Category: 2. Leading and lagging indicators

Crypto is generally portrayed as being a challenge to traditional finance. Bitcoin’s use case as an effective store of value means that it should have an inverse relationship to key indicators of the health of the system it is intended to replace. You’ll often hear the phrase ‘safe haven’ asset, for example. The reality is…

One of the difficulties of getting into Trading is the sheer amount of time required to understand the techniques used and find a successful strategy that might work. It is not particularly intuitive and there are some who doubt that Technical Analysis even works. Fortunately, there are different sources of information that can act as…

We’ve already provided one example of each type of indicator. Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a leading indicator as it hints at whether the market is becoming overbought or oversold. Moving Averages, in contrast, rely on historic data and provide a continually updating retrospective view of average price behaviour. On Balance Volume We introduced On Balance Volume in…

What you’ll learn What are leading & lagging indicators? Common examples of each Indicators within crypto transactional data Data Indicators from the wider crypto economy As you start to decipher the world of cryptocurrency trading it might seem that you are overloaded with information and acronyms. At the basic level Learn Crypto’s section on how…