BTC - Practical Example of Trading Order Blocks / Stop HuntsBitcoin / U.S. dollarBITSTAMP:BTCUSDDickDandyHere is a very practical, recent example of trading the reaction of BTC hitting stop loss order blocks and how price moves. Green Boxes: - Note that price moves in a slow, downwards consolidation - This slow drop allowed time for traders to enter shorts, consequently leaving stop loss orders for the entire position size - The price movement when these cascading blocks of orders are triggered always moves exponentially faster than the consolidation. Slower the move in a direction = faster the wick in the opposite direction. More orders ( buys or sells ) equals greater speed and distance. - These orders being triggered (stop losses and liquidations) trump any pattern, support or resistance. It all becomes irrelevant as the order chains will always execute and set off, ignoring any technical pattern. Predicting this Wick to 123,300: - Notice the downwards consolidation followed by a faster drop in the end. - Price quickly moved higher - From this point we can anticipate that the high leverage stop loss orders for shorts will be triggered, at this point you can scalp a long, take profit slightly above where the consolidation started. Red Boxes: - The red boxes are sell orders created from long positions being opened and consequently their stop loss and liquidation orders - Mark and extend boxes from the open zones that price has not reclaimed - When price moves down low enough, to start filling these sell orders, you may short to slightly below the beginning of the upwards consolidation - I’d anticipate when price moves below 122,200, that’s when the wick will form and land at a minimum of 120,100 (if not setting off more sell orders as we look at higher time frames than the 15 M) - Looking at the slowness and time allowed for the upwards consolidation, we can anticipate a larger amount of longs have been opened, and this can be translated to an increased speed of a wick down and faster movement. In Summary: I hope this serves you as a good, practical example of the method of trading stop losses hunts and order blocks, which in my experience is the only reliable way to predict the price of Bitcoin. Yours truly, - DD