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I appreciate your opinion.
I first got into Bitcoin in July 2017, was very lucky that year obviously. But since February 2018 I am more into technical analysis and trading. What I saw in 2018 was mostly the price of Bitcoin dictated by trading tools and not much else. But well of course nothing is written in the stone. I am just very confident about this 12.4k price that we need to break. I am curious to see how it unfolds.
Of course, part of the purpose of this forum and this thread is to bat around ideas related to bitcoin, and surely whether to trade or how to trade or strategies to increase your wealth seem quite relevant discussion points.
Also, you likely realize that even though we might not really know the trend until looking at the price movements retrospectively, but any of us would have been quite profitable to have been a buyer and accumulator in 2017 and would have had much better odds to short or to sell in 2018, although any of us could have gotten caught on the wrong side of any trade because even in early February 2018, bitcoin had already corrected all the way down to $6k from its $19,666 December 2017 highpoint.
In the end, also there might not be as much of a certainty to BTC price direction as there is seemingly more certainty that bitcoin is going to continue to be volatile, just as it has been volatile for its whole life. So, any way to either take advantage of price volatility or at least to have strategies that provide some practices that provide some price volatility insurance, can be very good practices in bitcoin, even though in the very longer term, if BTC investors are able to hold onto their investments for 3.5 years or longer, then those have also ended up being decently profitable strategies, and even more profitable if there is a longer timeline in which BTC investors are ready, willing and able to hold onto their BTC.
Regarding your confidence about some kind of resistance at 12.4k, maybe you are right, but surely I personally am taking such number with a decently sized grain of salt regarding the extent to which such a number is significant of anything. We will see. We will see. At least we can agree on that part. The wait and see part.
Continue to talk smack, too,... no problema.