ICT YT - 2017-12-28 - ICT On BitCoin.srt

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ICT: Okay, folks, welcome back. All right, this is a discussion on new markets
and market making.

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Okay, so we're gonna be talking about blockchain. And before we even get into
this, let me preface it by saying, I have never, ever traded any

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cryptocurrencies. I've only recently gave it a second look, because my
subscriber base is actually growing exponentially, and it has a lot to do with

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the crypto community. Now, again, while I have never personally traded crypto, I
have 10s of 1000s of subscribers, both on YouTube and my other media that swear

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by my concepts working very well in this asset class. So I've spent about two
weeks or so from the time this recording. And what I've seen, has shown me that

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there's a lot of things that I teach by way of the other asset classes, and my
forte really is forex. So some of the things that I teach, I go in and look for,

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and if there's any evidence to support those characteristics or traits behind
price action, then I believe that smart money's actually working inside that

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asset. And now, admittedly, because it was such a new asset, if you want to call
it that, they they were too fast. In the limelight, if you will, too many people

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were talking about it. And I just felt it was better for me to sit on the
sidelines and just wait and see how much growth or interest it gets from the

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banks. There's a lot of things that have been said negatively and positively
about crypto. And I have been accused of beating up crypto, and I have beat up

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individuals that were trying to buy it at 18,000. I just felt that it was
foolish to do so. And in fact, you can actually look at the tweets added on

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December 17 2017, were actually called the high in the market on Bitcoin. I gave
you the reasons why I felt it was not going to hit 20,000. And while initially I

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was looking for 2000 to 2500 point slide, that was the precursor that led to the
ultimate crash. Now, traders are not referring to it as a crash, because that

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word begins a whole paradigm shift. Okay. And I think by far and large, the
crypto currency market carries the same stigma that penny stocks has. And it's

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really basically pump and dump. And because there's really nothing behind the
cryptocurrency, except for the perceived value, or the perceived future,

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usefulness of it as a replacement for fiat currency, it really is still in the
same boat. So my argument has always been that all we're doing is talking about

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another flavor of ice cream. There's nothing really new under the sun. And while
it may seem Maverick or rebellious to be in this type of thing and thinking it's

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going to beat the banks. My personal opinion is it was actually started by the
banks. The bankers are absolutely shrewd, okay, and you're going to never ever,

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ever beat them. Okay, as long as the sun keeps coming up and in the world keeps
turning, people are going to be doing business through the medium of a bank, and

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you're never going to escape it. So I just want to build this idea going
forward. I think that crypto has a place in the future where that is personally

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I don't know. I haven't given it that much concerned to study it. I've only
recently last couple weeks really give it my time to look at and it's only

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because we're on holiday break and forex to me, as it'll you know, it's
lackluster for me right now. And I don't actively trade it in the latter parts

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of December. So I've given a lot of focus to crypto. And one of the first things
I wanted to go into and see if it had hallmarks to how banking algorithms and

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how price engines deliver price. If those hallmarks are there in Bitcoin, then
in fact it is a manipulated market and it is not a new Bastion for

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For Mavericks that are escaping the banking industry or the you the Fed, if you
will, it's the same show, okay? All it is, is it's wearing a different dress

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now. So what I'm gonna cover here is this basically a interpretation of how I
look at assets and how I study price action is going to be basically an overview

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General, for most of the general concept, now, it's not an exhaustive, there's
so many things that I do, and can be done in price action that I can't include

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in one video. I mean, any, anyone that has looked at my material knows that I
can go on and on and on, and never really exhausted the topic. So just

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understand that what I'm going to cover here are just basically those simple
things that leads to my appreciation or respect of an asset because it has all

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the hallmarks that a large bank or institutional perspective would see in price
action. And I'm going to discuss how these hallmarks lend well, to my

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understanding of how markets are made, so it'll be a general overview how market
making is done, and how that might apply to cryptocurrencies. Alright, so we're

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going to talk about pricing in premiums for distribution. And this is commonly
referred to as pump and dump when we see these events in price action. And

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again, they're very synonymous with penny stocks. The ramp up aggressively, you
see these stellar rallies, and then everyone piles in at the top, and then it

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collapses and crashes down. So I'm going to show you how I gave this insight
before the fact on my Twitter feed. I'll give you some explanations as to why I

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felt it was likely to occur. And you can use it as an example to study. But it's
not random in nature. So when we see these big run ups in price, it's not just

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indiscriminate amount of buyers coming in, price has actually been delivered to
a specific level. Price seeks this specific level for a purpose of offloading

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Smart Money entries that have long earlier entered way before the move started
going on. Once the price levels reached, we're going to anticipate and many

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times see heavy distribution, when this occurs, most often reversals form. And
then what happens is the market will generally run against those long holders

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that are wanting to hold for higher prices.

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Alright, we're looking at Bitcoin. This is the coin base, Bitcoin versus dollar.
And I've highlighted a few things here that I like to look at for price. And

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what these are, these are just doing these things because of times of the day.
So during London, I'm looking at generally between two o'clock in the morning,

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New York time to 5am, New York time. And in New York, kill zone, I'm referring
to specifically the 7am, New York time to 10 o'clock in the morning, if I start

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seeing hallmarks behind price, respecting these times of day, and when we have
equal highs like this, okay, I refer to that as a liquidity pool. And for the

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purpose of making it easy understand, it's like a Candyland. Okay, so the market
will go up here and snatch the candy from those individuals that want to sell

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short trusting that as resistance, but I highlighted this level up here 16 450.
And the reason why I did that I'll go in details of what that level is towards

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the end of the video. But for now, I just want you to focus on the fact that
price was heading towards that level. Okay, so that was the specific level had

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in mind. So they were pumping it up from way back here and back here and before
any started consolidating here. These equal lows are the equivalent of what I've

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highlighted here. Resting above these equal highs will be by stops. And below
these equal lows we sell stops. So anyone that had been long here, they see

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these equal lows. At that moment, they're going to share their stop loss rate
below these equal lows and that's what this move is here during the London

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session, so I like to see those types of characteristics. Then we had a little
bit of retracement again back into New York. And then we had a nice rally up in

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price. Again, equal it's hard to see in here but these are equal lows, price
came down in New York tagged those stops knocking in again. I need long holders

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that had a trailed stop loss in the form of a sell stop. Those would be tagged
here. And then and only then the market is permitted to trade higher as price is

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starting to reach for this 16 450 my thought process Okay, they're going to
distribute there. So there's probably going to be a reversal scenario, most

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likely occurring around that level. A bit later on price trades up into that
16 450 level, two times trades to it just a little bit. And ultimately, it

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breaks down. Price creates another run below equal lows, and then rallies up.
Now I teach this as a specific trading patterns in my optimal trade entry. So

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and I'm highlighting here and these are all tweeted charts, they were all time
and date stamped, as you can see up here. And again, we have equal lows relative

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to these two specific lows here. And that's what's being highlighted. So I
believe that the price is going to be drawn down to that level of 15 100, or

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15,100. And that's the initial objective. So I'm looking to see if price once
you reach down here now, I studied this this entire week with you all publicly,

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I didn't know for certain it was going to unfold as accurate as it did. So
that's the only reason why I'm even referring to crypto in a YouTube video on my

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channel, because I have never really been a fan of crypto. But I'm giving it my
attention now because I get asked a lot of questions about it. And I know

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there's a large number of my community that actually do trade these assets. And
I hear nothing but good things about my concepts working in them. So my interest

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has been piqued to the point where let me just take a look at it. And these are
some of the things I've seen in the last two weeks. Now there's things that led

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to me understanding this level as a specific time

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of day when it would hit. And that specific level. Those are teachings that I do
in my mentorship, which is not free, it's not public, I do have a lot of free

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tutorials on my website at the inner circle trader.com. And I have a forum
there. And you're all welcome to come. And it's there's no charge to go into

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that. But I give a lot of detailed teachings. Some of them are older, but they
are still relevant. These are concepts that I've been trading with for over 20

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years. So there's a lot of gravity towards what I'm teaching the trading
community. Because what I teach works, it's not based on any kind of indicator,

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it's not based on any kind of, you know, willy nilly gimmick, okay, it's
straight price action. And it's based on an institutional perspective, that

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lends very, very well to a Chartist. So if you like looking at charts, or if you
haven't really grown in an appreciation about charting, my concepts kind of

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force you to do that. If you don't want to subscribe to that view, then my
methods aren't going to be any help to you. So the main takeaway is, is trying

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not to blend other disciplines with what I teach, because mine more or less is
at opposition with everyone else. It's, it's like a lion, it'll it'll defend

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itself is turn it loose, it'll do it needs to do investigate the things I tell
you to look for. Don't believe what I say. Just look at it yourself. And you'll

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be convinced. Okay, so price was most likely going to reach this level here. And
that's what I was looking for. Again, I tweeted this chart that everyone knew

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when I was looking for. And this is the optimal trade entry pattern here. Okay,
so that retracement back to the 62% retracement level. And we would look for

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reasonable price objectives as delineated here. Okay, so I was looking for this
one, primarily because it's a symmetrical price swing, which is, again taught in

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my optimal trade entry, or OTP, primer video on my YouTube channel, inner circle
trader, pull that up, it's a nice little introductory lesson to how to set your

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fib up and how to look for optimal trade entries shorts and Long's, but this is
the optimal trade entry so and it would be a symmetrical price swing. So I'm

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looking for this as a downside objective, this is the initial objective, then
this is the next one. Then if we get a really nice slide, we're going to look

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for this objective down here at 14,400. And then even lower than that, but these
are the specific levels I'd be looking for in advance beforehand. So they're not

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like he'll here this is a good level that was already hit in the past. This was
all done publicly through my twitter at I underscore m underscore ICT so you're

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welcome to go and look at that. The tweets are still there you can see it's all
there for public consumption. Now going back out on a higher timeframe, we can

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see how that level at 16,450 acted as a nice resistance price point. And now I'm
going to bring in what I refer to as a ICT market maker sell model. Now at first

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glance, this is going to look like if you've been really studying technical
analysis for a long time. It's gonna look like wycoff Okay, and admittedly,

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there is a lot of similarities to wycoff markup, and markdown That's not
everything that's going on in here. I just saw that years and years and years

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ago, and it helps me see something I thought I was imagining, I would see a lot
of this type of formations and price action. But I do not subscribe to wycoff.

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But I encourage anyone that watches my material, if you haven't looked at
wycoff, study it. And then you'll see the folks that just look at me drawing

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these boxes on here. They think right away that it's, you know, it's like often
only waste your time learning anything from ICT, I have amplified a lot of

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things that retail minded traders and educators have put out and regurgitated
off of each other. And all I'm asking you to do is take a look at it. Okay, it's

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free. It doesn't cost anything but your time. And I promise you everything that
I talked about, if it's resembling anything in other disciplines, it's not, it's

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not what it is. And I amplify or correct the shortcomings of other disciplinary
approaches to trading. And wycoff was no exception there, I built a lot of

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precision around the general theme. Okay, so I guess what I'm saying here is
don't focus so much on these boxes, and miss the entire point of what I'm trying

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to show. But I do cover this in my tutorials. So what I'm looking at is we had
this original

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base of accumulation, okay, so we're market, we're about to rally up, okay, all
my eye does is go right to this area of a trading range. Now, you can frame all

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kinds of other trading ranges out of all this stuff here. So why am I using this
one, particularly, because it had the most dynamic price action movement away on

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the north side of it. So this whole range here, I'd classify that as the
original consolidation or accumulation phase, so long as we're being highlighted

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here, price moves out, then stage goes into another consolidation, then we have
another expansion out of that consolidation. So there's a re accumulation. So in

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the scope of the entire process, it's smart money accumulation of long
positions, it moves higher, recalculates more long positions, goes higher,

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raking leaves more long positions here, and then distribution, right here, and
then they start selling off their positions here, and then a later time, they'll

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start selling off here, ultimately, to get back down below here. Now there's two
types of market making. Okay, there's market making facilitates the trade

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between other traders. And there's in house market making that will also provide
a means for the market maker to make a book for themselves, today making a

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profit. So they can also speculate not just facilitate trade or pair up orders
between buyers and sellers. In this instance, okay, the buyers that bought in

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here, they could have sold here, and had nothing left on the position. The
buyers that bought in here, could have sold out here and had nothing left in

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their position. Same thing here, they could have bought here. So here it had
nothing, left them in position, there are some that hedge so they could be

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selling in here, selling more here, selling more here, and then selling more
here. And as it starts coming back down, they'll start buying it back, they'll

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start buying it back, and they'll start buying it back down here. So they're
always in the market doing something because they're being Counterparty to other

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traders. So there's market making in that respect. So they're really not trying
to make a profit, so to speak, they're just being counterparties. Okay, and

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that's the smallest scale, or I guess the opportunity that market making seeks,
okay, that part of it. Market making is not trying to facilitate trade for new

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profit. But it does occur. And it does appear in trading, when I try to promote
and teach in my studies is during these original consolidations in here, this is

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all smart money buying. So if we start to see consolidation in here, I know that
it's going to be reaching our specific level. So I start going through the

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higher timeframe charts, to figure out what they're reaching for because they're
not trading on 30 minute and five minute, one minute charts or tick charts. It's

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based on a higher time frame level. And again, before we close the video, I'll
show you what this level is and why it was so important. When we start seeing

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these rallies up and consolidations rally up I know I'm in what I refer to as
the ICT market maker sell model. In other words, they're ramping up or pumping

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to dump it. So everything that they bought here anything below that would be
formed of a sell stop. So traders that bought here held didn't trade a stop loss

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higher held and didn't bring a stoploss off any higher held and didn't bring
your stop loss any higher. Then didn't doing your adjustment for their risk

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management either. So to stop still below here, in here, there's gonna be
another sell off likely and they're gonna target that level right in here. So

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that's basically what it is, it's a pump reversal in slam it down to take out
the long holders that we're here that we're not smart enough or astute enough to

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get out here, here or ultimately here. Okay, so that's what makes the sell
model, or basically a pump and dump in the grand scheme of things to keep things

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pretty retail, so you guys can understand what I'm saying. That's all it is, is
just a run up just to sell off. So if we look further, we can see that the price

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eventually did hit the second level I had for a price objective, I try to screen
capture it as the markets trade to the levels I call for in Twitter. And this is

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where personally be taking some partial profits here. If I were selling from up
here, or up here, and you can see back on that hard timeframe, we can see that

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price has now moved below this consolidation and ultimately has retail retreated
back down to the top that consolidation right here.

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So you can see how price did go a little bit below their second level objective.
didn't quite get down to the other objective I had in mind. But we're seeing a

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little bit of retracement, I mentioned this during the particular trading day,
on the 27th of December, it was actually coming in around noon, New York time.

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And that's exactly when the opposite end of the daily range form. So this whole
entire day has been down to the low should be forming between 10 o'clock in the

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morning and noon, New York time. Okay, so whatever time it is in New York, it's
important to know that and there's the low, I got asked by a follower on

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Twitter, what did I think was gonna happen was it going to go any lower that
particular day, in my opinion was that we are put in the bulk of the volume. So

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banks, if they are in fact trading these, their their volume is done. Okay, so
the range should be kept at this point. And we see that was the fact here. And

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ultimately, moving forward into the 28th, which is the time of this recording on
December 2017. This is the whole entire market maker model to completion. Okay,

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I took a picture with the screen capture feature. And you can see the original
consolidation to stop. So it would be below here. That's what was targeted right

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there. And you can see the Smart Money accumulation, re accumulation, Re
cumulation, smart money reversal, low risk cell redistribution, ultimately

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taking us back down below the original consolidation. So the entire cycle is
complete. Now, that doesn't mean that this is done doesn't mean it's not going

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to go any lower. In fact, I think it's going to go to this level down here.
Personally, if a gun is held in my head, that's what I would expect. But we'll

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have a lot to see what's gonna actually happen. But I've been putting these
things out in public, so you can see what I'm anticipating what I'm seeing. So

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that way, it's not like I'm looking back and saying, Oh, yeah, this was
something cool. But it's already happened. And it was no real element to drawing

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your attention to beforehand. So I'm looking at the Bitcoin versus the US dollar
is the daily chart against this coin base. And I want to kind of draw your

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attention into the here, okay, and where we are at right now. And what we're
doing in terms of price action is the reason why I felt that it was more

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appropriate to anticipate a sell off at 16,450 or very close to that level. And
I'll show you what that level is and why it's important. But before that, I want

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to draw your attention to this high back here. Let's zoom in a little bit. Okay,
so on this particular candle right here. If you look at the open high, low and

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close up here, on this candle here, the high comes in at 19,697. This candle
here, it's high comes in at 19,797. Then the very next candle here and this is

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the candle I said that we would not see 20,000 and it was going to reverse and
slide 2020 500 points, and they would refuse those individuals they were holding

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out for 20,000 Bitcoin. The high comes in at 19,891. If you go on Twitter and
December 17 2017 on my Twitter feed, you'll see me actually outlining why this

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is the case and why I felt it was most likely going to be a market maker trap.
The reason why it was going to be a trap is because we had already priced above

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the all time high back here, trading right into it just above it a little bit
and I like to see that as false breakouts. Okay, everybody on Twitter, and the

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ones that you're probably listening to now, they were all excited about Bitcoin
breaking out. It's going to keep going higher. Here comes 30,000 and once we get

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through 20,000 is going to just be a straight shot to 30,000 and so on. They
were talking about Bitcoin 150,000 everybody Every one was talking about

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Bitcoin. My wife herself, even mentioned to me, Hey, are you trading Bitcoin?
Because it's really going up a lot? Well, if my wife is sitting next to me on

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the couch, and she's asking me about Bitcoin, and if I'm not in it, or if I
should be in it, rather, it's time to get out. Okay, I love my wife, but she's

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not a traitor. So that means everybody knows about Bitcoin. And I shared a
couple stories on my Twitter feed, I was in a grocery store, and a guy behind me

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two carts back literally told his son or assuming it was his son, you know, put
the ice cream and cookies and stuff back on the shelf, because he was trying to

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save some money because he's gonna buy more Bitcoin. I even said, at the time, I
was like, This is incredible, everyone's talking about Bitcoin. So if that's

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occurring, lots up here, it's done. And between that and the fact we broke up to
the old

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high, and we're looking at their big benchmark at 20,000. It's just like
dangling a carrot between you before, they're going to, oh, it's going to go

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higher, it's going to keep going higher. And that was the real reasons why I
called the top in Bitcoin that particular. So ultimately, I did see my 2020 500

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points slide, but in the process, and ended up changing the entire market
structure. So it ended up becoming over 9000 points in terms of a slide. Now,

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they're going to say this is a correction. But I see that as a crash. And I was
talking about Bitcoin crashing, before this run up here. Okay. I felt that it

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was going to crash, I thought it was going to go lower. I did not want to see it
trade to 20,000. On this day, or this day, based on all the elements that were

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there. I mean, the public, the street money was talking about Bitcoin. And we're
staring right at a 20,000 benchmark, it never gotten there. Okay, and it traded

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aggressively lower. And then all through this right around in here, you started
seeing all these stories about, you know, Bitcoin founders of this exchange, or

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that or whatever, supposedly well known individuals, pillars, if you will, of
the cryptocurrency realm, we're saying they've all exited in solar,

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cryptocurrencies. And it's useless, it's distance that so we were ahead of the
curve in that regard. So again, I'm not trying to beat much my chest and say,

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I'm Mr. crypto, um, because I'm not, I'm just saying that the things I know
about price action, I just started applying it to this. Okay. It's not like, I

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have some secret recipe for crypto trading, because its price, it's the same
thing. So if it's trading, and people are making money or losing money in it,

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the banks are involved, whether you like it or not, they are. And I know this
for a fact now, because I can see how their algorithmic approach to reading and

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working in price is in price action. If they were not in the banks, my methods
would not be holding up like they are. And I trade with an institutional

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perspective, I don't see, you know, retail things, there's nothing indicator
based on my charts, none of that stuff appears on my charts, unless I'm drawing

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a specific contrast to how retail would see something versus how I look at it
from a price action standpoint. I'm only only concerned really, about these four

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indicators up here. The open the high, the low, and the close those four
indicators to me is everything you'll ever need. Because if you understand what

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the open high low and closes on one currency, if you have a barometer printed
like $1 index, if you know the open high, low and close of that and contrast

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what you're trading against that you'll have all the indicators you need in
terms of relative strength. So if I know that the back story is this highs been

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violated, and then we rejected, we came down here and now we're consolidating
what is most likely going to occur? It's probably going to go lower. So if it's

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going to go lower, what's it going to do first? Run the buy stops. That's this
high right here. Okay, so this high comes in at 16 to 61. Okay, 16 to 61. Right

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before this high was broken by this run here. My eye goes right to the down
closed candle right before that run out. This is what I teach is an ice breaker.

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This is a bearish breaker. So if price trades to this low at 15,700. That begins
the distribution cycle of anything that was used to go long here to knock out

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the original short holders to head protective buy stops here. They started
seeing some money here. They ran it up one more time. Boom, knocked those

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individuals out and started to collapse at this moment right there. This candle
and you need long holders are underwater. So they're going to want to mitigate

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that in order to get out of that position. So the market will be repriced, to
that level. Right back in here. You'll see it and they'll distribute there but

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also notice it's happening as this swing highs been violated as well because any
Short holders here, they're going to have their step, their stop loss trail

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rainbow above this, and they take the market right above that level here. plink,
there it is, and then they quickly reprice it. Now we're going to go into a

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monthly chart on a monthly chart, but a monthly perspective. And we're going to
zoom in a little bit. And this is a 30 minute chart. Okay, and you can see one

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more time to make a little bit more clear. And more. So you can see this high
back here. We ran right above that. And then the distribution cycle, okay. Above

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this high by stops, and then right in here, I want to take a look at this candle
right there. This is the secret sauce. Okay, I'm gonna zoom in one more time, so

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This candle right here. Okay, this is the last up close candle right for this
big move down. So this candle, it's high as 16,654. It's low as 16,300. Okay, so

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approximately in the middle, okay, we're going to get close to around 16,500.
And I want to get out a little bit before that. So 16,004 50 is what I elected

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to go with. So what this is, is an ICT bearish order block. Okay, and it's just
above where the buy stocks would be, and price rallied right back up to that

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price point, rejection. Now she goes, Okay, we are originally seeing that build
up of long positions right in here, a round up, re accumulation, re accumulation

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reversal, hit the brakes, they only pumped it up here, then knock out the stops
here, then and only then will price be allowed to trade lower. And that's what

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we saw here. Okay. And then we have an optimal trade entry. So here and target
the lows under here, which is what we seen here. And now we have another

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consolidation. Notice also just like this area with this short term high has
been violated with this run here. Sell stop seven trailed on the shorts, right

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above this high, they've been knocked out, and then only then it quickly gets a
ladder moving lower. Again, and here we have a swing high, it will be resting

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above that on shorts, protected by stops. Ooh, they knock those individuals out.
And now and only now, is it permitted to trade lower. Okay, so we can start

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looking for objectives, lower than we've already seen. You can see the elements,
everything is outlined here. everything as it was shared on Twitter. And

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ultimately, I think if we get below 13,000, we could trade to 12,009 20. But
ultimately, a lot of liquidity is resting right below this fractal. So I would

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be expecting that to occur, we could see 12 800, something like that, if we get
any momentum below 12,800 or going below 10,000. In fact occurs, we're going to

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be looking for 8300. And if it goes below that it will be 5000 to 6000. And
anything less than that will be just Armageddon. So that's what I'd be expecting

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now what changes this whole scenario, it would need to trade back above the
midpoint of this consolidation or trade basically back above 15,100. Okay, so

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anything less than 15,100 we're bearish on Bitcoin. Okay. So I kind of like one
of the use this as a segue into welcoming the new crypto community that's

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building in my reader base. So I don't promise to give you a whole lot of crypto
based ideas. But I have seen enough to know this. Everything that I teach that

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is selling to forex, is working in crypto, the ICT kill zones, the London New
York, plumbing, close, Asia, all those things are still working as they would be

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expected. In crypto. A lot of my higher learning things also are working as well
that would be taught in my mentorship. So if you have a lot of time, and you go

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through all my tutorials that can be found on my website, the answer trader.com.
Again, the forum is free, you can join it'll cost you nothing. It's community

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that we're building. I only request this as Be respectful because if anyone is
unruly in there or starts to troll, and they report that to me, I will disable

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your ISP so that way you won't be a member of the forum anymore. You're welcome
to discuss and encourage each other with opportunities you may be seeking using

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my concepts. I am really on the sidelines, even though it seems like I'm always
doing something on Twitter. I'm away from the markets generally until like the

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third week of January every year. I usually take the week before Thanksgiving
off until The third week of January. And it's probably going to be closer to

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February. Before I actually do anything this year, because I spent the last 15
months with a group of traders in my first mentorship class. So it took a lot of

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STEAM Academy. So I will be opening that mentorship up again in January 2018. So
if you want to go through the higher level learning stuff and be a part of a

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ongoing education group, it's $150 payable to me by way of PayPal, and that link
and all that information will be shared tomorrow for those individuals that were

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signed up on the mailing list. And if you can't do it right now, and it's closer
to February for you, then that's fine, because it's open enrollment every single

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month.

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There's no there's no closing. There's no end, okay, so when you subscribe to
it, you pay 12 months, and $150. And you get 12 specific modules that goes

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through all of my core content. But that is not the mentorship. The mentorship
is an ongoing learning experience. And I have 25 years of experience of looking

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at price studying price, knowing certain things, subtle nuances that my free
tutorials will not ever have in them. So it's kind of like a private private

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community. Okay, well, we have a community, it's in my free forum. The
mentorship group is things that I'll teach that I'm never going to make public,

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not on YouTube, not in Twitter, and none of that stuff. And I haven't taught
everything yet. So there's so much information, I just can't do it in 12 months.

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So if that interests you, you're certainly welcome to do that after you pay 12
months, you never pay any more ever again. The total cost is 18 $100. US dollars

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payable in 12. installment payments, if you do quit, you are not permitted to
rejoin. So if you're going to consider doing it, make the commitment to do the

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entire thing. And understand there's no refunds, there's an NDA, you can't teach
the material, you can't tweet about the things that's called a mentorship that

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it would remove you from the group. I have removed individuals from it already.
And they have paid me but they also understood and sign the terms of use in

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these agreements are long standing, they don't end. So as long as I'm operating
as a mentorship, those terms of use will be there. And I don't plan on going out

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of business anytime soon. or stopping. So it's up to you decide what you want to
do. But I just felt that it was a an interesting study on my personal time using

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my concepts and crypto, we've had a lot of positive feedback with the tools and
concepts. So I can see why everyone is excited about using what I teach in

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forex, and futures and stocks and all that index trading all those things have
elements that repeat themselves over and over again. But everything that I teach

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with forex, everything that I've done thus far and made public either by way of
free tutorials and even in my mentorship, the content it's been delivered so far

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in that group. Everything works in crypto. So to me these markets are being made
by banks. Okay, I know that the crypto community is like, you guys are like

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insanely faithful and committed to the cause. And you don't want anything said
negative about it. And I'm not saying anything negative. Except for the fact

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that when I was 18,000 anybody buying up there was stupid, okay, and you can see
the the cause and effect of all that stuff. Now. All I was relying on is the

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simple fact of understanding the markets understanding human psychology, and the
fact that everybody has a buyer, and it has to reset, it has to go back lower.

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Why? Because it's designed to do that. It's designed for people not to make
money. You think this is here. This is all for your benefit. It's actually not

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it's not it's a casino does anything else. Wall Street's a casino, the Forex
markets a casino, and it's fine. It's okay for you to admit that it's rigged.

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Because when you understand how it's rigged, you have a advantage. You have a
greater understanding what they're doing. So that way you're not led to

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slaughter. Okay, you understand what you're doing with the masses, and you can
stay outside the herd. Okay, the herd is what gets fleeced the herd is what gets

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sent to the slaughter. That rogue okay animal that stays outside the herd. Okay,
generally they're the predators. And that's what you can become you can be a

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predator, looking at price action and picking your spots, being a part of moves
and then moving to the sidelines. I am not a proponent of hold on for dear life.

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I think that you know, these markets are gonna be moving around. They should be
traded. Okay, yeah. How many times you're going to sit through you 9000 plus

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point slide, especially the individual that we're buying it like 15,000 and
above. You've watched it go up, and now you're underwater. So, to me, that's not

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trading, that's gambling and hoping and praying. And I don't like to do that. So
hopefully I've been, at least to some degree encouraging to the crypto community

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letting them know that you guys finally convinced me to look at it. Now I'm
looking at it and I see some positive things. So are we without going lower from

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here? I think it's healthier for Bitcoin to drop. I think if it's going to go
higher, longer term, it needs to wash out every one of you hold on for dear

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lifers, okay, because you if you sell it, that provides their liquidity to buy
it. And the banks are really, really interested in these things. So

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think about it, like in 2000, when the stock markets crashed, okay, you know, we
went lower it Well, everyone was, it's the end of the world, but look at it now.

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So we may be seeing the very same things occurring, just 10 and 20 years away,
where people can look back and say, Wow, you know, we were doing things that

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were entirely brand new. And we got in real well, and even though this is kind
of inflated, in terms of the pricing, if it goes below 10,000, I think that you

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know, if you have a means to do so I might entertain the idea of putting
something on for a longer term and start, you know, building in positions down

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here. And as it goes higher, you do some of that stuff with the expectation of
10 to 20 years out, but not like you buying on the highs, like a lot of folks

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have been doing because they tell their brother, their cousin, you know,
someone's talked about something, they shared a video or whatever. If it's been

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running up, I don't like to do that. I like to be buying it when it's dropping
and has been dropping for a while. I I want to buy when it's going down and I

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want to sell as it's going higher. That's just the way banks trade. Okay, so if
the banks have to do that same measure of entering and exiting, scaling in and

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scaling out, that's the mode of operation, I'm going to work with this as well.
And kryptos proven to me that it's no exception in that regard. So very

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encouraging. Very, very encouraging. Do I regret anything? No, because I didn't
trust the asset class. And it wasn't until I had family member actually get into

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it, which is my nephew, J for watching Hello. The the movements that he was
showing me even though he doesn't have any idea what he's doing, he just went in

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there and just bought it based on his, I guess he bought into the hype, everyone
else was doing it too. And fortunately enough, he was in at a time where it

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allowed him to make money. So he's still in a position of profit. But I
personally have been preaching to them, take your profit, take your profit, take

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your profit and look for a better opportunity to buy in and get a core base of
liquidity to work off of with a lower price not with what you got. So he hasn't

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listened to so far and he may never listen to me. But ultimately, between there
in the community that I've been a part of, and had been building for a number of

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years online. They have finally got my attention in terms of crypto so there's
another kid on the block in the crypto community and it's things ICT if you

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