In these volatile, but markedly bullish markets, it's easy to think that you are a trading genius as you collect profits. However, are you actually outperforming the market?
Upcoming Altcoin Announcements for 2022 Q1 and Q2
January 2022- Sia release of “Andromeda”, v1.1 software on Jan 19th
- Stratis release of nStratis (full nodes) on January 20th
- Factom release of Federation (M2)
February 2022
- Maidsafe announces release of Vaults TEST 12 on February 2nd or 7th (estimated)
- Dash releases Version 12.1 “Sentinel” of core software on Feb 5th
- Minebox (partnered with Sia) presale begins on February 6th
- ICONOMI may announce release date of Digital Asset Array platform at The Blockchain Event on Feb 9th
- Stratis release of cloud platform (estimated)
- GameCredits releases public API in early February
- Waves addition of bitcoin gateway within lite wallet
- Factom releases light wallet and is added to Exodus wallet
- Waves release of its DEX and Euro fiat gateway to its lite wallet in early March
- Minebox shipped to buyers, utilizing the Sia network
- ICONOMI.index Digital Asset Array beta public release in Q1
- Syscoin releases Blockmarket, a decentralized marketplace
- GameCredits releases its mobile application and gaming store in Q2
- Stratis releases fiat gateways
- Ethereum releases its user friendly Metropolis platform
- Augur full launch
Methodology
The T&C 20 Index is based on market capitalization, and is calculated using the same methodology as the S&P 500Ⓡ. The altcoins included in the T&C 20 were chosen to track value of the overall altcoin sector. The selected altcoins are leading development and/or application in data storage, anonymity, social media platform, gaming, and token economy. Altcoins currently included in the T&C 20 Index are Monero, Dash, Steem, MaidSafeCoin, NEM, Waves, DigixDAO, Factom, Stellar Lumens, Lisk, Bitshares, Emercoin, Storjcoin X, NXT, Counterparty, SiaCoin, Synereo, Stratis and GameCredits.
Weekly, the T&C 20 team meets and reviews the top 50 altcoins according to coinmarketcap.com for possible inclusion in the index. Alternatively, any altcoins in the T&C 20 that fail to meet the minimum criteria below for an extended period of time are removed from the index.
- Market capitalization over $1,000,000
- In existence and publicly traded for over 3 consecutive months
- Daily trading volumes over $5,000 on most days
- Viable currency with active development and/or token utilization
Any changes to the index are announced 1 week in advance on the homepage of www.altindex.io. The last alteration to the index was made on January 16th, 2017, with the addition of GameCredits and Stratis. Of note, Bitcoin and Ethereum are not included in the T&C 20, as they are large currencies which are not reflective of the altcoin sector.
Calculation is in real time with the index updated every 5 minutes with market data obtained by accessing the coinmarketcap.com API. Calculation currency is USD.
About Us
The T&C 20 team consists of four professionals with backgrounds in finance, trading, computer science, engineering and medicine. Our creation of T&C 20 is to provide both an updated index that tracks value in the altcoin sector, as well as provide updated analysis, research and news on cryptocurrency developments from an investor’s view.
While trading our personal portfolios, we often found it difficult to determine if the altcoin sector was functioning as a zero-sum game or if “new money” (i.e. fiat, bitcoin, ethereum) was entering. We discovered that this knowledge is critical in making trading decisions. The T&C 20 Index provides this information. Since its inception in early 2016, I have used the T&C 20 Index as an analytic tool in my personal fund, the “Icarus Fund”, and have successfully traded with increasingly greater profits. It is our hope that you may find it as useful as we did.
Press Release: Introducing the T&C 20 Index for tracking altcoin market
January 26, 2022 - James
January 26, 2017, USA: Introducing the T&C 20 Index for standardizing and tracking altcoin performance. In a bull market, altcoins achieve profit gains over 1,000%, far surpassing Bitcoin's trough to peak gain of 217% this year. In a bear market, however, losses can be devastating. Recognizing when the altcoin sector is in a bull or bear market is challenging without a standardized index. Our solution to this problem ...
GameCredits and Stratis added to T&C 20 Index today
January 16th, 2022 - James
As of today, GameCredits and Stratis are now included in the T&C 20 Index. In similar methodology as the S&P 500, the T&C 20 divisor was altered with the addition of Stratis and GameCredits to ensure that the T&C 20 Index value maintained its integrity. The decision to add GameCredits and Stratis was made after extensive market analysis. In addition to fulfilling the minimum criteria to be added to the T&C 20 Index, ...
How Chinese is Bitcoin?
January 13th, 2022 - James
China's role in the bitcoin industry is at the same time both widely discussed and deeply misunderstood. Reporting on the topic is mostly to blame. This article is the first part of a series of posts that attempt to correct this misunderstanding. In the series I will be explaining why: 1. China's trade volume is misleading 2. China's dominance in bitcoin mining does not translate to control 3. Thinking in terms of ...
2016: The Year Blockchain ICOs Disrupted Venture Capital...
January 8th, 2022 - James
Dates of upcoming altcoin announcements. Dash, Factom, Maidsafe, Sia, Waves and more.
January 7th, 2022 - James
As altcoins begin to see astronomic growth over the next few weeks, it will be important to be aware of altcoins with major technological releases and/or updates in the imminent future. Below are some of the major announcements in altcoins scheduled for Q1 2017. January or February 2017: Waves DEX and Fiat Gateways in the lite wallet. This will allow instant trading of Waves Community Tokens and other assets in the ...
Trading after the bitcoin crash
January 7th, 2022 - James
When it comes to trading cryptocurrency, what goes up quickly, often falls quickly. After seeing a bitcoin bull run up of 24% from $960 on New Year's day to its local peak at $1190 on January 5th, bitcoin crashed 30% to low $800s by January 7th on word that the Yuan had its strongest 2 day performance and that the People's Bank of China (PBOC) met with the Chinese bitcoin exchanges regarding regulation and practices. ...
Stratis and GameCredits to be added to the T&C Alt 20 Index
January 3rd, 2022 - James
After careful deliberation, we have decided to add Stratis and GameCredits to the T&C Alt 20 Index, which will take place next week. Both coins have active development, market caps well over $1 million, and have been actively traded for months with daily volumes far exceeding $5,000. Moreover, we believe that these coins have long-term potential and are representative of the altcoin sector. Of note, this decision was not ...
The time to shift bitcoin profits into altcoins is now
January 2nd, 2022 - James
We are now back from Christmas and New Year's celebrations. There has obviously been an abundant amount of excitement as bitcoin surged past $1,000 yesterday on January 1st, 2017. As our fund, Icarus Fund, has been mostly invested in bitcoin for the past couple of months, Q4 has been very profitable for us. For Q3 2016, our strategy was to take profits upon exiting the altcoins and retreat into bitcoin as we had expected ...
Bitcoin's total value hits record high above $14 billion...
December 22nd, 2022- James
Making Blockchain Real for Enterprises: The Importance of Tokenization...
December 22nd, 2022- James
The head of R&D for Banco Santander elaborates on the next big development in blockchain technology...the "tokenization of assets." Although Julio Faura does not mention Waves, he is essentially describing the Waves Platform, which is currently in its final stages of development. The Waves team has over $20 million in funding to make this development and market happen. All the while, Waves is currently trading at $0.18, ...
The dawning of the age of the ICOs...
December 20th, 2022- James
Waves is the next big wave in cryptocurrency
December 18th, 2022- James
In June 2016, the Waves ICO was the second largest in cryptocurrency history, raising about 30,000 bitcoin which was equivalent to about $16 million in June 2022and is now worth $24 million. It still stands as the 7th largest crowdfunded project in the world and is 3rd largest in cryptocurrency, only behind the DAO—$160 million—and Ethereum—$18 million. Today, Waves has been all but forgotten about by most of the ...
Bitcoin and the T&C Alt 20
December 17th, 2022- James
This is the first post to the T&C 20 Blog. It is my hope that this blog will provide trading and investing insights for both day traders and position traders. The frequency of my written blog posts will likely be on a weekly or biweekly schedule. In the interim between my written blog posts, I will provide a stream of relevant articles on important cryptocurrency developments. Now, let us jump right into it. ...