Well, there's a thing.
I've been so busy on projects and organising real-life stuff that I've barely even noticed the crypto markets dropping steadily - it's 1 November, another month has gone by on my schedule, and I had to remind myself to do my weekly update.
That's busy!
Anyway, here are this week's numbers:

Things are going to be a bit sucky until the turnaround, and I don't expect that for a week or two at least. Chugging along.
In detail:
- Trading up 0.47%
- Banking down 4.28%
- Overall down 3.03%
I'm not entirely sure how Trading managed to go UP this week, given that everything's slipped downwards (except LINK). I did move that XAUT money into BTC but that goes into Banking. Very odd. 🤓
The monthly figures are painful:
- Trading down 15.33%
- Banking down 17.23%
- Overall down 16.74%
Expected, but unpleasant nonetheless! 🙁
The tracking just gets worse and worse at the moment, lol.

That'll turn around when things pump. Eventually. I just have to grit my teeth and hold on.
'26 Picks
LINK continued upwards - a tiny bit - this week, which was a surprise.

Everything else dipped again. I've kinda stopped expecting an actual altseason this year. I think they're mostly following the markets, with memecoin exceptions (that I ignore because I don't do memecoins).
Waiting to sell at profit and forget that whole bad idea, at least until Feb/Mar next year!
Projects
My three website projects continue. PlainCrypto barely needs work until I find another interactive to add - which I might, after that Binance hack. Help people understand what happens and what to do. I'm thinking about that one.
The big news is that PoolFaucet finished its first month successfully. And, more importantly, the end-of-month distribution didn't fall over and die horribly! It all went smoothly and the transparent accounting produced verifiable results.
p0x won't let me post the results, no idea why. You can see them on the Pool's page.
I am happy and relieved in equal quantities. 😁
The third project is still in the data-gathering stage, so no updates on that. Shhhh, it's a secret.
I'm also hoping things slow down (real-world complexities) so I can get back to trading and things as normal!
How was your week? Suffering from the dip? Or have you been clever and waited for the low?