A buddy in a slack group posted a video of an guy saying the "fair value" of BTC is 4000 based on a previous period of consolidation. I said this is nonsense and was asked to elaborate. So here we go:
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okay third touch driver chords this is
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the charm so this is in response to a
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buddy of mine in a private slack group
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posted a video and what the video is
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argument was was that in order to find
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where bitcoin is going to drop to then
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you have to find what's what the analyst
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was calling the fair market value and
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the way he defined that was to look at
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where there had been periods of
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consolidation in the past and he picked
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this one right here which was about two
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weeks and he said ok and that's a that's
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a fair market value but problem with
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that is that it wasn't long enough there
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wasn't enough the consolidation didn't
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last long enough in time in order to
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count so then he went back a little bit
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further and then he said oh well you
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know we've got this area here which kind
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of oscillated between three and five
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thousands of call it fours but the
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difference and that was a two month
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period and that that was better the
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problem with this kind of analysis the I
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mean there's a couple problems with it
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but the main problem with it is that it
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is 100% completely subjective so why is
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this okay and this okay even though the
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percentage difference here is almost a
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hundred percent I mean let's look at a
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log chart
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oh this is a log chart actually yeah it
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looks his case looks more convincing
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here you know you can see it here and
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there you can say that oh well you know
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it looks it looks pretty consolidated so
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that must mean that people agreed which
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isn't really what consolidation means
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but but if when we look at it on a log
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chart we can see that well you know the
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low in this here was thirty six hundred
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the high up here was just a hair under
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five thousand some thirty six hundred to
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five thousand that's that's a 50% range
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from low so that's not consolidation
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really at all it just looks that way
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because when you look on a linear chart
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is it because the you know big blow up
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so much
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that you know it looks relatively flat
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but why is it that and why is it not
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this thing over here and or this part
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over here or how about you know this
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part over here so I mean this is about
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two months also and I had a similar kind
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of actually at a tighter range went from
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6700 down to 5500 so that was a 1200
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range on a higher starting point so the
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percentage change was did was lower so
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you know it's just it's it's just
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complete cherry picking and that that's
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the problem that's kind of Nelson it's
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the same thing where you know Elliott
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Wave people are just talking out of
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their ass because they're thinking
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things post-hoc and making it fit their
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own narrative so you know it's it's just
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it's just not a reliable way to do
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technical analysis so you know when when
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you're doing technical analysis I'll try
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to heat this brief what you're looking
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for is patterns in psychology because
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there's really just buying and selling
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and you know when it happened and how
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much of it was there so it's it's not
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rocket science you're just trying to
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anticipate where other people are going
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to go and you know it's it's a it's sort
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of an arms race because the other people
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trying to anticipate you and you have to
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do you know go beyond them and so forth
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and so on
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millions of market participants are all
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trying to do the same thing so here is
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here's what I see when I look at this
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chart and something they have some
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drawing tools here we have this range
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here I wanted there we go so there
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that's close enough
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so we have this support range where you
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know we've bounced one two three and now
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we're at a fourth time and then we have
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this over here okay so what we were
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seeing here is that at this roughly the
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same price buyers have stepped into the
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market and and the money coming in has
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been greater than the money flowing out
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and so prices in tourism and you know at
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those points and then the points where
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we have turn around the other way the
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money going out has been greater than
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the money coming in which causes the
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price to fall and so you know that's
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what creates you know a turnover when
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those one of those trans change but the
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important part here is that the point at
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which the sellers have taken control the
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market has beat has been sooner and
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sooner and sooner into these rallies you
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know in terms of price so you know
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people have been giving up hope earlier
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and earlier basically and that does not
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bode well for you know this right here
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because we're at that support line here
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so typically when you have a wedge
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pattern which is what this is whichever
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whichever side is sloped is gonna be the
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one that wins because you know if you're
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going the other way we would say the
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buyers are coming in you know earlier
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and earlier into into declines and so
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they're becoming stronger and stronger
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more confident here we're seeing the
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sellers becoming more confident as
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they're willing to sell faster and and
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harder into into these rallies so
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typically you know those patterns
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continue and so this is more likely it's
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not a guarantee there's just likelihoods
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that's all technical analysis good.you
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likelihood is that this support line
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will break you know maybe not this time
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maybe next time or maybe will be this
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time and then we will see go down
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to the next leg and the next leg you
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know what what people do and this is you
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know sort of the self-fulfilling
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prophecy portion is they do look back at
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previous supports just because people
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like to make patterns out of things so
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you know we might see some some support
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and you know at these lower levels get
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this straight you know but you can see
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that on a percentage difference these
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are these are almost equally far apart
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but when you look at it on there we go
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there we go so on a log we could say
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that there are they're almost exactly
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evenly spaced which is which is
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interesting that looks a little bit a
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little bit more skewed on a on a linear
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chart and yeah so and you know then we
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also see if they've Adachi patterns
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which were you could leave
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self-fulfilling prophecies as far as I'm
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concerned but yeah so the problem with
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that kind of analysis like I was saying
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is the is the cherry-picking nature of
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it that is simply done just to fit
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preconceived notions it's not based on
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anything real because like I said we can
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look at this I mean this is let's say
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715 all the way back to 612 so over a
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month very tight range and then we had
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that similar kind of range here or you
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know if if we like two months you know
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why not let's go back to linear so it
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looks better you know why not this you
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know at 750 you know we had three months
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there and you know in other months there
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so you know when you when you do
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technical analysis it just has to be
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based in something and that's why those
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kinds of turnkey analysis techniques are
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nonsense I mean it's like it's a coin
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flip maybe you're right maybe wrong but
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you're not really stacking
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the probabilities in your favor which is
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kind of the entire point of of TA
Problem isn't cherry picking charts, it's using charts at all. Trying to do the impossible (predict future), by looking a chart seem like an incredible waste of time.