Nice commentary once again. You are a very very structured trader. I am surprised you have not gone in during the strong up move. I understand and respect your decision but have a question for you:
Is success having more $$$ in your account or more
BTC? Or something else?
I measure my success and failure in
BTC. If I can obtain more BTC things are well. That is what I am in this for (outside of what it represents and is doing to finance as well of course.)
Anyway, following you along very closely. I am curious about pull back levels to add more to but looking back (e.g. Silk Road crash), we are on a tear. It seems that when drops happen, you have to be real quick to get in (rather you need to have open orders sitting below as the price doesn't spend much time down on the drops. I see the 165 level as possible, or rather did, but the higher we go up, the more I think a retracement is less likely down there.
Something to consider, my BTC analogy: Imagine there is only one publicly traded company on earth. It is a financial related company and it brings relief to a corrupt world. There are only 12 million shares. What is a fair price?
Great luck and keep it up,
IAS
Thank you for the heads up.
My target was always $188.00 and to be honest with you I always try to leave the feelings at the door where I'm hanging my coat before I switch on my computer. Most of the time works but, you have your moments like any other human.
In regards your two questions
Is success having more $$$ in your account or more BTC? Or something else?I don't measure my success in $$ or
BTCBTC.
I measure everything on %'s and If I'm above 65% year to date that means my jobs is done.
it's definitely good to be versatile and have both $$ and
BTCBTC and looking at other crypto currencies for potential opportunities.
I like your analogy, but there is one more more deep question to analyze here because the public traded company is digging towards the core of the corrupt world and the traded company has not reach 50% yet so it keeps digging until we hear the crack.
How long until the public traded company reach the core?
What is a fair price for what its done to crack the core?
Have a good evening.
Lucano.
eheheh, When do we hear the crack? If I understand you correctly, the recent signs of the IMF talking about a 10% "tax" on EU citizens with "positive net worth" might be the early warning signs. Chase bank and some others limiting out of country money movement might be another. I just get the feeling that either later this year or sometime next year, we are gonna have some fireworks. And they will put pressure on BTC in some way or fashion. But, they are trying to save a sinking ship and the longer we go, their chances just go down (The corrupt banking system.) If the public runs to BTC, what will the governments do? Listen to corrupt bankers who everyone hates? I think the shit hits the fan at that point and the bankers will be more concerned for their lives then holding up their corrupt system. And I don't think the military will protect them either. Times are a changin...
I think the "fair price", well that is a tough one. Right now it looks like BTC is an asset. It is starting to increase as a payment system. Can it be both? Does that make sense? I can argue both ways. I sure don't like spending my BTC! Not a good start for a payment system, but perhaps we will find a happy medium. I think it is too alarming to say a fair price for BTC, especially if it is an asset and that appears to be what it mostly is right now. But, let's say this, we won't be talking about the price per BTC. It will be fractions of BTC for practical everyday reasons. Can you imagine a market cap of 1 Trillion dollars some day? ehehehh, ok a bit crazy, but 1 trillion divided by 12 million (with growing consistent demand to keep the price stable) would put us at around $83,333 per BTC.
A more reasonable figure of 100 billion would put us at $8,000 per BTC. A market cap of 100 billion is TOTALLY believable and still small to me.
I should add one thing to my above $ or
BTC question, as I factored it in to my trading "judgement". If you had just bought and held BTC, would you have more BTC now than trading? I think that clarifies things.
So, if you have 10,000 at the start of the year - that is e.g. 100 BTC. How many BTC did you finish with? That is the easiest measure of success. If you have 20,000 but only 99BTC, then you lost a BTC and money. I don't look at dollars as the goal is BTC (but oddly enough for them to increase in USD value! LOL). Relating to the above question of "When will we know?" - When BTC is near or is decoupled from the dollar. Just as gold will probably do as well.
Interesting,
IAS