Let's start with the end: things are *not* looking good momentum-wise.
The early indicators did work, I think. Volumes are generally down. As volumes go down, the market turns more red. Did you pull out of your more risky bets?
Yesterday there was uncertainty as to whether to keep including Pudgies in the ranking given their "artificial" volume. The Pudgy saga continues, but even including them, the original "top ten" volume is down. Here's with and without Pudgies:
It looks better if you include Pudgies of course, because they still have some volume going through, which makes sense since they just (insanely imho) got bought for 750 eth:
Let's stick with the top 9 for now. Pudgies is on probation and probably will be dropped in favour of another project. Zooming into the report, what do we see? To me that looks like a volume that's not rebounding. So the momentum alarm bell is definitely ringing.
What if we swap in another project instead of Pudgies? A good up-and-coming project worth maybe considering is Doodles. They seem well on their way to becoming a bluechip. And they were pumping at the same time as the Pudgies.
Ironically, if we include Doodles, then we see a third recent spike appear on the graph... and then an even more disastrous collapse. Here's with and without Doodles...
This makes sense if we remember that Doodles is still more in the "second tier" category, so they will pump later than the market leaders like MAYC. If we use projects like this as part of the market health, we get delayed signals. So I'll keep them out for now.
It's always good to have more than one data source, and I like to check @Zeneca_33's daily floor stats update. He hasn't posted one for yesterday, but the spreadsheet is up to date and... it does show a lot more red than before. docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
If we look at the broader picture, we are still above the deep bear market levels we were at back in Q4 2021, so things are not _that_ bad, but I would definitely not call the last few days a bull run at all, and the momentum graphs gave us a good early signal of this.
The final graph to look at is the 6-hour volume stacked bars for the top 9. This gives us a very sensitive, immediate picture of where things are at at right now (well, an hour ago). This is the graph of the raw data that creates the moving averages you see in the other graphs:
This tells us that yeah, there was a little bounce for 12 hours or so but we're still trending downwards.
As a reminder, the question these graphs are meant to answer is: Is the bull market still on or should I be cautious?
TL;DR: be cautious.
As a reminder, here's the thread describing how these graphs are calculated.
I will be posting daily updates to these on my twitter, and more frequent updates on some select few Discords like @Llamaverse_ . So follow me to get these daily, and find me on Discord if you want these in your group.
gm & gl
PS: I am also starting work on another index graph that would look at how the average prices are swinging across all those projects. I suspect that will be a lagging rather than leading indicator, but it's still useful to have.
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What is the fundamental behaviour and psychology behind those price shifts?
Let's break down the dynamics of NFT pricing a bit and figure out why.
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Credit where it's due, I got the idea to look at volume from some of @NFTLlama's earliest videos and posts. He suggested that a project that went through the mint hype drop, had a period of decrease, and then managed to create a spike of interest, was well placed to have another.
Volume, in that context, was a proxy for "the team is still working hard and is able to drive attention to the project", which was a proxy for "the project has good chances of succeeding at drawing even more attention to it and therefore going up."
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Now I don't want to sound like some kind of perma-bear. And I'm not. I was (on @Llamaverse_) cheering the incoming bull market as the graphs started to trend up back in mid December. I'm not trying to throw cold water on everyone.
For the last few days, you can't throw a rock without hitting a youtuber talking about the amazing bull market we're in.
But are we really in a bull market? And can we tell when it ends so we're not the last ones standing when the music stops?
Enter the Market Health Index.
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At the end of the last proper bull run (in September), I found myself overexposed to projects that had.. let's say, poor prospects. I degen'ed into them because lol wtf right?
And that works out often enough in a bull market but it's terrible when the bull run ends.
Since then, I've wished for some kind of signal that can better inform me about the state of the market. In particular, the critical signal I want to have is:
I want to know when the music is about to stop, so I am not the one left standing without a chair.
Let's take the first case where it's a trading opportunity. What does that mean? Projects that you should treat as trading opportunities are those which probably won't be around in a year's time (or even 3 months' time). Why are those still worth trading at all?
Being doxxed *should* be more important in the NFT space. It would reduce the amount of scams.
Also, being doxxed should be better understood. Many people claim to be doxxed, but actually aren't.
Let's have a look at when and why it matters and how to do it right.
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A disclaimer first: I understand there are ppl who have very good reasons for not wanting to use their public name.
That's fine. I'm not arguing everyone should be forced to doxx. It's a personal decision, I get it.
I will, however, argue that if you want to raise millions of dollars from random ppl on the internet, there is a basic standard of commitment you should offer in return.
And we should demand that commitment from founders b4 giving them our money.