You should always have a macro view in mind, no matter what time frame market speculator you may be.
Bitcoin provides a macro perspective by showing time cycle alignments in a four-year cycle – meaning each four years, Bitcoin has so far produced new all-time new highs. Consequently, this statistical edge can be used as guideline when making trading decisions. While in a trading battle, larger cycles are easily overlooked. We find the best remedy to this dilemma is to trade multiple time frames to reduce overall risk.
Typically, various time frames perform better or worse for a trader at different times due to cycle overlaps. Having multiple trades running simultaneously in different time frames is typically an excellent hedge. This way, one can catch the specific trading instruments’ various shorter and longer-term trends.
BTC Quarterly Chart - Patience Pays
Typical mistakes are an early entry, or a chased trade and getting out too early of a steady trend. These behaviors have to do with pleasure-seeking and pain avoidance motivation.
With the chart above in mind, most pass if presented with an opportunity where rewards are paid out in ten years. Wealth preservation, which we are after, should have nothing else in mind—long-term protection with a low-risk profile and a solid performance.
The chart presented above is our most conservative view of the future for Bitcoin, both in price and time. Meaning, it would come as no surprise to us if much higher price levels are achieved in a much shorter period of time. Yet, we typically tend to estimate very conservatively to keep emotions like greed in check.
BTC Weekly Chart - Bitcoin’s Bullish Time Cycle Alignment
The percentage gain numbers of the previous chart assume the worst possible purchase price, which is an all-time high. If we purchase Bitcoin right now or at prices below their recent trading prices, these numbers already drastically change. Meaning, while our pain-avoiding emotional motivators direct us in declining markets to sell, it is principle-based if you have statistically high probability models over the long term to think about purchasing Bitcoin instead .
As indicated in the weekly chart above, we see a window of opportunity for entries based on our quarterly chart exit time horizon. Scenario A, the more aggressive position-taking, is in process already at the release of this chart.
Nevertheless, there is a probability that prices could decline as far as US$40,000, and low-risk entry spots within the price decline to such lower levels would be a scenario B welcome just as well. Should prices penetrate below the US$40,000 level, a regrouping would be required before new entries could be discussed.
BTC Daily Chart - Position Building In Motion
Assuming entries here in our entry zone between US$47,000 and US$40,000, and exits in our first chart of this post, a Bitcoin investment would be an insurance play against troubled fiat currencies that could provide a profit near a thousand percent.
The daily chart above has marked days and entry prices of three trades we posted live in our free Telegram channel over the last five days. We took partial profits based on our quad exit strategy within hours of entry. Consequently, eliminating the original stop risk of less than a percent to zero risk. With a risk-reward ratio of 1:1000, we find it reasonable to sit through a few years with the remaining position size for sizeable rewards.
Some of the worst mistakes in history were made based on shortsightedness; not thinking long term. As creative and inventive a species, we cannot help but follow emotions that often do not have our own best interest in mind.
One such emotion is instant gratification. It seems almost a burden to wait to be rewarded patiently. Yet, this is the discipline one needs to be a successful trader. First, you need the patience to not always be too early with one’s entry in a trade so as not to catch a falling knife. Then you require the patience not to chase a trade if you missed it. Instead, wait for a later chance to get another low-risk entry spot or to pass up on the trade altogether. And foremost, once finding yourself in a good trade, it is imperative to sit on your hands and let the trade mature to full profits.
The higher the time frame your play is, the harder this test of your patience becomes. Remedies are good planning, consistent reviewing of a plan, rigorously following it, and employing an exit strategy suitable to your psychology. (See our quad exit strategy above).