All monthly "short term" price & time targets met. Monthly medium term targets point higher, I do however foresee a minor reset of sentiment first.
Subject to confirmation, $COIN is on day 7 on a new Daily Cycle (week 1 of a new weekly cycle). Step 1 being a close back above the daily 10MA having retraced heavily on (Calendar) day 5.
I'm still not discounting the possibility that this is day 75 of an extended daily cycle given $BTC has so far printed a low on day 65 (August 26th) at $108,670.00.
It's Important to note that $BTC is about to close month 33 within its 4 year cycle. The main warning bell the cycle has topped would be a monthly close below monthly 10MA at $ 99,250.00 (as of today). Currently not my base case.
Having undercut the August 6th low at $293.31, will todays low on day 68 at $291.46 hold as a Daily Cycle low or will price require a little more time to gain a stronger footing?
On week 19, the timing appears to track for a weekly low to be printed sooner rather than later.
NFA, DYOR.
Having undercut the August 6th low at $293.31, will todays low on day 68 at $291.46 hold as a Daily Cycle low or will price require a little more time to gain a stronger footing?
On week 19, the timing appears to track for a weekly low to be printed sooner rather than later.
NFA, DYOR.
$COIN, what a difference a week makes....
Clearly declining into its 2nd Daily Cycle Low.
Just came within a few points of the 50% retracement of the 14 week advance ($293.61) and 70% of the 2nd Daily Cycle.
Still early for a DCL but a number of bounces and undercuts would help to prevent price falling off a cliff while using up the remaining time.
Typical Day as a Hedge Fund PM
6:00 - Wake up, check what Trump tariffed overnight. Cambodia up +200%, Paraguay -3% (they said thanks).
6:05 - Brew some coffee.
6:10 - Trump tweets that the laws are rigged, since he cannot tariff Arizona. Mentally scroll the portfolio for exposure…
6:15 - Check what happened in Asia and Europe.
6:22 - Trump announces that hot dogs will join the food pyramid. Bans hot dog exports. Fortunately our book dodged that one.
6:30 - Drink some coffee, talk to wife, pray Trump will spend the morning golfing so I can do some actual work….
6:31 - Trump announces that oil at $65 is too high. Threatens anyone who isn’t producing more oil.
6:32 - Top 5 position announces earnings, want to join the earnings call at 7am, but Trump just scheduled a press conference then, and he’s looking unpredictable.
7:02 - Trump announces that Japan can now export golf balls tariff-free, in honor of Abe letting him cheat at golf. Join the earnings call instead.
7:06 - Futures plunge 65 handles in a single tick, frantically leave the earnings call and go back to whatever Trump is still yapping about in his press conference.
7:10 - Scroll through premarket quotes. $NVDA and $PLTR are both up 5% b/c it’s a day ending in ‘Y’ but SPZ are now down 80 handles.
7:15 - Trump changed his mind and SPZ are now up 25 handles as everyone rushes to cover their short. (I re-join the earnings call)
7:30 - Some broker I’ve never heard of just downgraded a top 5 position and it’s down 15% on 300 shares traded. I’m pretty confident it will close around there too. (I crack open a beer as I skim his downgrade report, realizing that nothing productive will happen today…😩😩)
8:00 - An LP calls to remind me of some
ShitCoin he recommended that’s now up 1800% since he recommended it.
8:09 - 10-yr bonds gap down 17 bps, but all I can find is a tweet from Bessent about how great Main Street is doing.
8:15 - Some sell side asshole cold-calls me to see if I want a copy of his upgrade report on the AI sector. Tells me that “it’s going to be big and you don’t want to miss it.”
8:20 - Check my email, do 10 minutes of actual work.
8:30 - Trump threatens Brazil, I realize our BZ exposure is gonna get thumped on the open. (Crack open a 2nd beer)
8:33 - Reminisce about how productive I was, since Biden wouldn’t even wake up until noon.
8:40 - Chat with my CFO for 19 mins about some new compliance form we need to file.
8:59 - Trump Tweets about how stupid Powell is. Futures are back down 30 handles.
9:04 - Join a call 4 mins late with an endowment that wants an update, but 100% will never invest. “BTW - we need you to update the DDQ as we’ve changed our format” 😡😡
9:29 - Casino is opening. Let’s see what happens.
9:32 - I’m bored. Go back to reading emails. Turns out the govt created another new form we ALSO need to fill out…
10:00 - We’re actually up 50bps.
10:03 - Now down 175bps. Trump just threatened to bomb Europe.
10:06 - Tweets he was just joking about Europe. But those guys need to get their shit together bc he might still bomb them.
10:08 - Ready for bourbon. Beer won’t cut it…
10:30 - EIA oil inventory shows yet another massive draw. Oil drops 5% anyway.
10:40 - Don Jr’s latest SPAC rallies 300% on rumors it may launch a new ShitCoin
10:45 - Friend calls to cry about how cheap all his names are. We both agree we were idiots to invest in businesses with earnings.
11:22 - Trump reminds everyone about how much Putin likes him.
11:40 - Realize I’m now too tweaked to sit in the office. Turn off the machines and go get lunch with a friend who’s also gonna bitch about how stupid markets have become.
12:05 - Hostess at restaurant pitches me some ShitCoin. Claims she’s up a few million on it
12:07 - Friend starts bitching about how stupid it is to be an investor under Trump, and how we all made money under Biden. I agree with him, but we both agree it would be even stupider under Kamala…😩😩
$COIN, what a difference a week makes....
Clearly declining into its 2nd Daily Cycle Low.
Just came within a few points of the 50% retracement of the 14 week advance ($293.61) and 70% of the 2nd Daily Cycle.
Still early for a DCL but a number of bounces and undercuts would help to prevent price falling off a cliff while using up the remaining time.
$COIN updated. Has so far printed an early Daily Cycle High (DCH) approx 50% between the lower/upper Orange targets. Watching carefully how the retest of the DCH plays out. Not ruling out an equally early Daily Cycle Low has been printed, need more P/A to confirm.
$NQ As yesterdays minor pullback projections were invalidated, that leaves a daily time frame level projection in play. The bottom green target being the usual target followed by the lower orange level depending how much a hurry price is to get there.
$22,868.00 has just been achieved on $NQ, as has $6,265 on $ES (not pictured).
$UnderTheHood, that's how lows form. Work is required to better understand the price structure as I thought yesterdays low was a minor cycle low TBH. Hopefully this is not a very early failure.
$COIN updated. Has so far printed an early Daily Cycle High (DCH) approx 50% between the lower/upper Orange targets. Watching carefully how the retest of the DCH plays out. Not ruling out an equally early Daily Cycle Low has been printed, need more P/A to confirm.
Assuming April 7th was an Intermediate (weekly) Cycle Low (& Yearly Cycle Low) for $COIN, then it stands to reason June 13th was the first Daily Cycle Low in a new Intermediate Cycle . Therefore $235.29 becomes the SL.
As the $BTC price range from September 6-12th has been fully rebalanced, price has no business revisiting sub $57,477. Protecting entries with at least a modest green SL might be prudent.
Small but important differences between #US100 & $NQ (100) with regards to the Sunday opening price & range during those all important first few minutes of trading (again).
Short term bearish p/a played out but not quite as expected. Worth noting #US100 printed a higher high on Friday 20th Vs. Wednesday 18th, whereas #US500 did not. The #US500 path being my basecase.
Those pesky market moving headlines are proving difficult to navigate on lower time frames.
Very deep retracement on #US100 during #FOMC. The odds of taking out $21,628 by Thursdays closing bell (if not much sooner) have gone way up imo.
NFA, DYOR.