The short term oscillations are getting smaller and smaller. Easiest to see on the 15 min chart probably. Smallish breakoutish? Down or up? I'm flat again, after a fat whole 25 mBTC profit.
Atleast you made a profit while some of us are just cutting our losses.
This market has just been a clusterf**k for all who expected the end of the month to pay out for those who held out this long.
Only a good pump a week earlier then back down. You wouldve gotten more out of going to orchids of Asia day spa.
You are expecting way too much if you are planning your finances around a break out to the upside that has less than 50/50 odds of happening.
In other words, you will be causing your own psychological issues if you are betting on up when the odds are against you.
Well, I see your point. However, profiting in such a market requires being ready to short - at least for me it does. Shorting is not something I do happily, and when I do short it's always with a definite goal in mind or as a hedge against a risky long.
yes, if anyone is trying to squeeze this lemon for short-term profits out of a directional situation that is questionable at best (but perhaps leaning slightly towards bearish), then you can play around with shorts that may or may not result in various levels of profits.
On the other hand, if anyone has a longer time horizon.. let's say at least 2 years (which is really NOT very long to be investing into an asset), then that person seems to have pretty decent chances that any BTC quantity that s/he buys in our current price range of $3,500 to $4,100 should be decently profitable by then... at least the BTC price should be higher than the purchase price. Of course, if the time horizon is a bit longer, let's say 5 years, then the odds for higher seem even better.
One thing is having decently good enough trading skills and even resources (access to exchanges) and a systematic approach for shorting BTC that seems viable to play, but probably more than 95% of anyone considering a possible BTC investment plan about getting into BTC does not have those kind of skills nor temperament... perhaps in this thread, the ratio is a bit higher, maybe 15%-ish of the participants could carry out such a shorting plan in a profitable and systematic way?
In other words, for the vast majority of folks, fuck shorting BTC, and just think about BTC accumulating and hodling strategies and tactics.. that involve dollar cost averaging and buying on dips ... even now.. even if the BTC price goes down for another year or more... it is much easier... especially if you have at least two years, and even better if you are ready, willing and able to stick with your BTC buy/hodl strategy for 5 years or more.