Portfolio set up
Good morning/evening
Today I am thinking about how I will allocate my new crypto portfolio, the one for the next cycle and if you read my last post you will know I an not fully out of this cycle, but when time is limited, I like to be prepared, winter is my research and learning time, so there are many things I want to look at and understand ready to help next cycle.
I want to look at some tokenized stocks, the ones I can buy on chain but as they are not 'real' stocks, I will need to research them and look at how they perform, is it the same as crypto or do they move a different way at different times. I am looking forward to finding out.
As for a portfolio set up, there is no 'one, suits all', we are all different, want to achieve different things, have different goals and different amounts of time that we can allocate to crypto.
What is your risk tolerance?
Conservative
Moderate
High risk/reward
Then out of thousands of different crypto, how do you choose which ones to buy? I had way too many but I also have different 'baskets' that I tried to keep separate to some degree, a separate trading fund from my main portfolio, a very small degen fund that I really wouldn't be that upset at if I lost it all (meme coin money!) Then there is what I call 'free' money, like Pub0x tips, I know technically I earned it but I tend to see it more like getting paid for a hobby, I managed to double my OP using Aave so risk on top of risk which can be too much for some.
In my mind Bitcoin is the 'safe' crypto and I had around 80% of my last portfolio in BTC and plan on the same sort of allocation again, so that may well put me in the conservative bracket, but then my trading and DeFi would probably put me in the moderate bracket, some risk but I can sleep at night. I know there are some out there that have no Bitcoin in their portfolio and to me that is super high risk, but that just emphasises the point that we are all different in our approach and there is no wrong or right way.
My allocations last cycle tried to cover every narrative there is, gaming, AI, RWA, an oracle, DEX tokens and L1's and I think I have DePin covered with the miners (Helium, WXM and Wingbits)! There will be less for the next cycle. I have spreadsheets for everything and even with the best intentions no it does not get filled in all the time so I must be more disciplined with that!
So what will my allocations be? I did ask AI for some portfolio percentages and this is what it gave me.
Will I follow those, hell no, firstly I do not plan on having ETH, secondly I will plan on at least 70% Bitcoin, 10% on Whatever L1 is the darling of the season, I would like it to be Solana but it could be something else, 10% in DeFi another 5% in other L1s and 5% in Stablecoins to buy dips or moonshots.I also want to look at some tokenized stocks, but as I have done no real research on these yet, I have given them no allocation, so things will change slightly if I choose to go ahead with them.
Again I will have a seperate trading fund for shorting ETH lol (sorry to all you ETH maxis) and perping.
I do not want to have quite as many tokens as I have had this cycle, it was too many to manage and keep on top of, if you read my last post you will know that I was not disciplined enough to use my, already set up spreadsheets to document all of my trades, so I did not set up stop losses and buy orders on everything either. It also meant that I did not have time to keep up with everything that was happening ie: Is there development work on that chain, how is the usage? Signs that the token is going nowhere, I used to use Dune a lot to see if people were buying or selling a token, it was a good indicator but not if you don't have time to use it!
I will also rebalance more often, sometimes a tokens life span can be really short, I remember getting into MUBI (Multibit) really early, It was something I found when I was wallet tracking, but that takes a tremendous amount of time plus, finding the right wallets to track also takes time. People then change wallets and all the information you find needs to be cross referenced (even more time) so although I sold some MUBI at a good profit, It was time consuming and its span was really short so I should have sold it all, but then that's the chance we take.
Another token that I had painstakingly researched was ALT (Altlayer) I thought I had 'found the 1' I was ready on day 1 and did buy some, yes it doubled and my rule with these type of ALTs was to sell at least my initial when that happened, but I was sure it would go further....Yes FOMO hits us all and now I hold a token that is still down 89% oh well we win some and we lose some.
I know some people will say that my allocation is wrong, that I have allocated too much to Bitcoin, some will say I have not allocated enough, but holding Bitcoin is my safe haven, my sure thing and yes technically there is no sure thing in crypto.
So what are your thoughts? Do you think I am crazy? What sort of allocations do you plan on? As always thank you for reading and please feel free to comment.