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Technical analysis is a security analysis methodology for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Using charts, technical analysts seek to identify price patterns and market trends in financial markets and attempt to exploit those patterns.[10]

Technical analysis is a security analysis methodology for forecasting the direction of prices through the study of past market data, primarily price and volume. Using charts, technical analysts seek to identify price patterns and market trends in financial markets and attempt to exploit those patterns.[10]

Excerpted from the Wikipedia article on technical analysis which has information on many of the techniques and characteristics of financial technical analysis.

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How can I measure the "health" of Bitcoin?

What are the metrics that matter when evaluating the overall "health" of Bitcoin? What are the thresholds? Specifically Economic (e.g. velocity, days destroyed, market volume & beta) Technical (e.g. rate of difficulty change, block size, tx fees,…
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Is there a correlation between Technical Analysis predictions and actual prices?

Technical Analysis is a disputed method for "predicting" future prices. This blog has been offering technical analysis on Bitcoin for quite some time (AFAIK it's the only one). Has there been any significant correlation between its predictions…
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How do I get started in finance & market analysis?

I'am currently new to bitcoin & doesn't any finance or market background, currently I got huge interest to how this currency system will affect our life, as I spend more and more time reading about bitcoin, then I feel I need more knowledge about…
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Does LTC price correlates to BTC price?

I always expected the LTC and BTC exchange rate to show synchronous tops/bottoms, but to my surprise LTC seems to remains stable during BTC crashes (and vice versa). Is this because I'm a novice at chart-analysis, or is there really little…
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What are the implications of a decreasing trend of MtGox "ask" depth compared with "bid" depth?

The "Mt Gox Order Book Depth" chart at the bottom of the page at http://bitcoinx.com/charts/ currently looks like this: Since mid May the red line on the chart ("Ask sum") has a strong decreasing trend, whereas the blue line ("Bid sum") has stayed…
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Is there any python lib could be used to analysis the local block data?

Just downloaded all the block files to local and want to try some analysis on the transaction data in the block. is there any python library can be used to do the analysis?
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What is the math behind popular Bitcoin graphs? I want to graph Namecoin (or similar *coin) technologies?

How can I create graphs similar to http://bitcoin.sipa.be, and blockchain.info for Namecoin? For example this thread discusses how to analyze difficulty over time and provides this equation and correlation covering 4 difficulty adjustments. I'd…
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Could Bitcoin be implemented without saving the block chain on the HDD?

Is the Bitcoin's copy of the block chain completely necessary? Couldn't we just store the current balances of all addresses, without keeping logs of their transactions as well?
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Should I use the opening, closing, maximum or minimum price for a given day in this context?

I fetch daily historical Bitcoin price data, which gives me one data point per day with four columns: "open", "close", "min", and "max". Now I'm comparing my historical Bitcoin purchases against these values for each date when I bought each any…
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How download whole blockchain and preprocess it for analysis?

Will be grateful for any information/starter points/tuts etc. For ex. this question (answers don't contain any "real" answer, any url to "blockchain files", any suggestion where to find it and how to download). Is it possible to download all…
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Just realized right now how an ICO scam can be run... without transparency■■

Been doing some research on ICO (initial coin offerings) coins, assets, and companies. And I just realized right now there is nothing stopping the initial stake holders from putting in their own money or Bitcoins into the ICO and then paying…
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Search for bitcoin with ipv4 address

I am working on a way to monitor bitcoin transactions and found that on blockchain info it's possible to find info about a bitcoin by ipv4 address. Is there an API supporting this on a larger scale? Or is bitcoin info using it's own database to…
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Total Market Cap Data Set

I want to get the data for the total market cap similar to what I see when I view this page in the total market capitalization graph. https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/ I already have the bitcoin market cap data but are there any publicly available…
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Bitcoin Country of origin analysis

I would like to analyze bitcoin transactions based on the origin by country. Is there a API or program (maybe like Datasploit, only the other way around) to cross reverence location and transactions. I prefer python to analyze but of course all…
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Can two crypto currencies have the same name?

I noted today that coingen.io makes it easy to make crypto currencies. I was wondering if it makes sense to register currencies named after countries, gods and companies to hoard them. AFAIK there is nothing that ensures uniqueness of the names of…
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