Built by Traders. Focused on Bitcoin, Crypto & FOREX.
Crypto Shortcut Academy brings together traders and market researchers with backgrounds spanning institutional FOREX, cryptocurrency, technical analysis, market research, trading education, risk management, and trader psychology. Our goal is to help traders understand the levels, structure, and scenarios that matter before price gets there.
Bitcoin Market Cycles: 2019 DCA Zone → 2022 DCA Zone → 2026 DCA Zone → $170K Scenario
An example of the long-term market structure, cycle analysis, and scenario mapping used in our educational research.
Understanding Markets, Cycles and Trends
We help traders understand Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, FOREX, and broader financial markets by focusing on market structure, liquidity, trends, and cycles — without hype, unrealistic promises, or emotional decision-making.
Market Structure Insights
Learn how support, resistance, decision zones, and structural patterns shape price action across Bitcoin, crypto, FOREX, and other financial markets.
Liquidity Dynamics
Understand how liquidity influences price movement, creates traps and opportunities, and affects entries, exits, and risk management across different markets.
Cycle & Trend Analysis
Study market cycles, trends, bullish and bearish scenarios, and the larger context behind price movement so you can plan rather than react.
Built by Traders
Crypto Shortcut Academy is an extension of the Merlijn The Trader brand, bringing together traders and market researchers with backgrounds spanning institutional FOREX, cryptocurrency, technical analysis, market research, trading education, risk management, and trader psychology. Each member of the team brings a different perspective, but we share one objective: help traders understand what matters before price gets there.
Meet the Team
Crypto Shortcut Academy combines institutional trading experience, crypto and FOREX expertise, technical analysis, deep market research, and community education.
Merlijn Enkelaar
Crypto & FOREX Trader | Market Educator
Merlijn Enkelaar is an experienced cryptocurrency and FOREX trader, market educator, and co-founder of Profitz Academy. He brings extensive experience in technical analysis, market education, and building trading communities around the philosophy “We Trade As One.”
Frank Vasser
Technical Analyst | Market Research
Frank Vasser is responsible for much of the detailed chart work and market research behind Crypto Shortcut Academy. He develops the charts and market maps used throughout our analysis and conducts the deeper research that supports our educational reports. His work focuses on technical structure, key levels, liquidity, market cycles, and turning complex market information into clear scenarios traders can understand.
Tom Alongi
Institutional FOREX & Commodities Trader | Market Strategist
Tom Alongi brings more than 30 years of professional foreign-exchange and commodities market experience. He began his Wall Street career in 1993 and went on to serve as a Chief Forex Trader and Chief Dealer for major international banks in New York City. At Crypto Shortcut Academy, Tom focuses on FOREX, Bitcoin, market structure, key decision levels, risk and position management, and trader psychology.
Natty Smith
Community Lead | Trading Education & Market Analysis
Natty Smith is part of the Merlijn The Trader team and runs the Merlijn The Trader Telegram community. He contributes to trading education, market analysis, and community development, helping members stay connected to current market discussions, educational content, and the wider Merlijn ecosystem. Crypto Shortcut Academy extends that broader brand into structured Bitcoin, crypto, and FOREX education.
How We Approach the Market
We don’t believe successful trading comes from predicting one perfect outcome. We identify the levels that matter, map both bullish and bearish scenarios, define what would invalidate the idea, and plan how risk will be managed before price gets there.
Our analysis combines market structure, liquidity, technical analysis, cycle behavior, deep research, risk management, and trader psychology across Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, FOREX, and broader financial markets.
Education, Not Promises
Crypto Shortcut Academy provides educational and informational content only. We do not promise profits, guaranteed returns, or perfect market predictions. Markets involve risk, and every trader and investor is responsible for their own decisions.
Start With the BTC Map
Get the current BTC market map, including key decision levels, bullish and bearish scenarios, and the conditions that would change the plan.