My tweet from about 5:30 this morning
Friday July 15, 2016 5:45 AM
Tl:dr I’ve already made significant moves in my ETH position and today will be a key day for my ETH trading strategy. Here are the details
My blog post title from yesterday is a great place to start:
ETH Running out of time BTC coiling
When a time cycle gets too long, as a trader it means to have an incredibly open mind and error to the side of being defensive. Here’s what the patterns say is happening now:
If you look at ETH longer term (days), the patterns show a strong probability of more upside with my $15+ target very much in sight.
But then I looked at the bigger ETH picture:
- This morning as I scan the charts, the shorter-term patterns (hours) show a much higher probability of downside with a target in the 11 range (trading around $12 as I write this).
- I also learned ETH is moving forward with its hard fork with a key date set for July 20. This is likely to create a lot of volatility over the next week or two.
- And, as I tweeted yesterday ETH needs to close today with a high above yesterday’s high or the entire upside pattern is in jeopardy. If we end the day at the short term target of $11, that would be well below yesterday’s high of $11.71.
I don’t want to be 50% long if that happens as the probability for upside to $15 on this move goes down significantly. Make sense?
SO – I immediately sold half my position at around $12 (sold in blocks, some above 12, some below). ETH is currently trading much higher (around $12.20). Should I have waited to see how much more I could make? No way. I can’t guess every move up or down. When a high probability pattern says sell, I sell, win or lose.
In this case, selling at $12 gave me a 15% gain in about a week. ETH could go straight to the moon from here – if it does, I missed out, but I still made money (a 15% return in a week!)
IMPORTANT: I would much rather make 15% gain than hope for 50+% gain and wind up with a 15-50% loss!
If I follow the patterns and base my trading decisions on the highest probabilities— I make money more often than not.
Does all this mean ETH is about to tank? No. As I said, the longer term patterns are still bullish for ETH which is why I’m staying 25% long here and depending on the patterns at the time we hit around $11, I will seriously consider buying a lot more ETH — at least back up to 50%
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