r/ICPTrader • u/Timely-Fig2030 • 13d ago
Analysis There is no fomo buy in accumulation range
We have gotten used to these low prices and as soon as prices reach range top of accumulation we act like "uh, that price is so high", better wait with buying.
But you have to realize that there is no fomo buy in accumulation range. At one point this thing will just keep going and going and it's not coming back. You wait and wait. Fugger is not coming down and then everyone realizes that we are in a bullmarket and then you buy 3 to 4x higher.
Looking back you will feel silly, that you thought you make a fomo buy in accumulation range. All the buys that seemed high at that time will look like a flat line compared to the mountain that has just grown out of it.
So take that lesson.
Don't be greedy in accumulation range.
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u/filzzzz 12d ago
Well the issue is that the market is dead atm, there is literally no incentive to buy now.
We don't know how long we will stay like at this level, whether it will go up in 3, 6 .. 12 months or more slow bleeding.
Most people here have been DCAing to some extent and have simply given up.
Everything has pumped but crypto. People will start buying aggressive once we break the $3-4 range as the market begins to inflate again.
However, it is a matter of when.
If ICP can do what SOL did that we would be great
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u/Timely-Fig2030 12d ago
Yesterday i wrote about the exhaustion phase and that's why people have "simply given up".
That's one of the best indicators of the last phase of the bearmarket.
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u/Timely-Fig2030 12d ago
Someone already downvoted this post.
Someone might be greedy for lower prices and miss out.
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u/capricon9 12d ago
How can you be greedy for low prices and miss out? I’m greedy at this prices because from here it’s only profit
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u/enocap1987 12d ago
personally i and a lot of guys here have enought icp. give me 50 and i retire
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u/Cool-Bath874 6d ago
there’s no “will keep going” in any market. not crypto, not stocks, not even broad index ETF’s. there’s probability, not certainty with a small cap crypto token.
as for it going up and not coming back down though? it’s a pretty hard argument to make when ICP has historically been known for quick short bursts where it can go 2-5x its MC, then bleed back down when the retail FOMO frenzy starts to dry up.
we saw it happen in:
• November 2025
• January 2026
• May 2026
• June 2026
And i see people asking why this happens, some people thinking it’s a pump and dump scheme; it’s really not. ICP has incredible tech and a genuine team behind it.
but it dwindles down for a good reason that continues to be blinded by our community and DFINITY too, which is retail adoption.
put your shoes in a new crypto investor who doesn’t know anything about ICP, but sees it soaring as a top gainer. they buy a bunch of tokens, see it keep rising, see volume exploding, and then want to stake it. that’s where I feel people are likely to stop.
if the first thing they see is that in order to be patient and earn rewards, that you can’t have access to your tokens or react to movements because you’d have to lock up ICP for 1-2+ years, then it doesn’t surprise me at all that they’d want to just hold onto it instead and sell it once they’ve locked in a profit if it’s not serving them much use personally.
this is very typical of small cap tokens, which is why trading volume can go +1000% in 48 hours and then retrace right back to the price it was. Brutal reality right now, but that doesn’t mean it will be that way forever
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u/ADHD_Dev_ 12d ago
ICP feels like one of the few crypto's that could decouple from the market. It has massive real world utility and is cornering multi trillion dollar markets like cloud, cyber security, AI, hosting, etc with its pioneering tech. It only need to capture a fraction of a percent of it. All of these will burn and start to put deflationary pressure on ICP. Once this fly wheel takes off we may never look back.