BETHXBT trade ideas
Bears Owning ETH: Fear Rules ETHThis is a structured Bear market. Nothing is random. The price action completely manipulated by the big money making way for lower prices and scaring away new investors while driving away those who have seen their crypto investment turn negative, leaving them with the empty promises of new ALHs by years end. There is no stomach for a hard short squeeze. I am buying here and there with a long-term strategy in play. The question remains; when will the Bears let it go? Will the Longs step in to take it to new short-term highs? The last big squeeze brought all the Longs out to cheer for the possible trend reversal while the Bears left them a small bit of hope and a very long wick on that daily candle. The bears moved us lower with smaller and smaller squeezes making room for some scalping. Now we sit bobbing in the cold waters with little waves of hope splashing over our heads but keep us from fulling drowning all the while seeing the writing on the wall -- we will head lower, even if there is a small squeeze. We will head lower even if there are small bounces in price and a short-term consolidation period which looks favorable to the bulls.
Cryptos are saturated and are being returned to their maker waiting for a revamp in technology, wider acceptance worldwide and a reason to exist for reasons other than to hide money, make questionable purchases, and speculate in the crypto-market. It's a sad story, but I have been telling it -- few have believed it -- and here we are now to witness it! My original price prediction for ETH was $25 dollars. I believed it when I wrote that then, and I still believe it now. Let's pray I am WRONG, or for the people waiting to get in, let pray, I am right.
Short Squeeze Coming?This looks just like the last set up for a SHORT SQUEEZE. This has my attention and I will be entering a long position. My stop will be 165.00 I do not expect a huge squeeze as this is starting to get old. But it appears to be the same M.O. as before. Short sell and run up; short sell and run up. Each time offering hope to longs while slowly slipping lower. If I can get 20 percent, I will be out!
Good Luck
Ethereum (next target) Previous target of 198 has been reached , i am expecting sideways movement for the next fear hours until the bullish move towards 216-218 (next resistance line)
. See related ideas .
Ethereum ETHUSD - LongETHUSD Longs have broken resistance, and Fisher Transform
is healthy above the zero line, indicating that Longs are likely to continue experiencing growth.
When we're breaking resistance we expect to continue to break resistance.
In a situation like this, where price is sideways, in consolidation, we tend to bet with sentiment instead of
against it which is how we take advantage of retail traders.
Ie: ETH price is more likely to rise than fall.
Also, ETHUSDSHORTS show likely decline looking at the Fisher.
ETH 500$ comfromd!hold up!!Let's replay the btc price movemen,you will find btc fall in prices after ETH down.So if ETH hold above 200$ ,there's nothing to worry about.
The bifinex ETH funding rates hit 0.2% /perday just now,hope a big movement is coming!
So now you think ETH is going to zero. AMIRIGHT?Bitmex funding going to be around -0.20% in 16 hours for ETHUSD pair if you don't let it go up. Close your shorts bears.
Do not be fooled -- BEARS ARE IN CHARGE!It is very clear Bears are charge of price action at this point. Until buyers step up and squeeze ETH, we can look forward to more sideways trading before the next fall south. Bitcoin is the same. I am seeing 6k for Bitcoin as a realistic number in the coming weeks. Do not despair. If you plan to go long take my advice from my previous post and Dollar-Cost Average in small amounts on the way down so you do not miss a short squeeze. Interest in cryptos is fading and the people sitting on ETH holding long at $400+ are capitulating. Fear is running this price action and with Thanksgiving and Xmas coming who has the loose change to risk the crazy volatility we could see in the crypto-market?
The News:
rplg.co
On October 5th, the core developer of Ethereum, Péter Szilágyi announced that the plan to launch the upcoming hard fork, Constantinople on the Ropsten Testnet has been delayed.
Péter Szilágyi explained that the decision comes collectively from the Ethereum community. The core developer stated that the main reason behind the delay was an encountered Ethereum Virtual machine Denial of Service attack vector. Szilágyi stated that the delay will allow clients to implement, test and release an update on the CREATE2 Ethereum Improvement Protocol , to counter the DoS attack vector.
Earlier, on 15th September, another member of the Ethereum community, Eric Conner announced that the Constantinople hard fork will hit the Ropsten Testnet on October 9th. Conner also stated that once the hard fork hits the Testnet, it will be implemented on the main chain soon after the Ethereum Devcon 4 event, held from 30th October to November 2nd.
According to Szilágyi’s recent tweet, the Testnet launch has been pushed by 1 epoch to block #4230000, resulting in a delay of 5 days. The developers, however, have not commented on whether the delay in launching Constantinople on the Ropsten Testnet will push the dates for the main launch of the Ethereum hard fork.
The Constantinople hard fork was first announced in July this year, during a developer and stakeholder meeting that addressed the issues in the blockchain and cryptocurrency space with a focus on further upgrades.
The development team stated that the hard fork was being created to signal a new era of blockchain network usage. The community also claimed that Constantinople will see a cost-effective Mainnet and will be more efficient to use.
Cryptohulk, a Twitterati and cryptocurrency enthusiast said:
“Delay means problems $ETH“
Responding to the Twitterati’s comment, the core developer Szilágyi assured that they were taking time because they did not want to “break the Testnet.”
Afri Schoedon, another Twitterati and blockchain minimalist commented:
“Perfect. 4230000 was my favourite block choice anyways.”
The Constantinople will be the second in the series of upgrades, the first being the Byzantine hard fork that took off in October last year. It went live at block #4,370000 and includes nine Ethereum Improvement Protocols.
Follow the trend to get rektDo you know why the whale doesn't cover his insane short so you to keep piling in your money in overcrowded trade?
Because they buy spot ETH at other exchanges. The whale bough up 20k ETH at 200$ with his whale wall at Bitstamp when everyone panic sold. He is at least 1/3 hedged by spot ETH already.
But keep selling ETH it's obviously going to zero.
ETH/USD SHORTS ALL TIME HIGH on BitfinexETH/USD Shorts (Bitfinex) have officially reached a new all time high
Prior record high: 202854.7531
Current level: 208123.1093
As the market is manipulated by whales, the price of ETH might Rise from here
ETH/USD LongsETH/USD Longs have reached the highest level in over 9 months, now within striking distance of a new all-time high
With longs nearing their ATH's a major move for #ethereum could be on the cards soon
Looking at longs/shorts history on Bitfinex, when longs stack up while shorts and prices are low, bullish ethereum price action tends to follow
Lets wait and see
Was Considering Longing ETH but Then Saw This....ETH really wants to go up, BUT this diamond reversal pattern in ETH longs and the LONG/SHORTS ratio at 2.0 is making me do a double take. I think we have further down to go in this leg before a huge bounce to mid 400s. The market rarely lets the majority win.
ETH SHORTS BUIDLING -- insuring BTC movementETHUSD shorts are building up. Happens all the time on the bottom. This time good in synch with BTC pair bottom. Good setup to start ETH run.
In case BTC pumps shorts are set to leverage a pump. Ideally need more shorts building throughout the weekend. Standing by for Monday. If BTC decides to go down lower (maybe around 10th ETF bearshit ?) it will be an insurance to cover support and show strenght. Expensive but effective insurance policy. f*ck me I'm horny today
ETHUSD: Short squeezeShorty short shorty!
Why do shorts increase parabolically the lower the price goes? Always a wonder to me ... See my related idea 'They always short the bottom'
Anyway, we have a good potential setup here for ETH.
1. Downtrend isn't that severe compared to BTC
2. Did not make a new low compared to April
3. Bull divergence on multiple timescales
4. Very high shorts (higher than april)
Currently neutral ETH but stalking a buy.
ETHUSD SHORT again at ATH, short squeeze likelyTL:DR - Set up for another short squeeze as fear overcomes the market.
This is the ETHUSD SHORT graph with 1 D candles. Anyone feeling deja vu? Because I sure am. When Ethereum went from $574 down to $492 on 5/28/18 we saw an all time high interest in shorting Ether as seen in the first blue oval. If you read my post here you'll see I called for a short squeeze with subsequent bullish price action. We then got just that as priced rallied from $512 to a local high of $620. Unfortunately that is where momentum stopped but I was able to get one good trade out of that price action.
Today we again see all time high interest in shorting Ether with a parabolic rise in the number of open shorts as indicated in the second blue oval. Price looks again to be well set up for a bullish short squeeze. Generally, the ETHUSDSHORT graph seems to spike AFTER price has made its biggest move downward.
Now, price does not HAVE to go up and history does not HAVE to repeat itself but this chart to me looks like another short squeeze is imminent. It is very possible price collapses even further before any sort of short squeeze occurs. But as I said in my post yesterday I am long from $451. I have a stop loss around $430 and my target is about $530.
***This is not investing advice. I am not an investing professional. Do not invest what you cannot afford to lose. All investors should seek guidance from licensed financial advisers and not random people on the internet.***
ETHUSD Shorts - Short Squeeze likely but watch EOS ShenanigansTL:DR - All time high in short positions sets up for a short squeeze and the next bull run, I am looking to buy BUT watch the EOS situation.
This is the ETHUSD short chart with 1 day candles. The last 24 hours has seen an EPIC increase in shorts on Ether. If this were simply an ETH:USD price chart I would start selling my positions at a profit as the current trend is clearly unsustainable. The same usually holds true on shorts. The last 24 hours has seen the largest single day increase in shorts on Ethereum as well as the highest number of shorts ever held against the crypto.
We saw a very similar thing right before the most recent Bitcoin bull run in early April: everyone was set up on the short side of the trade and a subsequent short squeeze occurred pushing prices up for the next 2 weeks. I expect the same to happen with Ether given this current trend.
Now I have heard a lot of noise regarding EOS selling their 1m Ether and pushing its price down. Certainly if there is a coordinated dump orchestrated by EOS who own at least 1% of all Ether then the shorts may actually be correct HOWEVER usually when everyone is on the same side of a trade they are wrong so I am looking to buy because we have hit my $525 support target and the crowd is usually wrong.
***This is not investing advice. I am not an investing professional. Do not invest what you cannot afford to lose. All investors should seek guidance from licensed financial advisers and not random people on the internet.***
[ETH] Open Eth Short Positions Indicate Potential Short Squeeze The purple line is the ETHUSD price overlayed short volume in the last 9-10 months
Looking at ETHUSDSHORTS which shows the amount of Ether used for open short positions on Bitfinex has spiked enormously in the last couple days. This charts data, going back nearly a year, clearly show us that there is a huge amount of Ether that has been "artificially" taken out of the market in just the last few days, not to mention the last couple weeks.
Those Ether need to be brought back into the market whether the short sellers want to or not. Of course we know exactly how powerful the uncoiling of a short squeeze can be if we look at early April on Bitcoin charts.
There does need to be a catalyst that eventually breaks the camels back and triggers the buybacks of all those Ether. Could happen on just a small move upward setting off a chain reaction. Some fundamental news could drive bulls to trigger the squeeze also. Bullish stock market moves after a long weekend in the US could contribute to that tomorrow.
We could also see some more sideways or slow upwards grind in ETH price over the next few days which would most likely look very choppy and untradable in terms of TA as shorts slowly close out and eventually high volume liquidation prices trigger, sending price upwards.
