CRYPTOCURRENCY TRAINING: TECHNIQUES TRADES & TRENDS pt.2

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the handwriting is on the wall! WHAT WE ARE EXPERIENCING IS A REDEFINING OF TODAY'S ZEITGEIST IN LIGHT OF A MAJOR PARADIGM SHIFT. this is one of the most TRANSITIONAL moments in human history both ecologically and economically. this MAY not BE the time for novices to try their luck at the DIRTIEST game in life. BUT THIS IS ALSO A TIME OF GREAT OPPORTUNITY. ALTHOUGH IT MAY NOT BE OBVIOUS, THE MONEY GAME IS THE GRIMIEST WAY TO INDULGE GREED IN THE HUMAN ECONOMY. THIS IS AN ARENA OF CUTTHROATS. THERE ARE DIRTY TACTICS AND COMPLICATED CONSPIRACIES PRACTICED ON A DAILY BASIS UNSCRUPULOUSLY. THAT IS WHY THIS INDUSTRY HAS TO BE CAREFULLY AND CONSISTENTLY REGULATED. THE S.E.C. (SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION) CONSTANTLY MONITORS MONETARY EXCHANGES TO CONTROL PRACTICES. blockchain TECHNOLOGIES GIVES US THE CHANCE OF A LIFETIME TO BRING FINANCIAL EQUITY AND EQUALITY TO THOSE WITH LESS MEANS. CONTRARY TO OUR PRESENT FISCAL AND SOCIAL BEHAVIORS WE NEED REFORMS. THE DURABILITY AND STABILITY OUR FINANCIAL SYSTEMS ARE UNDER SOME OF THE GREATEST STRAINS EVER. THE CONCEPT OF PASSIVE INCOME CAN BE DECEITFUL. THE IDEA THAT WE CAN EARN MONEY WITH LITTLE OR NO EFFORT OR SIMPLY LET OUR MONEY WORK FOR US IS A MISNOMER. MONEY CAN  ACT AS EITHER AN AGENT FOR FREEDOM OR OPPRESSION. PASSIVE INCOME CAN BE USED AS A MEANS OF EXPLOITING OR EMPOWERING OTHERS. IT IS DEPENDENT UPON HOW FAIRLY WE ENGINEER THAT MONEY TO WORK. THIS POST IS NOT FOR ANYONE LOOKING TO MAKE A QUICK AND EASY BUCK. THIS POST IS AN EXPOS'E ON THE POWER OF MONEY MARKETS AND VIRTUE OF BLOCKCHAIN TECHNOLOGIES. SOME OF THE NEW COINS RECENTLY OFFERED ON CRYPTOCURRENCY MARKETS MAY OR MAY NOT BE DESIGNED TO SOLVE PROBLEMS BUT RATHER TO SCAM PEOPLE. WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THE WORKINGS AND TECHNIQUES INHERIT IN MONEY MARKETS. THIS IS WHERE PEOPLE BUY AND SELL MONETARY ASSETS. WHEN WE LEARN HOW BLOCKCHAINS WORK WE WILL BE ABLE TO BUY, SELL OR TRADE EQUITABLY ENABLING US TO ALL PROSPER EQUALLY.

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MONEY IS A "TOOL OF TRADE" THAT WORKS IN THE WAYS WE MAKE IT WORK 

Finally the opportunity for the little guy to play in the big game has arrived. Even though the big fish usually gobble up the little ones there is always strength in numbers. Historically, many of the breakthroughs intended to mutually benefit all men get commandeered or controlled by just a few. Somehow the playing field never seems to be level. Why do many of our greatest advancements and innovations fall prey to systemic inequalities that tend to recreate traditional imbalances? The California gold rush, the Texas oil boom, the repeal of prohibition and even the legalization of marijuana all started out as big opportunities for the little guy, but ended up as businesses for the privileged class. Consider the thousands of new businesses and multiple entrepreneurs legalizing marijuana would have created. But the laws, rules and regulations were designed to keep the common man from being qualified to start such a business. When cell phones hit the market the "average anybody" could dream the dream of finding the means to open a store. When marijuana hit the market the "everyday nobody" was excluded and financially locked out. Yes, its unfair and our legislatures typical answer has been one of being vigilant. Traditionally, our government tries to regulate certain industries in order to prevent them from corrupting or taking advantage of us. Investing like gambling has been highly regulated by law in order to keep the average citizen from losing their shirt. It is important to know that roughly 70% of investors lose money while just 30% profit and/or break even. Most investors are lulled into various markets by observing and thinking that they can take advantage of market trends that they might have missed out on in the past. The truth is that greed and/or the desire to make a quick buck off of good luck is deceitful. Everybody has a plan or strategy they believe will work. With investing just like gambling the initial plays are close enough to make us "feel" we will break ahead and win. The "Greater Fool Theory" lives on. It is vital to remember that the participants in this arena are the most cutthroat and ruthless gladiators in all of business.  Be not deceived. The "spirit of greed" and the desire for profit at any cost is the engine and purpose of spirit behind "this" kind of trading. The "psychic" harmony within "trading money markets" differs from any other exchange environment. Exchange is the way of life. Without exchange life as we know it ceases to be. Fair exchange allows bees to pollinate flowers and plants to produce the oxygen we breathe. Fair exchange means that both sides mutually benefit in a transaction. Market investing and trading is a blood-sport. Bitcoin along with its underlying technology called blockchain helps level that playing field.

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IT'S NOT ABOUT PASSIVE INCOME IT'S ABOUT OPPORTUNITIES THAT PASS US BY

Is there really a fair unbiased, incorruptible way for the little fish to safely swim in the same ocean with the big time sharks and killer whales? Have we finally developed a level playing field that is impartial? The answer is yes for real blockchained systems. Sayings like "the trend is your friend," are deceptive. Many people think they can simply gamble/invest by paying attention to historical graphs and ongoing patterns. These simple metrics tend to entice many novice gamblers/investors into believing that they can cash in on the probabilities and odds that appear to be in their favor. Seeing is believing but unfortunately it is not that simple. There are multiple analytical and prediction tools that work off of the ebb and flow of trade. These tools produce graphs and charts used by investors for making decisions. There are leveraging/marginal metrics, relative strength index metrics, candlestick and wick shadowing measurements and simple or exponential moving averages to consider. These can be used along with a host of other instruments to both assist and confuse investors. Today's market fluctuations are driven by two major influences. The first factor is created by mathematical conditions derived from buying and selling metrics. The second factor also effects the first, and is determined by the way people feel. Exchange in money markets is called trade. Without trade money markets cannot exist. In nature all exchanges by design create a balance resulting in an ultimate win-win scenario. But human beings are the exception and can be ruthless when it comes to exchange and fair trade. Before participating in mixed martial arts (M.M.A.) most competitors train for years. This involves learning holds, punches, strikes, throws and wrestling techniques. Without some basic training the average person would not stand a chance fighting in that arena. The same applies and is true for engaging in monetary markets. There is no easy or simple path to investing and trading. We recommend a basic course in economics before even considering getting into the (M.M.A) Monetary Manipulation Arena. Learning economics is just the beginning. After acquiring that basic knowledge it is important to learn market history and processes. Only then should we begin practicing these newly learned skills to hone and refine them. Beginners generally see the exciting positive side of making money and tend to get caught up in the fever and hype surrounding this business. That is how the "spirit of this business" operates. The more excitement it generates the more activity (volume) it generates. Volume is one of the metrics any smart investor monitors. We strongly recommend being knowledgeable in banking, credit, economics, finance, history, leveraging, politics, stocks and real estate terminology. All financial markets are interrelated. No matter which market or markets we deal with it is critical to be familiar with the terminology used across all of them. Blockchain technology is relatively new. It is easily adaptable with our current financial systems and adopting it has caused alarm. Blockchain is affecting finance in the same way that the advent of the zipper affected the button industry. At first zippers were slowly accepted by garment makers. Today buttons and zippers sit side by side depending on the style desired. 

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PREREQUISITES SEPARATE THOSE GETTING PLAYED FROM THE REAL PLAYERS 

Here's one way of breaking it all down. There are "day traders," "swing traders" and scalpers. "Day traders" are generally more sophisticated and use greater technical analysis. "Swing traders" make trades based on price swings and trending differences. Scalpers are more like scavengers taking advantage of short or small dips and rises that add up when combined together. There are three distinct type of players in the M.M.A. There are investors, traders and investor/seller types. Most investors have long term interests. Most traders expend energy on the markets daily or hourly monitoring changes. Investor/sellers are hybrid specialist who work the best of both worlds to obtain even greater gains. There are only two distinct classes of cryptocurrency facilitators or "players." There are those who understand the underlying technology behind it like blockchain and there are those who do not. Every "player" forms their own predictive strategy. Like "timing the market." "Players" can base their strategies on data, rumor or both. This can also include fundamental or technical analysis. The fact is that human psychology is the fundamental force behind the movements of any given market. Emotions like fear and greed follow surprisingly consistent patterns that can be technically analysed and charted to predict tendencies and trends. Data mining can be most simply described as the art of examining historical information with a computer under a microscope. Heuristics and technical analysis are mandatory skill sets. There has been a dramatic growth in "impact investing" alone over the past few years. Impact investors seek to benefit society along with a financial return. "Impact investments" generally utilize blockchain technologies. Today's financial markets have become more accessible to the average novice investor. This increases the flow of capital. Today the funding from new investors can be used in multiple ways without the company actually operating or growing. These types of companies are called "meme's." A "meme" is a concept, feeling or behavior that spreads without any logical explanation from person to person. A "meme" stock is one that has seen an increase in volume not due to the company's performance, but because of the hype. Many of the cryptocurrency companies we're investing in are still in the formation stage. Investors need to have more then just a hunch. To know what we're doing, we need to know what the companies we invest in do. This is how Ponzi schemes and fake investment scams get traction. As a result the rules and regulations have to keep evolving. Today the game board, game pieces and game "players" have begun to "play" differently. There are subtle changes in how the game is being "played" despite the rigid rules. The bigger our markets get and the larger they expand the more volume they will have and the more assets they can absorb and/or integrate with. There's no telling how tolerant or resilient our markets are. There's no way to know if the markets can endure our continual abuse as in the past. Safeguards have been instituted again and again but we've always managed to create havoc anyway. Let's face it. When our politicians and legislators write these laws, they get a lot of expert advice and guidance. Those experts are partially composed of people from the financial sector. When it comes to legislation that affects the financial sector, these experts are quite innovative. Once they understand the way the new laws they helped create operate, they find loopholes. These experts from investment companies, banks and financial institutions are often one step ahead of the regulators. Sometimes the more efficient an industry is, or regulates itself to be, the less resilient it becomes. Wiggle room is an important factor when it comes to financial systems and growth. Many say that money markets have a mind of their own, sometimes referred to as animal spirits. This feels comforting because we don't trust one another. The term "animal spirits" is commonly used to describe market psychology and behavioral economics. This also seems to mean that no one individual or group of individuals can completely control the power of money although they continue to try. This air of mystery and uncertainty serves as an enchantment for the next person to try and figure out.

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INSIGHTS INTO INSIDER TRADING: THE SPIRITUAL SIDE

The fact is that there are only four moves any "player" can make and only four positions any "player" can occupy on the game board. The rules allow us to utilize any or all of these four moves or positions. Every "play" can be categorized as either buying, selling, trading or holding. Most new investors play video games better then they work investments. The primary reason behind such incompetence is that although most "players" know how the game is "played" they don't know all the rules of the game. Unfortunately there are no "player" rule-books. Yes there are regulations but the game is a virtual free-for-all. Watching the game entices people to become "players."  But before diving into the excitement we advise our readers to understand the "spirit of the game." Yes, there is a spirit behind investing and trading. There are also spirits in operation affecting all of the players of the game. The founding spirit (cause, intention or purpose) behind any organization will drive it. The spirit behind these monetary markets are primarily greed! Some of the spirits operating within them are anxiety, competition, dominance, fear, profit and selfishness. As with all businesses, there are "feelings" attached to the emotional business of trading. Most businesses have a mission, motto or slogan that depicts their posture. Like every other activity in the human economy it is spirit driven. These spirits  represent the attitude of the energy behind the actions and exchanges. Most "players" in money markets are there for one purpose alone and that is profit. All activities in the market are a direct reflection of the psychic energy that the players create through buying, exchanging and selling their shares. Less psychic energy is generated by simply holding a position. Exchanges like Robin Hood make their profits primarily through high frequency trading. When we get caught up in the hype we will find ourselves speculating emotionally and chasing trends impulsively. A better way to address investing is to study it historically and evaluate it predicatively. The spirit of "money markets" carry both volatility and unpredictability. The formulas  we use will be derived from applying known equations revised consistently. New formulas must be constantly created from both previous successes and failures. The equation for this becomes expectations divided by evaluations plus realizations multiplied by reviews producing new formulas. Observing the "principle of reformulation" MUST provide us with updated equations applicable to market changes. We exist in a mental universe. Money market movements are mainly motivated by the mentality of its members. There is a spiritual perspective here. Mob mentalities are beliefs triggered by emotions created from feelings. The attitude/mood/spirit of excitement permeates money markets today. looking at it spiritually, may not  allows us to see all things, but it does allow us to see all things more clearly. The psychic energy in money markets is always hyped. No one invests money to lose it. Whether the markets are good or bad somehow we keep believing that they're always going to keep getting better. Now that may not be reality but that represents the spirit of how it feels.

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TAKING ON THE TECHNICAL LANGUAGE AND TERMINOLOGY

Bitcoin might be regarded as the first "widely used" case of a blockchain technology but it is not the only one. To understand how bitcoin or blockchain works under the hood there are terminologies used we must understand. Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency. To understand what a cryptocurrency is, we must first have an idea of how cryptography works. Cryptography allows us the ability to virtually communicate or operate commerce privately in the presence of adversaries. Cryptocurrency is simply digital cash. It is value represented by a number on a ledger. The ability to safely exchange funds electronically is the main task of encryption. The ability to accumulate value electronically on a computer or phone as digital cash is cryptocurrency. This removes the middle man. Anyone can now have a virtual bank account that travels with them. The fees are minimal because the overhead of tellers, vaults, guards, deposits and withdrawals have been automated and eliminated. This means that we are responsible to maintain the security of our own wallets or trust them to some online party. Today we are doing virtual transactions from virtual banks with virtual currency from virtual accounts kept in virtual wallets. The assets kept in those virtual wallets are virtual coins of different values. "Crypto" markets like "stock" markets are composed of companies that offer coin or stock value in their organization. There are no physical coins, wallets or banks. These terms have become more like figurative analogies. What under-girds, protects and secures all of these virtual transactions are computer code. Without cryptographic hash functions that serve as digital fingerprints we would be forced to use LEGACY accounting, filing, signing, sorting and of course the securing our funds in a bank vault. Cryptocurrency like stock is an asset defined by its cash value. Most purchases today use Fiat monies. In order to spend cryptocurrency, sometimes it must be converted to fiat money. Fiat money is government-issued currency not backed by a commodity like gold. Fiat money allows the central banks to have greater control over the economy because they set the flow. This involves how much money is printed and in circulation. Most modern currencies, like the U.S. dollar, are fiat currencies. Too many people are fooled into believing that the dollar amount they see on their charts, graphs and earnings reports are actually the total value of the assets they hold on exchanges. Unfortunately this is not true. Many exchanges offer free coins of their own as an enticement to investors. Although they seemingly add value to the portfolio, users are generally restricted from cashing in their posted value. There are many policies use by various exchanges that allows them to maximize their profits like "payment for order flow." Every platform is a business created to make money. Never underestimate the instruments and tactics used in monetary manipulation. Although many cryptocurrencies work off of "blockchain technologies" the management of the funds they produce may not. Blockchain is a decentralized shared ledger earning platform, that eliminates the overhead of a central authority. However converting our assets to cash and exchanging or trading them will cost us. There are FEES and LAWS governing this.

RUSHING AND SHORTCUTS ARE A SURE WAY TO FALL SHORT

Today investors generally fall into one of two anxiety traps. While managing their investments, most modern day investors develop their own style. There are F.O.M.O. and F.O.M.U. player styles. Most "FOMO" (fear of missing out) participants tend to chase the markets. Most "FOMU" (fear of messing up) participants lean towards long term investments and shy away from leverage trades. Minimizing loss and risk mitigation ought to be a part of every investors strategy. Remember the spirit of today's market, especially cryptocurrency, is driven by the "hype" of the traders. One things investors need to be aware of are the laws governing investing. ​In this country anyone who sells their bitcoin or other cryptocurrency without going through a regulated exchange is breaking the law. It's easy to convert our cash into cryptocurrency, but it's another thing to revert back to fiat currency/cash. Because cryptocurrency is new, its acceptance and integration has outpaced any laws or regulations regarding it. Most laws are made to correct offenses. Although bitcoin and cryptocurrency has been used in the past for nefarious purposes its widespread acceptance is forcing businesses and governments to recognize it. Fees and taxes are inevitable. Although there are no specific laws governing crypto, our existing laws are being applied. New laws governing crypto will follow. Is it legal in this country? Yes. Can we purchase, sell, trade and market it? That varies by state. The S.E.C. (Security & Exchange Commission) has not adopted rules specifically tailored to cryptocurrencies. No one is sure as to how they should be treated by governments, people and businesses. Ready to invest? Wait, there are a few more concerns. Ever since the introduction of Bitcoin more than a decade ago, it has attracted the attention of both investors and scammers. The nature of scams relative to Bitcoin’s network has run neck and neck with the development of its infrastructure. Bitcoin’s earlier blockchain infrastructure was somewhat sketchy.  When the number of transactions on the network multiplied, it would crash. In recent years Bitcoin has become more stable and mainstream. Bitcoin has attracted the attention of institutional investors and with added clout comes added security. If Elon Musk can risk a billion, that makes it easier for us to risk just one months bills. That doesn't stop fraud or hackers. Here are a few important things to be aware of and watch out for. Hackers have shifted their strategies to targeting cryptocurrency wallets. Phishing is an especially popular method for hackers to steal user key information for cryptocurrency wallets. Novices don't quite understand that their assets are contained within the computer codes and passwords they use. Hacking a user, or the users exchange is easy if enough information has been stolen from the user. Social media runs rampart with people who unwittingly compromise their discretion by bragging or sharing sensitive information. There are I.C.O.'s (initial Coin Offerings) and scams resembling I.P.O.'s and Direct Public Offerings. There are fake websites that compel investors to deposit coins into compromised wallets. These sites appear legitimate but are designed to capture and keep our digital currency.  Scams such as "DeFi Rug Pulls" target investors by using the protocols and smart contracts designed to minimize overhead by removing gatekeepers. By not understanding how blockchain works and chasing profits we can cheat ourselves out of our own money. Digital currency and blockchain are not synonymous. True blockchain technologies are characterized by integumentary characteristics and qualities, that like skin, cover every affiliated part. Bitcoin is only one example on one platform using one application of blockchain. Knowing how different exchanges operate, their history, their fees and policies is crucial. HAVING A SECURED OFF-LINE WALLET IS EVEN MORE IMPORTANT. Above all honest, legal and reputable investing is paramount. Thinking that we have more value then we do, thinking that we can avoid capital gains taxes or trying to disguise or hide from government regulations is foolish. Computers are impartial. Data once captured is become permanent evidence. Blockchain technologies are append only, time-stamped shared ledgers that are almost immutable. After joining an exchange and getting a wallet let's begin safely collecting cryptocurrency. Stay tuned for collection strategies and tools in part 3.