Then: Consistent 0.1%+ on most exchanges
Now: -0.05 to 0.01% mostly.
3. Google Trends for "Bitcoin"
Then: 40-75
Now: ~30
4. Twitter Sentiment
5. Crypto Twitter Drama
5 months time and a lot of previous price action can do a lot to a market.
Up to you to decide whether $BTC's fundamentals have meanwhile improved or not.
The general public seems to have a darker outlook on BTC compared to Jan 2021 when price first visited the $30-40K levels.
If this Then vs Now concept is something people seem to like, I could start a little series for other periods of time or occurances. If I can get the data of course 🙂
For example: Then vs Now "Cycle tops".
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Updated the Wyckoff schematic with how the chart would look if we were to go for a spring.
1/15
Starting off with: Yes, I know these ranges often take longer than just a few weeks and that a 4H accumulation/distribution is quite a low timeframe.
But I do believe that these ranges will take as long as necessary for the people doing the accumulation or distribution.
2/15
If supply would be dried up and the composite man thinks he has sufficient control of the supply within the range, there is no need to exhaust the supply more. It will likely only cost him more than he gets back.
If me, or other traders don't say up or down because we want to wait for more certainty. This is why.
In the current pattern it's a gamble which way price may go first. Even though you might have a prefrered bias, it's best to wait for a breakout and THEN enter.
You wait for the probabilities to be in your favor before entering the trade.
Both longs and shorts are a bad risk/reward ratio from where we are right now seeing it could literally go either way or you can get a sharper entry in at a better price.
As can be seen by the example, if we simply wait for a breakout to either side, we can get a proper long or short in with a R:R of over 2.5.
If we have then calculated the probability correctly, this trade should net us a profit in the long run.
The "Elon fucked us over" narrative is back in full force.
Think to yourself: "Was that tweet really that important to make price dump over 6%?"
It was mostly just a meme. Elon complaining about $BTC's environmental issues and Tesla not accepting BTC was the actual news.
1/x
Those announcements happened over a week ago.
Half of the people blaming Elon today, don't even seem to know what is said. They just heard/read somewhere that the price dumped again because of Elon and didn't even bother to find out what he actually said.
2/x
Besides, the harm in the chart was already done. We closed below the daily resistance and then started falling after that. Elon's tweet was over an hour after that.
Failed to close above the $39.2K daily level I mentioned yesterday and then dumped below the breakout point of the pennant as well.
Back to the mid range which held for now.
After this throwback to the mid range I'm short term neutral now. Fundings are going up which is generally bearish but we are still above the mid range which is good.
If we lose the mid range we'll likely visit the bottom yellow trendline.
If price were to also lose that trendline I think there is a high probability we do go for the $30K lows. We'll have to see how price reacts there.
This is still quite far out though but good to have a plan ahead of time.