This is a new category of article that I’m going to post on Substack, as you could have already seen with the “Best trades of October 2025” and “Best trades of September 2025” articles.

It’s a monthly recap of what I consider to be the best trades in the crypto market, or at least “doable trades” with a clear rationale behind them. It also includes some of the month’s most memorable moves: the biggest pumps, the most blatant manipulations, or the most extreme types of price action (like “10x pump and dump in a day”), even when there was no clear trade to take, just to keep track of them.

I find this useful to get a sense of what kinds of moves are realistically possible, as well as the “unrealistic” ones that actually happened in the order books. See, for example, the last section of this article, which highlights what I call “scam coins”, tokens that exhibit completely wild pumps and erratic behavior.

This “Best Trades of the Month Recap” is something I’ve been doing privately for a while, but I’ve decided to make it more presentable and turn it into an article series. These recaps are very useful to me because that’s how my brain works: I like having a library of chart patterns and examples to build frameworks I can rely on when making trading decisions. Some people rely much more on intuition, so it’s up to you to decide whether this type of article will be useful for you or not.

Be aware that these recaps are 100% hindsight, and they don’t pretend to be anything else. Sometimes I’ll over-rationalize moves after the fact. A trade only becomes “obvious” once the chart has already been printed. I don’t claim these trades were easy to take or that I nailed them!

Ideally, I’ll also try to turn these recaps into a table format, like a small database, to classify each trade more precisely and make everything more condensed and readable. (And share the database, of course.) This is coming soon and I’m very excited about it!

Note that this article is behind a paywall, but I’m definitely not telling you that subscribing will make you a profitable trader or give you “invaluable alpha”. I’m not guaranteeing anything at all, I’m just sharing material I personally find useful. Don’t subscribe if the monthly cost isn’t 100% painless for you. Ideally, even getting one actionable trade idea each month from these recaps should pay for itself 10x, so if you don’t think that’s realistic given your portfolio size, then don’t subscribe.

Here is the list of trades mentioned, in bullet points: