XRP and the Legendary Jesse Livermore

Today we are going to discuss the Livermore Cylinder an accumulation patter first identified by Jesse Livermore a Legend in the trading industry as he for the most part is the reason we are all here today doing TA. You will get a little history, a little TA knowledge, a nice chart to help with your DD and some education on the fundamentals of this accumulation pattern.

Jesse Lauriston Livermore (July 26, 1877 – November 28, 1940) was a US based stock trader who was a pioneer in the early days of massive market manipulation, little rules and wild west every operator for themselves days. From my readings of Jesse and Richard Wyckoff (my two favorite historical traders) it was crazy times back then and order needed to be created to help the average trader like you and myself have an edge on the game. Thus these two traders pioneered many techniques that we still use today.

One of those techniques is the Livermore Cylinder accumulation pattern which basses a large wave breakout of "Stock A" on wave 8 after a long accumulation period. As you can see on the chart I have laid out for you, the accumulation matches perfectly aside from the black swan event that came about when the SEC filled suit against Ripple Labs for selling an unregistered stock on December 22 2020. This trading pattern is defined by a cylinder shaped accumulation and further confirmed by the volume relating to the accumulation of the asset. To depict the volume of the accumulation I choose to use the Weis Wave Volume indicator by @LazyBear as it best illustrates the accumulation and distribution visually with the waves better then the traditional volume indicator for this specific pattern.

As you can see in the sketch note on "Example A" on the chart titled "Livermore's Speculative Chart" you will see the diagram drawn by Jesse Livermore depicting the accumulation of each move and the volume behind these moves. In wave 1 you will notice a small volume spike showing that buying pressure is starting to increase as well as at the top of wave 2. Wave 3 shows a sell off as the volume decreases but the accumulation continues into wave 4 which is a high accumulation volume and increase in price action. Wave 5 presents the black swan event of the SEC lawsuit against Ripple Labs causing a sell off which matches the volume indication on wave 5 but, the price action slightly pops out of the Livermore cylinder which is ok as it leveled back out after the cooling off period from the lawsuit. Still though presenting an increase in selling volume as the price then started to increase into wave 6. After wave 6 we experienced the sell of that has us to the current price of today and completing wave 7. Per the rules to this accumulation wave 8 will present a large increase in buying volume as well as a swift increase to price action raising the asset up quickly and most likely creating a large blow off top before heading onto to waves 9,10,11,12,13,14 and 15 which would complete this accumulation patter and bring it back down to most likely be the end of this current bull run.

I will update along the way.

I hope you folks have a very GREEN year ahead in 2022. Tell me something that you learned from your trading endeavors in 2021, lessons, mistakes you learned from or some education that you would like to share with the community in the comments below!

Savvy