Bitcoin Automated Trading Guide
Bitcoin Automated Trading Guide
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Bitcoin is a revolutionary new concept—a
digital currency of thenew era, not relying
on any bank or government, which started
few years ago as an open source project
on www.bitcoin.org. It was considered by
many as just another creation of Internet
geeks before it took the financial world by
storm this year and was suddenly raised to
the ranks of major world currencies.
And if you jump in fast, you can be one
of those who‟ll reap all the benefits.
The advantages of Bitcoin stem from the fact that your transactions do
not pass through any central office, bank, etc. The transactions take
place between two persons and involve the entire network to approve its
validity. No banks mean that the cost of transaction is kept very low. On
top of that, your account cannot be frozen, it will not depend on failing
banks, bad credit history etc. Opening an account does not require any
prerequisites. Just your email address is enough.
What is Bitcoin? How does it work? How to make money with it?
Spoiler:
By the end of our ebook, you will learn how you can profit
with Bitcoin on Autopilot!
Introduction
Almost a year ago, January 2014, the price of one bitcoin stood at $913,
down slightly after reaching an all-time high of over $1,200 earlier in
December. The new cryptocurrency came a long way from trading
below $4 just two years ago. Major online and offline retailers are
starting to add the new currency as a payment method. But what
exactly is bitcoin?
‘’It might make sense just to get some in case it catches on’’
Bitcoin Basics
Multibit is a lightweight version of the bitcoin client. You can read more
about it here.
But where are the bitcoins actually stored? After you install one of the
two clients above, you can find your bitcoins in a file called wallet.dat. If
you use windows this file will be located in the application data section.
If your computer gets stolen or lost and you haven‟t made a copy of the
wallet.dat file you will lose your bitcoins. It is always recommend to
backup this file.
The bitcoins can also be stored in online wallets. There are specialized
websites that offer bitcoin wallet services. However due to these sites
being a frequent target for hackers, keeping bitcoins in online wallets is
not recommended when you can easily store them offline on your
computer. Wallets can be useful for storing small sums of bitcoins so
that you can make quick online purchases. Some of the more popular
wallet services are Blockchain and CoinKite.
Btc exchanges are a somewhat safer place for your bitcoins compared
to online wallets because they keep most coins in what is known as
”cold storage”. Usually over 90% of the bitcoins deposited on an
exchange are kept offline. A small 5 to 10% reserve is kept onsite for
immediate redemption purposes. There are plenty of guides online on
how to store/secure bitcoins, go over them. It‟s always safer to take
care of this process yourself then to trust a third party with a substantial
amount of bitcoins.
Bitcoin Advantages
Another major plus of the new cryptocurrency is the very low cost for
sending and receiving bitcoins. While it is possible to send transactions
completely free of charge, it is recommended to pay the small fee in
order to speed up the sending process.
The fee amount depends on the data size of the transaction. A typical
transaction is 500 bytes and carries a fee of 0.0001 BTC. At current
prices of $250 per bitcoin, this amounts to a charge of 2.50 cents.
Notice that there is no name that goes along with the bitcoin address.
This is what outside observers mean when they say „‟ Bitcoin is
anonymous‟‟. Bitcoin is in fact „‟pseudo anonymous‟‟. While all bitcoin
addresses and transactions are public, the holders of those addresses
remain hidden.
The only thing that can be discerned by looking at the block chain is that
address 1XXxxxXXXxxxxxxXX sent 100 Bitcoins to address
3XXxxxXXXxxXXxxXX at a certain time. Who sent the coins, the reason
for sending, and the users location is not revealed.
But how can you actually get a hold of a bitcoin? The easiest way to
acquire bitcoins is to buy them at an online exchange. There are three
major bitcoin exchanges, each of them with their own unique properties
and a different fee structure.
Bitstamp.net
The fee structure favours big traders and market makers. The basic fee
for new accounts starts at 0.5% and goes all the way down to 0.2% if
you trade over $150,000 in one month.
Yes forex traders, you heard that right, the LOWEST fee structure is 0.2
percent. The 0.2% charge is per side, so you will get hit with this fee
whenever you buy or sell bitcoins.
Luckily, the spread between the bid and the ask price is very low, most
of the time ranging between 1 and 2 dollars. At a current bitcoin rate of
$250, this amounts to an added cost of 0.1 to 0.25%. You only pay the
spread if you want to enter a trade right away with a market order. If you
placed a limit order to buy and you‟re willing to wait until someone
wants to sell, you can purchase your bitcoins at a small discount at the
bid and later sell them at the ask, pocketing the spread in the process.
Bitstamp has largely avoided the deposit and withdrawal problems that
plague many bitcoin exchanges. With a lack of regulation on the
upcoming virtual currency and its checkered past, many financial
institutions remain reluctant to get involved with processing bitcoin
related transactions. You can deposit funds in USD, EUR, GBP and
CHF. US clients are accepted.
Coinbase.com
‘’The limit you’re seeing is Coinbase’s daily limit being reached, not your
personal limit. Sometimes the Coinbase site itself will run into a daily
rolling limit on purchases or sales if there is an exceptional amount of
activity in the bitcoin markets. We put up this temporary pause to make
sure that we have enough funds to accommodate the transfer orders
being created. This should be a rare exception rather than the general
rule however. There is no specific time of the day where this limit starts
– it’s on a 24 hour rolling basis. It might be best to check in at 6am or
7am Eastern Standard Time tomorrow. Sorry for any inconvenience this
has caused you – we know this can be frustrating. This is something
we’re working on as we speak.’’
Coinbase claims that over 97% of all customer funds are stored offline
in bank vaults to prevent theft or loss. If you live in the States, you can
easily link your bank account to Coinbase to facilitate quick and easy
bank transfers.
BTC-E.com
The fees on MetaTrader are slightly higher, 0.3% per side compared to
0.2% if you used btc-e‟s web interface. If you‟re a forex trader btc-e
might strike you as the best option of the three. But alas, nothing is as
straightforward in bitcoin world.
No one knows who the real owners behind btc-e are. Apparently the
headquarters of the company are in Bulgaria and the support staff is
more familiar with Russian then with English, but the rest is a mystery.
The company operates a complicated deposit and withdrawal process
that relays the money through several banks and payment processors
before depositing them to your account. If you plan to deposit on BTC-
E, make sure to follow their deposit instructions to the letter. Because
the deposits go through a web of banks, tracking down a lost deposit is
near to impossible.
On the plus side, the company does offer deposit and withdrawal by
several popular e-wallets like Webmoney, PerfectMoney, Ukash and
Paypal (withdrawal only $500 minimum). According to user reviews,
deposits and withdrawal by these methods are a lot faster and smoother
compared to bank wires.
Aside from the exchanges, you can also buy bitcoins on ebay and
similar auction sites. Keep in mind that due to the possibility for
chargebacks and fraud, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies trade at a
premium on ebay. Face to face meetups are another option to acquire
bitcoins. Checklocalbitcoins.com for bitcoin sellers and buyers near your
area. Always exercise caution when doing an offline exchange. Meet
during the daytime and in places with a lot of people around. If possible,
bring a friend.
We‟ll leave the choice of where to buy your first bitcoin up to you, we
hope that our presentation relayed enough information to help you
make an informed decision. It all depends on your needs and
requirements. Some exchanges are better for trading, others have
superior banking relations with bankwire deposit and withdrawal
options.
In this section we‟ll go over several options for trading bitcoin on margin.
We‟ll also outline the options to short the virtual currency. Before we go
any further, a caution is in order. Bitcoin prices are highly volatile. Prices
rose from a low of 195.50 on November 1st to a high of 1,090 by
November 30th 2013. From here, the btc price crashed to a low of 420
on December 18th, only to go back up and retest the 1,000 level in
January of last year. One bitcoin is currently worth 247.88 on btc-e. The
chart below demonstrates this volatility.
Unlike major forex currency pairs which barely move 1 percent per day,
bitcoin prices can rise or fall over 30 percent in a single day. If you know
how to trade, you don‟t really need any leverage to make money with
bitcoin. With that caution out of the way, let‟s get down to business and
go over some of the options for leveraged btc trading.
AVA Trade
AVA Trade is a forex broker that offers bitcoin trading through a CFD.
Two bitcoin CFDs are available, Bitcoin Mini and Bitcoin Weekly. The
Bitcoin Weekly CFD has a 20 to 1 leverage and expires every Friday at
21:00 GMT. The Bitcoin Mini only has a 2 to 1 leverage but doesn‟t
expire. Both contracts are using data from BTC-E and AVA Trade adds
around 10$ premium on top of the exchange spread.
Here‟s a snapshot of AvaTrade‟s MT4.
A major flaw of both contracts is the inability to trade them during the
weekend. Bitcoin trading is completely decentralized and doesn‟t rely on
a network of banks for executing trades thus there is no set open and
closing time. Unlike forex which trades 24/5, bitcoin trades 24/7 (except
on AvaTrade). As can be seen on the chart, large gaps are frequent on
AVA Trade‟s Bitcoin CFD due to this policy. AvaTrade does not accept
US clients at this time.
Etoro.com
Btc.sx
As you can see on the picture, you can only set the stoploss as a
distance from the current price (in the pic this is set as 50 points). The
default is 88 points below entry. This is exactly where my stop was, 88
points below 935 at 847. There is a trailing stoploss option but despite
my best efforts, I couldn‟t make it work. So essentially, once you set
your stoploss on Btc.sx, you‟re stuck with it.
Bitcoin Options
Besides CFDs, the new cryptocurrency has also helped spawn a new
options market. Currently several companies are in the business of
offering Bitcoin options. Anyoption.com is one of the more established
option houses that offers trading in the virtual currency. You can bet on
rising or falling bitcoin prices. Anyoption.com is not an option for US
clients, the company doesn‟t accept USA traders at the moment. Here
are some of the current btc options on offer.
Predictious
Regulation
November rally
With the 2008 financial crisis still fresh in people‟s minds, most wrote off
Bitcoin‟s rising price as just another „‟bubble‟‟. But what a lot of people
failed to grasp is why the price is going up. While speculation and
betting on higher prices certainly played their part in the process, a
major reason behind the gains is very simple, increased adoption of the
cryptocurrency.
The FBI shut down Silk Road on 2 October 2013. The alleged chief
operator of the site, Ross William Ulbricht (also known as Dread Pirate
Roberts) was charged with alleged murder for hire and narcotics
trafficking violation. The agency confiscated over 26,000 bitcoins from
different accounts on Silk Road, worth approximately 3.6 million US
Dollars back then. Twenty days later, the FBI reported that they had
seized 144,000 BTC thought to belong to Ulbricht.
The chart above shows the bitcoin market‟s reaction to the website‟s
shutdown and the subsequent btc confiscation. Bitcoin prices
plummeted from 123.95 to a low of 75.20 on the news. The market
didn‟t take long to recover however as most took the plunge as an
opportunity to buy some cheap bitcoins. Prices were back to 118 two
days later.
With the mark of drug trafficking of the record, the new cryptocurrency
was also starting to attract the attention of Wall Street. Wedbush
Securities, a little known analyst firm put a forecast of around $98,500
on the price of one bitcoin. The analysts expect bitcoin to rise by 10 to
100 times its current value as the new technology partly replaces
traditional payment processors and money transmitters. Bank of
America Merrill Lynch wasn‟t as optimistic in its forecasts. The Bank‟s
analysts predict a maximum „‟fair‟‟ estimate of bitcoin of $1,300.
The Winklevoss twins told CNBC that a $400 Billion market cap for BTC
would be a “small bull case scenario‟‟. With around 12 Million bitcoins
currently in circulation, to reach that market cap one bitcoin has to be
worth a fantastic $40,000. The brothers are major investors in bitcoin
after getting rich from an early investment in Facebook.
The largest potential for „‟disruption‟‟ to the current status quo lies in
taking a chunk out of the payment processors market. Visa and
MasterCard are estimated to take a 2 to 3 percent cut of every card
transaction. By using bitcoin instead, merchants stand to improve their
bottom line by at least 2 percent. In addition, because bitcoin
transactions are irreversible, there is no possibility for chargebacks and
fraud. This reduces the costs of operation by another several
percentage points.
Another area „‟ripe‟‟ for disruption is the money transfer market. The
market is currently dominated by large players like Western Union and
MoneyGram, WU for example can earn upwards of 10 percent per
transaction on international remittances. By comparison, a bitcoin
transaction shouldn‟t cost more than 5 percent even after accounting for
all exchange and bank wire fees for both the buyer and the seller on
each side of the remittance. If no fiat currency is involved, sending and
receiving bitcoins is almost free and costs 0.0001 btc regardless of the
amount. This is around 9 cents at current btc prices.
There are plenty of resources online where you can learn more about
bitcoin and its unique properties. Here are some of the major websites
that can help you speed up the learning process.
The Bitcoin Wiki. Plenty of articles on any bitcoin related topic that
range from securing your wallet, dealing with scams, mining bitcoins, to
a list of online and offline businesses that accept the new currency.
Bitcointalk.org The main bitcoin forum. Use it only after you‟ve got the
basics down by following the previous two links. Use this resource to
ask questions about more advanced topics.
http://bitcoin.travel/
http://www.bitcoinmaps.org/
http://coinmap.org/
Gyft.com By using bitcoins to buy gift cards from Gyft.com you can get
3% back. The selection of gift cards incudes major retailers like
Amazon, GameStop, Target, Wholefoods and a lot more.
How to trade Bitcoin smartly:
You now know that bitcoins behave like usual shares or currencies. It
means you can apply all the powerful methods of technical analysis
— that‟s the collection of tools that was developed for professional
traders and have made many of them astonishingly rich. Of course, you
need to be smart (and, if you are reading this book, you definitely are!)
to outsmart the market and the brave. And, we have to add the usual
disclaimer: only invest money that you can afford to miss. Never invest
borrowed money as you might end in deep trouble otherwise.
SMA10
1
pi 10 ( pi pi1... pi9)
The problem with this sort of averaging is that you take into account
equally the today price and the prices that happened many days ago.
As a result, your SMA10 curve predicts tomorrow‟s price mainly based
on the prices from several days ago. For such a volatile currency as
Bitcoin, this
is not a very good idea. To
correct for that, you can take
more recent price values with a
higher weight in your
averaging. The simplest
realization of the weighted
moving average (WMA) would
be just to account for the most
recent price twice. Or, for our
SMA10, we can
multiply the current day Bitcoin pricing Feb-June 2013 together with
price by 10, the previous day simple (SMA) and exponential moving
by 9 and so on averages (EMA). Note that EMA reacts faster
1 to the pricing changes.
piWMA10 (10 p 9 p
i i1
... 1p
i9
)
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Another very commonly used approach is called exponential moving
average (EMA). It works like an integrator or low pass digital filter. It is
calculated recursively, so to calculate today‟s EMA, we need to know the
EMA from yesterday and today‟s closing price:
EMA10 2 2 p EMA10
pi pi 1 i1
10 1 10 1
When we calculate the first point long-long time ago we can simply
approximate EMA with SMA. If you compare EMA and SMA, you can notice
that EMA reacts faster to the changes in trend, while SMA better reflects the
average prices. The choice between them is your preference. You can also
think about some other smart ways to make an average.
All these functions are easy to implement in Excel or any other software of
your choice. I took some historic data from BTC-e and applied these
averaging methods to obtain trend lines.
Spoiler Alert:
The crossover techniques are very useful when a long term trend
exists. If the price is volatile, it might create many false alarms.
1
piSMA20 ( pipi1 ... pi19 ) and
20
1 2 2 2
pi pi pi19
p
... pi
SMA 20 SMA 20 SMA 20
STDi pi i1
20
and draw three lines on the chart (see figure). Here is a short list of
predictions you can draw from the Bollinger bands:
• A price move that starts at one band usually carries to the other
one;
• When price moves outside of the band (provided the band itself
is not falling or rising steeply), the current trend will usually
continue.
Momentum indicators: a timely warning
So far, we‟ve only talked about techniques based on trends. They are
extremely useful, but most of the time, they identify a change in
trend after it has already happen. An early warning about exhaustion of
the current trend can be obtained with rate-of-change or momentum
indicators. The most commonly used one is the Relative Strength
Indicator (RSI). To calculate it, you need to find an AverageGain and
Average Loss during a certain period, typically 9 or 14days, take a
ratio of them
So, if losses and gains are equal, the RSI is equal to 50, if no gains
have occurred during the period, RSI is 0, or if the gains are
overwhelming it tends to 100. The rule of thumb is that if RSI
reaches 70, the RSI is overbought and the trend will shortly change
downwards. This is a high probability sell signal. On contrary, RSI level of
30 indicates an oversold condition and the trend is expected to change
upwards shortly. This could be a good opportunity to buy. However, I
advise you not to take decisions based solely based on
a single indicator, in particular, RSI. Always combine it with Trend
analysis.
Spoiler Alert:
If you are not into manual trading, why not let an automated
Robot trade for you? How about trading on Autopilot with a
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Elliott Wave Principle
Now we will learn about some simple methods to predict future trend
development (of course, with a certain degree of probability). How can
it be done? Of course, we cannot see into the future, we cannot
predict hurricanes, server crashes, law suits or hacker attacks.
However, the point is that the evolution of prices depends largely on
traders‟ psychology; and the behavior of a large number of people is
statistically predictable.
By following Elliott Wave, you can predict the next move of the market
and, for instance, foresee the trend change. Two typical patterns
indicating weakness of a bullish market are shown below: truncated
fifth wave and diagonal triangles.
The science and practice of Elliott Waves is very rich and many
observations have been made since the time they were first
discovered. If you are interested, you can find a wealth of resources on
internet. The web site of Elliott Wave International is a good starting
point.
Spoiler Alert:
You can develop your own system OR ... why not let an
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Let us try analyzing a real Bitcoin chart!
Now we know enough to apply some basic technical analysis and try to
make a forecast. You already know enough to make a qualified
decision. I use the data downloaded from BTC-e.You can not only plot
the Bitcoin price and volumecharts on this web site but also get the
entire set of data by clicking
“Load raw data”. Following the recipes in the previous sections, we did
some calculations in MS Excel and plotted the last few months of data
together with EMA10, EMA50 and Bollinger Bands.
Spoiler Alert:
Too complicated? If you are not into manual trading, why not
let an automated Robot trade for you? How about trading on
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