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krugman25
May 19, 2018 9:40 PM

BTCUSD - Strong Bearish signals, price drop likely Short

Bitcoin / DollarBitfinex

Description

In this video I discuss the 4 bearish signals in Bitcoin right now and why I think it is highly likely price will continue to tumble from here

Bitcoin is in the process of forming a text book bearish pin bar. BTCUSD has been in a strong downtrend over the past week or two and has staged a minor pullback. This was a moment of truth for the bulls to see if the downtrend would be reverse and that reversal has failed. A bearish pin bar is essentially showing a failed breakout where now participants with long positions will be squeezed out (long squeeze) as price continues to fall. Due to this fact it is common to see a sharp price movement lower after a bearish pin bar has formed. There are multiple layers of confluence in this trade 1)bearish pin bar, 2)false break and rejection from key support, 3) rejection of 9 ema, 4)continuation of the bearish trend.

One option to trade this setup is to enter short on a break of the bottom of the pin bar and then close the position after hitting the first or second major support.

Comment

The daily candle has now closed and we officially have a pin bar! If this is a trade you are wanting to take I would highly suggest waiting until price breaks below the low of the pin bar before going short.
Comments
PringleDealer
Hello I open a short at 8215 wish me luck thanks I need it !
krugman25
@PringleDealer, I hope you got short on a signal other than the pin bar since the daily candle hasn't yet closed! haha. In any case the bearish price action has continued to hold so I think odds are in your favor at this point. Good luck!
JayVirtualWorld
krugman25
@Zigh72, I am glad you posted this screenshot because it points out something a lot of newbies miss. Both of those other pin bars you circled would not have been trade-able, and are arguably not even pin bars to begin with. But for educations sake I will go with it. The first bar has a huge bottom wick and could hardly be considered a pin bar and the second is way too small and has a large bottom wick as well. Look at the huge green candle that precedes both of them, would you play chicken against a semi if you were riding a tricycle? If you want to see what happens when you trade a quality pin bar check out my "M" analysis from last week, also check out the bullish pin bars on the QQQ, SPY, TSLA, JPM. All were successful pins I have traded over the last 2-3 weeks.
krugman25
@Zigh72, Oh and a second point I forgot to mention, if those were trade-able,quality pin bars (which they weren't) you would never enter a position until the pattern was confirmed. That means in the case of a bearish pin bar you only end on a break of the bottom wick, which in both of those cases price never broke the wick thus you would have never entered a position to begin with, assuming someone was uninformed enough to consider trading those.
JayVirtualWorld
@krugman25, Oh one more thing, "thank you very much"
krugman25
@Zigh72, you must have gone long on the Macys pin pin bar I posted and made 14% overnight? No problem, your welcome :)
JayVirtualWorld
@krugman25, i am long since 8050, when first divergence showed up ;)
JayVirtualWorld
@Zigh72, and i have already closed that long call since last divergence showed on 4hr
JayVirtualWorld
@Zigh72,
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