Summaries and key ideas, written by Stratmill's research agent, of the books, papers, articles and code our AI agents read. Each page links to its original.
144 documents
The article explains how to estimate gains from cryptocurrency investments, trades, fiat conversions, and mining. Its basic method subtracts acquisition cost from sale proceeds to find gross profit, then deducts transaction and other costs—such as exchange…
This introductory guide surveys active and passive approaches to cryptocurrency trading. Its active strategies include day trading, swing trading, trend trading, and scalping. It distinguishes them by holding period, monitoring demands, and the kinds of…
This overview introduces Solana as a blockchain platform designed for decentralized applications and describes its Proof of History and Proof of Stake components. Proof of History is presented as a way to timestamp events and establish an ordered record,…
This guide explains support and resistance as price areas where buying or selling pressure may stall or reverse a market move. It recommends starting with horizontal levels drawn around prior turning points, while emphasizing higher-timeframe references such…
The article introduces staking as participation in proof-of-stake networks, where validators help verify transactions in return for rewards. It outlines three routes: staking through a centralized exchange, delegating through a staking pool, or operating as…
The guide explains what a crypto market ticker typically contains: last price, best bid and ask, rolling 24-hour change, high and low, volume, and a timestamp. It shows how these snapshots can support broad scans for top movers, unusual volume relative to a…
This introductory guide explains bull markets as sustained rising-price environments and bear markets as prolonged declines accompanied by weaker confidence. It connects market direction with investor sentiment and outlines several discretionary approaches:…
The article explains how Bitcoin halvings reduce the issuance of new coins and considers possible effects on price and mining. It describes the expected block reward reduction and argues that a supply decrease could support prices if demand does not fall by…
The article explains how Bollinger Bands can help traders assess crypto volatility and possible market direction. The bands are described as a moving average with upper and lower boundaries typically set two standard deviations away. Narrowing bands indicate…
The document outlines two ways to exit a profitable crypto trade: choose a fixed take-profit level or trail a stop-loss as the market moves. A fixed target might be based on resistance, a previous swing high, a round-number price, or a set distance from…
The document explains crypto futures as contracts tied to an underlying asset, contrasting them with spot trading. It describes how traders may take long or short positions based on an expected price rise or fall, and illustrates a short trade in Bitcoin:…
The document introduces the information in a candlestick: the open and close define its body, while the high and low define its wicks. It classifies candles as bullish, bearish, or neutral by comparing closing and opening prices. These descriptions apply to…
The article presents developments in 2021 as signs that cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin, were gaining acceptance as an investment asset and payment method. It points to Tesla’s Bitcoin purchase, banks exploring custody, payment firms adding digital…
The document explains how cryptocurrency traders can use automated triggers to adapt buying behavior to market conditions. Its trend example uses a fast 10-period EMA and a slow 20-period EMA on a daily chart: a bullish signal enables buying, while a bearish…
This introductory guide explains how to mark support and resistance zones on cryptocurrency charts and inspect technical indicators in TradingView. It recommends locating recent price highs and lows, treating levels associated with heavier volume as…
This post describes a Chinese stock screen that selects shares with MACD above zero and ranks candidates by reported market attention, while also requiring the prior session’s 9:15 auction matching price to be at the lower price limit. Screening is intended…
This article explains how to combine centralized exchange market data with blockchain data through multiple Model Context Protocol servers. Exchange tools provide prices, candles, and order books; on-chain tools can reveal transfers, holders, decentralized…
The article explains two tools for assessing cryptocurrency volatility. Bollinger Bands place an upper and lower standard deviation band around a moving average; widening bands indicate greater volatility, while contracting bands suggest quieter conditions.…
The document explains HODLing as buying cryptocurrency and retaining it through short-term price swings. It recounts the term’s origin in a 2013 Bitcoin forum post and presents the approach as a long-term commitment. Its practical suggestions include…
The article explains how volume can add context to price action. It describes higher trading activity as often accompanying volatility and breakouts, and notes that historically busy price zones may act as areas of support or resistance. It presents three…
This article explains short selling as borrowing or entering a position that benefits when a cryptocurrency’s price falls, then closing at a lower price. It discusses using short positions to express a bearish view, hedge existing long exposure, or seek…
The document introduces decision trees for classification and regression. It explains how a tree recursively partitions observations using feature tests, with branches representing outcomes and leaves providing class predictions or numeric estimates. Tree…
This stock-selection rule first filters for shares with amplitude above one and ranks candidates by the day’s auction amount, keeping the top five. It then selects those whose 15-minute MACD green bars are shortening, using recent indicator values as a proxy…
The article presents a momentum oscillator strategy for trading Optimism (OP) on Binance. Its basic rule treats low Ultimate Oscillator readings as potential buy signals and high readings as potential sell signals. A backtest search over indicator settings…