UNIUSD
UNI / United States dollar
crypto Composite

So does that mean i should buy UNI and DOT?

A comparison of the top 20 coins, excluding stablecoins, on 25 January 2021, 25 January 2023, and today.
Each coin preceded by by it's rank number in coin market cap, and opposite of it is its price at the time, compared to today and along with today's rank by market cap in (\*), followed by the % change.
The purpose of this little research is to show how quickly coins die, and how little of them go up and stay up. But most importantly, how many of them stagnate, returning a loss over time when you factor in your country's or the global inflation.
Finally I added GOLD and Silver prices, not for their value, but as indication to inflation to take into consideration, and to show that compared to crypto, it's not as dramatic as some imagine. BTC while in bear now is up as much as gold is over 5 years.
What I learned is chasing high % in a short time in ALTS, will kill most people.
Go check the [CMC Web Archive](https://web.archive.org/web/20200601000000*/https://coinmarketcap.com/) and you'll see how quickly they come up and die or just stagnate.
**25 January 2026** *(Today)*
|Coin|Price|
|:-|:-|
|1- BTC|89,153|
|2- ETH|2,953|
|4- BNB|884|
|5- XRP|1.91|
|7- SOL|127|
|8- TRX|0.29|
|9- DOGE|0.12|
|10- ADA|0.35|
|11- BCH|594|
|12- XMR|505|
|13- LINK|12|
|14- LEO|8.98|
|15- HYPE|23|
|16- XLM|0.21|
|18- ZEC|362|
|19- CC|0.15|
|20- SUI|1.48|
**25 January 2023** *(3 years ago)*
|Coin|Price|%|
|:-|:-|:-|
|1- BTC|22,654 > NOW (1) 89,153|**+293% in 3 years**|
|2- ETH|1,548 > NOW (2) 2,953|**+90% in 3 years**|
|4- BNB|301.26 > NOW (4) 884|**+193% in 3 years**|
|6- XRP|0.40 > NOW (5) 1.91|**+377% in 3 years**|
|8- ADA|0.354 > NOW (10) 0.358|**+1% in 3 years**|
|9- DOGE|0.084 > NOW (9) 0.12|**+42% in 3 years**|
|10- SOL|22.97 > NOW (7) 127|**+453% in 3 years**|
|11- MATIC|0.96 > NOW (54) 0.12|\-87% in 3 years|
|12- DOT|6.18 > NOW (31) 1.92|\-68% in 3 years|
|13- LTC|87.71 > NOW (22) 68|\-22% in 3 years|
|14- SHIB|0.0^(4)11 > NOW (27) 0.0^(5)77|\-31% in 3 years|
|16- TRX|0.06 > NOW (8) 0.29|**+383% in 3 years**|
|17- AVAX|17.01 > NOW (23) 12|\-29% in 3 years|
|18- UNI|6.28 > NOW (32) 4.84|\-22% in 3 years|
|19- ATOM|12.75 > NOW (57) 2.31|\-81% in 3 years|
|20- LINK|6.72 > NOW (13) 12.13|**+80% in 3 years**|
**25 January 2021** *(5 years ago)*
|Coin|Price|%|
|:-|:-|:-|
|1- BTC|33,661 > NOW (1) 89,153|**+165% in 5 years**|
|2- ETH|1,424 > NOW (2) 2,953|**+107% in 5 years**|
|4- DOT|18.58 > NOW (31) 1.92|\-89% in 5 years|
|5- XRP|0.27 > NOW (5) 1.91|**+607% in 5 years**|
|6- ADA|0.359 > NOW (10) 0.358|\-0.27% in 5 years|
|7- LINK|25.31 > NOW (13) 12.13|\-52% in 5 years|
|8- LTC|146.73 > NOW (22) 68|\-53% in 5 years|
|9- BCH|454 > NOW (11) 592|**+30% in 5 years**|
|10- BNB|42.70 > NOW (4) 884|**+1970% in 5 years**|
|11- XLM|0.27 > NOW (16) 0.21|\-22% in 5 years|
|14- UNI|12.36 > NOW (32) 4.84|\-60% in 5 years|
|16- AAVE|269 > NOW (36) 156|\-42% in 5 years|
|17- EOS|2.7 > NOW (4034) 0.11|\-95% in 5 years|
|18- XMR|139 > NOW (12) 503|**+261% in 5 years**|
|19- XTZ|3.1 > NOW (79) 0.58|\-81% in 5 years|
|20- TRX|0.030 > NOW (8) 0.29|**+866% in 5 years**|
**Worthy mentions**
IOTA was $0.46 in 2021, and $0.22 in 2023, now 0.087. -81% in 5 years
HBAR was $0.093 in 2021, and $0.07 in 2023, now 0.107. **+15% in 5 years**
SOL was $3.5 in 2021 and out of the top 20, now 127. **+3528% in 5 years**
GOLD was $1855 in 2021, and $1936 in 2023, now $4,988. **+169% in 5 years**
SILVER was $25 in 2021, and $23.63 in 2023, now $103. **+312% in 5 years**

You can trade any age and you can also study at any age but finish your degree or UNi whatever you have committed and you might be distracted by seeing all greens 🥬 so you are thinking but if it is full red ??? so you cannot Time the market. You’re started realising that you have reached the top and you are good at it and probably you’re right. But take a step back and wait until Jan 24th 2027 or end of your UNI period and that will guide you what you should you. In other words check the performance in both.

Don't fall in the either/or fallacy trap. You can do both until UNI is done.

Quick question - would you take your full account and place it all on one 1:1 trade? Probably not.
Why would you hit the UNI SL when you are 10% to TP? Bank a little profit - complete uni (scaling out of your position) and let your trading runner run to full TP (keep trading).
You’re making bank AND creating a fallback plan. You are losing nothing by completing uni and hell even getting a job after. You are risking everything by focussing solely on trading and nothing else. Youre hardly stuck in a 60hr p/w deadend job and dont have the time or energy to focus elsewhere.

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