According to @AltcoinDaily, peak pessimism often hides the best trade setups and staying curious with daily research helps find them early, even if you are on the sidelines. Source: @AltcoinDaily on X, Dec 9, 2025. Historically, crypto bottom zones aligned with capitulation metrics such as record realized losses, deeply negative funding rates, and NUPL flipping to capitulation before multi‑month recoveries in BTC and ETH after the March 2020 crash and the November 2022 drawdown. Source: Glassnode The Week On-Chain, Mar 30, 2020 and Nov 21, 2022; CryptoQuant funding rate datasets. Traders can operationalize this by maintaining a watchlist and setting alerts for funding-rate flips, realized-loss dominance, and exchange net outflows tracked by on-chain analytics to source asymmetric entries during fear. Source: Glassnode dashboards; CryptoQuant exchange flow metrics. Incremental position sizing and dollar-cost averaging can reduce timing risk when re-entering volatile markets. Source: Vanguard Research 2012, Dollar-cost averaging just means taking risk later; CFA Institute risk management guidance. These signals and processes align with the research-first approach highlighted by @AltcoinDaily and can help identify setups before they hit the timeline. Source: @AltcoinDaily on X, Dec 9, 2025.