"Let's take a look at what is happening on the market today. Did I get it right? Well - I don't know yet ;). What I do know is that there were some indicators that were overlooked, so I want to discuss those today.
Please note that I am a beginner and I am learning. DEFINITELY NOT INVESTMENT ADVICE. If you spot any technical mistakes, I would be happy to hear about those. Please note, long post ahead.
First: what did I expect?
As you can see from my previous charts I expected a bounce back around 6800-ish and a move to 9014.9. I really don't see a reason to expect anything lower than 6000 at all unlike some other traders, and I will explain why. Let me emphasize: all the respect to the other traders on here, I learned so much from watching your trades so this is not meant as a disrespect at all. On top of that, I could be terribly wrong and the market might crash anyway - what do I know - I just popped up in the TA game lol. It would be typically me if the market starts crashing after this post, lol.
#1 Reason for a Crash: The Death Cross.
I did not believe in this specific death cross. First of all, the death cross is occurring on a 1-day chart. And whilst this can definitely bring quite some consequences, history has pointed out that this is usually for a short period in Bitcoin. Furthermore, I believed that the data that created the death cross was skewed. There was a HUGE pump in December due to a hype, and then there was a quick crash. This was not regular trading that created a death cross pattern, and this should be taken into account. Purely seen from a statistics point of view, the data recorded should be in quite neutral circumstances. Of course something can happen that bumps up a price or down, but seriously - December was crazy!
Another proof for the skewed data is that the 200 EMA is moving along downward now, it actually avoided a cross for a couple of days now on the 1-day chart.
A death cross confirms a long-term downtrend in hindsight. The shorter the timeframe of the chart, the less severe the effect. If you spot such a dead cross on a weekly chart for example, you should expect some drama if there was nothing substantial that caused a deviation in data. However, in this case it was on a 1-day chart so again, it was probably not as strong as a death cross is usually perceived to be. If you look at my 2-day charts you will see it is basically non-existent. However, spotting a death cross in hindsight does not mean it cannot drop lower, it definitely can. It seemed to be however that the 200 EMA on the 2-day chart was strong enough of a support against the drop.
#2 Reason for a Crash: Huge Head & Shoulders Structures.
Magic if you read this, I love you :'). It is truly a pleasure to read and see your analyses, but I respectfully disagree on this one based on the criteria for spotting a head & shoulders as proposed by Thomas Bulkowski. The head & shoulders is not symmetrical. As he states "The two shoulders should peak near the same price, be nearly the same distance from the head, and look similar (both wide or both narrow peaks)." It should also be "proportional, and not lopsided." Other than that I have no other reasons. Don't hate me chart master :p. I usually trust your analyses BLINDLY. I just did not get this one.
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