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Market Meditations | March 19, 2021

Dear Meditators

The weekend starts here. With this newsletter ?

On Wednesday, we talked you through the fundamentals of Grayscale’s 5 new altcoin trust funds. Today, let’s take a look at the technicals ?

Because, technicals + fundamentals = you on the path to Building Wealth ?

✅ We’ll also dive into Ether, Compound Interest and a very special podcast on How to Invest in NFTs.

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Crypto. So far this week, bitcoin’s price has failed to make new all-time highs above $60k ⌛️ After the breakout above $58k, there was a pullback toward $53k mid-week. Such a move is normal as the bull market typically moves in waves ? That is, the market will find a new equilibrium of buyers and sellers, after which it will decide where to go next. In other news, billionaire hedge fund mogul Alan Howard has been revealed as a shareholder in CoinShares and Latin America’s first Bitcoin ETF receives approval in Brazil ?
Legacy. The S&P 500 and the Dow dropped today ? with banks leading the way after the U.S. Federal Reserve ?? said it would not extend a temporary capital buffer relief put in place to ease a pandemic-driven stress in the funding market ?

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MARKET MEDITATION

Diving Deeper into Grayscale Coins

Grayscale Investments (the world’s largest digital asset manager) is digging into the world of DeFi, with 5 new trust offerings ? Today we’re going to perform a high time frame technical analysis on these coins.

Every crypto market analysis begins with a macro overview of Bitcoin. So, without further ado…

BITCOIN / DOLLAR

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While Bitcoin has slowed down, it does maintain a bullish market structure and a strong uptrend ? The most important level remains psychological resistance at $60,000, coupled with the current structure we should see fireworks after claiming this level ?

? As always remember to consider invalidators ? key levels that invalidate current bias. ~$54,630 confluent with the 0.382 level is pivotal to maintain the current structure of the market.

Now on to our under-performing friend…

CHAINLINK / DOLLAR

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FILECOIN / DOLLAR

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ALTCOIN NEWS & ANALYSIS

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When it comes to success in the markets, it is critical to assess market sentiment ? In other words, whether market participants are bullish (positive✅) or bearish (negative❌) on an asset. You then make your own assessment, determine the R:R and, if it seems worthwhile, you enter the market based on your viewpoint.

? There is no shortage of indicators or tools that try to determine market sentiment. From candlestick charts to momentum and oscillators. However, isn’t the best tool one that not everyone already uses or is aware of? Indeed it is, because it may give us signals that are not yet ‘priced’ into the market ?. Here is where we can look at ? options markets ?

This week, we saw a pair of wildly speculative Ether options trades on the over-the-counter institutional crypto trading network Paradigm ? A total of 1,644 call options contracts on Ether, with a strike price of $25k and an expiration date of Dec.31 ? Was that complete jargon for you? You have two choices:

1️⃣Check out our Crypto Options trading guide to get up to speed
2️⃣Read the translation in plain English: whoever bought these contracts stands to profit if there is a serious Ether bull run by Dec. 31

The cost of buying these options was about $82k. And, if the position is held open until expiry and Ether is trading below $25k on Dec.31, the buyer gets nothing ? $82k down the drain ?

This purchase means that someone with deep pockets either thinks Ether will rise above $25k by the end of the year ? or that Ether’s price will push much higher in the coming months, such that the buyer can sell the contract in the market, for a profit ?

Now, analysis of two options trades is not enough to shape a trading strategy ❌ but, the process we have gone through together, should set you up with a new way to assess market sentiment. Keep an eye out for options bets and what they convey about the market’s expectations on the price trajectory of assets.

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PERSONAL FINANCE

Harnessing the Power of Compound Interest

Albert Einstein ? once said “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it … he who doesn’t … pays it.”

So what is compound interest and how can WE be the ones to earn it❓

Compound interest is the interest paid out on your principal investment AND on any interest already earned. Simply put, it is interest paid on your interest. ? To understand just how powerful this effect is, consider the below table. This shows how much an investor who saves $10,000 every year and receives a 7% APY will make over 30 years.

In the first 10 years, they invest $100,000 and receive a comfortable $38,000 in interest. ? By year 20 they have invested $200,000 however have earned $210,000 in interest – they have doubled their initial investment ?. By year 30 they have invested $300,000 however earned $644,000 in interest, over tripling their initial investment. ?

What’s more, this example assumes a 7% APY. By using ? our passive income guide you can start earning more than 10% APY on your stablecoins.

Compounding can also be applied to other areas of your life. When we learn about a topic we construct a mental framework. ? When we continually add knowledge to this framework, not only do we benefit from the knowledge itself, but our ability to gain knowledge also increases.

Now we understand the principals, let’s talk about how you can use the power of compounding to build wealth ?:

Start saving as soon as possible.? In the above example only $38,000 of interest was earned in the first 10 years vs $435,000 in the last 10 years. It all comes down to time in the market.
Capital preservation is king. ? The true cost of losing a dollar is actually far higher than a dollar because you have lost the ability to earn compound interest.
Commit to continuous improvement and be patient. ⌚ Over time, these improvements, in any area of your life, will compound beyond what you thought possible.
Do not hold too much cash. ? Cash does not earn any interest and as such cannot grow exponentially. If you’re not sure how much is too much, or too little, check out our emergency fund guide.
Pay off your debt, starting with the highest interest rates. Just as savings increase exponentially, so does debt. The higher the interest rate, the more extreme this effect will be.

Apply these tips to your everyday life, harness the eighth wonder of the world and it will be you who earns it, not who pays it.

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