For a few months, I had far from alt trading although sometimes play with BTC/USDT trading. But due to bull markets I thought should again play with alts since whole alt markets have not yet recovered. Sadly I regret to see alt movements, it's become very hard to understand. Because when a dump happens on Bitcoin price then we encounter an immediate action in major altcoins. Alts just follow the Bitcoin trend. But surprisingly when BTC recovers after a dump, then alts aren't following bitcoin trends but still dumping more. I am not a tech guy, so just follow the trend. But seems the trend also missing lately due to alt behavior. If always happen like that then most likely I will have to lose my portfolio again like last bull in 2017.
Do you have any thoughts on how should trade with alts in this situation?
What happens is that there has been a fundamental change in the market, in 2017 the bitcoin dominance was way lower because there was this idea in the mind of many investors that an altcoin could surpass bitcoin and become the new kind of this market, and there was a point during that year before the segwit upgrade went live in which ethereum was close to surpass bitcoin in terms of market cap.
Since then we have understood one thing, bitcoin is the king of this market now and forever, and when we add the amount of scams that happened a great deal of scepticism has taken place as people do not want to get scammed anymore, when you add all of that and the fact that it seems bitcoin is becoming a store of value then it is natural that we are seeing what we are seeing, altcoins are no competition for bitcoin and their movements will not be anywhere close to what we saw in 2017, so if I were you I will stay away from altcoins from now on.