Let's interpret what is happeningSo when BTC is doing something just like any asset it is throwing off signals, with experience you learn to understand the signals.
Right now it has been more difficult for price to go down than up. It is clear that BTC wants to retrace to the 61.8 of the entire 2019 move which puts it around $7300.00 so why has it taken so long? Well... what has been happening is that anytime there is a sell-off (which is trying to get to the $7300 price) there is an almost equal amount of buyers (Stopping the drop or making the price go up). We need to get to the trigger point where a big sell-off may happen. TO BE CLEAR I'm not short, I just want to catch BTC lower so I can go in at a safer point. I am long and I will never be short.
The only way to make money trading and keeping your profits is to enter at low "Hard to lose" point with big support beneath. For now, $8900 and $7300 are it. I do not lose much money trading and I make quite a bit in just a few trades a year. How? I am not enticed by some little up move, big drops to the 200MA in the Daily do catch my eye and I wait for such moves for weeks or months. It is easy to understand the pattern of how to make money in crypto because all you need to do is focus on BTC and its massive drops every few months or weeks. When it drops all you have to do is buy a lot of high performing alts and ride the wave until BTC hits resistance, at which point you sell and wait for the cycle to start all over again.
So where is the new battleground? it's in Two places. Let's look at the 12H and the 1D.
Let's start with the 12H (which is the main chart above)- we are now under a death cross (which is when the 50MA crosses down the 200MA) Historically if we close too many times under the 50MA during a death cross price will stay below the 50MA for a while until and after a period of consolidation gathers enough buyers and price will jump up enough to create a golden cross which will push price way up. In conclusion, if BTC does not close above the 50MA in this timeframe and above the red downtrend line it will then melt below the thick green trendline and end up in the mid 8K area.
On the 1D there's not much stopping BTC from melting down other than the green trendline, once it closes below that trendline price it will fall to the next support area. What is a good indicator that this may happen? It is now consistently trading below the 50MA (the yellow moving average line.)
I am already into some alts for a long swing trade to double my money, I am waiting to see if BTC melts down further to jump some more into other alts. NEO, LTC, BNB, ETH are looking very good at this moment.
THE TREND: Going down.
THE OUTLOOK: Unsafe to buy BTC.
Be safe and follow me to stay ahead of the curve.
Cryptomagic
Bitcoin - Are we going up or down - let me give you the answer. It is simple but I have to admit that sometimes it's hard to tell. The best thing to do to make it easy on you is to chart BTC in multiple timeframes. Alts can give you the impression that the bottom is in because they begin to creep up while BTC ranges or it moves up slightly. Right now it is clear that BTC (The Supreme Leader of crypto) is on a downtrend still and it is easy to see why. As long as BTC does not pop over my thick red downtrend line we are still going down. There are also clues as to what's going to happen short and long term, I am not a psychic nor am I trying to guess the lowest point to get in. The point of trading is to find a safe place for you to make money. You have to change your mindset that in one move you'll get rich. I have made money taking 5 to 7 big bets per year, how? By buying at or around the bottom or after we get over a resistance point. In perspective where is BTC right now? At the very top of the downtrend channel. Indicators are showing a down move soon but it may also go up. SO what should you do? Wait and see if it crosses my redline and also how it crosses the redline -- with energy and volume or in a weak manner.
We are currently looking at the 12h timeframe showing an early death cross, a death cross is when the yellow line (the 50MA) crosses below the black line (the 200 MA). Recovery from this event is almost never quick, so with this knowledge, you simply stay out and wait. Another clue is that we are at the top, it will have to make a choice to either go over the redline (unlikely) or go down (Likely) or range and exit the triangle (likely).
Let's look at the 1D timeframe. In this chart, you can see that BTC's price is at the very top of the channel which is not a good place to buy. It is also far away from the 200MA (which historically) any asset in general, wants to be near the 200MA which in this case it means a drop.
This timeframe is my secret weapon -- the long term view. In here you can see that we are very far away from the 200MA and also at the top of a trendline/channel line that has been impossible to go over for a long time. If BTC makes it out of the redline it's time to sit up and pay attention. So what exactly is my strategy? Simple, to wait until we get low enough to make it a low-risk entry point. If we hit my entry points of the 50MA or the 200MA in the 3D I will be very happy to jump in. To be clearer, my entry points are marked by green X's.
THE TREND: Going down.
THE OUTLOOK: Unsafe to buy BTC.
Be safe and follow me to stay ahead of the curve.