Tag: Price

Buuuyyy! Weekly Trades (22)

OK, I must admit it. Bitcoin keeps surprising me as a trader. The last time I wrote here about having a pause in BTC/USD trading (as would have traded it for years, yeah? 🙂 ) and expecting some weeks or months of low volatility practically disabling profitable trading. It looks like I was wrong. Yes, the volatility has decreased comparing to the crazy weeks before, but it is still possible to book some good pips in.

So what’s the current story? Looking at the Bitstamp USD chart the price has recently broken an important turning point at $120 and heading to another at $150. So this can be the target in the next days maybe weeks depending on the upmove strength. As this climb isn’t very much persuasive for me it is necessary to look carefully downstairs also. And there is strong trendline support now around $100. But for the market to attack this level I don’t know what kind of serious event would have to occur for it to come down there. Especially when you consider the recent Dwolla/Mt.Gox problem, that was quite a huge negative story and the price is up. That is telling me something. And maybe BTC just doesn’t give a fuck of this (or any) “news”.

OK, when you haven’t bought in the recent hours then do it as soon as possible. As said above my buy target (PT2) is $150, but first it should cut through $140 (PT1). The stop-loss set up at $127.50. And that is also the sell-point with the stop-loss at $130.50. If triggered my first profit target is $124 and the second at $123 (let’s be careful here, the trend is up). Good luck!

Weekly Trades (19)

An overall situation in the BTCUSD market is a quite tricky right now. It is a long term range trading between a high of 260 USD and low at 50 USD. The price broke down into a medium-term bear market last week, but weekend recovery suggests we can see some small up move again before another downfall leg later. You know that saying ‘what can’t go up must come down’…

Here are my points for this week:

Buy   119.40   SL 114.00    PT1: 124.80  PT2: 135.00   PT3: 146.00
Sell  106.70   SL 115.30    PT1: 93.00   PT2:  81.00   PT3: 71.00  PT4: 60.00

 

Summing up the last week trading results: +22%

Buy PT1: +5%
Sell PT1: +4%, PT2: +12%,  PT3: +17%

If you let a profit run with the falling market and would close on Friday afternoon (which I would recommend for at latest), you could book even 33% return (supposing 85 USD target for example) only for that one sell off.
Also bear in mind that buy and sell points I give out must be clearly broken on the chart, a spike candle (I watch 15 min. or 200 tick chart for an entry) is not enough, market has to clearly close above (below) this point. That’s why setting up a pending orders and leave computer is comfortable, but not always leading to a successful entry.

Bitcoin Speculators Are Laughing At Anyone Who Calls It A Bubble

Of course I don’t agree with everything written in this piece, but would like to point out one important point of view that seems author realizes very well. There’s hardly more essential criteria for a speculator considering whether to take a trade (investment) or not than comparing a potential loss and profit. Bitcoin offers a tremendous risk/reward ratio. Even when at 300 or 500 $/BTC. And big players coming in know it quite well.

Now, does that mean the price won’t drop in the future back down to 50 or 20? No, maybe it will. Does that mean the price will hit 1000 someday? Sure it will and probably much more.

There’s simply no other way than up. Especially when you see Bitcoin not only as a trading article with a possible pump-dump moves, but also the storage of value (collapsing fiat currencies) and the transactional money (making current banking system obsolete).

Of course many speculators have no clue of what Bitcoin really is and when the next round of “Oh My God The Bubble Is Bursting” sell-off comes you will just smile and buy some more precious digital.

 

Bitcoin Speculators Are Laughing

The largest bubble in the world? Fiat currencies and central banking

If you are not a regular reader of Trace Mayer’s articles you may miss some substantial information.

“There are only about 80,000 bitcoins of ‘float’ on a daily basis. Remember, prices are set at the margin. Simplistically  and only for an example in aggregate, this means that if there is a positive funds flow into bitcoins of about a mere $4m then it will move the price by about $50.

So, obviously, if there are any large blocks of bitcoins, ‘walls’, are gobbled up extremely quickly by this hot money from VCs and Wall Streeters. If that float can be reduced from 80,000 to 40,000 then the same $4m will move the price $100. That means VCs and Wall Streeters will have to pay more dearly to get any bitcoins. Squeeze them for all they are worth!”

“You know what’s cool? A $150 per bitcoin? No, a $1m per bitcoin. It may take a decade to get there but the fiat currency market coupled with fractional reserve banking is the largest bubble in the world”

“And for those who think there is a massive Bitcoin bubble. The last bubble went from $0.05 to about $32 and unlike so many who are calling this a bubble I know what it felt like back then because I was there. For a comparable move the bitcoin price would need to move from about $5 to around $3,200, a 20x rise from current prices, and we are only about 5% up this ‘wall of worry’.”