Altcoin Season (Altseason)
A market phase where altcoins broadly outperform Bitcoin, visible as falling BTC dominance during a rally.
Altcoin season, or altseason, is the stretch of a crypto cycle where money rotates out of Bitcoin into altcoins and most alts outperform BTC for weeks. The cleanest tell is Bitcoin dominance falling while total market cap rises: the market is growing and BTC is getting a smaller share of it. Classic sequencing is BTC rallies first, then ETH and majors, then mid-caps and memecoins as risk appetite peaks. The reverse, dominance rising in a selloff, means alts are bleeding harder than Bitcoin. We track the live dominance value and the stablecoin flows that usually fund altseasons on our indices page.
See it live on ByKaranteli
Other terms
Funding Rate
Periodic payment between perpetual futures longs and shorts that keeps the contr...
Open InterestTotal notional value of all open futures positions at a given moment....
BasisPrice gap between a futures contract and its underlying spot index....
LiquidationForced closure of a leveraged position when its margin is exhausted....
Profit FactorRatio of gross winning trades to gross losing trades. Above 1 means the strategy...
Win RatePercentage of trades that closed profitably....