don't fall for the bait of ‘fading consensus’ you need the crowd in order for your thesis to be proven correct so if you're adamant on fading crowds all the time, you're ensuring that you miss out on the moves that matter(!) ‘going against the herd' is only relevant at extremes — after the thesis has been adopted to an *excessive* degree recent example: every person you know, regardless of skillset, has mentioned $HYPE relative strength at some point within the past 2 months, it continues to show relative strength today.