Buy When They’re Bored

There’s a saying from legendary investor Peter Lynch:

“When even the analysts are bored, you should start buying.”

Peter Lynch is the former manager of the Fidelity Magellan Fund, where he achieved an average annual return of 29.2% from 1977 to 1990, making it one of the best performing mutual funds in history.

What does that mean? It means the best time to buy is when nobody cares. When the hype is dead. When nobody is paying attention.

And in crypto, that principle holds stronger than ever.

The best opportunities don’t come when people are screaming about Bitcoin on CNBC. They don’t come when your Uber driver is shilling you the latest memecoin. They don’t come when crypto is all over the news, making new highs every day.

They come when people are bored.

And right now, I’m seeing a lot of boredom. It’s not even like the market is good or bad. It’s just boring and people don’t know what to do or what’s happening. We’re all just waiting around.

The Cycle of Hype and Boredom

Crypto moves in cycles. If you’ve been here long enough, you already know the pattern:

1. Hype peaks – Everyone is talking about crypto. Prices are going up fast. Retail is FOMOing in.

2. Market tops – Everyone already bought in. There’s nobody left to push prices higher.

3. Crash & panic – People realize they bought the top. They start selling in fear. The media turns negative.

4. Boredom – The market goes sideways. Interest fades. Retail disappears. Prices stabilize at much lower levels.

5. Accumulation – Smart money quietly starts buying while nobody cares.

6. New cycle begins – And the whole thing starts over again.

Guess which part of the cycle makes the most millionaires?

Not the hype phase. Not the crash. The boredom.

That’s when assets are undervalued. That’s when nobody is paying attention. And that’s when the biggest opportunities exist.

But almost nobody takes advantage of it because they’re either scared, uninterested, or lack the confidence to make a play.

If you go back and look at Bitcoin’s entire history, the best times to buy have always been when people were bored of it.

• 2015: Bitcoin was dead. The bear market crushed everyone. Nobody cared anymore. BTC was $200.

• 2019: Bitcoin had crashed from $20,000 to $3,000. Crypto YouTubers stopped making videos. BTC sat at $3K for months while everyone ignored it.

• 2023: After the FTX collapse, everyone was convinced crypto was done. Bitcoin ranged between $16,000 and $20,000. No hype. No interest.

These were the moments to be buying.

Not when Bitcoin was hitting new all-time highs. Not when everyone was screaming that it was “going to the moon”, but when people got bored.

And every time, those who bought during the boredom phase were rewarded massively when the cycle flipped.

Why Do People Ignore Boredom?

So if the best time to buy is when the market is boring, why doesn’t everyone do it?

Because it doesn’t feel exciting.

People don’t want to buy when prices are stagnant. They want action. They want dopamine. They want the thrill of making a 10x overnight.

And that’s exactly why most people get wrecked.

They wait until it’s exciting again. They wait until prices are moving fast. They wait until everyone else is talking about it.

And by the time that happens, they’re too late.

By the time retail jumps in, the smart money has already positioned themselves. The people who bought during boredom are now selling to the people who waited for the hype.

It happens every single cycle.

If you want to actually win in crypto, you need to do the opposite of what most people do.

• When the market is hot, take profits.

• When the market is boring, start accumulating.

Right now, a lot of the crypto market is in that boring phase. Some coins have already pumped, sure, but many are just chopping sideways with low volume.

This is exactly the kind of market where smart money is loading up while everyone else is ignoring it.

So ask yourself: Are you going to follow the herd, or are you going to take advantage of this?

If you’re wondering what to buy, start looking where nobody else is looking. Or, matter of fact, start looking where people were hyped about, but that hype has slowly drifted off (especially if the underlying fundamentals haven’t changed a bit).

• Where is sentiment low?

• What good projects are quietly building?

• What sectors feel “dead” right now?

Because in six months, when those projects 5x, 10x, or 20x, people will act shocked. But the signs were always there; you just had to be willing to buy when nobody cared.

Cardano is the perfect example of a project going through that "boring phase" right now. The hype has died down, the mainstream attention has shifted elsewhere, and retail investors have all but forgotten about it. But this is exactly why it's an opportunity. The ecosystem is quietly expanding, and Cardano native tokens (CNTs) are a hidden gem within it. While most people sleep on them, these tokens have the potential to deliver massive gains as adoption increases. If history has taught us anything, it’s that the biggest winners are the ones who recognize value before the crowd wakes up.

And Cardano isn’t the only investment like this. There are countless other cryptos with this same profile for you to explore.

Most people will ignore this phase. They’ll get distracted. They’ll assume the market isn’t moving fast enough.

And then, when the next wave of hype hits, they’ll chase in too late just like always.

You don’t have to be one of them.

You have a choice:

1. Wait for the hype and overpay.

2. Buy when they’re bored and position yourself early.

History tells you which one works. The only question is whether you’ll actually do it.

Crypto is only hard if you follow the herd. The winners are buying while nobody is looking.

Which side are you on?

P.S. You get better risk reward deals if you buy when everything is boring before the masses come back