Tech Resources (symbol TECK) jumped out at me as an interesting analog. Look what happened during the last two reversal and how potent the drop was.

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The Nasdaq bubble popped in 2000 after motoring upward on increasing volume in two separate phases. Volume rammed upward and RSI diverged. Like shootin’ fish in a barrel it was, except that at the time I was too inexperienced to see it. It was a steep slope and blow out.
(more…)I would like to introduce you to a company which (a) got really lucky with one investment (b) parlayed their gains into a bunch of other risky Internet investments (c) soared in value as it captured the imagination of the investing public. What is this firm, you ask? SoftBank? Well, sort of. But let’s hop back in the time machine and go back to the 1990s:

I find this quite interesting: if you look at the period of about November 2017 to August 2018 and compare it to more recent history, they are extremely similar. My conclusion from this is that Bitcoin, in spite of its recent boost, will succumb to weakness again this year, tumbling through six thousand, five thousand, and four thousand dollars.
