Just realized something worth thinking about - market cycles are weirdly predictable if you zoom out far enough. There's this pattern that keeps repeating: panic hits, prices crater, then gradually things recover until everyone gets euphoric and the whole thing crashes again.

Looking at history, the timing to make real money isn't random. The actual wealth builders move during those brutal periods when sentiment is absolutely crushed - 1924, 1932, 1942, 1958, 1969, 1985, 2002, 2020. These are the years when assets trade at pennies on the dollar and everyone's too scared to touch them. That's precisely when the smart periods when to make money actually open up.

Then you've got the opposite - those boom years like 1929, 1936, 1953, 1965, 1989, 2007. Prices go parabolic, FOMO takes over, and that's your signal to exit. The euphoria is the exit, not the entry.

The panic years (1927, 1945, 1965, 1981, 1999, 2019) reset everything. Markets implode, fear spreads, but if you understand the cycle, you know what comes next.

Here's the thing - we're supposedly heading into 2026 as a potential peak year according to this pattern. Which means the real periods when to make money in crypto might be coming sooner than people think, not in the boom phase. The next crash will be the actual opportunity. Every single bull run eventually ends the same way, and every crash sets up the next one.

The question is whether you have the discipline to buy when everyone's panicking and sell when everyone's celebrating. Because that's literally the only way this cycle works. Emotions will destroy your timing - the chart never lies, but your fear and greed always do.