Short Term, and Possible Pattern Reveal of NAKED Manipulation
I think we can all agree that if you have anything over a 50k in crypto investments you can force the market in a direction, add several zeros and you can form trends by your self. I think these patters, and the trading ratios from today's bear market correction, are strong indicators of manipulation happening on a massive scale. The good news is the manipulation still "follows" typical patterns so you can STILL benefit from it if you are brave. I am not that brave and only throw in $500 at a time and pull out at 1%-3% gain on a big enough spike. I do find it abhorrent and exceedingly frustrating though to learn anything about market trends when there is this kind of unrestrained and poorly veiled manipulation occurring.
I hope this analysis gives people some insight that even though the market is being manipulated it doesn't mean you cant benefit from it as well. To further this theory and insight, it would seem that there are rules of "Two Hops" during rally's, followed by a Triple peak test of a Resistance followed by the trend continuation. As far as determining how far a dump will go I don't think the simple addition or subtraction of the Height will work because the manipulation is in place, however a good rule of thumb is 10% dump, 5% rally.
I hope this analysis gives people some insight that even though the market is being manipulated it doesn't mean you cant benefit from it as well. To further this theory and insight, it would seem that there are rules of "Two Hops" during rally's, followed by a Triple peak test of a Resistance followed by the trend continuation. As far as determining how far a dump will go I don't think the simple addition or subtraction of the Height will work because the manipulation is in place, however a good rule of thumb is 10% dump, 5% rally.
I have written several ideas about how to day trade, despite my newness to crypto, and then I have written pieces about how all of those ideas make very little difference because the market does literally what the whales want. So I went back to the drawing board and looked through the past few days of trading, and sought to see the most basic and fundamental tells that can help the would be trader. What I have discovered in that analysis is that there are 2 tried and true patterns that very rarely if ever fail!
The first pattern is the Double top and Double Bottom. Those two patterns are consistent no matter the volume, no matter the direction of the market, no matter the feelings of greed or manipulation. The second pattern is that any major move down, or up has cascades and until a true reversal on the hourly, or 30 min charts get painted in, the direction remains the same. For big dumps this means there are at least going to be 3 "cascades". Never buy the 1st or the 2nd cascade unless you are really adventurous and don't mind .5% or smaller gains.
What we saw today was that on most alt charts there was a major dump that took 3 cascades to bottom out and then the rest of the day the prices went straight up with minor corrections, similar to the start of the parabolic move at the beginning of the month. There have been very few double bottoms, but there have been double tops on the 5 min charts that created a minor correction before angling back up. All of this with very low volume, which is unusual for this kind of movement.
This tells me that regardless of the long term movement a double top still reacts with a correction, and a double bottom with trend reversal. Major trend changes can also be triggered after 3 cascades in either direction. So next time you see major price movements remember the Rule of 3, and the Rule of Double!