Dragonfly
Will the 50EMA bounce up off the 200 or trigger a death cross?This is a big deciding moment...the price wants to flirt with the support line of 9500 on the depth chart that I spoke of in the last idea. however we see the last 4 hour candle closed as a dragonfly doji, which is indicative of a bull reversal...the RSI is also approaching the oversold zone...9500 is also still the price dip that if it were the deepest dip of the head and shoulder patterns right should would make its trendline parallel with the necklines trendline. best to do a test vuy as close to 9500 as the price is willing to let us get and be ready with an immediate stop loss if it goes under your buy in.
40 Day Consolidation into 'Black Swan'I really only publish charts so I can say "I told you so" to IamNomad later on.
The general idea is that price quickly retraces 50% of the dump while consolidating on RSI = 50. Also, watch for cloud support to hold until the bearish TK cross (Red over Green). A daily candle close inside the cloud with a bearish TK cross would be a reliable signal the fractal has decided to break down.
The other important aspect of this idea: when technical & fundamental factors combines, a large price move occurs due to high momentum . A break of the fractal post-consolidation, in addition to a Bearish news event, would give price plenty of momentum to retrace down the entire consolidation period and then some (see:bitfinex hack on August 2nd).
Are these perfect comparisons at the moment? No
Is this super early on and probably won't pan out? Yes
Are there enough comparisons here to even bother considering this? Yes
Will the RSI load later on when you hit play? No
Can an event be considered a Black Swan if it is predicted ahead of time? No
Do I want this to actually break down again? No
Some dates to consider:
Valentine's Day - Feb 14th
Chinese traders love pumping or dumping around American holidays.
SEC Winklevii ETF Announcement - March 11th
This would obviously break the "buy the rumor, sell the news" paradigm, so it's more probable we dump on the actual announcement than before. But, a dump may occur in an attempt to shake out weak hands so that institutional money can fill their bids. Considering a "No" from the SEC likely has 0 effect on the market (based on past SEC decisions of the ETF), I'd like to weigh a "Yes" from the SEC more heavily. The ETF is important because, like the SPDR ETF did for Gold, it will likely bring BTC trading availability to traders who were not otherwise in the market. There are also other BTC ETFs in the pipeline in various parts of the world. Should the Winklevii ETF fail to get approval, odds are that one ETF somewhere eventually will be approved.
Other:
Segwit
Who knows if/when this will complete. I expect shenanigans in price action if/when it gets close to being adopted. Watch that metric here - bitcoincore.org
People's Bank of China
Unlikely, but not impossible that China does finally decide to 'ban bitcoin'. Should this happen, expect mega dumps.
Trump ends the FED
Unlikely, but not impossible that Trump ends the FED quickly while coming to office sending digital currency through the roof or to the core.
Trump mentions Bitcoin in a Tweet
Unlikely, but not impossible that Trump tweets about bitcoin causing price to skyrocket from new user interest.
An exchange gets hacked
Always a possibility but I'm not sure if there are any exchanges that, if hacked, would actually move the price in a substantial way, other than the Chinese exchanges (OKcoin, Huobi, BTCChina).
SPY - DRAGONFLY DOJI FOLLOWS HAMMERYesterday, we highlighted a hammer candle on the SPY ETF and today we get a rare Dragonfly Doji candlestick pattern. Both patterns are reversal patterns, where bulls push stocks back to the opening levels, after initial weakness. This, paired with bottoming slow stochastics (for example) makes us bullish ahead of NFPs tomorrow.