ng4fin @ng4fin

@Chroma_Trading merry xmas!

Chroma Christmas Calendar Day 20 - $100 Giveaway As promised, here is another giveaway 😉 1. Follow @Chroma_Trading 2. Like & Repost 3. Comment Winner chosen tomorrow!

🎁 GIVEAWAY 🎁 Giving away 1 x $100,000 and 4 x $25,000 challenge accounts from @breakoutprop ($2,000 value 💸) To win, just: a) follow @follis_ + @breakoutprop b) like + repost Winners picked at the weekend Good luck ❤️🎉

@leviathancrypto I would love to check it out.

it's been a year since i started learning pine and building tradingview indicators pretty cool to see i've hit 10k followers and 50k+ boosts on there so quickly ty i guess it's time to publish some more stuff

@hooeem @SoyTimoCrypto pretty please ;-)

On Adjusting to Trending Conditions Some qualifiers before the main content: 1. There's never a good time to post this stuff. People love to infer that any post is some form of market commentary or hidden directional 'signal'. It is not, just take it for what it is. 2. There are no chart examples. Too much trading 'education' is just cherry-picked charts with virtually no explanation. I'm at the other extreme; heavy on the substance but not gonna handhold you through hindsight examples. I trust/hope you can do that yourself if you really care. Or just watch TechnicalRoundup/my YouTube videos. Right, onwards. The specific goal of this post is to highlight how chart-oriented traders who are used to more 'orderly' market conditions can adapt their tools and systems to participate in markets with stronger trends. Crypto goes through phases of 'lockout trends' where the market - especially altcoins - go up and keep going up without offering generic entries (also happens in the other direction but, erm, 4). My definition of generic entries is entry techniques that are common in slower and/or rangebound markets: high(er) time frame failed breaks, sweeps/spikes, break-and-retest patterns, convenient candle closes at high time frame levels, and so on. The aforementioned 'lockout trends' are characterised by the absence of those generic entries. Specifically, the market will usually go up via some combination of: i) straight line move up; ii) impulse, consolidate, impulse, repeat; iii) impulse, diagonal grind up, impulse, repeat; and iv) impulse, shallow pullback, impulse, repeat. In most of those cases, if you're sat twiddling your thumbs on the daily/weekly/monthly time frames waiting for a textbook entry, you'll be waiting for a while. In fact, in many cases, the high time frame 'obvious' pullback only occurs much later when the trend is over, which is of little use to you. This raises the following query: absent the textbook/generic high time frame price action entries, how can you adjust your approach to participate in a faster-moving environment? I'm pulling this from a bunch of notes I made in 2018 (after 2017 uptrend) and early 2021, so the points are not in order. If there's at least one useful thing that helps, I'll be satisfied. 1. Lower your time frames. There is no need to throw the baby out with the proverbial bathwater. If your trading system heavily relies on standard price action stuff (horizontal levels, ranges, failed breaks, sweeps/spikes, and so on) those tools are still viable. You just have to lower your time frames to adjust to trending conditions. If you've been using daily/weekly/monthly time frames and they just look like fat candles with 0 retracements, reduce your time frames to capture more intraday price action e.g. M5/M15/H1/H4. It's still helpful to know where the high time frame levels are in case there's a sharper flush etc. but generally post-breakout/breakdown and in between high time frame levels, the lower time frames are more useful. 2. Forget about macro retests in the medium-term. Big breakouts/breakdowns are a signal in and of themselves. It's tempting to overlay a Babypipsesque view of the market and assume that a retest would provide a good entry, but more often than not, the opposite is true. Specifically, pulling back immediately after a large break ought to be treated with suspicion. If the breakout/breakdown is strong, it really shouldn't look back or at the very least shouldn't linger around the break level. There's a pervasive fiction that a retest somehow 'confirms' the break, but this is simply not true. 3. Post-break pullbacks must generally be shallow in a strong trend. This is a logical corollary of point (2) but worth stating on its own. Strong markets offer pullbacks, but they tend to be more shallow. A recurring pattern is the following: Breakout --> "I'll buy the pullback" --> Market pulls back --> "Nah, bit more, the obvious HTF level is further away" --> Pullback ends --> Continuation. If the trend is strong, pullbacks will generally be shallow and not retrace all the way to the origin of the break. The only worthwhile exception to this is macro trend pullbacks e.g. the consistent 30-40% pullbacks in BTC during long uptrends, but even those don't typically go all the way back to where the trend was formed. Practically, this means using closer and/or lower time frame levels of support on pullbacks to position for continuation. 4. Consolidations are a form of pullback. I've written and spoken about this extensively, so I will not labour the point here. As mentioned, strong markets will often avoid pulling all the way back to the origin of the break and instead trend via impulse --> consolidation --> impulse or some variant thereof. Therefore, consolidations are a form of pullback i.e. means of getting an entry. These consolidations are great for marking out lower time frame ranges (among other tools, to be discussed) and using them for entries. 5. Normally mediocre levels work better in a strong trend. Bit of an esoteric point, but if you've spent enough time squiggling on charts, you should intuitively know the difference between 'that level is a banger' and 'mehh maybe it'll react there but it's a bit of a reach'. In a strong trend, the otherwise mediocre levels get a 'boost' of sorts to their efficacy if they're in line with the trend itself. In other words, meh support + strong uptrend = strong(er) support / meh resistance + strong downtrend = strong(er) resistance. One way to conceptualise this is that market participants have 'lower standards' when they're trend following. 6. Fast-moving MAs are very useful dynamic support/resistance levels. The exact MA configuration is less important. Binance default MAs, 13/21, 50/100/200, some sort of band/ribbon, Bollinger Bands, whatever. In 'lockout trends' the market spends a lot of its time in the middle of nowhere (from a HTF S/R perspective) and as a result there is greater order herding around these uncontroversial 'consensus levels' like MAs. Failed breakdowns at fast-moving LTF MAs and/or retests of slightly slower-moving MAs are solid areas to look for trend continuation. 7. LTF momentum resets and divergences are very useful entry techniques. Again, with lockout trends and in the absence of obvious HTF levels, the TA gets a lot looser. Especially if left curve tourists are aping the market, basic stuff works very well. Most momentum indicators/oscillators (RSI and others) generate 'reset' signals e.g. RSI bouncing from/reclaiming 50 level. These can provide 'okay this has cooled off'-type entries even if the cooling off didn't reach an obvious S/R level. The same applies to momentum divergences, ideally in line with the underlying trend e.g. LTF bullish divergence in uptrend/LTF bearish divergence in downtrend. Simplest of all, even basic overbought/oversold signals on lower time frames become surprisingly viable if the trend is strong enough. Note that these techniques aren't mutually exclusive, I'd encourage you to look for confluence where appropriate. You can build a surprisingly robust LTF case for an entry based on MAs, momentum, LTF range etc. even if the HTF chart looks like it's nowhere meaningful. 8. Liquidations are a valid form of pullback. This is the standard washout/flush trading trope. Basic premise is that aggressive punters trying to catch the trend have been forcibly removed from the market, and the dislocation caused by their liquidation(s) makes for a good entry. Specifically, you want to see sharp OI declines alongside sharp increases in liquidations that line up with the dominant trend i.e. long liqs in uptrend to provide a dip to buy/short liqs in downtrend to provide a rip to sell. This does work the other way around too but it requires some degree of chasing and it's more nuanced. I will also note that exceptionally large liqs/OI wipeouts tend to be trend-reversing as opposed to a precursor to continuation, so ideally if you're using liqs for continuation setups they should be noticeable but not some mega multi-month market-wide wipe if you're trying to trend follow on lower time frames. 9. Price action pivots are your friends. Even if the HTF S/R levels are absent or of limited use, some standard price action concepts can still be very useful for 'grounding' you or adding context. Specifically, in no particular order: Daily Open, Weekly Open, Previous Day's High, Previous Day's Low, Previous Week's High, Previous Week's Low. I have videos on all of those on the Cred YouTube channel, so I'll spare you the repetition. They're a good way to get something when the HTFs are showing nothing. And they work, because everyone is looking for something (recurring theme here). 10. Relative strength & relative pairs are always relevant. By relative strength, I mean how your coin is holding up relative to BTC/ETH as well as the broader market. It is generally easier and more fruitful to long the strong stuff until it stops being strong rather than trying to be 'early' to the next narrative or longing the laggards hoping they stop lagging. This exercise is especially useful on down days - assess which coin(s) are down less than the others (or are perhaps even green) and you can infer with reasonable accuracy that strong coins during market weakness will be even stronger during market strength. As far as relative pairings, aside from making sure your assets are outperforming BTC/ETH, the ALT/BTC charts can provide contextual clues and offer S/R levels even if the ALT/USD chart is in the middle of nowhere. More colloquially, if you're desperately trying to grasp at some S/R level but the USD pair is far away from anything meaningful, check the BTC pair. This can also apply to specific pairs e.g. SOL/ETH recently, but ALT/BTC is generally a good starting point given there is often more price history to work with. 11. Don't ignore BTC/ETH. It is tempting to dispel the slow, boring, boomer coins from your watchlists if alts are trending and focus on the lower cap stuff instead. Even for pure altcoin punters, BTC/ETH are very useful tools. Not only for the reasons stated in (10), but also because the crypto market is still very tightly correlated for the most part. If BTC/ETH meaningfully pull back, there's a good chance your altcoins pull back as well. Correlated pullbacks can provide clear, risk-defined entries on altcoins that have locked you out and don't have any clear HTF levels nearby. Simplest example is waiting for BTC/ETH to pull back to support, and buying the altcoin(s) of your choice once you get a valid long trigger on BTC/ETH. Paying attention to BTC/ETH can also serve as a decent 'reality check' so you're not tagging on a ton of blind altcoin risk at potential market-wide sticking points. That's most of it, I think. Again, there's never a perfect time to make a post like this: if I do it during low vol chop then nobody cares, if I do it now, it's seen as some sort of prognostication of future conditions. I don't know what the future holds, just wanted to get this piece of content out of the way so I can refer to it if/when appropriate. Thanks for reading if you made it this far. I ain't reading all that. I'm happy for u tho. Or sorry that happened.

@ColdBloodShill Can't DM you but would like to help/participate. Send me your questions if you still want more input.

ANTI-PHISING POST keep getting dms from people who are getting scammed so writing this do not ever click links from random dms on discord/twitter/telegram, even if the person is legit they could have their account hacked, always verify before ONLY trust links from official team twitter pages or from @coingecko 's site directly - just have them pinned to your browser BOOKMARK all of the sites that you use on a daily basis, go directly from your bookmarks so you dont get caught offguard navigating from somewhere you dont usually come from use a hardware wallet for the majority of your transactions, never keep most of your portfolio in a hot wallet - only takes one misclick to lose everything if its all in one place use separate emails for signing up for crypto accounts, most ppl do not have good opsec so if personal info is likely somewhere out there on the web already, reduces attack vectors if you have specific email/pw/key for your crypto stuff always do test txs first, unless you are trying to ape gigabananacrashpurpleslurp5000inu on uniswap you can wait the extra 15 mins to get confirmation before sending your actual txs also use multisigs for any large amount of capital

Compiling all the threads I've written on trading/markets. A thread of threads. Hope you get value from it. Much love🖤

@ColdBloodShill @rollbitcom Nice! When and where?

*NEW* Starting this week I’ll be streaming everything you need to know about Scalping. This Weekly show is sponsored by @rollbitcom and it’ll cover education, set ups, psychology and my approach to timing momentum. For beginners or those who just want help with their approach, everything will be covered. I’m going to try and develop this as the streams progress - starting with the foundations and building up to more advanced discussions. The first stream will begin on Saturday night and will cover: Using the LTF What is scalping in crypto? Considerations Psychology Taking profit Common issues I’ll see you then! Full summaries will be available on YouTube.

$FET after 4 months of selling. Time for some buying pressure and green candles.

JUST IN:🚨 $NEAR Protocol Partners With Alibaba Cloud to Accelerate Web3 Growth in Asia #crypto #bitcoin

@donalt All the best for you and your family. If you want to take some recommendation from a fellow dad: take some time really off and fully focus on your newborn. The first few weeks are really special, almost magical. Every minute is unique. Cherish it.

$NEAR +3.3% $BTC + 5%

Muro @MuroCrypto

3 years ago

I think $NEAR might push 1.40 now Gotta try with tight SL though

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@4500px @Ash_Ketchum_21 🐢

Recently hit 220k followers. This community means a lot to me and in recent months I've been less productive here than I'd like. Many of you know me for education and productive threads and this is the style that will be returning. Thank you so much for giving me an audience, and I will go back to using that to spread knowledge, assistance and trying to upskill as many of you as possible to give you the best shot at making the most from these markets. Shitposting is great. But my ratios are way off when it comes to where I was 6 months back. YouTube videos coming back. 2 minute market updates coming back. Educational threads reappearing. Trading mentality discussions in full flow. So finally, and reiterating, thank you for following, supporting and being a part of the community here. Especially when the market conditions are this shit, you don't have an excuse not to be watching me and learning right? Have a wonderful weekend.

ALPHA | EDUCATION 📝 Instructive price action from $BTC this week in relation to a) Monday Range and b) Weekly Value Annotations on the chart but hmu if you have any questions Let me know if you like this style of content and I'll do more ❤️ #Bitcoin

CT poor shaming super cringe. I grew up low income (no nice clothes, constant struggle to make ends meet, shamed as school...). But starting off poor builds character. Vast majority of people trying their best to make it. Shaming anyone not there yet serves no purpose.