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Bet-size. YouTube. Bitcoin-Crypto. Tools. Strategy. Books. TA/Indicators. Bitwise sur Twitter : "New research from @BitwiseInvest submitted to the SEC today. Read it here It's a 104-page white paper expanding on our March 2019 presentation. It examines 83 exchanges for fake volume, the tight relationshi. A Trend Trading System For Crypto. Click here to get a PDF of this post AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments.

A Trend Trading System For Crypto

He co-foundedMacro Opsand is the host ofFallible. A lot of people have been left with huge losses in crypto after the latest boom/bust sequence that played out at the end of 2017 in to 2018. Buy and holders experienced massive euphoric gains followed by devastating losses. How can traders stay safe during these crazy crypto events? One way is to use a simple 20-10 trend following trading system. The crypto markets today have a lot of similarity to the old commodity markets.

Here are the trading rules for the 20-10 system. LongsEnter: If 20 day SMA is greater than 50 day SMA and new 20 day highInitial Stop: 2*ATRExit at new 10 day low ShortsEnter: If 20 day SMA is less than 50 day SMA and new 20 day low Initial Stop” 2*ATRExit at new 10 day high Most crypto traders got absolutely demolished over the last year. Bitcoin PO "Universal Laws" Cycle. for BITFINEX:BTCUSD by cryptosays.

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Majority of bitcoin trading is a hoax, new study finds

Guillaume Payen | LightRocket | Getty Images New research is casting even more doubt on the legitimacy of bitcoin trading. An analysis published by Bitwise this week shows that 95 percent of bitcoin spot trading is faked by unregulated exchanges. The survey, first reported by The Wall Street Journal, echoes concerns by regulators that cryptocurrency markets are still ripe for manipulation.

Bitwise, an asset manager in the process of trying to list the first-ever bitcoin exchange-traded fund, said it met with the Securities and Exchange Commission on Tuesday to discuss its application. “People looked at cryptocurrency and said this market is a mess; that’s because they were looking at data that was manipulated,” said Matthew Hougan, global head of research at Bitwise.

Those exchanges report an aggregated $6 billion in average daily bitcoin volume. DTS International - Layers Of Performance - World-Class Thinking: 4 Key Lessons from Naval Ravikant. Nick Szabo's Home Page. Concise Tutorials Recent Essays and Papers Technological Protection of Rights Security, Fault Tolerance, Computation, Information, Mathematics History and Theory of Institutions Law and Philosophy Hermeneutics The study of messages from the past.

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Whitepaper. The Whitepaper for Portfolio Rebalancing in Crypto. Why Log Returns. A reader recently asked an important question, one which often puzzles those new to quantitative finance (especially those coming from technical analysis, which relies upon price pattern analysis): Why use the logarithm of returns, rather than price or raw returns?

Why Log Returns

The answer is several fold, each of whose individual importance varies by problem domain. Problem loading page. George Soros Reflexivity Theory 101. Click here to get a PDF of this post AK has been an analyst at long/short equity investment firms, global macro funds, and corporate economics departments.

George Soros Reflexivity Theory 101

He co-founded Macro Ops and is the host of Fallible. Let’s talk about reflexivity… a theory made famous by George Soros! Soros is the legendary hedge fund manager who infamously made a billion dollars in a single day back in 92’ by shorting the pound and “breaking the bank of England”. Reflexivity in markets is when the act of valuing something actually affects its underlying value. Amazon is a great example of this. Compared to its market cap, Amazon barely made any profits most of its life. Objectively… it wouldn’t have seemed too valuable. But its stock price shot up year after year regardless. And that’s because investors loved Amazon even if it didn’t make money. The same sort of thing happened to Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. Objectively the Rock was a terrible actor making horrendous movies. But people loved him anyway! …