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Top to toe Crypto: An IFTA presentation by Alessio Rutigliano
Thursday 23rd March 2022 Alessio gave an excellent webinar for the International Federation of Technical Analysts (IFTA) entitled ‘Crypto Markets and the Wyckoff Method: A Top-Down Approach’. He’s a teaching instructor @WyckoffAnalysis whose website is www.wyckoffanalytics.com. Not being exactly au-fait […]
Tags: Crypto, Sector Rotation, Speculation, volatility, Wyckoff
Stupid spikes and Johnny-come-latelies : follow on from extreme rectangles (last week’s blog)
Almost 40 years ago I started on my quest to learn about derivatives markets and how to use technical analysis on their price charts. My ‘speciality’ – if one can call it that – was being a few steps ahead […]
Tags: Excess, momentum, Speculation, Spikes, Stupid Moves
Bubbles, busts, and how to spot them: Books at bedtime
Rather than chamomile tea and a collection of soothing fairy tales for your night table, I have better ideas as to what you should read this winter. Not horror stories or fantasy gladiators, but cautionary tales; sort of in the […]
Tags: Excess, history, Speculation
Towering figures in finance: Take a tumble
Isn’t life funny? Last week I wrote about Charles Mackay – he of the Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds 1841 book – who said, ‘those who sound the alarm over an approaching railway crisis have somewhat exaggerated […]
Tags: Biography, crash, publishing, Speculation
Tim Harford: The undercover economist
Writing for the Financial Times stable as I do, you might assume I’m biased. More realistically, as a technical analyst you’re probably going to ask, why on earth have I chosen to focus on this chap, this week? Because he’s […]
Tags: Bubbles, Economists, Prediction, Speculation
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