I think you'd be much better off just buying ETH.
Came in here to say this....
But all the exchanges suck.
Yes, but if you're just interested in "buying some and trying to time the top" you aren't going to be using the exchange a lot. At the very fanciest you'd be wanting to be able to place limit/stop loss orders. I still wouldn't recommend going "full degen gambler" and rolling leveraged positions if you're just in for a good time and not a long time.
With that said if you can stomach a .5% service charge then just hop in coinbase pro and do it.
If you end up catching "the bug" and wanting to get seriously into it, then you look at wallet options and probably defi exchanges like Uniswap, Sushiswap, Pancakeswap, and maybe even Quickswap if you wanna be kinky and roll with MATIC. (MATIC is the gateway drug to low cost transactions relative to the insane fees on the Ethereum chain as a whole)
As for the rest of the market. I think almost all the options traders this month made their calls a few days ago and cleared what they needed to so once it was official the price started drifting back up. I suspect we will test 60K over the weekend on BTC since it's time for the "Weekend Crypto Shitshow". What struck me was that even when the options stuff should have been suppressing ETH as much as BTC it gained. The ETHBTC pair has been seeming to consistently go ETHs way lately, and ETH ahs outperformed BTC for the last couple months consistently, and in general for the year.
Either way... I did what buying I felt I needed to today, now I'll sit back and let the weekend shitshow entertain me. I kinda hate when the end of the month falls on a weekend since I get my "Crypto Fun Money" in the form of commission checks at the end of the month.
