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Well.. May was a pretty rough month for my predictions, however in the end I managed to finish the month with a decent payout in both markets... so, I'm pretty happy with it, it could have been much worse (or in the case of the Traditional Markets, much better!).

Crypto Markets

In the crypto markets for May, I did manage to make fairly steady growth... however, with the continuing peaking in Bitcoin, there was the corresponding drops in the altcoins vs BTC. I had expected that the some of the Bitcoin supply would be transferring to alts, but that wasn't really happening in a big way... so, that triggered some fail conditions for my binary predictions.

The range predictions were likewise effected, as I rarely had a large enough range (on the high end for BTC or alts vs USD and low end for alts vs BTC). These are usually my steady stream of positive points, and so with this reduced, I was noticing a bit of a pinch when the binary questions were wrong.

However, in the end... I managed to scrape out a top 200 finish, so much better than what I had expected from the beginning of the month!

Traditional Markets

The traditional markets started off great... I was collecting points left right and centre... and then someone decided to slam tariffs and bans which tanked the market quite quickly. Luckily, I had a large enough buffer of positive points to withstand this sudden influx of wrong predictions. However, it did make a huge dent in my score... however, I think that many others were caught off guard as well, so my ranking wasn't as affected as it could have been. None the less, I finished with a slightly disappointing top 200 finish... the beginning of the month was on target to be much better!

Going Forward

The ranking questions are now back in play... I had been avoiding them, as it was quite tricky to get the ordering right, and the scoring was just too punishing for having the slightest mistakes in the predictions. However, the rules have changed after analyst feedback... so, I'm going to give them a go again. In addition there is an invite only "Ranking Pro" challenge with a larger prize pool and a points ranking seperate from the main two markets... well, I'm tempted!

In the crypto market, I've started pretty dismally. I was greedy and predicted a continued upswing. However, last night... there was a roughly 10% drop across the board... which meant I got a series of wrong predictions triggering. Ah well, it just means I've got roughly four weeks to recover that! I don't want to lose my 60% lifetime prediction accuracy though... that is what gives me the invite-only challenges!

In the traditional market... I guess I'm resigned to expecting that growth will be minimal and probably downwards... so my predictions are definitely going to be much much more cautious than they have been in the previous months! However, who can really tell with such chaotic leaders in charge?

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