Tom Makin

Director @ Alpha Trading Group.
Private proprietary trading company for shareholders. Sharing market views, trading frameworks and lessons in public.

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@BitcoinIntelX This is absolute nonsense.

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@cryptofergani This is nonsense - give a man a chart and watch him draw a magical line

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@Vivek4real_ Calm down....

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@DadbodtoFitbod1 @start9labs @theAmberApp Our reward comes through our consistency brother. Great work my bro!

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@ralliesarena What was your prompting?

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

You're using the wrong model....

Would you value a screwdriver on its ability to hammer a nail?

Or an accountants competency to build your house?

Understanding what tools are available and how they are best utilised, will be the deterministic factor moving into the back end of this decade.

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@AltcoinDaily Risk Management

[John @StackNStrength]

@TomMakinATG Founder of Alpha Trading Group shares some insights about the smart accumulator tool that he developed that outperforms VWAP and every DCA strategy, not just applicable to Bitcoin but all other asset classes as well. #Bitcoin #DCAonsteriods
https://t.co/X6Xd621TEO

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@scottmelker In summary: BTC is down because Investors sold and buyers brought at lower prices....

OMG this is life changing Alpha.

Please keep creating content with such depth.

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@RealSimpleAriel @xMarketNews You're a savage Sir and I respect your work. But BTC right now is a great opportunity, but not a Traders play.

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@TradeZella ME

[Steven Spencer @sspencer_smb]

i'm buying some bitcoin today. nothing huge but i did say if it dropped 10% below 75K i would start buy...
back in 2019 i bought a little early around 4K and i think it bottomed at 3.6K.
so we'll see what happens...

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@A_K_Mandhan @wolfgang_duer @grok I will give you a reason. Silver was trading above $100...

[Steven Spencer @sspencer_smb]

if you actually started shorting today when $SLV finally showed some signs of topping best to book profits into 98 (pre-market low).
buying some friday puts for a gap fill w/ some profits is OK.
even though it went parabolic today this is still a countertrend trade...

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

One of the most redundant posts you will see in 2026... #investing

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

Stocks look like they are breaking down against Gold

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

#Bitcoin maximalists say “never sell.”
Traders say “never hold.”
Who’s actually taking more risk?

Is it the maximalist who never tests conviction?
Or the trader who never builds one?

What if the real edge isn’t picking a side…
but knowing when to hold and when to trade?

#AlphaTradingGroup

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

@PeterLBrandt @PeterLBrandt - Don't scared and hedge with "It does not bother me to be wrong". Just make the call and see how it plays. In the game of asymmetric risk reward - you don't get paid by having more winners than losers. 💪

[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

24/7 Risk Management is here, say goodbye to gaps and hello for algorithmic trading. Thank you crypto & blockchain!
#blockchain #NYSE #crypto #trading

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[Tom Makin @TomMakinATG]

The mistake isn’t building another profitable system.
It’s assuming one side of the market is enough.

$BTC doesn’t trend cleanly every year.
2025 proved that.
#Bitcoin #BTC #Crypto #Cryptocurrency

This is MA Strategy #5 inside the BTC Alpha Trading Engine.
Long + short.
1% risk per trade, fees included.

This system didn’t rely on BTC being “up only.”
It relied on structure.

From Mar 2022 to Jan 2026:
+202.76% total return.
Max drawdown: 6.76%.
166 trades.
42.17% win rate.
Profit factor: 2.511.

Low win rate. High quality risk.

Why this matters:
In flat or choppy regimes, unhedged trend systems bleed.
This one didn’t.

IF BTC trends, the long side compounds.
IF BTC chops or rolls over, the short side monetizes volatility.
IF both sides exist together, drawdowns stop compounding.

The short system isn’t there to “beat” the long system.
It’s there to finance it.
Losses on one side are partially paid for by gains on the other.
That’s capital recycling, not prediction.

If drawdowns expand beyond the historical 6–7% band at 1% risk, the hedge structure is broken.

System count matters less than correlation.
As you scale, interdependence rises, not independence.

At scale, trading systems aren’t about edge.
They’re about drawdown geometry and survival.
#AlphaTradingGroup #ATGIndicators