What a week. Time to regroup. LTC April 2019LTC April 2019. Great week! Now what. Trader Noxtreme overview.
So you will rarely hear traders with larger follower groups (which I am not) talk real dollars, and who knows, maybe I’ll learn why, but basically I made about 570 on about 1200 investment. 46% Not bad right? Now let’s rinse and repeat.
If you are a trader you should be in cash while the price drops. If your not and you prefer the investor Hodl approach. Good luck to you sir. Fooled me once ;) shame on you. I will not be fooled again. Crypto is not the stock market and this asset class is too volatile to just let money ride. You can get thousands of percent in a bull market trading or holding but the trader can make good gains or loose very little on the way down while an investor might have just realized up to a 95% loss (assuming you bought the very top and sold the very bottom). Moving on.
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I am back to all cash.
I made great gains on BCH and LTC.
I will catch the next wave when it comes.
So where are we.
Bull:
Looks like a very steep ascending channel or a GIANT bull flag on the 4 hr if you ignore that one huge red wick. Honestly it’s a strange formation but both possibilities are bullish so exactly what it is might be irrelevant.
If we take a peek at the 1 hr you see we are in a downtrend and RSI is almost oversold so it looks like bear short term bull in the near future.
Back on the 4 HR we have HUGE volume coming in. There is an interesting repeating time cycle pattern in the volume… Not putting a lot of weight on this for analysis purposes but it’s worth noticing that buy/sell spikes are about 19hrs apart. Plus or minus 3 hrs. These spikes lead to really quick, violent moves.
Got to mention sentiment for bulls. WOW are the moon boys out in force. Everyone running around “this is different and bigger; we are potentially looking at million dollar BTC” when it was, “20k by 2021” just a week or so ago. Google search trend data just went gangbusters for all crypto search terms. It is like a sleeping bull giant awoke, impaled the bear and now all the bullish speculators are dancing around a camp fire chanting "we killed the bear." If the festivities continue we will see the euphoric "this is changing the world" multi day music festival type come out with their revolution talk. I'm just people watching and not in either camp but the similarities in market sentiment to the 2017 run up are notable.
Bear:
Back to the 4 hr, RSI is on the high side. ON A STEEP downward slope
Mac D bear cross of 12 and 26 averages. Not surprising since we ran so far so fast and now we need to consolidate but it needs more time to come back to a bullish cross. The bull cross could be a first good entry point for a partial position.
HUGE divergence on the moving averages on the 4 hr. It’s hard to call this bearish because this would also be my main case for saying this is the start of a prolonged bull trend. Keep in mind we have not seen action like this in over 15 months now so this does "feel" bullish BUT we need to take "feel" out of this and recognize this is the FIRST large, quick move up in 15 months. It could be a giant BULL TRAP! Let’s not forget this move took 2 days and the best explanation I can find about why it happened is “Some rich dude bought 100 million dollars worth on the open market!" Cool… so then is he going to hodl that, orrrr.
SO let’s step back.
This is why we trade successfully...... sometimes.
We have two classes of buyers right now.
1. “I missed the run, I need in NOW.” Also keep in mind it takes about a week to transfer USD into an exchange unless you buy with a credit card, but that carries a fee. Building the case we might see a few more days of down since USD transfers might not clear till mid next week if people are bringing new money in.
2. People like me that just made a solid gain and now are watching it drop. We want the most pullbacks possible while remaining healthy in an uptrend. So we went up 65% in this move so 21% pull back would be a 1/3rd. So buying around the 76-73 area is reasonable. Stop should be tight and FULL STOP 70.48.
Lets face it… Unless we get someone to buy 100 million in crypto again and they have the money on an exchange already were going down for now at least because people are taking profits after that big move.
Let me quickly make a case for WHY this could be the beginning of a longer term uptrend.
What we see is 3 strong bull candles on the monthly. The third just started. In any case, the last time we had 3 bull months was leading into the massive bull spike of 17. Volume was notably higher on those candles though. What I see is RSI and MacD that are right at the edge of turning bullish bias strictly based on slope. Assuming we do continue up, these lines will get steeper up and then the trend becomes harder to break which is what you want if you are longing or trading bullish.
What am I doing?
I am not eager to go in aggressively because this has been a bear market for 15 months so there is still significant downside potential. We are less than a week into that third green candle on the monthly and odds are against this candle closing green so I’ll consider half my account tradeable as I scale in on the bigger drops (using the 1 hr or 15 min time frames). I don’t want to get stuck all in now if we are going to go all the way back to the low 40s. We were in the low 40s 5 weeks ago so this is totally possible.
Good time for scalping
Lots of people are scared and taking losses at the bottoms of dips on the shorter term time frames. This is pushing the price LOWER then most would expect based on simple support resistance studies and creating good bounce trades from the lows. Looking for oversold RSI on the 15min and 1hr charts.
You can see these scalp/bounce trades in how huge some of the 4 hour wicks are. I mean one of them is 14% which is a CRAZY loss to sit through or a great bounce to catch.
The current weekly candle has a 16% wick on the top right now. That is very tradeable volatility but also very easy to take a BIG hit on if you fomo in. Get a good entry and/or hold steady if you are confident in your TA.
I will be scalping the bottom of drops on the 1 hr. I am anticipating the price to wick down out of out ascending channel (seen on 4hr and 1hr) but resume the channel with HIGH volatility. Once we see the wicks start to shorten on the longer term time frames I will consider entering more aggressively for the next leg up.
LTC rejected from 100. We were right there. Breaking 100 definitively will absolutely be a, bot trigger, psychological trigger, and a emotional trigger. You will want to have at least some kind of position when that happens I think. Also the having of mining rewards is in 123 days. I speculate this is why LTC is running harder then BTC but I am trying not to let this fact influence my decisions.
That is my story and I'm sticking to it.
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