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CHEAT SHEET
What We Are Watching
We further breakdown our case for these cryptos here : What We Are Watching
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The Decentralized Reserve Currency
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Bitcoin Outlook
BTC is almost literally a pinball bouncing back and forth between what humans love most : Big Round Numbers. Throw your TA out the door and draw lines at $30k,$40k,$50k, etc… and the BTC story becomes clear. No one knows how to value this thing. On chain analysts are always a week behind, and even PlanB’s floor model has now missed the boat. Willy Woo (whose newsletter is 6x as more expensive as Foot Guns) posted some cryptic indicator with no explanation that appears to have crashed the markets a few days later.
The point is. No one knows where this is going. We are just here to help cut through the hype and noise.
Look at the chart above. BTC is simply bouncing around between Big Round Numbers.
And where do we go from here? Well the price wicked trying to touch $40k (on some exchanges it touched $30k) and now it’s back above $50k. So… that’s right! It’s probably going to go touch $60k again. Wherever the price goes you can bet it will be towards some Big Round Number.
Possible Course of Action
If not long this could be a good entry
No obvious short play here, but check out yesterdays newsletter about how to short sell in DeFi
The Bulls’ Defense:
$40k and $50k tested, $60k is up from here!
The Bears’ Prosecution:
Multi-week downtrend could continue
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ETH OUTLOOK
ETH’s price action has become a hot mess. We pointed out that once the price broke down from its “up and to the right” run from October to early November, that ETH would most likely fall into a multi-week or multi-month consolidation phase. Well, that consolidation is happening now but not without extreme volatility. With this price action you should be caution trading with leverage.
Boomer’s take was the just get out of ETH at $4000 and if you had followed that move you’d be sitting calmly watching everyone else sweat trying to capture a +10-20% move with equal downside.
Just as with BTC, ETH will probably go find it’s next home near a Big Round Number, either $4k again or $5k. There’s no obvious bias in the TA (always be checking the cheat sheet).
Possible Course of Action
Long here expecting a retest of ATH
Could try opening a short near ATH for a potential correction
A short on a break down from $4000 could work
The Bulls’ Defense:
EIP-1559 has burned $4,975,514,133 (1,137,721 ETH) so far. Supply constraints should continue to have a positive impact on price.
The Bears’ Prosecution:
Failure to break ATH could result in multi-week (or month) consolidation
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