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This beginner overview introduces chart displays used in cryptocurrency technical analysis. It contrasts a simple price line with candlesticks, explaining how candle bodies show open and close while wicks mark the period's extremes. It recommends starting…
The article frames weakness in technology share prices despite strong reported earnings and capital spending as a possible repricing of AI expectations. It summarizes four downside risks attributed to Nomura, including semiconductor overcapacity following…
The document explains the Alligator indicator as three smoothed, forward-shifted moving averages with different speeds: the jaw, teeth, and lips. It uses their arrangement and separation to describe three market conditions: tangled lines indicate…
The document introduces automated commodity trading advisor strategies through two indicator-based bot types. The MACD bot is described as a trend-following approach: it uses moving-average convergence and divergence signals, buying on bullish crosses and…
The document explains the KD, or stochastic, indicator as a fast K line and a smoother D line, with common interpretations of overbought and oversold levels and bullish or bearish crosses. Its main warning is that these levels can persist during strong…
The article explains simple moving averages and variants including exponential, weighted, smoothed, and volume-weighted averages. It describes how lookback length affects smoothness and sensitivity, and how chart settings can change the timeframe, source…
The document presents a bearish XAUUSD view tied to inflation, energy prices, Treasury yields, Federal Reserve expectations, and upcoming CPI and testimony events. Its technical case uses a bearish Guppy Multiple Moving Average alignment, a descending…
The article proposes assigning separate roles to three automated crypto approaches: recurring purchases for long-term accumulation, spot grid bots for choppy markets, and futures grid bots for tactical directional trades or hedging. It illustrates a neutral…
The article groups technical indicators into trend, momentum, volume, and volatility tools, and explains the kind of information each category can provide. Moving averages can help identify trend direction, RSI and similar measures can inform timing, volume…
The guide explains Parabolic SAR as a visual tool for managing exits in an established trend. Dots below price are presented as trailing stop levels for long positions, while dots above price serve the corresponding role for shorts. As the trend continues,…
The document compares four trading styles by holding period, trading frequency, screen time, and the kind of market movement each trader monitors. Position traders hold larger holdings over longer periods and focus on broad risk and hedging. Swing traders…
This guide explains the triple exponential moving average (TEMA) as a trend indicator designed to reduce the lag associated with conventional moving averages. It describes two uses: replacing standard averages in a dual moving-average crossover, with 20- and…
This interview presents investor Frank’s approach to U.S. equities and crypto across several market cycles. For stock selection, he prioritizes industry position, competitive advantage, revenue and earnings growth, and guidance, using valuation multiples as…
The document surveys Bitcoin investing approaches, from fixed-interval dollar-cost averaging and long-term holding to value averaging, portfolio allocation, swing trading, trend following, cycle-based decisions, and yield products. It links strategy choice…
The article discusses how Middle East conflict may affect safe-haven demand in foreign exchange and gold. It cites a reported 16-month high in speculative net long US dollar positioning and 13 consecutive weeks of dollar buying, then argues that…
The article defines bull markets as sustained advances often associated with economic strength and investor confidence, and bear markets as prolonged declines accompanied by weakening confidence and selling. It gives selected historical Bitcoin price…
The article explains a discretionary trend-following approach that uses Fibonacci retracement levels to locate possible entries after a strong price move. For an uptrend, the trader draws the tool from the rally’s low to its high and watches the 0.382, 0.5,…
The article explains moving averages as smoothed measures of recent closing prices that can help identify trend direction. It contrasts the simple moving average, which weights observations equally, with the exponential moving average, which gives more…
This beginner guide presents technical analysis as a way to assess current probabilities rather than predict prices with certainty. It discusses support and resistance, breakouts, price channels, and retracements, while recommending patience and regularly…
The article explains the Bitcoin bull market support band as a pair of weekly moving averages: the 20-week simple moving average and the 20-week exponential moving average. It presents the band as a broad trend filter: trading below it has historically…
This document outlines a trend-following approach for gold, equity indices, crude oil, and major forex pairs. It uses the 20, 50, and 200 exponential moving averages to define direction: bullish or bearish alignment requires price and the averages to be…
The document proposes a trend-following method that tracks two groups of moving averages: a faster group using periods 4, 7, 11, 14, and 17, and a slower group using periods 30, 35, 40, 45, and 50. It treats tightly clustered, flat averages as a…
The article explains that Bitcoin halvings cut the block reward by half about every 210,000 blocks, reducing the rate of new issuance. It estimates the next halving will occur around March or April 2028, while acknowledging that variable block times make the…
The document explains automated crypto trading bots and gives two indicator-based approaches. Its MACD example uses moving average crossovers to enter and exit long or short positions, aiming to participate in directional markets. Its Bollinger Bands example…