Dear Churc001,
Welcome to Cryptocurrency trading! If you want to get the best rates for cashing out BTC into USD, you should always sell at the top, meaning when BTC is worth more USD. You will need to have fundamental knowledge (News) and also some basic technical analysis (Charting) to know if BTC is going to run (go up) or down.
Put it simply, for fundamental news, Bad news about Cryptocurrency = BTC price goes down, Good news about Cryptocurrency = BTC price goes up
As for technicals, this would be more advanced as you can predict if BTC is gonna go up or down from indicators such as RSI (Oversold,Overbought), MACD crosses and price action. Check out
https://www.babypips.com/ for more info.
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