The most important quality of a leading player (the Chosen One) in a meta is their mindset, honed through countless experiences of profit and loss in a familiar market. Their strongest moments are when they are unfazed by profit and loss figures and firmly execute their strategy.
As for the strategy itself, whether hoarding coins for a longer-term cycle or shorting altcoins and investing in mainstream stocks, the core is to assess the longer-term cycle and mitigate single-point risk. Be friends with time.