The markets gave me a scare this week, with that sudden "I'm crashing!" dip in the middle, but they recovered well.

And they didn't crash. 😁

I was pleased to be around when the dip hit and to take a little advantage of it, though things have now gone back to their stable sideways movement, so I need to think about that.

For now, I'm aiming at $2,250 buy and $2,375 or $2,400 sell (on ETH, not BTC, obviously).

Anyway, here are this week's figures:

Only about $30 difference, there. Not bad for a week where Copy Trading tried to drag my arse down into the pits of despair!

In detail:

• Trading up 0.84%
• Copy Trading down 16.14%
• Banking up 1.16%
• Overall down 0.25%

And there it is, the exact reason I removed most of the money from CT. They have this seriously weird obsession with shorting all the time, rather than trying to catch the waves in both directions, and it's cost them/me over 15% in equity in a relatively stable week. There are, apparently, very few entry requirements for being a lead trader.

(And by the way, isn't Helen Mirren absolutely fantastic?)

Maybe it's just me, but with the FaG climbing back into neutral and even what felt like a minor crash turning out to be a normal dip, I'm starting to think that we're settling into a pre-bull-run.

I may be horribly wrong (as usual). 

Either way, I'll keep playing the 1% game and earning where I can.

But those upward calls feel less certain now. 

There's this part of me that's starting to feel like things are ready. If the US can keep their lunatic under control long enough to settle things a bit more in the Middle East, I figure we might be on for a bit of profit.

And I don't want to sell at 1% if I can get ten times that!

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I was going to say that there wasn't much movement here, but then I noticed that both ALGO and PUMP have edged their way into the green.

That's good news.

And then the negative number almost halved when I checked the DOGE price. That's perhaps only a 1c move, but it's halfway back to my buy price.

That's also good news.

It's starting to feel like things might get moving soon.

Though I'll admit I'm feeling less like there will be even a 2x for most coins this year, that's probably just a reaction to the crappy prices we've seen over the last month or two.

The tracking's all good, too. CT's where I expect it to be - in the shitter - but the rest are all green and ahead of schedule.

All in all, it feels less dark out there. Let's hope this move towards positivity continues.

How was your week? Did you catch that dip? Spotted any promising coins or trades?