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Think this has to keep going up now. BTC (or any stock) will rarely ever touch the same trendline 5 times in a row without breaking it. Even 4 times is a stretch. This should break up, to at least $8400.
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Doubt it. I'm leaning toward breaking below 7k again. But this is bitcoin, and it's anyone's guess.
Breakout rejection. Back to the guessing zone.
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From TA perspective in a normal ie. much bigger volume market, I would say you are right.
But right now we are in droplet trading volume market and these breakouts and breakdowns is nothing more than manipulation for TA to give false directions. It will continue week after week like this until we actually start to see real daily volume that keeps growing. Right now on average the volume is so low it could be orchestrated by a single big ass whale.
Looking at your chart there's still a downward channel push. All this latest escapade did was to push up the averages so instead of breaking above we'll now trade below for longer.
Yeah it seems like a mess right now with no clear direction.
I also feel like I'm not making the most of all these moves as I'm only closing positions after around $300+ moves in profit. Think I'll soon halve the amount I'm trading per position and instead take profit after $150+ moves. Risk should be similar but will potentially make more money from the noise.
Ive stopped making constant adjustments just to try squeeze out when there is a week or two of channeling noise. Long term it just does not actually make you more because suddenly things change and trying to make changes just to catch the noise all of a sudden crush you within a new market change.
Rather keep a consistent strategy long term that ignores the profit potential you could make in these odd cases but recoups it sometimes 10 fold when market changes again.
Writing this from an automated trading position. I suppose it makes sense if you manually trade to actually with human eye make adjustments on the fly but from automated perspective I have stopped messing with things and rather look at it low variance long term.
There is also this upwards channel now and it's been hitting the upper resistance several times. Eventually this will have to give way. If it was very bearish we should not be getting close to or touching that upper resistance at all by now. Seems like there's about 3 days max now before something big has to happen.
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What do you mean automated, do you use a bot or set stop losses?