Pump & DumpPump and dumps are famous in all kinds of markets, however they differ from real world to cryptocoin markets. Because cryptocurrency value is almost 100% speculation and very rarely based on news, traditional pump and dumps are a lot less common. In the real world someone can start a pump by simply spreading …
Let’s take a brief look at the technical position of Bitcoin as of 2014-01-24 over a Daily time frame. This will be a professional-level analysis. Elliott Waves are notoriously unreliable, and the Graveyard of Trading Failure is littered with the corpses of those who refused to leave any chart unlabeled. Waves are actually a great …
Like the stock market days of old, lack of regulation in cryptocurrency has led to rampant market manipulation from the “evil market makers” mentioned in a previous article written by Sectio Aurea to the more common (and less clever) pump and dumpers. Although I can’t personally condone being part of these “pump and dumps” as …
There’s been a lot of yammering from ‘financial analysts’ about the recent market rally, attributing it to Zynga’s adoption of Bitcoin. Whenever I read these articles, it makes me cringe almost as much as when I have to hear them try to moronically explain the Bitcoin protocol. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not dogging on …
Niche currency isn’t a new concept, in fact, it’s a very old one pre-dating the centralized fiat currencies we’ve come to know and love–and it’s a disaster. You don’t have to look very far back into history to find some concerning similarities with the cryptocurrency era either. During a period in the early to mid …
Trading isn’t difficult, most people assume you have to be some kind of math prodigy or Gordon Gekko to make money on the markets, which actually isn’t true at all– even though knowing the math behind common indicators does help you understand what your looking at, it isn’t by any means necessary. You don’t have …
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All too often, it seems that fundamental analysis of cryptocurrency projects are either glossed over or ignored in popular discussion. When this is combined with elaborate blitz campaigns in the media to promote premined currencies, it becomes dangerous for the newcomer to the markets. In the hopes of clearing up some of the basic issues …
There is a perfect position sizing formula, which I derived many years ago (see derivation) and dub the Sanden Criterion. It is as follows: Where: f = Optimum fraction (percentage) of portfolio to invest on this opportunity W = Winning percentage (chance to earn G percent profit) G = Gains on win (percentage) L = …
When Dogecoin was first released there were a lot of skeptics, including us admittedly. But there’s an essential truth to be told that Dogecoin’s critics aren’t facing up to. Dogecoin is no less viable than Litecoin That’s right, I said it. To the Litecoin fans that one is going to hurt. Cryptocurrency is a new …