Cryptocurrencies: BTC & Alts Trading with Technical Analysis

Explore what cryptocurrencies are, using Bitcoin as a central example, and understand decentralization, digital currencies, and the blockchain ledger, along with Bitcoin’s fast, low-cost transactions and key trade-offs.

Define coin, altcoin, and token, showing how coins act as currency, altcoins are other coins, and tokens run on existing blockchains, with forks and relationships explained.

Explore trading few as the charting toolkit for technical analysis. Learn to use indicators, set up a free account, and customize charts with candles, dark mode, and alerts.

Explore tradingview navigation to customize BTC/USD charts, switch exchanges, add indicators and overlays, adjust timeframes, draw trend lines and support levels, set alerts, and build watch lists.

Candlesticks display high, low, open, and close, with bullish and bearish candles showing price movement. Examine bodies, shadows, and patterns like doji to infer reversals or continuations for trading.

Analyze doji candlesticks and variants like gravestone doji, dragonfly doji, and doji star to understand price action, market uncertainty, and potential trend changes in cryptocurrencies.

Explore bullish engulfing and bearish engulfing candlestick patterns, two-candle formations that signal trend reversals and indicate shifts between uptrends and downtrends.

Identify shooting star and hammer candlestick formations that signal potential trend changes after up or down moves. Confirm signals with other patterns and indicators.

Identify the hanging man as a reversal pattern after an uptrend, featuring a long lower shadow and small body near the top, signaling potential bearish pressure.

Explore the dark cloud cover and piercing pattern, two-candle reversals signaling trend changes, with trend lines, support and resistance, and RSI divergence.

Examine the evening star and morning star reversal patterns, three-candle formations signaling trend reversals: evening star in uptrends, morning star reversing downtrends with a strong bullish candle.

Detect rising three methods and falling three methods candlestick patterns, five candles with inside bars in an uptrend or downtrend, signaling continuation and potential gains.

Explore time frames from one second to daily candles, and learn how to trade with the trend by analyzing the big picture and scaling down to entry time frames.

Explore time frames from one minute through five-minute to daily charts, and learn to use moving averages, fibonacci retracement, and support and resistance.

Explore how supports and resistances mark key price levels and reactions, driven by greed and fear, and learn to trade around them with breakouts and risk-reward planning.

Explore vertical support and resistance and trend formations—channels, rectangles, triangles, and wedges—emphasizing touchpoints and how higher time frames affect reliability in crypto charts.

Explore triangle trading patterns, including symmetric, descending, and ascending triangles, and learn how to spot breakouts using support and resistance, trend lines, and risk-reward analysis.

Explore technical indicators that overlay price charts to predict market trends, indicate overbought or oversold conditions, and show how moving average is applied in trading view.

Explore moving averages, including simple moving average and exponential moving average, with periods like 9, 50, and 200, and learn how golden and death crosses signal trends while acknowledging lag.

Explore the MACD indicator, a trend-following momentum tool using 12 and 26 period EMAs with a 9-day signal line. Learn crossovers, divergences, and histogram signals for actionable crypto trades.

Explore the relative strength index (RSI) and how it signals overbought and oversold conditions. Learn about false signals, reversals, risk management, and using RSI with Bollinger bands and moving averages.

Master the rainbow moving average swing trading strategy using four EMAs 8, 13, 21, 55 to spot long setups in uptrends with support and resistance confirmation.

Compare centralized and decentralized cryptocurrency exchanges, learn why trading volume matters, and distinguish spot exchanges from derivatives like futures and options, with a focus on major players such as Binance.

Register a free Binance account, complete KYC and security setup, and learn to buy, deposit, withdraw, and trade crypto, plus earn with Binance Earn and use the Binance card.

Learn how to access Binance US, set up two-factor authentication, and navigate markets, charts, and trading tools like limit, market, and OCO orders.

Learn how to trade Bitcoin on Bitget with leverage, including futures, isolated margin, transferring funds, setting take profit and stop loss, and exploring copy trading and demo trading.

Master the fundamentals of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and altcoins, and apply candlestick analysis, time frames, and indicators like MACD and RSI, plus the rainbow swing strategy.