but you know,to get an expert on TA you Need experience,experience and again experience.
It takes IMHO about 3 years to get this experience, no crash course is possible.
I see a lot of TA posts here done by noobs.
I personally do not make any TA but I can read TA and evaluate the noobs here

Seriously? They had a fork?

Anyone care to explain in a nutshell so I don't have to go and look it up?

There are zero reasons to assume Bitstamp is insolvent.

What is happening though is a rather over zealous KYC/AML policy which asks rather probing questions such as proof of funds. This in itself is not a problem IF its in the TOS and people can expect it.

Whats not okay is people selling coins thinking they are verified (it even tells you on your account you are verified) and then having their funds held hostage until they pass all the procedures.

Overall its just about making things clearer but they are likely just covering their ass. Naturally people jump way far ahead of themselves and start making wild presumptions.

No, not really. Short recap, maybe:

I wrote a long post about the bearish triangle variants on April 25th, see here. That one guided me as far as the time frame was concerned -- convergence scenario #1 was predicted for late May at the latest, and the actual breakout was May 20, so it was pretty accurate. At the time of that post, I was still rather bearish, expecting we'd probably see a breakout to the downside. Maybe that's what you have in mind when you say "earlier than I planned"?

On May 16th I posted about a new observation that, based on MFI (a money flow oscillator), it looked like we had finally found sufficient buying support at the given price level. See the post here. From that point on I was, as I wrote, "cautiously bullish".

By May 20, MFI had continued to develop exactly as I hoped it would, so I didn't hesitate much when the breakout happened. I'm in since about 460, not tempted to sell (yet).

So the best they can do is being fortuitously right while you'll always be, at worst, intelligently wrong. Bravo. Schopenhauer would be proud.

If you are talking to me:

I had buy-ins lined up at $360-$400. As Bitcoin stagnated in the $430-$450 range, I was waiting for convincing confirmation of breach of either of the long term support or resistance trendlines which were converging. In the end, it was the resistance line which was convincingly breached, and I went long at $460. Suspecting a pull-back, I sold at $520. Realising that I had probably made a mistake, was waiting on breach of final long term resistance line before deciding upon whether to re-enter market. Had I been awake at 4am UK time, I would have re-entered market at $540, but I was asleep. When I awoke, Bitcoin was topping out at $586. I have since 'dabbled' with a long position which I have since closed as I have decided that taking a position at the moment would only be gambling. If Bitcoin can take out the $586 high, again, on convincing volume, then I may take another long, but the higher up this vertical break-out we get, the greater the probability of a brutal correction there will be. I wish hadn't closed my $460 long position, but too many times in the past, have I failed to take profits and then had the market turn on me, sometimes viciously.

I wish I had one. If I would have been caught with my pants down (i.e. asleep ), I'd probably be buying in even now, but be on the watch for reversals at the well known resistances, or after a simple failure to sustain momentum. The risk that we break through, say 630 anyway, and you'll be forced to buy in at that level would be too big for me. I /do/ think there's a good chance we'll see 550, or even 530 again in the next days, even if we sustain momentum overall, but bet on it? I don't think I would.

I heard all this kind of thing from Silver Stacker right through 2010 - 2013, and I admit I was bought and sold on it. The Fed is creating money out of thin air, this will cause hyper inflation and soon the people will demand a return to real money which means gold n silver will go through the roof as the USD hegemony collapses.

At first, the delusional paradigms that I bought into were rewarded. Then the markets topped out, but I held out as I watched over 120% gains turn eventually into 30% losses (on silver, gold not so bad). I still have all the physical metal that I bought. I could get the same amount of metal today for a good bit cheaper. On the otherhand, the penny did start to drop with the 'digital' silver that I purchased on the precious metals 'bottom' back in 2012, which I offloaded most of before I took another good beating on that.

I have seen all this before and have been victim to the exact same kind of paradigms that the majority here are victim to. If you guys turn out to be right, then believe me, it will be through pure chance. If I am right, it will be because I know I am right beforehand to the best of my abilities.

Lol, so much for that joke

How about this?

http://willyreport.wordpress.com/

Anyone know if the bitstamp thingis real and should we be worried?

Dont worry friend, you will see your infinite riches come back in no time!

1000 000 USD by the end of week! TO DA MOON! Who disagrees is FUD spreader and troll.

The beauty of that October 2013 Silk Road Flash Crash was that even with the huge amount of fear around in the Bitcoin market on that day, $85 was as low as Bitcoin went.

The Beauty about the Gox-coin 'firesale' is that it showed enough people subscribe to the exponential growth support and resistance level theory, for Goxcoin to stop falling right at the point where it met the long term exponential support trendline.