Daan Crypto Trades, X Hall of Flame

Regardless of having lots of of hundreds of social media followers, pseudonymous crypto dealer Daan Crypto Trades isn’t eager on doxxing himself for glory. He’s simply targeted on pumping out posts that analyze the crypto charts.

“I don’t actually care about individuals figuring out precisely who I’m,” Daan Crypto Trades tells Corridor of Flame. The cagey crypto influencer does reveal that he’s based mostly someplace within the Netherlands. 

His precise title or age? That’s set to stay a thriller. “I’m undecided whether it is sensible for me to say these items,” he laughs throughout our hour-long on-line name, along with his digicam off. 

After somewhat nudging, Daan reveals he’s within the “20- to 30-year-old” age bracket.

However he retains his hobbies, pursuits, and all that stuff underneath wraps. It should be powerful not with the ability to brag on relationship apps about being well-known on X with 371,900 followers.

These closest to him know all in regards to the man Daan Crypto Trades, nonetheless. “It’s not too secret to not have the ability to inform my actual associates and my household about it, in order that’s good,” he reveals.

Daan is a soft-spoken man and possibly a health club buff, contemplating his strict health routine. He splits his time between the health club, buying and selling crypto and managing the unending variety of messages he receives each day.

“Often I get up, learn by means of the Discord and the Telegram chats, as they’ve stacked up with messages in a single day, then get some breakfast and often go to the health club,” he says about his morning routine. 

When he will get again to his pc, he often finds that he has been spammed with provides from crypto exchanges.

“On daily basis there’s these identical exchanges which might be like, ‘we wish to work with you. We bought some good affiliate bonuses,’ and I’ve declined the identical exchanges 100 occasions,” he laughs.

Daan does work with exchanges, however he’s choosy about it. He solely offers with those he makes use of himself and has zero curiosity in selling any he doesn’t commerce on himself.

One you’ll typically see him sliding into his posts on X is his accomplice hyperlink with ByBit.

What led to Fame for Daan Crypto Trades?

Daan thinks that carrying his professor hat bolstered his X follower rely in the course of the 2021 bull run. “What actually propelled my account greater than ever had been these instructional threads. I did quite a lot of them into 2021,” he explains.

The threads are a collection of explainer posts on totally different matters his followers had been interested by. 

As a substitute of typing out replies to every query, he’d simply throw up a protracted thread he may ship them to, sorta like having a ready-made library of content material.

“I might submit one thing about market construction, for instance, after which there are at all times a number of feedback saying, ‘Okay, what’s market construction?’” he laughs.

It appeared to have labored properly, as he trebled his followers inside two months.

“I believe I bought like 30K followers again to again two months whereas I used to be at 20K or 30K.”

The library and content material maintain getting used as the identical questions maintain developing again and again.

“Nonetheless doing sometimes however not as a lot as a result of the factor is I at all times get the identical questions on comparatively fundamental topics each time,” he explains.

“I can simply check with them every time individuals ask a query, and it additionally makes it so I’ve this large library of topics,” he provides.

What sort of content material does Daan Crypto Trades like?

Daan isn’t large on going all-in on a crypto challenge or performing too bullish. He likes to maintain it pretty balanced with the technical evaluation.

“General, I attempt to be as impartial as doable in my method,” he says, explaining that his content material is principally normal market evaluation.

“I’d say it’s principally only a Bitcoin or Ethereum chart the place I roughly suppose we’re heading,” he says.

When you’re searching for somebody to information you on making a ton of money with futures buying and selling in crypto, Daan isn’t your man.

“You don’t have to observe me if you need me to inform you to go lengthy or go quick as a result of I don’t suppose it’s one thing I like,” Daan provides.

“I simply don’t like being so polarizing, so I at all times attempt to maintain it impartial, even when I’ve a little bit of bias. It shines by means of a bit, however nothing by means of the extremes,” he asserts.

“In these sure trades, they’ll love you whenever you’re proper, they usually’ll hate you whenever you’re incorrect,” he laughs.

What content material does Daan Crypto Trades like?

Daan reveals that he’s “principally ” in high-profile crypto merchants who share insights into how they give thought to their trades and execute them.

“I believe it’s very beneficial as a result of, clearly, these guys are the highest 0.1% on the market they usually’re not doing this for cash as a result of clearly they’re doing simply fantastic, which is definitely proven on the ByBit leaderboards,” he says.

Two firms he enjoys following are additionally nameless to the world of crypto: DeFi Squared and Excessive Stakes Capital. The latter reached the highest of the revenue and loss leaderboard of the now-defunct crypto change FTX in 2020.

Daan Crypto Trades Predictions?

Daan says that he’s most bullish on the native token for Bitcoin layer-2 community Stacks (STX) for this upcoming cycle.

Stacks — which Daan holds in his personal portfolio —  is at the moment buying and selling at $2.02, and Daan believes that “$3.5 to $5” isn’t off the playing cards.

But when Bitcoin doubles in value, altcoins often double that, making it a possible 4X improve, in response to Daan. So, if that’s the case, Stacks may hit $8.

“I’m dangerous at these longer-term value predictions,” he laughs.

He’s not large on throwing out long-term forecasts. He’s extra into analyzing present chart traits and utilizing them for total adoption forecasts.

“I care extra in regards to the narrative and whether or not I believe the challenge itself will get adoption or do properly throughout a cycle,” he says.

Within the second half of 2025, Daan sees Bitcoin hitting $120,000 and Ether reaching $10,000. He additionally believes that is perhaps when the worth cycle peaks.

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Ciaran Lyons

Ciaran Lyons is an Australian crypto journalist. He is additionally a standup comic and has been a radio and TV presenter on Triple J, SBS and The Mission.