The Cryptocurrency Trading Journal

Discussion in 'Journals' started by Daal, Jan 20, 2021.

  1. Daal

    Daal

    Classic setup that I used to see a lot in OTC markets. Retail just panic, they just puked everything. This type of opportunity is rare is mature stocks but in immature crypto seems to happen every year. I was lucky that I saw the price on cointelegraph, most of the time I miss these but its a classic day/swing trading setup.
    Most likely things just creep up from here and markets slowly recover in the coming weeks/months
     
    #331     May 19, 2021
  2. Daal

    Daal

    I also added to my GLXY stake at 21. I couldnt get the 19 prints, by the time I logged in it was too late
     
    #332     May 19, 2021
  3. Daal

    Daal

    This was basically a repeat of March of 2020 panic/capitulation
     
    #333     May 19, 2021
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  4. tsznecki

    tsznecki

    Bought a whole bunch of alts and ETH into this. I'm not as bullish on BTC though.
     
    #334     May 19, 2021
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  5. Daal

    Daal

    @johnarb, a while back you said "no one could lie on the blockchain". Apparently they can lie enough that only a 100K BTC inflow into exchanges can take the price down 50%. Which goes to show that the blockchain doesn't owe anyone shit. Markets are not easy. I dont think that was THE top but it does show that on-chain data is not this magic thing you think it is, markets can do whatever they want at any time
     
    #335     May 19, 2021
  6. Daal

    Daal

    Even though I named this journal 'trading' what I'm doing is more investing than anything else. As far as how to improve on this, I would recommend the following books:
    The Market Wizard Series
    Trade your Way to Financial Freedom
    The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem (for mental game)
    The Steven Drobny books
    and for crypto all books by Andreas Antonopoulos
    The Soros books are good too
    For active trading I recommend the Mike Bellafiore books and Traders of the New Era expanded

    Then become an open minded student of markets. Study history and try to learn from it as much as possible. Always consider the chance that you are wrong and go from there. Also, surround yourself with investors/traders better than you, thats how you get better
     
    #336     May 19, 2021
  7. Daal

    Daal

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    Elon pumping BTC
     
    #337     May 19, 2021
  8. Daal

    Daal

    BTC drawdowns #btcdrawdowns

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    #338     May 19, 2021
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  9. Specterx

    Specterx

    March 2020 was 2.5 years and -84% after the prior peak, the culmination of a long basing process, and the beginning of a historic liquidity tsunami. Experience (with BTC and markets generally) suggests we're heading for another one of those 85% DDs in your table.

    I'm actually surprised that BTC didn't manage another leg up before it broke. Just goes to show you that for all the elaborate models and rationalizing, at the end of the day it all comes down to liquidity conditions.
     
    #339     May 19, 2021
  10. Daal

    Daal

    Alright, we will see who is right in 6 months
     
    #340     May 19, 2021
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