I have been writing about patience for the longest time.

But now I'm finally seeing early signs that altcoins are setting up for an upside move.

As such, I'm increasing my exposure.

For the longest time I have been virtually out of the market.

Apart from a number of setups, my exposure has been rather light.

But this is the first time in a while I'm increasing my exposure.

Time to get on board.

The nature of the blockchain means we can analyze the transactions of smart money holders with so much transparency.

Today I want to show off my new Power Rankings table that visualizes the coins that are seeing the greatest flows by smart money every single week.

This is the definition of alpha.

This is the perfect sort of market to look for relative strength.

When the tape is sideways and choppy, you want to see the first ones showing their heads above resistance levels and breaking higher. While it's not necessarily a great idea to buy those breakouts given their high likelihood to fail with everything else moving sideways, it is wise to simply note them down.

In the case of this week, MATIC stands out.

It climbed up two spots on our power rankings and the long-term setup is so well defined.

I think there's a good opportunity there.

Bitcoin's back above all that broken support with a vengeance.

And what better time to do it when everyone's panicking and the futures market has been absolutely decimated.

As we walked through in this week's video, a great deal of the longs in the derivative markets have completely thrown in the towel.

They've given up, and they don't want anything to do with crypto anymore.

Now, the market is up and recovering rather nicely.

Seems like a hell of a bear trap to me...

Wow, what a way to end the week, eh?

Tech down big.

Small-caps down even more.

Regional banks are down even more, still.

In the case of crypto, people will try to tie the action to the presidential odds or geopolitical tensions. And while I'm not denying their existence, it's not really surprising that these developments are coming out after Bitcoin retested its former highs.

It's why we switched our short-term bias to neutral on Monday; it pays to follow money flow.

Putting all this aside, there are still some winners. Not everything is a complete catastrophe.

Instead, some of the smart wallets on-chain are actually buying a few tokens here. That's what we explore in this week's video.

The lackluster action in crypto markets has continued. This is even in the face of yesterday's action that saw the US dollar continue it sell off as small-caps and market breadth saw its most productive day the entire year.

The crypto asset class is selling off hard.

This time last week, I was arguing a reset had taken place and with Bitcoin testing support, it was a logical place to see buyers step in. As of the writing of this letter, Bitcoin is making new three month lows.

Following this, I want to see a few scenarios play out before entering back into longs with any conviction.

Altcoins are being slaughtered; I keep pointing to the tendency for such topping patterns to fail in the context of bull markets. But again, I need to see the market prove this thesis before acting on it.

There is also a significant divergence brewing between macro and crypto markets.

Much of our recent coverage has focused on the divergence between Bitcoin and altcoins.

While the former has barely sold off, there is a lot of damage down the cap scale.

People are frightened. People see red candles. People have forgotten what the bull market looks like.

And people are creating a lot of noise.

Our job at All Star Charts Crypto is to cut through that noise and to consider objective reality.

While people are giving up on these altcoins, our datasets point to downside exhaustion.

Consider, for example, the fact that we're seeing spikes in the number of cryptos hitting oversold conditions.

In the context of a long-term bull market, these periods have proven to be great times to be buyers – not sellers – of cryptocurrencies.