@DonAlt
A pseudonymous technical trader who has posted the same way for nine years: a chart, three or four blunt lines, and a level that either holds or doesn't. He hedges out loud — “not bad, not great” is practically his catchphrase — and he says when he is sitting on his hands, which makes his record unusually easy to check.
In short. DonAlt (@DonAlt, formerly @CryptoDonAlt) is one of crypto's longest-running chart traders — on X since 2017, ~794K followers, and co-host of the weekly TechnicalRoundup show with CryptoCred. His method is deliberately narrow: horizontal support and resistance, weekly and monthly closes, and an explicit invalidation level on every idea. He trades majors (BTC, ETH) and is openly dismissive of most altcoins. The style's strength and weakness are the same thing — he will sit out for months waiting for a level, which saves him from bad entries and also costs him rallies. Both happened in 2026: his February patience missed a +25.8% move, and his late-July and August posts caught the bottom almost exactly.
DonAlt has been posting charts under a duck avatar since June 2017 and has never disclosed a real name, a fund, or a track-record spreadsheet. What he has instead is roughly 39,600 public posts and a weekly show, TechnicalRoundup (185K subscribers on YouTube, co-hosted with CryptoCred, new episodes every Friday), where the same charts get argued over live. Crypto press routinely introduces him by his 2024–25 XRP call — the run from roughly $0.50 to $3.66 — and by his warning near the November 2021 top. Those are real, but they sit outside this page's price window and are not scored here.
The posture that shows up in the record below is patience to the point of stubbornness. He states an invalidation level and a trigger, then does nothing until one of them prints. In February 2026 he wrote that he was waiting for either “a deeper discount ($42k)” or “a market structure shift (above $86k)” — neither ever arrived, and Bitcoin is +19.8% since. In May he described himself as “preemptively bullish” eight days before the highest close of the entire window, and BTC then fell 25.6%. He is also honest about the drag of that stance: on 5 June, near the lows, he wrote “Sentiment couldn't be worse, everyone is dying” and “Usually these are the times in which I'd get ready to buy a lot” — and then explained why he wasn't going to. BTC was $63,811 that day; it bottomed 26 days later and is +22.4% higher now.
The other half of the record is the half that worked. On 1 June he named the dip target and its limit in one sentence and the low came in 2.4% through it. On 29 July he turned constructive within 1.7% of the lowest close that followed. On 10 August he said Bitcoin would “teleport” past resistance; eleven days later it had. He is a level trader, not a forecaster — when the level is specific, he is good; when he is expressing a bias, he is no better than anyone else.
Sources: x.com/DonAlt · youtube.com/@TechnicalRoundup · dated press (Benzinga, U.Today)
Pure horizontal technical analysis, majors only. Support and resistance drawn on high timeframes, weekly and monthly closes as confirmation, and an explicit invalidation on every idea: above level X it looks good, below level Y he is out. He does not use targets as predictions; he uses levels as triggers, which is why he spends long stretches flat. He trades spot in the ideas he publishes and says so, is scathing about altcoins and about leverage in chop, and prefers admitting a chart is unreadable to inventing a thesis for it. The cost is opportunity: a trigger that never prints means a rally he does not take.
Constructive on Bitcoin and Ethereum but conditional on levels, not on conviction. He flips from “not bad, not great” to buying only when a close confirms — so his bias reads mildly bullish and permanently hedged.
Nine dated calls from the last seven months, charted against real price. Eight are posts from his own X account, captured verbatim (text and timestamp pulled twice from independent endpoints); one is a dated podcast quote in Benzinga. His posts are levels and conditions, not price predictions, so we grade what price actually did against the condition he named. The pattern is stark and worth reading in order: the first three months are his worst stretch — waiting for prices that never came — and the last five weeks are his best, catching the bottom within 1.7%.
“I'm not in a rush so I'm waiting for a deeper discount ($42k) or a market structure shift (above $86k)”
Neither trigger ever fired. BTC was $65,192 that day; the worst close since was $58,566 — nowhere near his $42,000 — and the best was $82,018, short of his $86,000. So the rule kept him flat through a +25.8% rally and BTC is +19.8% today. In fairness: anyone who bought that day first sat through −10.2%, and BTC did clear the $71,000 he called the aggressive-bull line.
𝕏 Post$BTC update: waiting for a deeper discount ($42k) or a market structure shift (above $86k) — @DonAlt↗ x.com“Decent reaction to support having been hit, resistance kinda meh from here on out”
Half right, half wrong, which is roughly what he claimed. The resistance half held up — from $76,332 BTC managed only +7.4% ($82,018) before turning. The support half did not — it broke, and BTC lost −23.3% to $58,566. Four months later it is +2.3%. A genuinely non-committal call that we log as open rather than pretend was a signal.
𝕏 Post$BTC — Seems kind of alright to me. Not bad, not great — @DonAlt↗ x.com“I've been preemptively bullish but I think these are the levels at which sentiment and market behavior will shift notably”
He said this at $78,677 — within 4.2% of $82,018, the single highest close in this entire 210-day window, printed eight days later on 11 May. His $87,000 acceleration level never came; his $70,000 “high likelihood of death” level did, and BTC fell −25.6% to $58,566. It is −0.7% today. Credit where it is owed: the downside level he wrote down is the one that fired, and it worked exactly as described. The bias attached to it did not.
𝕏 Post$BTC — 78k$+ cautiously bullish · 87k$+ bullish acceleration · 70k$- high likelihood of death — @DonAlt↗ x.com“Could see us dip back into $60k support due to Saylor having found the sell button panic but would be surprised by more than that”
The best-specified call of the nine, because it names the target and the limit in one sentence. From $73,599, BTC did dip into that zone — the low was $58,566 on 1 Jul, just 2.4% through the level he named — and it did not keep going. It then recovered to $80,268 (+9.1%) and sits +6.1% above the day he posted.
𝕏 Post$BTC update: could dip back into $60k support, would be surprised by more than that — @DonAlt↗ x.com“Above the red line we actually look quite good”
Posted at $63,882, which turned out to be 1.7% above the lowest close that followed ($62,773). BTC then ran +25.7% to $80,268 and is +22.3% now. One stated limitation: “the red line” is a level drawn on his chart image, not a number in the text, so we grade the direction he flagged — constructive, willing to add — and not a numeric target.
𝕏 Post$BTC — Above the red line we actually look quite good — @DonAlt↗ x.com“Tiny push and this garbage resistance finally goes and we teleport to the next one”
It did. From $64,856 BTC dipped 3.1%, then broke out to $80,268 — +23.8% — and is +20.4% now. This post is where Benzinga's 24 Aug “Bitcoin Could ‘Teleport’ to $90,000” headline came from, so to be exact: $90,000 has not printed. The highest close since is $80,268 and BTC is $78,104 today.
𝕏 Post$BTC — This looks like it wants to explode — @DonAlt↗ x.com“middle of nowhere”
On a 12 Aug podcast he called Solana's chart the “middle of nowhere” — no clean invalidation, so no trade — and said he preferred Ethereum “not even close” over ETH, XRP and SOL, expecting ETH to outperform Solana longer term. He also said a SOL trade only becomes attractive on a reclaim of roughly $100, opening a move toward $120. SOL was $76: it reclaimed $100, ran to $109 (+43.2%) and sits at $105, +38.0% — ahead of ETH's +30.7% over the same 18 days. His trigger fired; his relative call is behind. Open, because he framed it long-term. $120 has not printed.
SourceBitcoin, Ethereum Will Outperform XRP, Solana in the Future — Benzinga / TradingView↗ tradingview.com“Bought some and will buy some more in the coming days”
A spot buy he flagged as uncomfortable — he was buying into resistance rather than waiting for a retest, after months of waiting for a deeper entry that never came. ETH was $1,878; the lowest close since is $1,874, so the entry cost him 0.2% of drawdown, and ETH has since run to $2,515 (+33.9%) and sits at $2,458, +30.9%. He said on the same show he had hoped for $1,700 and gave up waiting — the impatience was the right call.
𝕏 Post$ETH — Bought some and will buy some more in the coming days — @DonAlt↗ x.com“My official target is 4k”
Asked where he sells, he answered in three lines: official target $4,000, unofficial $10,000, and “I'll probably sell at 3k” — which is the number that actually matters, since it is what he says he'll do. ETH was $1,874 and is $2,458, +31.1%, with a high of $2,515. Still +22% short of the $3,000 he plans to sell into and +63% short of his stated target, so this one is open.
𝕏 PostMy official target is 4k / My inoffical target is 10k / I'll probably sell at 3k — @DonAlt↗ x.comOutcomes are our read of his stated condition against real price, not his own scoring. Every quote is verbatim and linked; nothing is paraphrased. Two calls are still open by his own framing (an ETH target and a long-term ETH-over-SOL preference) and can still flip either way.
He sells no signals group, no course and no token — the thinnest monetisation of anyone in this database so far. What exists is an exchange affiliate link and a sponsored show, and both are worth knowing about.
His X bio carries a Kraken referral invite (verified 30 Aug 2026). Referral links pay per signup and per trading volume, which is an incentive to keep an audience trading — worth weighing against a style that is mostly about not trading.
WOO X announced a sponsorship of TechnicalRoundup plus “product ambassadorships” for DonAlt and CryptoCred in May 2023. No commercial terms were disclosed, and we could not confirm whether it is still active in 2026 — the announcement is three years old and his bio now points at Kraken instead.
On every page we fetched there is no paid signals group, no subscription, no course and no token. He publishes free and trades his own book — which he states is spot in the ideas above.
When he says he bought ETH at $1,878, he is talking about a position he holds. That is more honest than the alternative, and it is still a bias: he is long the thing he is describing.
“Tiny push and this garbage resistance finally goes and we teleport to the next one”
10 Aug 2026 · eleven days before the breakout“I'm not in a rush so I'm waiting for a deeper discount ($42k) or a market structure shift (above $86k)”
23 Feb 2026 · the patience that cost him 25.8%“Could see us dip back into $60k support due to Saylor having found the sell button panic but would be surprised by more than that”
01 Jun 2026 · the dip and its limit, in one sentenceQuotes transcribed from his own public sources; stated views, not recommendations.
TechnicalRoundup is his weekly show with CryptoCred — markets and levels, new episodes every Friday. Upload dates below are from the channel's own feed. (The older “Technical Analysis Series” tutorials that also carry the TechnicalRoundup name are CryptoCred's work, not his, so they are not listed here.)
Bitcoin Teleported. What Do You Do Now?The show version of the 10 Aug “teleport” call, after it played out.21 Aug 2026
DonAlt Bought ETH (and Thinks It Can Go Back to $4K)Where the $1,878 ETH buy and the $4,000 target were laid out.15 Aug 2026
The First BTC Pullback Hasn't Broken AnythingHis read on the first real pullback since the August breakout.28 Aug 2026
A Decade of Trading Mistakes in One EpisodeTen years of his own errors, catalogued — unusually useful.08 Aug 2026
Bitcoin Finally Closed the Month at Support (Now the Clock Is Ticking)Four days after the $58,566 low, working through the monthly close.05 Jul 2026He runs in a small circle of chart-first traders rather than the podcast-and-conference crowd. A map of the people he actually appears with — dossier links connect them as the database grows.
Co-host of TechnicalRoundup and his closest public collaborator — the same horizontal-levels school of TA.
Fellow pseudonymous majors trader with a similar spot-and-patience posture.
The bearish counterweight — both trade levels, but Capo commits to targets DonAlt refuses to name.
Another long-running pseudonymous chart trader from the same 2017–18 cohort.
A pseudonymous crypto technical trader, on X since June 2017 as @CryptoDonAlt and now as @DonAlt with roughly 794,000 followers. He co-hosts the weekly TechnicalRoundup show with CryptoCred (185K subscribers on YouTube). His real name, nationality and any fund affiliation have never been made public.
Yes — crypto press consistently credits him with calling XRP's run from roughly $0.50 to $3.66 in 2024–25, and it is why headlines still introduce him as the “Author of Legendary 700% XRP Prediction.” It is also outside the price window this page charts, so it is not scored here. Everything in the track record above is from the last seven months.
Not publicly known and not estimable. He is pseudonymous, publishes no portfolio, sells no product, and has never disclosed size. Treat any specific figure you see as invented.
He is a pseudonymous commentator, not a licensed adviser. His 2026 record is genuinely mixed: two calls went against him — including describing himself as bullish eight days before the highest price of the window — and four played out, including catching the July–August bottom within 1.7%. He states an invalidation level on almost every idea, which makes him easy to check. Never trade someone else's levels blindly.
Horizontal support and resistance on high timeframes, confirmed by weekly and monthly closes, with an explicit invalidation on every idea. He trades majors — mostly Bitcoin and Ethereum — spot rather than leveraged in the positions he publishes, is dismissive of altcoins, and will sit flat for months waiting for a level to trigger.
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Informational and educational analysis based strictly on publicly available materials — his own dated X posts and dated third-party coverage, linked on every call. Not financial or investment advice. Figures are approximate and change constantly. Spotted an error, or are you DonAlt? Submit a correction →
Verified handles · Sources cited above · Scoring methodology · Updated 30 August 2026
