valuable sources for TA, FA, Algorithmic \ Quant Trading
learn-crypto-trading.github.io
Check out our Discord Chat Server, SourceCrypto, for more up to the minute collaborative curation.
The following are links to archives of the channels, which is a browser based alternative to accessing the discord server, directly. However, I've been making other discord servers to cover a wider range of topics, and this site will have it's own server soon, too.
Contents
- Other Files
- Introduction
- Starter Pack
- Risk Management
- General
- Indicators
- Divergence
- Arbitrage
- Wyckoff
- Manipulation
- Economics
- Leverage
- Tools-N-Apps
- Protocols
- Historical
- Speculation-Market Theses
- Books
- Videos
- Podcasts
- Resources
- Twitter Follows
- Closing
Other Files
** These are now all in the /_posts directory- chart-patterns.md - resources related to various chart patterns.
- candlesticks.md - a start
- evaluation.md -Cryptocurrency Evaluation and Why ICO's Fail
- economics.md - crypto-economics
- quant.md - Quant-Crypto Trading and Data Science
- [pinescript.md]_posts/2019-02-08-pinescript.md) - Learn TradingView\Pinescript.
- /CryptoQF - An organized directory of Crypto Quantamental's content
Introduction
What follows is a collection of links as I arranged them some time ago. I won't have time to work much on this site, but I will try to pack some real value in what time I do have available to update this resource. There is a long road before it's as complete and functional, as I'd like. In the next month or so I'll put some solid work into it.
I'm beginning serious study of Technical Analysis with books that have come recommended by experienced traders:
- John J.Murphy - Technical Analysis Of The Financial Markets.pdf
- Bulkowski - Encyclopedia of Chart Patterns
- > Learn then Implement
- Shadow traders on twitter.
- stare at the minute chart for two weeks
Starter Pack
Search for almost anything and add any or all of the following sites to successive search queries — depending on what your looking for.
- Investopedia - Investopedia has chart school where you can learn basic patterns, and its encyclopedia includes knowledge on most subjects in trading, including cryptocurrency.
- BabyPips - has a chart school and a lot of pattern related information.
Bulkowski has run stats on more chart patterns than anyone. I would recommend getting your hands on copies of hist Encyclopdia of Chart Patterns and\or his Encyclopedia of Candlestick Patterns if you can.
- Candle Scanner - has similar data, some overlapping with Bulkowsky, but more focused on candlestick patterns.
- TradingView - tons of user created ideas, scripts, education and more.
- Node Binance Trader - a cryptocurrency trading bot development framework for the Binance exchange using Node.JS.
Risk Management
(Source)
General
> Have a trading plan for the day/session. Here's a basic outline you can use: > * (Thesis) What's price reaching for? > * (Setup) What does price have to do for me to enter a trade? > * (Entry) Where might a Setup arise? > * (Risk) Where would the Setup fail? > * (Reward) What's the Setup target? >I have found that BASIC TA (Triangles, patterns, fib levels) is almost always more powerful than the more advanced stuff like Harmonics (Gartley / Butterfly patterns)- ToneVays: This is a quick reference on Technical Trading and what you need to know
- The Biggest Regret of New Crypto Traders
> "@CarpeNoctom shares ideas on CME Futures $BTC contract dates"
- Conditional Sell orders in Bittrex

Indicators
> "There is no magic indicator, person, paid group or system that can transform you into a consistently profitable trader. Every indicator that has been made was made by someone for THEMSELVES, they used it to fix or enhance a certain aspect of their trading system/style." > "Why MACD is Terrible.\n\nI know people LOVE indicators. But, just about all indicators are terrible (if you use them like the masses). Let's have some fun by looking at where these indicators struggle and then let's see if we can figure out some ways to make these indicators work a bit better" > "The Ichimoku Cloud is among the most versatile technical indicators. It identifies support and resistance levels, gauges momentum, identifies the direction of trends and provides trading signals.\n\nWith one single glance, traders can identify the trends in securities and examine further signals within that trend. While this indicator might seem complicated, it is actually a very simple indicator that is highly useful for all traders." > "Here's a harsh truth:\n\nOver ~90% of Twitter traders would be better off trading a super basic EMA crossover strategy than whatever made-up wholly discretionary 'plan' they're following right now.\n\nIf you're going to trade manually, make sure it's worth your time and money." > "Bollinger Bands are a technical analysis tool, specifically they are a type of trading band or envelope. Trading bands and envelopes serve the same purpose, they provide relative definitions of high and low that can be used to create rigorous trading approaches, in pattern recognition, and for much more. Bands are usually thought of as employing a measure of central tendency as a base such as a moving average, whereas envelopes encompass the price structure without a clearly defined central focus, perhaps by reference to highs and lows, or via cyclic analysis. We'll use the term trading bands to refer to any set of curves that market technicians use to define high or low on a relative basis."
> "As Bitcoinist previously reported, cryptocurrency traders had become aware of CNBC’s miscalculation of Bitcoin’s short-term behavior, with one even earning an invitation to speak on the network after publishing the ‘reverse indicator’ theory."
> "The two basic and commonly used moving averages are the simple moving average (SMA), which is the simple average of a security over a defined number of time periods, and the exponential moving average (EMA), which gives greater weight to more recent prices. The most common applications of moving averages are to identify the trend direction and to determine support and resistance levels. While moving averages are useful enough on their own, they also form the basis for other technical indicators such as the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)."
Divergence
- https://www.babypips.com/learn/forex/9-rules-for-trading-divergences
- The Relative Strength is not an Overbought/Oversold Indicator
Arbitrage
> "Arbitrage is the simultaneous buying and selling of an asset class on different markets in order to profit from a price discrepancy between them. For example, a trader might notice that a specific token is selling for less on Exchange A than on Exchange B. An arbitrage trader would buy said token on Exchange A and sell it for a higher price on Exchange B, making a risk free profit in the process."Wyckoff
> "image of Wyckoff Events and Phases"
> "image of Wyckoff Events and Phases"
- https://wyckoffsmi.com/wyckoff-smi-glossary/
Manipulation
>"To ensure the cryptocurrency movement moves along the right path, we who participate in it must teach ourselves to be skeptical not only of sensationalized statements, but also of skeptical statements themselves. We must be aware of how easily we are manipulated when our fear systems are triggered, and adjust our investing behavior accordingly. Those who have the time should actively try to bring clarity to the discussion when they have reliable information or insight." > "Members of the core layer agree on a coin and inform the outer rim about it. Even inside the core layer there are often several levels – for example, those who paid entry (averaging 1 – 10 BTC) generally get their information 5-6 seconds before others. That's plenty of time to buy the coin at a lower price. Others join in afterwards and only 10-30 seconds later do the outer rims find out which coin was picked and go into hardcore shopping." > "Stop-loss hunting is the act of intentionally pushing the price down through a major support level to trigger stop-loss orders, creating a flash-crash which can then be used to buy coins on the cheap.\n\nIt is incredibly easy to do with anything that has low volume at any point during the day, which is a vast majority of cryptos outside the top 15." > "Majority believe that markets move randomly and reflect the collective wisdom of investors, the truth is quite the opposite.The invisible hand is a myth. Market prices have always been manipulated by the government's visible hands through influencing laws and regulation. Insiders control markets and manipulate them up or down for profit. Manipulation is everywhere, undeniable and unavoidable. It happens on a very large scale throughout every single financial market out there, stock, bonds, commodities, currencies and so forth. There are other types of manipulation, such as social and news manipulation, hence I called it: The Game of Deception."Economics
[T > "So you must have came across this dilemma of whether to trade ALTs or not when you are shaky about BTC Price Action." > "Altcoin trading tip:\n\nUse ETH as your leading indicator for \"when alt season?\", and wait for it to bottom out before buying alts. \n\nUntil then - the rest is just noise " > "The next phase in $Crypto appears to be the accumulation phase, accumulation phases often last a lot longer than most people expect, so there will be plenty of time to accumulate, no need to rush or fomo during an accumulation phase. This is the time to research and plan ahead." > "When someone asks you how much of a company you own, the answer could be two very different numbers. You might own 10,000 shares and there might be 1mm shares issued and outstanding. That would suggest you own 1% of the company. And that would be correct, as of right now.\n\nWhat is often not calculated in these sorts of numbers is future dilution, particularly dilution that is visible if you look closely. The most common form of future dilution that is visible are outstanding options and warrants to issue stock that have not been exercised."Leverage
> "Nearly every day, whether on Twitter, Telegram, or Discord, I see traders struggling to understand how to calculate their position sizes and generally make sense of leveraged trading.\n\nIn this article, I’ll break the concepts down to first principles and give you a very simple way to calculate position size, as well as understand how and when to employ leverage." > "For those unfamiliar with options, there are two types of options: Call options and put options. > > * Calls give the option holder the right, but not the obligation, to buy the underlying security at the strike price. > * Put options give the option buyer the right, but not the obligation, to sell the underlying security at the strike price on or before the expiration date. > * You would buy a call option if you are bullish on the underlying, and buy a put option if you were bearish. The cost or price of an option is called the ‘option premium’." > "John & Rob are trading on BitMEX\n\nJohn buys 100 XBTUSD contracts at 2X leverage at $6,000.\n\nRob buys 100 XBTUSD contracts at 50X leverage at $6,000.\n\nPrice moves up 1% from their entries — they both close their positions.\n\nAssume all else is equal.\n\nWho made more money/XBT?" > "The answer: ‘Same’.\n\nThey have the same position size and they’re both up 1%.\n\nRob using higher leverage does NOT mean that he’s trading with more than 100 contracts!\n\nHigher leverage simply means Rob puts up less collateral (margin) to open the same 100 contract position."Tools-n-Apps
- https://blocksdecoded.com/cryptocurrency-trading-simulators/
- aggr.trade
- https://tucsky.github.io/SignificantTrades/#
- coinfarm.online
- https://www.coinsignals.trade/
- Whalewatch.io
- https://autoview.with.pink/
- https://www.multicoincharts.com/
- https://cryptoxscanner.com/
- https://athcoinindex.com/
- https://www.turtlebc.com/tools/buy_percentage?period=3years
- isky Notifications
- https://deltabalances.github.io/ -> lets you export all trades from ED, Kyber, 0x and others at one place + token balances + wraped eth balance for any ETH wallet.
- https://www.tradingview.com/script/HAOqXwg4-Killzones-Daily-Open-Weekly-Open-Monthly-Open-by-bartbtc/
Protocols
> "Compound is a money market protocol on the Ethereum blockchain — allowing individuals, institutions, and applications to frictionlessly earn interest on or borrow cryptographic assets without having to negotiate with a counterparty or peer. Each market has dynamic interest rates, which float in real-time as market conditions adjust."Historical
> "Interesting symmetry in between the timing of $DOGE cycles over the last few years\n\nDoge has long been a signal for #altseason" > "@JimAllmendinger Bitcoin has a 4 year cycle that's programmed into the system."
Speculation-Market Theses
> "A lot of people were talking about how bullish the bull whale was. Counter-narrative is that someone with deep pockets held the price up and continued pushing it higher, while simultaneously opening derivative shorts before dumping accumulated spot on market." > "10 takes on the future of crypto from the depths of a bear market:\n\nThe 2017 run-up & 2018 freefall is only a micro-bubble—the crypto mega bubble is yet to come"
> "Bitcoin long term price prediction, with the 'halving' effect factored in. What do you think ?"
Books
> "📊Forex/Crypto books for FREE 🎓Download books for complete beginners, basic concepts and techniques of trading as Chart Patterns, Day Trading, Elliott Wave Principles, Ichimoku, Psychology Of Trading, etc." > "a collection of book collections related to trading" > "Trading Books Shared Directory" > "Bunches of Trading Books" > "Trading Books Shared Directory"Videos
> "obligatory watching" > "Price Action Webinar #1 - Retests"Podcasts
> "Flippening - For Cryptocurrency Investors (Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Cryptoasset Investing)"Resources
> "Oscillators, Bollinger Bands, Commodity Channel Index, Fast Stochastic, KST (Short term, Intermediate term, Long term), MACD, Momentum, Relative Strength Index, Slow Stochastic" > "lots of good articles and videos on trading"- BabyPips - "Learn Forex Trading."
Twitter Follows
> "Here are some of the best traders I know and learn from"
- Ramano says he only follows OG's 2015 or earlier.
- @YORK780 #FF
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