Category: Trading
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2022 – The Year Of Legendary & Powerful “Shorts”
The Beauty Of Hindsight Looking back in hindsight can be one of the most powerful and teachable moments for a trader or investor. However, decisions made in the present need to be accurate, in order for the future to validate them. This is obviously a lot easier said than done. Another important aspect to remember…
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Solana – Still A Potential Investment Opportunity?
Tied To A Sinking Ship When the ship goes down, it takes everything down with it that is in some way connected to it. This is the story of Solana and the Titanic, Known as FTX. What an incredibly sad moment for Crypto. Sad, yet extremely positive at the same time. Rooting out bad actors…
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Destroying The Bias
So Very Important When bear markets arrive, market participants generally tend to behave exactly as they did during the bull market. In other words, they continue to buy. The narrative changes somewhat, as now a “buy” is considered a bargain. However, it’s simply a case of the “dip keeps dipping”. I tried to communicate this…
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The FTX Collapse – What Matters Now
Here We Go Again Well, FTX was probably the last entity that most of us thought would be next to fall. However, there was one incident in particular that got me wondering. Some months back, SBF came out and said that the worst of the bear market was likely over. This was a bit of…
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Understanding Leverage – There Is No Substitute For Hard Work
The Leverage Dynamic Aagh… leverage, the wonderful tool that works so well when you are in sync with the market, and so destructively, when you are not. This is the reality that will so often be disguised by greed and selfish ambition. Working with leverage needs to be done with extreme care and experience. It…
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Modest Accumulation – More Powerful Than You Think
A Simple Dynamic Crypto investing is very much a case of sowing and reaping. Bear markets are a time of sowing and accumulation, while bull markets are a time of harvesting. Unless you plant now, there will be nothing to harvest in the next bull market. It is during this phase that we are currently…
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Bitcoin – Relatively Speaking…
Health Check Every so often, it’s advisable to visit your GP for a checkup. This will often incorporate testing one’s blood pressure, sugar levels, and a number of other tests, depending on pre-existing conditions. A similar idea can be applied to financial markets. Gathering information and data from multiple sources, indicators, and charts helps to…
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Trading – Securing Consistent Profits
Unpredictably Consistent One thing you can always count on is for the market to continue offering trading opportunities. However, as mentioned before, how and when this takes place is outside of our control. This does pose somewhat of a problem if you are choosing to make trading your primary source of income. This dynamic can…
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Bitcoin – What’s Happening In The Charts?
Volatility Returns It’s been a bit quiet of late, in regard to Bitcoin and the Crypto market as a whole. However, we have experienced a modest pump during the course of the past 24 hours. Once again, the anticipation of a FED pivot is behind this move. It seems unlikely, but you never know. These…
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Bitcoin Technical Analysis – An Extensive Deep Dive, What’s Next?
A Word From Hindsight Now, before I get into the state of the current market, I want to revisit my bear market prediction from approximately five months ago. Bitcoin was trading above $30K, as seen in the chart below. Back then I mapped out a massive falling wedge with a bottom at approximately $18K, which…
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