Just realized something interesting about market cycles. Been looking at this pattern that keeps repeating across decades, and it's honestly wild how consistent it is. You've got these periods when panic hits hard—1927, 1945, 1965, 1981, 1999, 2019—and every single time, fear takes over, prices tank, but that's when the real opportunities show up if you've got the guts to buy.

Then there's the flip side. The boom years like 1929, 1936, 1953, 1965, 1989, 2007, and supposedly 2026 according to this pattern. These are when everything feels unstoppable, assets are expensive as hell, and honestly, it's when you should be thinking about taking profits instead of FOMO buying. The periods when to make money aren't always obvious to the crowd, but they're predictable if you look at the cycle.

What gets me is the third phase—the real buy years. 1924, 1932, 1942, 1958, 1969, 1985, 2002, 2020. Assets are dirt cheap, everyone's depressed about the market, but this is literally where generational wealth gets built. The people who bought in 2020 while others were panicking? Yeah, they made serious money.

The core lesson feels timeless: buy when there's fear everywhere, sell when euphoria is at peak levels. Every crash sets up the next bull run, and every bull run eventually crashes. It's not complicated, just emotionally brutal to execute. We're in April 2026 now, and if this cycle holds, we should be seeing whether this is actually the peak year or if crypto finally breaks the pattern. The periods when to make money come to those who can ignore the noise and follow the cycle instead of their emotions.

What's your take? Does this 2026 peak prediction hold up with what you're seeing in the market, or do you think crypto's different this time?