As sneering as I’ve been to cryptos all year, I’ve got to say, they’re starting to show signs of stability. Personally, I still have no use for them, but Bitcoin has exhibited an increasing “hominess” at around the $6500 price level. It has tried several times to break below $6,000, but it has succeeded four times in turning away from that failure point.
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Are Bitcoin and Gold Bottoming?
Bitcoin plunged from 7385 to 6830, or 7.5%, Wednesday in reaction to a Business Insider report that Goldman Sachs has decided to drop a year-ago decision to create a crypto-currency trading desk.
Apparently, Goldman is “uncertain” about the regulatory environment. Hmm, really? Since when has Goldman shied away from forging a new path while it influences the architecture of a new regulatory environment?
Be that as it may, let’s notice on the attached chart of September Bitcoin that the reaction to the report triggered a plunge that traversed the entire width of the bullish one-month price channel. But the weakness in and of itself has not (yet?) inflicted serious technical damage to the upmove from the August low at 5850 to the September high at 7415. (more…)
Keeping Up With the Cryptoshians
The unraveling continued overnight with the market leader Bitcoin………
The Crypto Revolution
Soooooo………what were they saying at the start of the year? That we’d all be trading cryptos? That contracts – – indeed, all relationships – – would be moved to the Ethereum platform? That we could establish a sizeable retirement account in six months time starting with just a small amount of cash?
Yeah, RIGHT…………
Don’t Cry For Me, Argentina
SlopeCharts can chart thousands and thousands of currency pairs. I read that Argentina’s Peso was in a free fall, so I decided to check it out. Voila!
Heads, Shoulders, and Feet
I’m no Luddite. All my life, I have enthusiastically embraced great new technology. Macintosh in early 1984. My first Tesla in 2011. Netflix in the 1990s. Google in 1997. Amazon during their earliest days. I know good technology when I see it. Hell, the book I wrote in 1982 predicted with breathtaking accuracy the Internet and its implications. So I’m not some old man chasing kids away from his lawn with a cane. I know tech.
Yet I’ve always felt the need to piss all over the crypto scene. Cryptos are a solution in search of a problem. The best they were able to conjure up was that Ethereum was going to be the way that everyone created contracts. Uh-huh. Let’s check in to see how the Ethereum revolution is going.
Where’s the Outrage?
James: Hey, Tim, do you want to know how to make a small fortune from cryptocurrencies?
Tim: Sure, James, how DO you make a small fortune from cryptocurrencies?
James: Start with a large fortune!
{rim shot}
Tonight, as I’m watching the crypto space continue to do what it has been doing for the entirety of 2018 – – that is, fall in value – – I am reminded of those ads which absolutely flooded the Internet late in 2017. Surely you saw them. There were dozens of flavors of this ad, but they all pretty much looked like these: (more…)
Intraday Crypto
As you have hopefully surmised, we are piling on more and more data sets and feature types into SlopeCharts. The latest is intraday data for crypto-currencies.
You use it just like anything else: enter the symbol (like $BTC for Bitcoin) and choose the granularity you want from the dropdown (such as “1” for 1 minute bars). Here are some examples I just pulled:
Defending Seven Thousand
The liftoff from the inverted head and shoulders of Bitcoin has clearly exhausted itself, and the entire up-move is now gone. At this point, $7000 is the line in the hand. Cross below it, and you can look for more stumbling and fumbling toward a sub-$6000 breakdown. Hold that line, and there’s a real chance at a more meaningful rally.
Crypto Party Terminus
Yesterday I saw an article which described how transactions carried out in cryptocurrencies had collapsed since the year began. This made sense to me, since not only are cryptos incredibly and unbelievably awkward for transactions that could easily take place via Paypal or a credit card, and crypto fever had peaked around late December.
I look at the Bitcoin chart from time to time (SlopeCharts can chart just about any crypto), but I hadn’t surveilled the second- and third-tier cryptos in months. I thumbed through them, and it was quite a sight……….
