 We just started this a couple of weeks ago where we take a look at the portfolio every Sunday just to see how things are going because on this channel, we like to play the long game and look out for dollar cost averaging, maybe some lump sums here and there, maybe a little bit dynamic DCA, but the question is, well, how is it going? How are things doing? Because we always have to check this portfolio, right? We don't really have to, we could set it and forget it, but sometimes it's best just to see how things are going. So this is what we got. And we filled this out, this was weeks ago. We started this on September 1st, 2nd, 3rd, somewhere around there. And this is what I'm actually actively dollar cost averaging right now. And that goes through Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Arbitrum, Chainlink, Polkadot, New York, Polygon, Cardano, Algorand, Dogecoin. Now some of these I do daily like Bitcoin, Ethereum, and some I do weekly such as like Algorand. And I've actually added some new ones in there, but I've just been dabbling. I don't know if I'm going to keep buying them such as Alluvium. So this is just the base case to see how things are going and how we're doing as far as dollar cost averaging. So without further ado, here's what we got. So of course, we're using the great tool from Ben's website, DCAing and into the Cryptiverse. And of course, this part right here, you can sign up, it's 100% free. Links in the description. I'm going to go for the big stuff. It's 10% off for the first month, links there. But I just took a look at what we're doing is we're DCAing equal amounts, Bitcoin. And these are all the ones we just talked about, right? And what I want to see is just how we're doing. So we started this on September 1st. And today is October 1st. So how do we do? Well, the first month you just start putting in, and we're just going to put in 100 bucks a week, right? It doesn't matter. We could put in 10 bucks a week. It doesn't matter. I actually showed over time how like $10 a week, back in the last cycle, if you started in 2018, you'd have hundreds. Actually just watch the video. I'm not going to give everybody's hopes up because it gets kind of ridiculous. So just know that if you're like, I can't afford 100 bucks a week and all this stuff, it's okay because there's something out there for everybody. And if you're able to watch this, maybe you can afford 10 bucks a week. I don't know. I'm not your dad. I'm not an investment advisor. This, of course, is not financial advice. So let's just go 100 bucks a week, right? Let's see how we're doing. So thus, first week, and of course, this is equal amounts across all the different Bitcoin and altcoins. How do we do the next week? Pretty awful, quite honestly. And this is par for the course. This is the same thing that happened in 2018, something happened in 2019. And even when I got to 2020, it was still happening to me because I was like, man, it feels like I'm throwing sand at the ocean. That's okay. For me, you could do whatever you want to do. So like the first week, I'm like, man, an arbitram, which I've been talking around for a lot for some time actually, I think it's gonna do very well in the next bull run. It's the worst performer in a week. Now, that's the whole beauty of dollar cross averaging. Going week to week, hey, some people will say you really shouldn't look at it whatsoever, but I mean, I think it's something that everybody should know. Like, look, you're gonna eat it for a while. And that's usually what happens. And of course, remember, we got the rules underneath me. What's the very first rule? We take a look at it. It's all gone. Meaning I should never, I should never invest more. I can afford to lose. If you're investing your entire life savings in a pepe coin, because you heard it from somebody on the internet, I think that's not a great strategy cotton. But I mean, that's just me. So how about the next week, February 18th? Now things are looking pretty good. And we're actually up for most of them, except for, actually, arbitrage, I'm actually even, I'm pretty happy about that. Matic.near, I'm eating it. But Dojah to ETH, Bitcoin, and Adam is crushing it, 8.5%. I'm very happy. And then of course, as of last week, or still in 25th, things changed so much, right? But Chainlink is crushing it. Chainlink just had, they're working with SWIFT for cross-border payments and also for tokenizing assets. And they just proved they could actually do it. And then Sergei, Sergei, founder of Chainlink, he was on a couple of shows like MSNBC and just talking about how they're building and they're doing use cases and it sounds pretty good. So the narrative is nice. I don't know if it's gonna translate, but it looks pretty good so far. So Link is my top performer at almost 70%. I'll go 3.9%, Adam 2.7, Solana 2%, 111.1. I'm sure I'm up more on Solana as of today. I think it rose by like 8%. That's pretty cool. So the whole thing with this is, I'm gonna come back to this because if we just look at the timber first, like, you know, well, that's great, but how's everything else? But just know that like, as I'm doing dollar cost averaging, in the back of my head, I have the same voice as you have, which is, look, September's a bad month. Maybe you shouldn't dollar cost average because things are gonna go down. And all honesty, I was kind of waiting for it. Didn't happen. Monthly returns on September and you've heard this before from everybody. September is historically the worst month of all time, right? But why am I here? Am I here to buy things high? I'm not. I'm here to watch things collapse and everybody cry and everybody say, I can't do it and then they're gone. And only people like you who are watching this video the people who are not tourists end up crushing it in the next bull cycle. That's who I'm waiting for. And I was kind of bummed out that September was actually a good month. And that's just the truth because when I'm dollar cost averaging, I wanna buy these high prices. I wanted to go lower. So I was like, well, I thought personally to go lower. It did not. It was the first green September, one, two, three, four, five, six. So what are you gonna do? And that's just, this is why I like dollar cost averaging. It's because every time we think we know exactly what the market's gonna do, the market's like, guess what? I'm not gonna do that. I'm gonna do the exact opposite. Have fun with that. So we take a look at this and then we have to start thinking about this moving forward. It's October 1st, 2023. We have a halving coming up in April, 2024. So during that time, we have to think about like how low can we possibly go? And I did this, there's a form or there's a link in the description. It's at the very bottom. Its title did it all-time high, a little star next to it and there's a bitly link. And what I took a look at was the top 53 in 2017, the top 53 by market cap for crypto, Bitcoin. And this is the December 17th, 2017. Bitcoin, Ethereum, Bitcoin, Cash, XRP, Litecoin, blah, blah, blah. Stuff you don't know. Populous. Ardor, Bitcoin, Monacoin, Verge. Some of this stuff you don't know. As you run around. And they didn't do so hot. But the question I took a look at was what was the all-time low date and was it before halving? All of them, 53. All of them except for two had their all-time low before the halving in May of 2020. And those two were Veritasium because the SEC sued them for fraud and salt. There was a lot of issues with salts, lending platform, blah, blah, blah. But that's pretty good. I mean, you only had two out of 53. So what does that mean? When I took a look at the all-time low dates, it was usually one of two things. Either the all-time low date happened one year after the high in 2017. So if the high was December 17th, whatever it was in 2017, the low was in 2018. There was a couple of instances where the low was actually in the pandemic month, March of 2020. But I think if there wasn't a pandemic, we wouldn't have seen those lows because it was a very short all-time low dip and there wasn't that many from as far as like the all-time low. So now we have to sort of think about this. How low can things go and should I be delicose to averaging and waiting for it out? Again, I can't tell you what to do but I can tell you this. If we take a look back for the last cycles, it's always around a year from Bitcoin to its all-time low. It happened in 2013 when we hit a high of 1127 and then it took roughly a year in January, 2014. Just a couple of months later, it went down 85% to $172. The next cycle, 2017. It hit $19,665 and roughly, actually exactly, a year later it's when it hit its all-time low which was $3,217 and even on the pandemic month in March, it was only like $5,000. But it was between 85% and 84%. Then of course, Virginia's just come out and say, look, June is the last month you're ever gonna see Bitcoin below 20,000. It hit 19,000, we thought that was it. I thought it was very strange because that was only 71% from its all-time high. And then we figured out, oh yeah, well, it was actually a year later because remember we hit our high? This is funny. We hit our high on 9th November, 2021 and when we hit our low for Bitcoin so far, 9th November, 2022, 15,000. But again, that's not 85%, it's 77% from the all-time high to the all-time low. So we'll see. I mean, who knows? I don't have a magic crystal ball but it just seems like it's either usually a year afterwards or sometimes there's like, some people call it a secondary scare when something happens. And I think that's what we could see moving forward. And then, so as we go forward to this and people are like, well, we're gonna see some big dips and it's gonna be awful and it's gonna be really volatile. I think to myself, isn't that what we want as far as dollar cost averaging? Then we wanna see some massive dips and really lower our cost basis. Even if we hit the bull run, this was the last, well, this was two cycles ago before on 2017, 2016, 2017. Even if we're in like a bull run and everybody's super happy, we still have these massive pullbacks. What's the difference between these massive pullbacks and just these bear bearish sentiment and everything goes down? Look at this. I mean, for the run up all the way to December, 2017, you had pullbacks of almost 38%, 38, 38, 36 and 29. So when we see these types of things, we're like, well, maybe that's what I wanna see. Maybe that's how things work. And then not to be outdone, remember this in the last in 2021, what do we have here? Well, we're coming up to 40,000 and we dropped down to 34,000. This is in January of 2021. And then we rock it back up to 57,000 and we go all the way down to 44,000 and so on and so forth. And then we think this is it 62,000 and what does it do? It goes all the way down to 32,000, 50%. Too well to where it actually hits is all the time high in 9th of November, 67,145. So again, if we're in a bear market or we're in a bull market, we're still gonna have these pullbacks, we're still gonna be able to volatility and the percentage drops. So to me, I think myself, this might actually be a pretty good time. But the question then becomes, well, Rob, there is a recession on the horizon. We keep hearing about it, everybody's talking about it, it should actually happen, right? I think we will have a recession, quite honestly. I thought it was gonna happen in the Q4 of this year or maybe in Q1 of next year. I also thought that September was gonna be a pretty awful month and I was wrong about that one too, but a lot of people out there think it's gonna be a recession. So I talked about this in depth on the 80, 20 video we did a couple of days ago or we took a look at the all-time lows. And I talked about it go, even though we hear about recessions, it's not the most awful, scary monster that's under the bed, that's awful. Recessions are a natural cycle. And in all honesty, if we do see a recession, the average is 10 months. And that's from all the different recessions we've had going all the way back into 1948, where it was 11 months, 1948 to 1994 and 11 months. So we take all these recessions, we average them out 10 months. Does that mean we're going to have the market go down for 10 months? No, that's not what we mean. Because if we take a look at this, why don't I pull it up? Oh, no, no, no. I'll steal it from here. So we take a look at this, and I talk about this in the video, 80, 20 video. Even though we have a recession, the recession is not the economy, I mean, excuse me, the market is not the economy. So when we have a recession in these gray areas, remember that even though the recession may last for 10 months or however long it actually lasts at this point, the market bounces back first and then the economy recovers. So even if we have it as 10 months for a recession, what does that mean? Nine, eight months is when the market's down. Wouldn't we kind of want that as far as dollar cost averaging, I'm just saying. And again, watch the 80, 20 video. I know people are scared about the recession. I know we were also scared about a pandemic. I know we were also scared about different wars that are breaking out. And I remember that we were scared when everything happened as far as for money printing, stopping, and then it just starts back up. So I think there's some narratives that kind of scare us out and we really shouldn't do that. But again, every time I think I know where the market's going, it doesn't. That's why a dollar cost average and move forward. So let me know what you think about that in the comments section. It's just a little thing to be aware of about what's going on. And then also, how would you guys like some free crypto? Pretty good, right? I am giving away 100,000 sweat coin over the next two weeks, as a matter of fact. I'm also giving away 10 different NFTs from sweat coin. Now, before we get into this, let me just tell you right now, I'm super biased on sweat coin. The reason is because I own a boatload of it. So when I talk about these things, I mean, obviously when I do different things about the news and things that are going on, what I usually talk about, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Cosmos, Arborism, Chamberlain, Polkadot and Neer, Polygon, Cardano, Algorand, Dogecoin, Luvium, stuff like that. Why? Because I own it. And I'm super biased. Again, do you don't see any kind of title that says financial advisor, do you? So just be aware that that is what is happening. But the good news is this, I partnered up with the sweat economy to give away 100,000 sweat coin. The question I ask is, well, how's that gonna work? Very simple. I'll link in the description. And this is the tweet that I put out this morning. And very simple. Just follow me on news asset, follow sweat economy, comment below and retweet, and then fill out this form to actually win and we'll draw the winners live next time that we get together. And that would be it for that. But there's, well, there's a couple of things. First of all, people are gonna say, well, Rob, how much is that? Right now, just so everybody knows, sweat economy is a little bit under a penny. And I'm giving away 100,000, not to one person, but to 20 people. So that'll be 5,000 sweat tokens. And if you take a look at it, actually, sweat's been going pretty good. Last 24 hours, I don't really care about 24 hours. It's dumb. Seven days, it's been on the upward trajectory. 14 days, looking pretty good. 30 days, not bad. 90 days, pretty stable. Last six months, yeah, not too good. It was about, it was just under 0.009. Now it's at 0.009. So it's roughly a penny and it actually has all topped out around seven cents. So there's that. And then of course, people will say, well, Rob, what about? What about the tokenomics? Aren't they awful? Not really. Here's the tokenomics. First of all, the ecosystem itself, that's for all the staking that you wanna do in NFTs, the foundation treasury. Of course, when you take these steps, they're gonna have to give you something. That's called sweat. The sweat token and the sweat code treasury, you gotta keep the lights on. Community, that's you guys. That's what they sold to. Teams and advisors, seed rounds and private sale. One of these was me. So just so you know, to be 100% transparent, I bought sweat economy a year ago, the sweat token for a penny and a half. If you want to front run me, go right ahead. Because right now I'm under water and I'm not dumping on anybody. That would be ridiculous. So that's it for today. So let me know what you think about that in the comment section and we'll go from there.