How To Find A Gem In The Dirt: Part 1
In the recent whirlwind of crypto-mania, it became difficult to find new untouched opportunities. While each day a new cryptocurrency is created without a real intrinsic value or purpose, the demand for finding the next gem in the dirt climbs higher and higher. All of us want to be ahead of the game and find […]
Introduction To Moving Averages
When you look at a chart posted on Twitter, you might wonder what those additional lines apart from the price action even mean. They’re called indicators, and in this article, I’ll tell you about the most widely used indicators out there: moving averages or MAs. There’s two kinds of moving averages: simple (SMA) and exponential (EMA). […]
Technical Analysis Secrets #5: Stop Loss
In this uncertain crypto market you can save yourself a huge amount of stress and money if you know how to properly set stop-losses. While this sounds like a no-brainer, many people just ignore it or sometimes set them up incorrectly, actually making them sell at suboptimal timings. Here we’ll take a look at what […]
Bloodgood's Notes #1
Bloodgang, Welcome to the first issue of Bloodgood’s notes. The idea of this newsletter is to give you an overview of the previous week’s fundamentals and what happened on charts as well as to remind you of this week’s articles, secret TA tips, and trading calls. Basically, it’s about giving you all the key info […]
Market-neutral basis trading: How to trade like the quant firms
Taking risks is a huge part of trading, and a lot of my other posts are about that: how to gauge entries, stops and TP levels based on different indicators in order to achieve a good risk/reward ratio. But all this is something called discretionary trading: finding a technical setup on your own and then […]
How To Handle a Losing Trade
In this choppy, uncertain crypto market of the past month or two you can quickly enter a trade thinking everything will go according to your plan only to get swiftly closed out when the tide turns against you, despite all odds. When a trade goes bad, you must be able to stay calm and restrain […]
Technical Analysis Secrets #4: Basic Chart Patterns
Any crypto trader that relies on technical analysis will look for different signs and indicators that will forecast upcoming price movements, reversals, and continuations. With their help, he can spot potential trade opportunities and hopefully create a profit. For someone that’s just starting to learn TA, understanding all these signals can quickly become extraordinarily confusing […]
Technical Analysis Secrets #3: Moving Average Convergence Divergence
Simply put, the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) is a trend-following momentum indicator. To calculate the MACD, the 26-period exponential moving average (EMA) is subtracted from the 12-period EMA, and if you want to read more about these MAs, check out my previous couple of blog posts. As a result you get the MACD line […]
Technical Analysis Secrets #2: How to trade Moving Averages
Last week we looked at what different types of moving averages (MAs) are and how they differ from one another, so if you haven’t read that, be sure to check it out so you’re ready for the practical tips on how to trade MAs that we’ll be talking about today. Everything below will be relevant […]
Technical Analysis Secrets #1: How To Trade Breakouts
One of the most popular strategies in trading is to look for breakouts. But trading them isn’t as easy as it might seem, so here are some tips that you need to keep in mind if you want to do it right. I remember losing a lot of money early on by getting in either […]
