Category: Trading
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Raising The Bar – Markets Collapse A Lot Faster Than They Rise
Long By Default I can almost guarantee you that more than 90% of Crypto enthusiasts only think in one direction when it comes to the market. Due to logical thought processes, market participants only envision profits being generated by the price of an asset appreciating in value. Even though this is accurate and true, it’s…
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Trading Strategy Update
One Week In Exactly a week ago, I began testing a new “modified” strategy with the intention of increasing profitability. This simultaneously has exposed me to additional risk. However, I am following a strict stop-loss strategy. My normal strategy utilizes much lower leverage, and therefore allows a lot of forgiveness during the initial stages of…
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Do More Of What Works
Time Is Limited Even though much of what is done in a bear market will only be realized much later on down the road, it is still possible to monitor and analyze your progress during these early stages. Where are you currently experiencing the most growth in terms of success (not necessarily price) and results?…
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Trading Strategy Adjustment – Is This Going To Work?
Trading Styles One of the most important aspects of successful trading is to first identify what type of trader you are. This will obviously require some experimentation. Identifying where you experience the highest level of accuracy is one of the key deciding points. Some traders are terrible at identifying short-term moves, and so avoid scalping.…
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Bitcoin – Update & Analysis
Tracking Performance Keeping track of analysis and its accuracy, or lack thereof is of vital importance when it comes to honing your efficiency as a trader. Simply consuming analysis and never returning to determine its accuracy is a fool’s errand. This is why there is so much garbage on Crypto Twitter. The underlying problem here…
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Leveraging Your Best Investment
Immersion Creates Awareness Anyone who chooses to dive into the Crypto space, will over time, become somewhat knowledgeable. Marry that with a keen understanding of technical analysis and emotional intelligence, and you have the makings of a trading machine. Before Crypto existed, it was often said that the stock market is the one place where…
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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…