Crypto Trading Guides
Plain-English guides to the indicators, patterns, and strategies that drive the CoinSeekly screener — each one backed by live signals and real back-tested numbers, not just theory.
24 in-depth guides · updated regularly
Technical Analysis
Indicators, momentum, and how to read the chart.
ATR in Crypto: Using Average True Range for Stops and Position Size
Learn how Average True Range is calculated, how to set stops at a multiple of ATR, and how ATR sets position size so each trade risks the same amount. Includes hand-checkable examples and honest caveats.
Bollinger Bands in Crypto: Squeeze, Breakout & Mean Reversion
How Bollinger Bands are built, what they measure, and the three classic plays — the band touch, the squeeze, and walking the band — plus how to combine them with RSI for stronger signals.
Candlestick Patterns in Crypto: The Ones Worth Knowing
Learn how a candle is built and how to read doji, hammer, shooting star, engulfing, harami and star patterns in context. See why confirmation, volume and timeframe matter, and where candlestick patterns break down.
Chart Patterns Every Crypto Trader Must Know
The complete map of crypto chart patterns — reversal, continuation, and candlestick families — plus the five components that make any pattern tradeable: trigger, volume signature, measured move, and invalidation.
Fibonacci Retracement in Crypto: How the Levels Work and Fail
Learn where the 38.2%, 50% and 61.8% levels come from, how to draw them, and how to turn them into a stop, a target and a risk:reward plan. Includes a worked $100 to $200 example and an honest look at where the tool fails.
Golden Cross & Death Cross Explained for Crypto
What the golden cross and death cross are, why the 50/200-day crossover moves markets, where these lagging signals fail, and how to trade them with regime and momentum context.
MACD Strategy: Crossovers, Divergence & Signals
How MACD is built, how to read its crossover, zero line, and histogram, how to spot divergence, and how to avoid the whipsaws that catch most traders in choppy markets.
Moving Averages in Crypto: SMA, EMA & the 50/200 Lines
What a moving average really is, the difference between SMA and EMA, why the 50-day and 200-day lines matter so much in crypto, and how to use them as dynamic support and resistance.
Stochastic RSI in Crypto: The Faster Oversold Signal
What Stochastic RSI is, why it's faster and noisier than plain RSI, how to read the %K and %D lines, and the double-confirmation setup that makes it a useful timing tool.
Support and Resistance in Crypto: How to Find and Trade the Levels
Learn why support and resistance levels form, how to draw them as zones, how to spot a real break versus a false one, and how to turn a level into a stop and a position size with a clear risk:reward.
Understanding RSI for Crypto Trading
What RSI actually measures, why the 70/30 rule fails in trends, how to read divergence, and how to combine RSI with support, trend, and MACD for higher-probability setups.
Volume Analysis in Crypto: What Trading Volume Tells You
Learn how to read trading volume in crypto: confirming moves, judging breakouts, spotting climax volume and using relative volume, plus the data problems that make crypto volume tricky.
Trading Strategies
Complete playbooks — swing, pullback, breakout, momentum, and mean reversion — that put the indicators to work.
Breakout Trading in Crypto: Trading the Range Break on Volume
What separates a real breakout from a fakeout — volume confirmation, which structures break out, break-and-close versus retest entries, stops, and measured-move targets.
Combining Indicators: Building High-Confidence Crypto Setups
Why single indicators fail, the redundancy trap, and a three-layer confluence framework — trend, location, trigger — with ready-to-use setup templates that tie the whole toolkit together.
Mean Reversion in Crypto: Fading Extremes Back to the Average
The mean-reversion playbook — measuring when price is stretched, entering on the snap-back, targeting the mean, and the regime filter that keeps it from blowing up in a strong trend.
Momentum Trading in Crypto: Riding Strength With RSI, MACD & Volume
How to buy strength instead of weakness — the momentum toolkit (RSI, MACD, volume, relative strength), entries on continuation, trailing stops, and exiting when momentum fades.
Pullback Trading in Crypto: Buying Dips Inside an Uptrend
How to tell a healthy pullback from a reversal, where dips find support, what triggers a safe entry, and how to avoid catching a falling knife — the disciplined way to buy the dip.
Swing Trading Crypto: A Complete Playbook for Multi-Day Holds
The full swing-trading workflow — pick a regime, choose a setup, place a stop, size by risk, and manage to the exit — built around the moving averages, RSI, and MACD signals you already know.
Risk & Investing
Position sizing, leverage, DCA and staking: how much to put on, where to get out, and what can go wrong.
Averaging Down in Crypto: When Buying More Does and Doesn't Work
Averaging down lowers your average cost but raises your exposure to a position that is already losing. Learn the arithmetic, the traps, and the rules that turn buying the dip into a plan instead of hope.
Crypto Staking Explained: How It Pays and What Can Go Wrong
What is crypto staking, where do rewards come from, and is staking safe? Learn the ways to stake, how APR, APY and commission change what you earn, and the risks that matter most, starting with price risk.
DCA vs Lump Sum in Crypto: Which Has Done Better, and When
Should you buy crypto all at once or spread it over weeks? See the average-cost arithmetic, what thousands of historical windows on 10 large coins show, and how to choose a schedule you can stick to.
Leverage and Liquidation in Crypto: How Liquidation Works
Understand how crypto leverage, margin and liquidation work, see the formula and a leverage table from 2x to 100x, and learn to size leveraged trades by risk so your stop sits before the liquidation price.
Position Sizing and Stop-Loss in Crypto: How Much to Buy
Learn the one-formula method for crypto position sizing: decide what you can lose, place the stop below structure, and let the math set the size. Includes worked examples, drawdown math and breakeven win rates.