The Wolf Den #216 - Tips For Aspiring Traders
Bitcoin Thoughts And Analysis
As I said yesterday, I was feeling somewhat confident that the drop was temporary and that price would head back up. That has happened so far. Anything can happen, but things look good for now.
DAILY CHART
Beautiful touch of support at the equilibrium of the trading range. That was the key area we were watching, so a nice large candle today that hold it as support would be bullish. If it loses the EQ, then look to the bottom of the range as the next major support. The safest trade at this point is a break of the range highs (the all time high) and entry into price discovery. It all depends on your time preference and strategy.
4-HOUR CHART
The 4 hour chart has a clear bull flag, with price currently attempting a break into the upper half. As you can see, the retracement stopped just above the 50% level, which is normal after a major move up. Any bull flag should not retrace much more than 50%. The trade here is a break of the upper resistance. You can see the target based on the length of the flagpole - around $68,000.
As you can see, price bounced perfectly from demand while retesting the former descending resistance as support. It also flipped the 200 MA right back to support, which is encouraging. 50 MA is the next clear target here.
Altcoin Charts
We have had some amazing trades in the past couple of weeks, namely BNB, SOL, 1INCH, EGLD, UTK and others. The TRX setup still looks like a beautiful potential retest and LTC is looking good as well. You can revisit all of those in past issues.
FTT/BTC
This ran away before I had a chance to post, unfortunately. I reviewed it on the live stream yesterday. It is back in price discovery for new all time highs after breaking out of the ascending channel. A retest of 80489 as support would be an amazing entry, but so potentially would a retest of the top of that channel as support. Either way, this looks ready to continue flying.
INJ/BTC
Injective is currently breaking through both descending and horizontal resistance. It has struggled with this level, with a few wicks above, so we want to see a clear break and close above 24800. I would be looking for a retest of that area as support for an entry. I would place stop below the ascending black line, which is the main support in my opinion. Target is the top of the descending line.
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Will Coinbase’s Success Pump Bitcoin?
Coinbase’s success is certainly an indicator of the health of the market, but it's my belief that the direct listing next week will not directly impact price. Bitcoin is in a bull market and it is publicly known that exchanges have been performing exceptionally well, so this isn't fresh news now that Coinbase is more transparent with its growth.
Coinbase acknowledged in their own news detail that crypto cycles impact their results. The logical progression of cause and effect starts with Bitcoin, then works its way down. Below is an excerpt from Coinbase.
“These cycles can be highly volatile, and as a result, we measure our performance over price cycles in lieu of quarterly results. We believe that we can create long-term value throughout these price cycles.”
Peter Theil Expresses Bitcoin Concerns
Peter Theil, the German-American billionaire entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and PayPal co-founder likened Bitcoin to a “Chinese financial weapon against the U.S.” Thiel has been both a maximalist and investor in Bitcoin for a long time, which lends credibility to his thoughts. China has been advancing , but for Theil to equate Bitcoin to a Chinese weapon may be rooted in paranoia more than fact. Japan, Switzerland, Singapore, Iran, and many other countries have also taken unique steps towards adopting the technology, but are they using Bitcoin as a weapon? If Bitcoin is damaging to the U.S. dollar, wouldn't it also damage other outdated fiat systems around the world? And is China the real threat to the dollar or is the threat really just the actions of our own politicians? Bitcoin’s geopolitical role is far from concrete, but likening Bitcoin to a weapon seems a little extreme. China's CBDC seems like the more likely threat.
Elrond Gold Continues To Make Breakthroughs
Alts have been performing well across the board over the past few months. I believe the longevity of a project is determined by its ability to mature and grow when times are both favorable and undesirable. Elrond Gold, one of my favorite long-term altcoin holdings, released two big updates the past couple of days that I felt were worthy of sharing here.
First, US shoppers can pay with $EGLD at Amazon, Ebay and Walmart via Shopping.io. Of course, it would be 10x more exciting if you could directly spend your $EGLD at these companies, but the first step in adoption will be through intermediaries. Second, a project I invested in and have already reviewed, Polkamon, will now be powered by the Elrond Network. Elrond’s mainnet will be integrated with the Polkamon platform – which is great for Elrond's natural move into NFTs.
Consistency and progress are something I look for in a coin I want to hold long-term and Elrond continues to prove both those characteristics.
Moonbeam: Multi-Chain DApp Development Platform
Moonbeam is one of the easiest on-ramps for building an application on Polkadot.
As an Ethereum-compatible smart contract platform, Moonbeam makes it easy to use popular Ethereum developer tools to build or redeploy Solidity projects in a Polkadot-based environment.
By providing the easiest development environment AND the richest set of developer integrations on Polkadot, Moonbeam is attracting and onboarding new and existing applications to the Polkadot ecosystem very quickly. Dozens of integrations have already been deployed or are in the works.
Moonbeam has become a favorite platform for multi-chain projects because of its unmatched Ethereum compatibility:
Minimal Changes: if you have an existing contract, it will work right away with no need to rewrite or reconfigure.
Languages: write smart contracts in Solidity or anything that compiles to Solidity bytecode
Use Existing Tools and dApp Front-Ends: connect popular tools like MetaMask, Remix, and Truffle via a complete set of Web3 RPC endpoints. Use well known Javascript libraries such as Web3.Js or Ethers.Js.
Unified Accounts, Addresses, and Signatures: use your existing Ethereum H160 accounts & ECDSA signatures to interact with Moonbeam.
Publish-Subscribe Capabilities: subscribe to contract events and updates about on-chain transactions, balances, and more.
Moonbeam also has a sister network, Moonriver, which lives on Kusama.
Like Kusama itself, Moonriver’s initial purpose is to serve as a “CanaryNet” — which is to say, it will act as a “canary in a coal mine” and sound the alarm for any potential issues before the code is deployed to Polkadot. In practice, that means code will first be deployed to Moonriver (on Kusama), where it will be tested and vetted both for functionality and for other more-difficult-to-foresee abuse and manipulation scenarios.
Moonriver is expected to launch shortly, as soon as parachain functionality is enabled on Kusama. Moonbeam will launch later this year when the same functionality is extended to Polkadot. Learn more about Moonriver and Moonbeam on the official project website: https://moonbeam.network/
Boson Protocol - dCommerce
Boson Protocol has been all the rage lately - their dCommerce proposition is a very important one for crypto at large - we all know how much value is captured by centralized coordination monopolies, such as Amazon, eBay, and Alibaba. Boson has raised $10m+ privately and now have raised north of $7m on their ongoing Gnosis auction.
As the IDO happens, they are already being announced by Kucoin as a listed project, which puts into perspective how fast things should happen from here.
The BOSON token is the core economic unit of the dCommerce ecosystem and will be available at decentralized and centralized exchanges alike very shortly. One thing that I found interesting is that they are modeling their long-term sustainability in the same ways Amazon did. See more here:
Boson Protocol’s vision is to enable a decentralized commerce ecosystem by funding and enabling the development of a swarm of specialized applications to disrupt, demonopolize and democratize commerce.
Boson Protocol is a foundational Web3 primitive for commerce that unlocks two planetary-scale value pools: a public infrastructure for coordinating commerce transactions and a Web3 Commerce Data Marketplace.
To date, Boson Protocol has announced over 20 key partnerships passed a successful token contract audit by Certik and released a detailed whitepaper. The $BOSON public sale is taking place with 6 million tokens being made available for public purchase.
The Wolf Of All Streets Podcast Ft. Mark Yusko
A fan favorite from his first appearance on the podcast, Mark Yusko returned for round 2 to discuss Bitcoin’s epic price appreciation. From schmuck insurance to boomer rocks to flying money, this episode will raise your Bitcoin conviction at least two notches higher no matter where you’re at. Yusko’s epic career in finance continues to race ahead of the curve, making this an episode not to be missed, plus he is the only guest to actually howl on the show. Follow Mark Yusko on Twitter, @MarkYusko.
In this episode, we discuss a range of topics including:
Halvings + human emotions = cycles
Energy converted to value
Financial natural selection
Satoshis instead of Bitcoin
Zero is off the table
Being wrong vs staying wrong
Boomer rocks
Flying money
Concentration vs diversification
Group stink
Opting out of systemic devaluation
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Mina Mainnet Is Live
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