Hey, Luca here 👋
I’m the founder of Altcoin Investing Picks.
Every Thursday, I share high-conviction altcoin ideas, narratives, and frameworks to help you make (more) money in crypto.
Today, I’m pulling back the curtain on my full crypto investing strategy for this stage of the bull market.
Here’s what you’ll get in this post:
✅ My updated thesis for Q4 2025
✅ How I split my portfolio
✅ Why I’m using a Barbell strategy
✅ What I sold, what I’m buying, and what I’m watching
✅ When to deploy capital to maximize ROI
Let’s dive in 👇
📈 The Thesis: Q4 2025 → The Setup for New ATHs
Crypto is setting up for new all-time highs across the board.
We’re now in a rare pocket of the cycle where:
BTC has reclaimed post-halving highs
ETH is catching up with renewed staking flows
Alt L1s, memes, and AI tokens are leading rotations
Crypto equities are outperforming
Retail interest is returning, but still early
This isn’t the blow-off top yet.
But it’s the build-up to it — and that’s where smart positioning pays off most.
🧠 My Q4 2025 Investing Framework: Core, Satellite, Stocks
I no longer run a passive altcoin portfolio:
Too many new tokens.
Too many narrative pumps.
Instead, I use a barbell strategy:
📦 Core = buying L1s, ETH infra, cashflow tokens at discount
🎯 Satellite = High-upside bets (memes, small caps, narrative tokens)
📈 Crypto Stocks = TradFi exposure to crypto growth
⚖️ Why the Barbell Strategy?
This year, I closed several large core positions (ETH, BTC, SOL, TRX) at ~+40% average gain.
That move unlocked a fresh chunk of liquidity — capital I now rotate tactically into:
High-conviction narratives
Microcaps with asymmetric upside
Pullback entries on strong L1s
Crypto equities that follow BTC and ETH
Here’s a high-conviction watchlist across my three buckets — the tokens I’m monitoring weekly, ready to scale into on strong setups, narrative triggers, or pullbacks.