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Get Off the Pogo Stick
How I Let a Simple Bitcoin System Work While I Live My Life
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➤ After 25 years of trading, the system I trust most is also the simplest one I’ve ever built
Most people I meet are on a pogo stick.
They have one source of income — a job. They pay rent. Every month the money comes in and goes back out. Every hop takes effort, and the moment they stop hopping, the income stops.
I don’t say that to judge anyone. I’ve been there. That’s the pain that inspired more than 25 years of studying trading and almost a decade trading crypto, I’ve come to see financial stability as a vehicle you build one wheel at a time.
The four wheels
The pogo stick. One income stream. You trade your time for money. Stop working and the income stops.
The bicycle. Two income streams. You keep part of what you earn and put it to work. Now your money grows and compounds while you pedal.
The tricycle. Three income streams. Your work keeps earning after it’s done, through a product, a course, a system you built once.
Four wheels on the ground. Multiple income streams. A team builds with you. You can step back and the whole thing keeps rolling.
Each wheel can branch out like the roots of a tree, with many earning centres underneath it.
But nobody gets to four wheels without first getting off the pogo stick.
That second wheel, keeping some money and making it work, is where most people get stuck.
That’s the wheel I built Mainspring for.
Why I started over
Over the years my crypto trading system grew into something big. Hundreds of pairs, staged entries, stop-loss math, rebalancing logic. It works, and it’s easy to trace every number back to where it came from.
But for a beginner moving their small bits of real money, a complete portfolio balancing machine is bit much.
So I stripped it back to the core: one market, one signal, every step visible.
I named this powerful trading automation after the part inside a mechanical watch that drives everything else.
A mainspring stores the energy you give it once, then releases it steadily over time. You wind it, and it runs on its own.
That’s the whole idea.
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You wind it once with the money you’ve kept, and it does the watching for you.
How Mainspring works
It runs a moving-average crossover on the Bitcoin daily chart, the same style of trend signal I’ve taught and traded through every cycle since 2015.
When the trend turns up, you hold Bitcoin.
When it turns down, you sit in USDT.
- It watches the daily close. Once a day, after the Bitcoin candle closes, it pulls the price from Kraken and adds it to your own growing price history.
- It checks the trend. Two moving averages are recalculated. If the fast one crosses the slow one, the signal flips.
- It trades and records. On a flip, it places the order on your Kraken spot account and writes a dated line in your trade log. No flip, no trade.
Most days it does nothing at all except record the price. That’s the point. Trend-following is patient by design.
Your money never leaves your account
Everything runs from a Google Sheet you own.
It connects to Kraken with an API key you create, set to trade-only with withdrawals switched off. The system can buy and sell inside your account, but it can never move funds out. You can step in with a manual button, or switch it off entirely, at any time.
The sheet also starts with two years of Bitcoin price history and every past signal logged, so you can see how the system behaved before you put a dollar in. From there, it adds a new day every day, and the history becomes yours.
A word on risk
No system can promise profit. Our backtesting and history are not a prediction of what we’ll earn in the future. There will be losing trades, and there will be long stretches where it sits in cash while the market drops or chops sideways.
Only use money you can afford to have at risk.
That’s been my rule for 25 years: trade safe and keep those losses small.
Get on the bicycle
If you’ve been saving and wondering how to make that money work without spending your evenings staring at charts, Mainspring is the next wheel.
See what’s included in Mainspring at IntroToCryptos.ca
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Trade safe and keep those losses small. Doug.
