TRADING STRATEGY Thoughts on Reversals and Psychology
Bottoming process, just as any other market reversal, is strongly influenced by psychology.
The previous altcoin trading strategy post was on Fulcrum Bottom - a technical chart pattern. But there is a lot more to say to reversals in gener...
TRADING STRATEGY Fulcrum Bottom
Fulcrum bottom has been talked about a lot lately thanks to mentions in Peter Brandt's reports. Describing it as 'head & shoulders except at the bottom' is not quite cutting it though.
Fulcrum bottom has been talked about a lot lately in bitcoin trading communities thanks to Peter Brandt mentioning this concept in his reports. ...
TRADING STRATEGY Timing Tools
Market timing tools provide just the starting point of decision making but they are not as dubious as they are sometimes portrayed.
In April 2018, John Bollinger asked on Twitter what everyone’s favorite technical indicators are that they’ve mostly come to rely on. Given that m...
TRADING STRATEGY Scalping Crypto
Short-term trading is a way to stop leaving money on the table in sideways markets. Featuring everyone's favourite charting app - TensorCharts.
Scalping [noun] - trading technique of capitalizing on small price changes. Positions are typically closed as soon as they become profitable, ea...
TRADING STRATEGY 3 Tips: How to vet ICOs and what to watch once you're in
To some crypto traders ICOs are so 2017, to some they are a great concept democratizing finance. There are scams and failures but one way to work with token markets is to take the past failure data and draw valuable information from them.
In a recent short note on news.bitcoin.com an interesting information appeared - 46% of ICOs from 2017 already failed. There surely are scams and f...
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TRADING STRATEGY Why are Fib Retracements and Extensions Important
Fibs are the black-box tool that everyone uses because everyone uses it. Why they matter in spite of it?
Fibs, or Fibonacci retracement – the bread and butter of cryptocurrency trading when your pair keeps making ATHs. Or if it just breaks from a range...
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TRADING STRATEGY On Lending
How to decide whether the swap rate is enough to cover your risk and why it is a stupid idea to lend your coins for peanuts.
A lot has been written about margin funding — ranging from “hey free moneyh” to country-specific tax problems. Some crypto traders like to lend th...
TRADING STRATEGY Multiple time frame analysis: Trading several timeframes at the same time
On why it's constructive to trade multiple time frames at the same time and how to manage the stack of your positions and orders.
There are two parts to trading multiple timeframes. First part is the multiple time frame analysis: Unless the only thing you do is scalping on a ...
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TRADING STRATEGY Wyckoff trading method and ranging markets
A primer on how to look at a ranging market. Long read, specific to trading ranges in cryptocurrencies, and some basic Wyckoff method to look into the market phases.
Richard Wyckoff’s method has been made popular among serious cryptocurrency traders mainly thanks to John Bollinger who is such a great help to the...