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The Only Chart That Tells You When Altseason Really Starts
This one chart tells you more about altseason than any thread or indicator ever will.
Digital Vault
August 23, 2025
Everyone wants to know the same thing:
“When is altseason?”
They chase the wrong signals, random pumps on Twitter, memecoins going vertical, influencers screaming “this is it.”
That’s noise.
The real signal? USDT dominance.
This one chart tells you more about altseason than any thread or indicator ever will.
Why USDT Dominance Matters
USDT dominance (USDT.D) is the percentage of the crypto market cap sitting in stablecoins.
When it rises, people are sitting on the sidelines in stables. Fear, hesitation, risk-off.
When it drops, that capital flows into BTC, ETH, and alts. Risk-on.
Every cycle, the biggest alt pumps happen when USDT.D breaks down. Not sometimes. Not maybe. Every time.
Where We Are Now
We’re sitting right on support around 4.3–4.4%.
This is a pressure cooker.
If this level holds, dominance chops sideways and alts remain sluggish.
If it breaks? The floodgates open. Liquidity moves out of stables, and that’s when alts fly.
And it won’t happen in one straight move. Each breakdown takes us to another key level , and each of those levels is both an opportunity and a trap.
What Most Traders Will Do
Most traders will:
Wait until alts are already up 40–50% before they notice.
FOMO into coins at local tops.
Refuse to take profit when they should.
End up round-tripping their gains because they don’t understand that USDT.D doesn’t fall in a straight line , it bounces and retraces along the way.
That’s why the majority will underperform.
Today’s premium breakdown mapped out:
The three key levels below current support that will trigger each phase of altseason.
How each line acts as both a signal for entry and a profit-taking zone.
My exact rotation plan between BTC, ETH, and alts as each level breaks.
The invalidation point that kills the setup, so you don’t hold bags if the structure flips.
Historical comparisons from 2017 and 2021 showing how every major alt run synced with these exact breakdowns.
If you’re only reading this free issue, you know altseason depends on USDT dominance breaking down.
But you don’t know when to enter, where to trim, or how to avoid being the exit liquidity when the bounce comes.
That’s the edge premium members already have.
Why Timing Is Everything
The crowd thinks you make money by finding the “next 100x.”
Wrong.
You make money by entering before the rotation starts, and exiting while everyone else is still euphoric.
USDT dominance is the timing tool.
If you miss these breakdowns, you’ll be late to the party.
If you ride them with conviction, you’ll compound while everyone else is left wondering why they always get rekt.
The Game Plan
The breakdown from here sets up the biggest alt runs of this cycle.
But only if you know:
Where to enter
When to scale out
When the setup is invalid
Without that, you’re gambling. With it, you’re executing.
If You’re Still Guessing, You’re Behind
I don’t trade hopium.
I trade structure, metrics, and conviction.
That’s what I teach in the 9-5 Crypto Exit Manual, the exact framework for buying at the right times, selling at the right times, and rotating capital through cycles without chasing or panicking.
That’s also what I deliver daily in the premium 9-5 Traders Discord, real-time breakdowns of charts like USDT.D, ETH/BTC, BTC dominance, and the metrics that actually matter.
The rest of this USDT dominance roadmap, with the exact levels and profit-taking strategy, is already live in premium.
If you want to stop guessing and start trading like a killer, the door is open.
👉 Get the 9-5 Crypto Exit Manual + premium Discord access now: www.whop.com/digitalvault1
Altseason doesn’t start when Twitter tells you.
It starts when this chart breaks.
And by then, the smart money is already positioned.
Victor