Candlestick charts can be misleading, but money won't lie. In the first few years after entering the field, I was like most people:
I would stare at the candlestick chart every day, chasing the red when it was rising and cutting the green when it was falling.
And the result? I was washed out by the big players wave after wave, cut down time and time again, and my account kept getting thinner.
It wasn't until later that I learned to 'see the shape traps' that I realized the difference between experts and retail investors.
What I was looking at was not the same chart at all.
In the same candlestick chart, what you see is an 'opportunity', while the big players see a 'harvest point'.
With the following 3 signals, I managed to escape the peak of BTC 12 hours in advance, avoiding a 15% sudden drop.
You can understand half, which is already better than 80% of retail investors.
The most poisonous pattern: 'fishing line' in false breakouts.
The coin price breaks above the previous high → forms a small bullish candle → retail investors excitedly rush in.
Then? Suddenly a massive sell-off, a big bearish candle completely engulfs the breakout point above.
This is a typical fishing line (false breakout).
On the surface, it looks like a breakout, but in reality, the big players pull up a bit to lure in the buyers,
and then push you all down from the high position.
The judgment method is very simple:
The breakout strength is weak (no volume).
No continuation after the breakout.
The upper shadow lengthens, and the body shrinks.
Then it quickly falls back into the original oscillation range.
Once it falls back below the breakout point? Don't hesitate, that is a signal to turn bearish.
The most ruthless pattern: 'false reversal' after continuous bullish declines.
This trick is specifically for harvesting those who can't stand loneliness and want to buy the dip.
The trend is like this: continuous bearish decline → a small bullish false rebound → the next day continues to fall deeper.
Many people see that bullish candle and think 'the decline has stopped',
but as soon as they add to their long position, they will find that it was just a 'sweetener' given by the big players.
It’s not a reversal, it's a pullback.
The true logic of this market is: the market is weak → weak upward attack → pullback with no volume → continue to seek a bottom.
Do you want to buy the dip?
Then you have to wait for two conditions to appear:
A long lower shadow big bullish candle appears (true bottom finding).
The next day, volume increases and stabilizes above the previous day's high (confirming the stop decline).
Otherwise, it’s all 'knife-edge licking blood type pullbacks', specifically targeting new retail investors.
The most explosive wealth pattern: strong pullback without breaking the level.
This is the pattern that big players least want you to understand.
The pullback in the main wave is frightening; a big bearish candle comes down, and novices think it’s going to crash, scared to take profits and run.
But as long as the pullback does not break the key support level, it is a signal to continue launching.
The characteristics are:
The trend is strong, with sufficient bullish volume.
Pullback with decreasing volume (this is key).
The support below holds.
Then a strong bullish candle wraps around a big bearish candle.
This kind of pattern, once correctly identified, is about riding the main wave of the trend, with a few days seeing 2-3 times the returns in such movements.
What the big players fear most is that retail investors can see this 'decreasing volume wash + re-launch' signal.
The last pointless statement: Candlesticks can deceive, the big players can act, but money does not lie.
If you do not understand these patterns, I can teach you step by step.
Because these are what I truly use in the market, not just talk.
