I'll exit a position just because I don't like the vibe of the community, and I don't like how the team is speaking to the community. Sometimes it's that simple.
At the end of the day, what's a project? It's pretty much the team. A project is only as good as the founder, the CMO, the CTO, right? So, if you want to invest in a profitable project, invest in a good team.
So, let's recap your daily morning steps that you can go through to build a killer routine that can make you—I'm not even saying first million in the market, right?—cuz everyone starts with different amounts. This could make you your first 20K, 50K, 100K, whatever it is. If you do this, I know for a fact it can help get you there. But the hardest part is not doing the routine once or twice. It's being consistent over months and months and months, where you don't want to be consistent. But that's how I got into this position now. I was writing tweets every day. I was bookmarking tweets every day. I was constantly creating content which was helping me learn. I was just engaged even throughout the bare market. You guys can go back and look at my posts. I was doing videos every day. I was doing tweets every day in 2022 during FTX when no one was interested in the market. When Bitcoin had dropped back sub 20K, I was there every day.
So, let's just recap. Step one, start your morning with intentional clarity. Step two, scroll intentionally on X and bookmark relevant posts. Step three, review your Trading View watch lists. And then, as an addition to that, you can use other websites to scan to find other outlier tokens. Step four, use curated analytics websites in order to find fundamental catalysts and triggers for altcoin trades. And step five, if you have more time, do a daily portfolio deep dive where you go through the private communities or public communities of every single one of the tokens that you hold in your portfolio. If you can do this every single day, I think you'll end up making a lot of money in the market.
Now, I'll leave a link in the description below to my free Telegram because that's a place where I curate some of the information that I find in the morning. So, if I wake up in the morning, obviously it's hard to just do a video based on the market, but it's much easier for me to do a quick market update in Telegram. So, I'll leave that in the link in the description. It's a free Telegram. You can come join, be a part of the community, and also make sure you are subscribed by clicking the subscribe button down below and hit that post notification bell so you don't miss more videos like this. I'm uploading some of the best content I think I've ever made in the crypto space over the next few weeks. So, if you did enjoy this video and you want more content like this, make sure you are subscribed so I can help you absolutely smash your goals in the crypto market.
I'll see you in the next video. Have a lovely rest of your day. Peace out. Heat. Heat.