DEMO account for trading. Useful or notDEMO account for trading. Useful or not
A demo account is considered by traders to be the safest method of learning to trade 😎
You are trading on virtual money. You have a sense of responsibility for this money and for your trade. The lack of psycho-logical pressure and emotional tension very "blinds" you. You become indifferent to your trade. You can stop putting on the feet and trade like a flop.
A demo account provides an opportunity to gain experience 🐱👤
Demo account is comparable to the virtual world, where there is nothing real. There is no profit and no loss, you do not feel any of this. It is only needed for the initial stage, where you are just starting to understand the structure, orders, how everything works.
On a demo account, you can check the strategy, system 📈
This cannot be done again because of the lack of attachment to money or lack of responsibility for their activities. A trading strategy gives success only if you follow everything that is indicated in it, without your own improvisation.
Winning a demo account can tell you how to trade on a real account 🤑
Demo account in comparison with a real account are completely different things due to the emotional component, psychological, lack of responsibility and rashness. Any positive result on a demo account means nothing
What, then, is a demo account needed? 🤷♂️
🔼 For acquaintance with the trading platform and the characteristics of the trading market
🔼 For acquaintance with the financial tools on which you will be trading
🔼 To perfect your technical skills
🔼 To test your trading strategy
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Psychology
Fighting the need to be right in the marketsIn most industrial countries the educational system was created not to truly teach students, but to generate good workers for factories and other companies. Yes, we want these highly trained individuals to be able to think critically and generate new ideas. However, we want them to be excellent employees who follow the boss's instructions. So, how do we do that? We do it through our educational process where children learn that the teacher is always right.
Children attend school for 12 to 16 years, and it is often reinforced that the instructor is always correct. For example, as a student, you are required to take tests. You learned that if you get fewer than 70% of the questions correct, you are a failure. "Why didn't you receive 100?" your father asks when you show it to him. So, your father expected you to be correct as well. As a result, we have a strong desire to be correct. If you don't get it correctly at least 70% of the time, you're labeled a failure. However, you want to be correct 100% of the time so that your father does not criticize you. As a result, you begin to criticize yourself first in order to solve the problem before your dad does.
Let's take that and apply it to the stock market, futures market, or any other investment you could make. You want to be correct, and that to you means making money. Let's assume you buy a stock for $100 and know how to establish a stop loss: if it drops below $95 per share, you'll sell.
Let's assume the price falls to $95 per share. You really want to be right, so you'd be wrong if you got out, or at least feel like you were. Your mind races with ideas such as, "It's simply a temporary setback." "Analysts expect a significant boost in earnings this quarter; I'm reluctant to sell at this time." "What if a few traders are manipulating the downturn?"
So you hang onto the stock and watch it fall even further. It drops to $90. Now you have a 2R loss. If it was hard to take a 1R loss, it’s even harder to take a 2R loss. And all the same, arguments apply. Thus, you hold onto your stock. Now the stock drops to $85 and you have a 3R loss. You know you really should get out, but now your portfolio is down $4k and you can really write off $3k in losses, so you’d better keep this stock. You know it will turn around.
Now you know why a psychologist and an economist won the Nobel Prize in economics for basically showing that it was very hard for people to take losses. People according to those Nobel prize winners become much more “tolerant of risk” when they are behind. The Nobel winners also showed that people tend to tolerate little risk when they are ahead, making it difficult to let profits run.
People tolerate risk more when they are behind (i.e won’t cut their losses) and tolerate risk less when they are ahead (i.e they won’t let their profits run).
So what can you do about your need to be right?
Instead of focusing on being right, focus on not making any mistakes, whereas a mistake occurs when you don’t follow your rules. Your rules should be the golden rules of trading (previous article material).
If you consider breaking these rules as being wrong (i.e., making a mistake), you’ll find that suddenly you can make money in the stock market or any other investment field.
In short, you must think in terms of probabilities and statistics. As a result, you can pay attention to just following your system, and making as few mistakes as possible, because when you do that, you “know” what your results will be in the long run (knowing the expectancy of your system).
Trade with care.
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Be like Jake *educational material*
*This is not financial advice, so trade at your own risks*
*My team digs deep and finds stocks that are expected to perform well based off multiple confluences*
*Experienced traders understand the uphill battle in timing the market, so instead my team focuses mainly on risk management*
My team has decided to use a recent failed trade as an example of the importance of stop losses. Here @SimplyShowMeTheMoney you may have noticed that we place stop losses and stop profit losses on the majority of our trades. If we ever post a trade without a stop loss please understand that we're waiting for further information and that we have long-term confidence in the trade and are not worried about the short-term price action in-between.
To demonstrate the importance of stop losses we must first introduce you to a successful retail trader by the name of Jake. Our friend Jake has been trading for the past 5 years. Jakes trading strategy is simple: he finds a company that he likes, and he invests his money into it. Jake hits roughly 6 out of 10 of the trades that he places. Jakes 60 percent winning average may sound 'okay' at first but lets say Jake is consistent about managing his take profits and stop-losses. Jake may be losing 40 percent of his trades, but he is able to mitigate most of the risks due to his insane stop-loss precision.
But if you've been in the market long enough and have ever used stop-losses then you can probably recall a time where your trade broke through your stop-loss and then the worst thing possible happens...it shoots off to the moon without you while you watch in disbelief with your jaw dropped down to the floor.
Jake knows this feeling very well. So to lower this risk, Jake locates key price areas on the chart where the stock may be at its weakest and places his stop losses. Doing this helps prevents scenarios like the one above from occuring.
Jake cares about the roof over his head and keeping food in his belly. He cares about the amount of sleep he gets every night. Jake wants to be able to enjoy quality time with his girlfriend without feeling anxious about a trade that was supposed to buy her a ring, but is now worth as little as a ring-pop. That's why Jake uses stop-losses.
Be like Jake.
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[Trade Review]How I traded $CRM, $TLRY,$U, + psychology TALK In this video I will reviewing trades I took 6/16/2021 which were $CRM,$TLRY $SQ that were posted in a pervious video about the set up on my New Series *Set Ups For the Week Traded these tickers using my knowledge of technical Analysis , sharing my levels: Support & Resistance , my trendlines , Fibs, Waves, Price Action, Channels , Emas, and prior experienced , while providing both bullish & bearish scenarios for you to be able to understand my analysis and wait for confirmation as always! In the second part of this video I rant about trading phycology and use yesterdays loss as an example I hope yall enjoy!
BTC "Psychology of a Market Cycle" -- Don't be bullish too quickThe daily chart of BTCUSD looks almost identical to the well-known "Psychology of a Market Cycle" graph. This graph shows the steps from optimism to thrill to Euphoria, and then the drop back to anxiety, denial, panic. This chart aligns almost perfectly with the BTC daily chart. As people are anxious, they are forcing themselves to believe that we will recover, only while the chart says otherwise.
fasten your seatbelts !!Hi Folks,
My first idea and analysis on BTC.
Big moments coming up. First things first. This whole social media is bragging about and on Bitcoin trying to talk it in bearish mode.
I personally don't care about social media. My advice ignore it and follow your own perception and vision.
All those people ' expecting' well dude you cannot expect anything in trading.
What I see in the overall picture is a mini descending triangle. And again more often than not (statistically proven) a descending triangle ' breaks' downwards.
But still there is a possibility for this not happening. KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN.
My trend indicators that HELP me and are not definite tell me to fasten my seatbelt.
The 20 day MA moves above the 5 day MA. I have gone back in time and checked the chart and this is not a very positive signal. (signal received)
RSI --> I see a bullish divergence. The value in my rsi makes higher highs while the price Is declining (interesting)
ADX = 50 --> shows me ' a' trend
DMI + = 8 far below I want to see
DMI - = 23.5
There are some conflicts now.
Than I look at the bars what they tell me and I see a strong conflict between bears and bulls. A little indecision about which direction to take.
What can we do.. put you stop loss in in case of...
I wait patiently for my confirmations to be confirmed.
Have a good day all..
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Bitcoin crypto psychologieCrypto and investing is all about psychologie. It is simple. You want to get rich or want to be the best, try it. No one prepares anyone for crypto most just choose to invest. Here comes the problem into play. We have to many wanna be people that bought bitcoin. We need fever people in the market. You are saying hey it is right, we dont need the little people, with few money, we got the institutions, well forgot about that, they are buying otc. Of Market!!! But what is needed then you may ask yourself.
Think like someone who is the game maker not a player, you want to controll everything and get the most profit.
Fool the people gtell them they need to sell, show them !!! Let em sell and when no one believes in it let the price skyrocket, so after the low to probable 25-28k, lift it up to 70-90k then again drop it to some lower levels, so people sell cause of the fear they will feel in this moment, espacially this people are the ones that look up the chart first, every second in between in spend on coinbase or tradingview. When they get their notifiation that 30 is hit(I strongly believe we cant fall under 30k) but if they get the notification they might sell. And this time they will be left behind. The next thing they will see is 70k at least. Then a drop to 40-70 k depends on how much we rise. Without much time for panic for the long term holder. Then the final sqeeze to 200k at least, at this point I would sell all alts and eth. To 80% only reason is we dont know how far it can go!
U can sell btc but there is no real need for that. So relax chill and take this not as a guide or investing guru stuff, but as a lesson.
ETHBTC Forecast based on Cycle HistoryI charted this on 20 May and had not looked at it since.
What I wanted to know was should I be holding more BTC, or more ETH? What will grow more according to the charts regardless of my opinion of their fundamentals or adoption ?
If the charts are a representation of the psychology of the masses, then psychology tells us : the best prediction for future behavior is past behavior.
Thus, I'm a big believer price action rhyming with previous BTC halving cycles.
You've probably heard chartists say "history rhymes but never repeats"
While I am aware that ETH was just getting started in the markets peak in 2017/2018... and it will likely far outperform BTC, I have charted a conservative forecast mimicking the previous cycle.
I've pointed out the previous ATH of BTC and ETH as well as where I think we can expect them in the months to come.
The past 2 seem to have been on track in a general sense.
Let me know your thoughts
DRNA; A Psychological Analysis of Investor BaseDISCLAIMER
This is in no way, shape or form, fluid and function, an analytical, qualitative or intelligent compte rendu. There is absolutely no financial advice here because the only financial advice I can give is to research, research, and research. The purpose of this analysis is to serve as an example of an investigation into a company's background, fundamentals, and assets through various lenses to determine if it is a good potential investment for you. The function of this write up is to serve as an educational resource for investors looking to understand how to find good investments. So read and learn some things about a company's investor base, that may or may not be completely bs. This is not meant to serve as financial advice, rather as a case study for analyzing a stocks investor base. I have no clue where the price will go, just where various populations think it is going. I am a fan of RNAi companies, and if I find one that I can cover without breaking a NDA, I will write it up. If you have any further questions, please feel free to ask! Everything is pretty much on the chart. Thanks, hope y'all find something interesting and new!
Emotional Analysis I have posted recently on Wyckoff, Elliott cycled, Gann education and covered psychology.
The Thing is - as a long time trader, you often see new comers and the assumption is more indicators, more stuff = better results. Take a step back and view this from 30,000 feet. You looking at finding an edge, an edge can be as simple as risk management and positioning yourself with a great risk to reward system.
The problem is, if there was an algo or one indicator that could make you rich. The world would quickly run out of doctors and postmen.
What Elliott, W.D.Gann, Wyckoff, Dow and others clearly understood - was not the technical count on the chart, or if this is a UTAD or a spring event. What they appreciated was human nature - psychology.
I wrote this post to show how the mindset fits into the chart - When everyone started posting the "Wall Street, cheat sheet" and asking - Where are we? I would respond, depending on where you bought or sold. It's not a group thing. Unless you refer to sentiment - which is another topic again.
The issue is - everyone is looking to have their hand held. Indicators can be useful of course. But you cannot depend, rely or only take buy and sell signals.
Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you.
Benjamin Franklin
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So whilst people assume The Elliott's and the Gann's where the titans of technical. There's a deeper skill they tapped into. Emotional analysis. When studying Elliott, you can walk through a certain journey of why the price moves up & pulls back. Why it rapidly grows in wave 3 and why the 4th becomes messy. Elliott knew what drove these moves & how the retail traders follow on like sheep.
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Wyckoff and Dow - this is not a lesson on the technical side. It's an eye opener.
Wyckoff could make a schematic of the logic and emotions inside the chart and simply plotted it. Dow, simplified it into 6 market tenets. But either way they knew more about the market psychology than they did the chart.
If you are looking to trade alt coins - you need to understand the project, the team & just like investing in a stock. Get a feel for the company.
This last week, I have seen social media posts about "this guy lost this, that or the other" All blaming and pointing fingers at Musk - the truth is if you need to follow a celebrity for stock picking. Chose another sport. Doctors, lawyers, accountants and many professions take many years just to qualify - why is crypto trading any different?
Professional traders know this - and currently it's like having penguins in the water for the first time, the pro's are the sharks.
PSYCHOLOGY This is all it boils down to.
We assume big brother is watching, we assume stocks, crypto etc all being manipulated. There's often talk about FOMO & FUD. Wyckoff knew this as the "Composite man"
Truth is - retail do it to themselves 90% of the time, trying to catch tops and bottoms. Not learning market phases or cycles and then blaming everyone else for their mistakes. Everyone wants to strike it rich, one trade and millions. Seems to be the mentality. It needs time & proper risk management.
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If you can take a step back and see the market with "emotional vision" switched on, you will see why Elliott & Wyckoff are applicable today - Humans don't change, the psychology and mindset is still the same. Market manipulation is strong and real - it's just not what you think.
Disclaimer
This idea does not constitute as financial advice. It is for educational purposes only, our principle trader has over 20 years’ experience in stocks, ETF’s, and Forex. Hence each trade setup might have different hold times, entry or exit conditions, and will vary from the post/idea shared here. You can use the information from this post to make your own trading plan for the instrument discussed. Trading carries a risk; a high percentage of retail traders lose money. Please keep this in mind when entering any trade. Stay safe.
Upcoming scenario on XRPExpecting a normal retracement to the upside with solid resistance levels around the 61 and 78 fib (at these levels I will be taking some holdings out of the market). This will line up with a move to the upside on the BTC chart. after this retracement to the upside has been fulfilled, there will likely be a major market crash bringing XRP to around 20 cents (where I will buy back in).
The move up will trick people into believing there is a recovery pump, and get them on board for longs. However, this pumps will happen so big players can close the remaining of their positions, squeeze the max amount of money out of retail before fully dumping on them and crashing the whole market to buy back in extremely cheap.
Do whatever you wish with this insight, just advising everyone to be smart about it!
BTC Long after Pull back into probability zoneLooking Left. The Pink Oval highlights the constriction phase. as well as the liquidity grabs on both sides.
From the most previous constriction on the hourly. We are above the MR. Which means price will be looking to go short in the immediate next interval but with structure that is predisposed to rise higher based on market sentiment.
fib extension 6.18 will most likely act as a high probability area for large money to enter the market as liquidity of the expanding price action is happing on higher time frames.
Wait for confirmation of entry lower.
but BTC carries the sentiment. Would be looking for alts to follow a similar mark up today.
Do your DD
Videos WILL BE resuming soon. Sorting out some back end stuff for youtube.
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Most simple strategyIf you don't have to much time or you want to keep your charts simple, or maybe you are just lazy. This strategy is right for you !
What is it ? Is it magic ? No... Round numbers .
Imagine you are going to buy a car. You go to website and look for used cars... What is your price limit ? It is always 5000USD, 10 000EUR or 2500GBP. You dont set your price limit to 4786EUR or 13 334USD. It is the same in trading and investing.
Round numbers are psychological support/resistance levels . For example, if ETH/USD is going upwards and reaches 2000USD, you will notice strong bearish reactions, because a lot of traders believe that the currency pair cannot go any higher than that, so they sell in fear of losing their profits.
Traders can use the round numbers as a strategy. Psychological levels are 00, 25, 50 and 75. In order to use the numbers, you need to go short when market goes up and one of these levels is reached. Also at these price levels you can expect institutional buy/sell orders, SL's and TP's.
You can also use it in forex, stocks or indeces... Watch how 1.40(GBP/USD) works. Or 1.20 (EUR/USD)
Try to play with your charts and be creative... Do not hesitate to add moving averages, fibo levels or candlestick patterns :)
And as I always say: there is beauty in simplicity ;)
XRP/USD Trend. Triangle 202% 9X True/False.The trend is pretty strong. In this upward trend, an almost perfect symmetrical triangle has formed. Notice how ugly the triangle was drawn at the beginning of the trend. Consider why this is so. 316, triangle with base 200%. Rational entry if you are a breakout or pullback trader after breaking the resistance of this triangle. If there is a strong pullback (unlikely), then from the uptrend line.
A complete development of this formation (triangle) will lead to a breakdown of the resistance of historical highs (yellow level). Perhaps he will achieve his "name".
A rollback, if possible, to the uptrend line (optional), which is not critical, but, on the contrary, a rebound from it will give even more confidence to buyers and holders in the right choice and that historical highs will be overcome. ...
After the pumping of illiquid crypto garbage and several top liquid turtles BTC ETH LTC (BNB is an exception) in the near future, it is very likely that the turn will come before the pumping of liquid cryptocurrencies which "swing like illiquid assets" - using the "stick" method. In the "greenest month for green events", two of them are likely to be pumped up with a "stick by the method of the electronic god EGOD".
I believe in "official, professional" liars.
True lie, I want to be like everyone else, blind, I don't want to stand out from the crowd
Remember when they launched the market (the entire cryptocurrency market), when they "raised XRP from their knees" after the effect of an outright false fairy tale of a terrible SEC. At an XRP price of $ 0.24 -0.26, you were almost "shouted" in the open:
"Buy and regardless of any actions with the price on the chart - do not sell if you are not a trader! Send to your wallet and forget"
Did you listen to this ???? They even told you the day openly when the pumping will start. Did you believe ??? I'm sure not.
Greed is evil.
Now 4.4 months have passed. The price is now $ 1.55, it was almost $ 2 That's 9X! Is this comparable to the bitcoin profit over this period? This is not enough for you ??? They give you money, why don't you take it? Maybe because at the moment of not understanding the work you want even more ?? Remember, everyone who is never enough will be reset in the moment.
Greed and non-gratitude must be suppressed so that everyone appreciates what was and what is left. It is only when a person loses everything that he begins to appreciate past comforts and opportunities that he has not used before. This is the only way to turn on the brain of fools.
Another question. Faith in liars.
Why the hell are you reading crazy FUD news in a couple of lines for the real fools in the cryptocurrency market ?? In the end, this is just an outright lie. Their task is to deceive you and send you on the "wrong trail". It is important for them that you become easily manipulated fools.
Why do you support and disseminate this? Why do you take fantasies and manipulative "news in three lines" (so as not to scare the text) as the truth?
Such content creators are the culprits of your misunderstanding of the market and, as a result, the zeroing of your deposit. Can't you figure it out from the rudimentary history of their "news" and price charts?
Their task is only one - to mislead YOU and THAT YOU LOST MONEY on the MARKET !!!
You are walking on a paradox.
When you are sweetly deceived by the "official news channels" with beautiful pictures (absolutely all lies and "water") - YOU BELIEVE.
When you are openly told the truth and confirmed by real actions - DO NOT BELIEVE.
MAY BE ALL THE PROBLEM IN YOURSELF ????
Don't fight the WORM, Ride ITWe act upon the stories we tell ourselves in our heads.
Make sure the stories you have are aligned with the market reality.
So here is another story, the market trend is like the WORM from the movie DUNE, when it comes, you don't stand in its way, you let it pass you and then you jump on its back, holding on with your hooks.
LETTING IT take you to your destination.
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We SEE the worm
We UNDERSTAND the worm
We TOUCH the worm
We ARE the WORM
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Epistemology of Technical AnalysisHow does the reliability of technical analysis relate to our understanding of it as a total population?
Epistemology is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of knowledge -- its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity. The word epistemology is derived from the ancient Greek epistēmē, meaning "knowledge", and the suffix -logia, meaning "logical discourse." Epistemologists study the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge. Simply stated, epistemology is "meaning-making."
Epistemology presupposes metaphysics. People tend to think of psychology as being the foundation for technical analysis , often without realizing that psychology arises out of, or is a subset of, philosophy. In other words, psychology is "a posteriori" to philosophy. Historically, psychology arose in order to include the empirical method when examining the metaphysical questions posed by philosophy. It has since brought various topics of study to the field of psychology, such as sensation, perception, intelligence, and memory.
At first glance, the relationship between philosophy and psychology seems to have a dualistic nature, and is reciprocal: Modern-day science believes that the "phyisical" (psychology) -- a brain -- creates the metaphyisical, and that the metaphysical (philosophy) -- a thought -- allows us to understand the physical. Phillosophers argue, however, that "no account of knowledge can proceed without assuming that we already have some sample or example of it, or of the way the world works;" If we already know something, then we already have some insight into reality. Similarly, no account of trading analytics can proceed successfully, according to presupposed rules, without some concensus to those rules.
My definition of technical analysis: A concensual set of rules for how to react to market stimuli. We can call TA a language, and it has rules akin to any other language. When we communicate through language, we operate by utilizing a concensual set of rules by which to respond to vocal stimuli. If two people try to communicate an idea to each other via divergent languages, the efficacy of communication is vastly diminished; consequently, if the market is being influenced by people who both DO know and DO NOT know technical analysis, the reliablity of our predictions for market trends is also vastly diminished.
I would argue that the implications of this are stronger this market cycle than ever before, due to the exponential rise in new traders unfamiliar with technical analysis , and that this offset in reliability is proportional to the total trading volume they supply to the market. At the same rate, "whales" who hold the largest crypto bags are likely to be the most familiar with TA, or have those working for them who are adept at TA, and therefore have a significant oppositional influence to those people aforementioned. It makes you wonder how many people have given their economic stimuli to the power elite already bankrolling with their COVID-era monopolies.
Stay safe out there. This is the most risky moment in the history of crypto for those of us with very little we can afford to lose.
The Psychology Of Trading, Fine Line Between Success And FailureMost traders experience similar thoughts patterns and emotions on the charts. your psychology and your mind-set represent 70% of your trading performance. So smart thinking and discipline is more important than your strategy. That's why controlling it is what makes you profitable and successful.
Range of emotions that can impact your trading:
1- Doubt:
It comes after some losing trades you start doubting your knowledge and everything you know. Fight that feeling as much as you can trust your judgment and trust yourself.
2- Fear:
Also comes after some losing trades and risking too much. the best way to fight this emotion is that you should be comfortable with what you are risking and if you feel uncomfortable LOWER YOUR LOT SIZE.
3- Revenge:
An emotion that exist since the stone age. after your stop loss is hit you want to take a revenge from the market and get back your money. Well you should not take it personally at all and you should convince yourself that in the market anything can happen.
"Main Tip" WHILE TRADING LEAVE YOUR EMOTIONS AT THE DOOR
Bitcoin vs Gold / Gold's Last Dance / Spot the DifferencesBesides time, that is x10 faster on Bitcoin due to technological advancements, better global access to markets and information i see no other major differences. Our future self 30 years from now when we will be around 60-90 will sound to our kids and grandkids as our grandparents and parents right now, BTC is the safe haven!!!
Matter of fact BTC has a bright future ahead but imo the insane bitcoin rush is now gone, it will slowly and gradually replace gold (as global reserve) but first gold has one last dance.
BTC - Don't Buy the Dip!The problem with wanting to buy the Bitcoin dip lies in knowing where the dip actually is. And in the case of Bitcoin, using conventional logic to determine the latter simply will not do. That is so because the crypto-king continues to epitomize the so-called "animal spirits".
Bitcoin's rally was, and continues to be, driven primarily by greed. Traders can be expected to want to go long at the first possible time for the same reason. Hence, buying/selling discrepancies are likely to be created at every new dip, bolstering the adverse volatility in the market. However, the market is long overdue for a sizable correction, and the BTC may dive below 42k and head towards the psychologically significant support level at 30000.00.
What can be asserted with fair confidence is that the eventual dip would not be followed by a V-Shaped rebound. Rather, the new correction is likely to be concluded with more erratic price fluctuations.
Do not rush to buy in at all costs because there are plenty of reasons to expect a deeper correction. Watch the Fibonacci retracement levels and the moving averages.