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"Old" man here, doing a little mining, putting a little money in a few coins.

I've come to realize that I need to understand Technical Analysis of market conditions and trade history.  Can anyone point me towards some good resources on that?  Not only web based, but physical books, pdf files, etc as I do enjoy reading when not at the computer.  Telegram , discuss etc are fine as well , but i've been hesitant of getting involved in groups as I think there are quite a few people out there looking to take advantage of we who are new to this.  If anyone can suggest a 'reputable mentor/teacher' to follow, I will certainly take a look at it.  Twitter accounts, seems like a BUNCH of 'actors' out there and tons of people trying to pump their own stuff. 

Thank you

I would start here: https://www.investopedia.com/university/technical/ if you follow the chapters from 1 till 12, you sould grasp the basic concept behind TA.

“Technical Analysis of the Financial Markets” by John Murphy is a decent book on the subject, it might be over 30 year old already but TA doesn't really change. There are dozens of others out there, I think I saw a list of books on TA on investopedia as well. Good luck!

Youtube has some decent documentaries on technical analysis and should be more than enough resources for you to get started.

thank you! this looks like something I've been looking for. 

Tradingview (https://www.tradingview.com/) is a nice resource to look at for TA and ideas shared by thousands of experienced traders all over the world. It covers a wide variety of stocks and assets that traders dwell on to make some profit. If you're looking for a good read but not too hard to understand, you can try Adam Grimes' The Art and Science of Technical Analysis. You should also look up on the writings of John J. Murphy among others, since you'd find some good bits of intraday trading knowledge from there.

Here you have nice topic with quite lot of details  https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2223191.0

Good knowledge of technical analysis in trading crypto currency is one of the major way for one to be successful in trading crypto currency and as i use to recommend for ever care to learn babypipschool.com is a place where you can learn more about technical analysis with the use of candles stick formation.

Actually..your in the right place...just start digging thru these threads..there is a ton of different views.


Here are some great starting points.
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=274613.0 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=274613.0)

https://vk.com/bitcoin_vanga (https://vk.com/bitcoin_vanga) Bring Google translate unless your fluent in Russian.

https://www.tradingview.com/u/enky.nakamura/ (https://www.tradingview.com/u/enky.nakamura/)

Welcome and good luck!

Thank you all for the great input.  I've only been here a little over a month or so  but I am impressed with the amount of help and sharing of knowledge that goes on here.  ALl forums have some griefing and some people that just want to be assholes, but that is at a minimum here and so many people seen to want to help.  Great job by the senior members and mods who have built a nice little community!

Don't discount Twitter outright. Obviously there are loads of morons on there, but there are also some valid characters.

https://twitter.com/bbands is John Bollinger who invented Bollinger bands which are used by many a trader now.

https://twitter.com/PeterLBrandt is a long time TA proponent who's turned his attention to crypto.

And https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/ is by far the most TA heavy forum.

That's why I don't join telegram groups, they are abusive and starting to make it as a pump and dump group. You can follow this thread Wall Observer BTC/USD - Bitcoin price movement tracking & discussion (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=178336.0)  this is where I'm reading some helpful TA that I'm taking and getting an idea if it's time to buy or sell. Usually everyday, I'm searching on the google and looking for those TA's that are amazing, there are articles also on steemit.