To me, crypto is the same as companies in the stock market. If you study and pick projects that have future potential and ground breaking technology, it's akin to buying Apple or Microsoft shares when they were start up companies.

Some people day trade and do longs and shorts etc, but I mainly look at the potential future of a project and invest in the hopes my research was diligent.

I bought btc at 5k and held it, now I reinvest the profits in new projects.