Advanced Cryptocurrency Trading – Blockchain at Berkeley

Course Overview

While our introductory course was a basic overview that familiarized you to tools and resources in a broad sense, this course is much more concrete with walkthroughs, personal examples, and analysis. A real emphasis is put on tangible experiences based on over a decade of combined experience. This course requires no previous knowledge and is presented in a way that everyone should be able to understand.

Course Outline

• Money Management:
  • How to properly determine risk in a volatile and unpredictable environment
  • Long term vs. short term strategies
  • ICO risk management
• Mental Game:
  • Paper trading vs. trading “real money”
  • Necessary trading mindset
  • Controlling emotions
  • How to handle losses or gains
  • Discussion of personal tips and lessons learned
• Technical Analysis:
  • Price and volume structure
  • Triangles
  • Trend lines
  • Liquidity zones
  • Fractals
  • Common trends in various cryptos
  • Fibonacci
  • Bollinger Bands
  • Ichimoku Cloud
  • Heiken Ashi Strategy
• Trading strategies
  • Trading ICOs
  • Early Adopter Strategy
  • Accumulation
  • Scalping
  • Arbitrage
  • Hedging
• Walkthrough of how to use several popular exchanges
  • Security
  • Deposit/withdrawal
  • Placing asks/bids
  • Market vs. limit sells
  • Setting stop loss levels
  • Margin
  • Fundamental Analysis
  • Checklist for analyzing cryptocurrencies and ICO’s
  • Introduction to top market cap cryptocurrencies
  • ICO Analysis (Also a section on how to buy ICO’s)
• Market Psychology:
  • How to analyze/trade using market sentiment
  • Identifying fear, greed and other emotions in the market
  • Applying personal emotion to general markets
  • How market psychology drives technical indicators

What Will You Learn?

• Understanding the skills to do research and find related information regarding a coin you’re interested in.
• Understanding the skills to protect your money when the market crashes.
• Understanding how to read and analyze a cryptocurrency’s candlestick chart effectively.

Who Is This Course For?

• Those who are interested in trading cryptocurrency and want an in depth walkthrough on how to start.
• Those who are seeking a comprehensive cryptocurrency trading course.