Worldwide, 90days, search trend in Google for bitcoin (red arrows). Orange arrows represent " bitcoin use case ", ie the educated investor? It shows you the mainstream peak euphoria, enthusiasm or fear , usually at market extremes? Highest search volume coincides with trade volume. Other indicator for "hype" would be bitcoin hashtag in twitter/X....
Have you ever noticed that when you speak to other traders about the market, your view tends to be the opposite view a lot of the time? You think the market is going down when they think it is going up, and vice versa. Going against the crowd can be looked down upon by traders, as the majority of them will question your motives or reasoning and tell you that...
Everything can be thought. But not everything can be learnt. Developing a risky instinct in investing is not something you learn. It’s something you are born with. Then you are given the power to share it. Agree? Probably not. It’s understandable. I went into stock trading not because I dig and sturdy deeply into companies’ financial and books at first hand, or...
This is by no means to be anti-breakout/anti-retracement. I find these entry methods as a valid entry method. As valid as it is, the triggers for such entry method are mostly obvious hence easily to be taken advantage of by the institutional traders. For breakout traders, how these banks would trap is the normal fake breakouts. We all know this as it is a...
Only 2 of the DJIA components are currently at new all-time highs: BA and PG. Boeing gapped and ran up on earnings news with a boost from HFTs and buybacks. Currently, the number of shares held by institutions is dropping. Vanguard, Blackrock, Price T Rowe, State Street, Capital World Investors, Northern Trust, all giants of the Buy Side, have lowered held...