Baron's Crypto Trading Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Baron, Oct 5, 2021.

  1. Baron

    Baron Administrator

    I just want to chime in here and remind everyone that a ton of the selling you are seeing is strictly related to tax obligations. The mainstream media wants you to believe that the sky is falling for a variety of stupid and baseless reasons but the reality is that a ton of people had taxable trades in 2021 that need to be accounted for. Just keep in mind that the year in question is one where ETH started at $750 and ended up and $3,769, and that's not even considered an "AltCoin". The tech support guy at Verizon who made dozens and dozens of crypto trades in 2021 has no ability to pay his crypto profit bill out of his weekly paycheck. The only solution for the last-minute procrastinator: sell crypto to cover the bill. If we stabilize here or continue to dip lower later this week, I will be buying more.
     
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    #371     Apr 11, 2022
  2. Overnight

    Overnight

    I love your devil-may-care approach to this. Because it's WORKING! Fuckin' A!

     
    #372     Apr 11, 2022
  3. easymon1

    easymon1

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    #373     Apr 11, 2022
  4. Baron

    Baron Administrator

    Ok, I'm going to nibble on some BTC and SOL right here in a minute.
     
    #374     Apr 12, 2022
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  5. Baron

    Baron Administrator

    Just bought $5k worth of SOL at $108.56 and $5k worth of BTC at $40,396.

    My updated order history for this journal is attached.
     
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    #375     Apr 12, 2022

  6. This is an odd trade:

    • Jan 20 buy 1.47 SOL at $135.29 for $198.87
    • Looks like you were testing the waters with SOL, or a fat finger trade.

    EDIT:
    I think I figured it out. It was a free promotional SOL position through the broker.
     
    Last edited: Apr 23, 2022
    #376     Apr 23, 2022
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  7. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    #377     Apr 26, 2022
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  8. SunTrader

    SunTrader

    #378     Apr 26, 2022
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  9. Baron

    Baron Administrator

    I've been monitoring the markets pretty close recently and the "L" word I've been looking for in the crypto news headlines has been appearing frequently the last couple of days. If you've been following my journal, you know that the "L" word is "Liquidations". When I read that over a billion dollars worth of leveraged positions were force-liquidated, that's a buy signal to me. So I'm going to buy some SOL in a minute or two.
     
    Last edited: May 11, 2022
    #379     May 11, 2022
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  10. Baron

    Baron Administrator

    Ok, I just bought $5k worth of SOL at $56.81
     
    #380     May 11, 2022
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