Actually I think with the crypto market you do not need too much technical knowledge such as stock or FX. Currently I find that successful investors in the crypto market have a way of playing the news of the altcoin they invest. If there is good news or big event they will buy and wait for price to sell out. Conversely, bad news is that they will cut their losses soon.
So the method to be sucessfull based on your story is the most important knowledge of trading cryptocurrencies is we must makes analysis fundamental to getting profit from it, and in my personal opinions it is good for long term strategy in investment activity (usually buy the digital coins and hodl for couples years later), but the skills of analysis fundamental in trading is not enough especially for the traders who apply short term investment (daily, weekly trading) they must know about the analysis technical to predict the price in short time.