Invested in real estate and made enough to be debt free instead, pulled out just in time. Not rich, but not bad. May even be a good time to buy crypto but each

Invested in real estate and made enough to be debt free instead, pulled out just in time. Not rich, but not bad. May even be a good time to buy crypto but each time i say "now is the time" it goes down. So there's clearly a batch of signals i am reading wrong.