Trading the Markets: Ep. 1 | Kris Bullock and Bijan Maleki

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Real Vision Podcast: Trading the Markets - Episode 1 Summary

Podcast Overview Title: Trading the Markets: Ep. 1 Hosts: Kris Bullock and Bijan Maleki Description: This inaugural episode introduces the hosts and discusses their favorite trading opportunities. They analyze market trends, share trade ideas, and engage with audience questions, emphasizing a collaborative trading community.

Key Highlights

Introduction

  • Hosts: Bijan Maleki and Kris Bullock (aka Blasto Plas) introduce the podcast's format.
  • Focus: Discuss trading strategies and ideas based on the Real Vision platform's Trade Ideas feature.

Important Disclaimer

  • The discussions are not financial advice. The hosts share personal insights and trades of interest.

Market Overview

  • Current Market Climate: The previous month has seen a downturn in many assets, with only a handful outperforming Bitcoin.
  • Kris identifies that only 20 assets have performed better than Bitcoin in the last 90 days, highlighting centralized exchange tokens and gold-pegged assets as exceptions.

Featured Trades

  1. Trade Idea: DEXE
  2. A decentralized exchange (DEX) project performing well against Bitcoin.
  3. Chart Analysis: DEXE shows higher highs and higher lows.
  4. Trade Plan:
  5. Entry: Near current price point.
  6. Stop Loss: At the support level.
  7. Target: Aiming for a return to the top of its range.
  8. Risk-to-Reward Ratio: Approximately 2.5:1, potentially more favorable if entered earlier.
  1. Trade Idea: Robinhood (Hood)
  2. Suggested by Ian Dunn with a limit buy at $35, stop loss at $30, and a target of $60.
  3. Market Context: Robinhood’s recent entry into the gambling market aligns with its retail audience's interests.
  1. Trade Idea: OM
  2. A longer-term trade with strong historical performance.
  3. Chart Observations: Holding key support levels; showing relative strength.
  4. Trade Plan:
  5. Entry: Current price level.
  6. Stop Loss: Below support.
  7. Target: Potential to reach around $12, indicating a strong risk-to-reward ratio of about 7:1.
  1. Trade Idea: Deep
  2. A liquidity layer on Sui, expected to perform well in the upcoming market cycle.
  3. Analytical Context: Positioned similarly to previous successful tokens, with a potential for significant gains.

Audience Interaction

  • The hosts address audience questions regarding upcoming FOMC meetings and their potential impact on market volatility and trade strategies.

Conclusion

  • Promotion of the upcoming Crypto Academy course by Chris Bullock, focused on in-depth TradingView analysis and technical charting.
  • The episode wraps up with an invitation to join future sessions and engage with the community.

Key Takeaways

  • Market Dynamics: Current trends indicate a challenging market with few outperformers, primarily centralized exchange tokens and gold.
  • Trading Strategies: Emphasis on well-researched trades with clear risk management and profit targets.
  • Community Engagement: Encouragement for audience participation and questions to foster a collaborative trading environment.

Additional Notes

  • FOMC Discussion: The anticipation of no rate cuts leading to increased volatility; advice to avoid trading around FOMC announcements due to unpredictability.
  • Episodes: Tune in weekly for new trade ideas and market discussions.

Resources

  • Real Vision Website: [Real Vision](https://www.realvision.com/join)
  • Trading Platform: Plus500 for accessible trading opportunities.

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0:00Hi, everyone. I'm Raoul Pal, the CEO and co-founder of Real Vision. Here at Real Vision, we're committed to give you the best knowledge, tools, and network to help you succeed in your financial future. If you're enjoying this podcast, please take a moment to give it a five-star rating. It truly helps us continue to bring top-tier content. Thank you so much.

0:28hi everyone welcome to real vision and our debut episode of trading the markets i'm bijan malecki and i'm joined by chris bullock aka blasto plas chris how are you doing today doing great bison looking forward to this i think it's gonna be a fun new show absolutely yeah guys so this show So we are going to be Chris and I are going to be talking about some of our favorite trades, trades we're entering and some of our favorite trades that are on the Real Vision platform under our trade ideas feature. So without further ado, let's just dive right into these trades. Well, actually, one more thing before we dive into it.

1:08I do want to let everyone know this is not financial advice. We are just talking about trades that we enjoy or that have caught our interest. So just keep that in mind as we discuss any trade we're entering or we're highlighting. So now, without further ado, Chris, why don't we jump right into it? What trade do you have for us? So yeah, it's funny. I spent quite a while yesterday looking on the Real Vision website, looking just on my watch list, trying to find anything that even looked good. Because as we know right now, the last month plus has been just like in the gutter, basically, and nothing out there is doing good.

1:46Very, very few assets out there are outpacing Bitcoin. And so it was the challenge. It was a challenge to find anything good. And I kind of through that research process, I discovered that really in the last 90 days, there's only about 20 assets that have even done better than Bitcoin. And of those 20, five of them were centralized exchange tokens, which kind of makes sense because you got to figure when nothing's going on, you know, the exchanges are still making money. The exchanges are still doing buybacks and burns and things like that. And so that makes sense as to why in a totally down market, you know, it's the plumbing that still does well.

2:20And then the other two tokens in that 20 that was interesting that stood out to me were both gold pegs. And of course, we know gold has outpaced Bitcoin over this last chunk of time, too. And so had only we thought to de-risk a little bit of Bitcoin into gold during that span, we'd have done really well. But outside of those, I didn't want to call out trades on any of the exchange tokens because they are very specific to regions. And I wanted to find something that everybody sort of globally would have access to. So I picked a couple that were also in that chunk of 20 and that I think looked really good.

2:53And the first one we're going to talk about is DEXE, which is an interesting project. It's a Dow generation platform. And so if we look at the chart here, I'm going to look at the chart both in USD terms and in Bitcoin terms. But well, here, let's let's actually start. Let's look at Bitcoin first real quick. So this is DEXE compared to Bitcoin. And we can see that it is indeed in an uptrend against Bitcoin over the last 90 days. It has done well. It's done far better than most stuff. Most assets, if you look at their below their 20 week moving averages against Bitcoin and are well in a downtrend and are just being smoked by Bitcoin, basically.

3:29And this one, on the other hand, is holding up really well. In fact, we can see it's continuing to set a series of higher lows and higher highs and just looks really good. So that stood out to me. And so then if we go back to looking at it kind of from a trade standpoint on the USD pair, a couple of things stood out to me. One, we can see that it held support really, really well right at this level. It kind of touched here, touched here again. And then it's basically been riding along support now for the last week plus. and yesterday it had a breakout. And it's kind of a bummer we couldn't have done this show yesterday because I had a really, really good entry kind of right at the top of this candle here.

4:04But since then it's gone up even more, which is, it's not as good from an entry standpoint, but I'm still gonna go with it. So what I'm looking at here is let's just assume this is our entry level right here. And then I think basically, I'm just gonna go in terms of a trade. This one's gonna be a bit of a shorter trade because I think it's just gonna easily get right back up to the top of its range here. had we gone and then in terms of a stop level i'm going to put the stop basically right at the support level that it's been hovering at here oops that it's been hovering at it's it's kind of a bummer because right now this is only about a two two and a half to one ratio uh risk to reward ratio had i been able to do the show yesterday and get the entry back at this candle it would have been more like a five to one uh which would have been a much better trade but regardless i still think that in terms of like a shorter term trade i like the strength on this i like the fact that, again, it's doing higher highs and higher lows.

4:57And I think just a quick, easy right back to the top of this range is kind of a no-brainer trade for me. So I even threw this on the Real Vision website as a trade idea yesterday. Obviously, it could go much higher over the course of the coming months, but just I was looking at this more, again, in a short-term lens. And I just think that this is a quick, easy, double your money kind of thing. So yeah, I wanted to call that one out. Oh, fantastic find, Chris. I love the research, diving into what's been outperforming Bitcoin. Because as we always say, if you're not outperforming Bitcoin, why are you even holding it?

5:29So absolutely, absolutely fantastic stuff there. Hi, Raoul here. Listen, I think we've got until 2030 before the economic singularity arrives. Now, it might not be the exact date, but it's around then. So we have about six years to figure out how to unfuck our future. I've put together a report to help you called Prepare for 2030. It's going to help you take the first steps in that journey to make sure you're secure past 2030. So just click on the link below and start your journey now. I want to talk about a trade that we had on the platform from Ian Dunn, who's telling us to buy Hood. So Ian has us buying Robin Hood at a limit price of$35.

6:14He has a stop loss at$30 and a take profit at$60. He's also shared a chart as well. And I want to read what Ian wrote on the trade. So the$60 resistance area ended up being the top. But right now, back to the$35 support area, I could see it ranging between those two for the rest of the year. That could potentially form a large cup and handle and then look to target$115. I also do want to mention that Robinhood just recently entered the gambling arena by launching their own prediction market just in time for NCAA March Madness. Retail loves to gamble, especially Robinhood's target audience. So I think overall, it's a good trade combined with what's been, you know, with the news that Robinhood has hit in the market.

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7:39With a simple and intuitive platform, you could trade anytime, anywhere. Experience the fast, accessible futures trading you've been waiting for with Plus500. With over 20 years of experience, Plus500 is your gateway to the markets. Visit us.plus500.com to learn more. Trading in futures involves the risk of loss and is not suitable for everyone. Not all applicants will qualify. Plus500, it's trading with a plus. uh chris back over to you what else you got for us very nice very nice so yeah the other one i want to touch on this one's a little bit more of a longer term uh outlook uh and this is one that if you've been uh watching our ta shows over the last several months you'll you'll know about ohm um and so this one i'm going to call out a couple different a different type of setup basically um We know that looking at Ohm here, that this is sort of a support level that it has held.

8:34And I'm not going to pull up the Bitcoin chart because we've already established this one also is well outpacing Bitcoin over the course of the entire year. This one has had phenomenal success, honestly. But just looking at it in terms of a trade setup. So I called out this level here. We can see going back here, it served as resistance. It finally had its breakout. It broke out in the initial pump at the beginning of the year with the rest of alts. And then it came back down and it sort of has held this level as support as opposed to breaking down like a number of alts did. It held steady right at the same support level that was the previous breakout level.

9:09And right now it's, you know, recovered its 20 day moving average, which, again, very, very few crypto assets in this space are even at their 20 day moving average or even their 10 day moving average for that matter. They're well under. So this looks to me like it's showing greater relative strength compared to a lot of crypto assets. It's had a nice correction off of the top, and I think that it's in a really good sort of buy zone. And so I'm going to throw another trade layout on this one. And this one, actually, unlike the last one we looked at, whereas it has gone up since yesterday, this one actually went down a little bit.

9:42So the setup is, in fact, even better because it's got a little bit tighter of an invalidation level now. So if we kind of use this support level as the stop level and the entry is here and just based on the success that it's had, you know, over the last several months, I figure there's, you know, it would at least get back to the top of its range. But honestly, I think, you know, a doubling of the current price up to around the$12 level is well within the cards, too. So if we look at it right about here, like so, this is an amazing risk to reward, because I think, you know, if it breaks down below this, that'll quickly invalidate the trade.

10:22But we can set a really, really tight stop here. And that gives us a 7.8 to 1 risk to reward ratio, basically. So and I think that, again,$12, you know, a doubling roughly, not even quite, is again, well within the cards. Now, I know the market cap is already pretty high on this one. And it's only got so many more 2Xs left. I mean, if we kind of scroll back here, we can see it's done several of these massive runs. And you got to wonder at some point, it's not going to keep 2Xing. But I do think that just based on what's going on with it fundamentally and the fact that, you know, everything has been in a lull, I think it can easily get back up again to the top of this range.

11:00And then, you know, just another 50 percent more or whatever from there. And you got your 2x. So, again, just I think this is kind of a pretty no brainer trade for me. And I think that the risk to reward level with the tight invalidation is just makes it just makes it perfect right now. So a good entry on them. Yeah. Yeah. Chris and I host a show every Monday where we do more in-depth TA. And Chris has charted OM quite a bit. And every time we chart it, I'm always just very surprised at how well it's holding up and how well it does during drawdowns and when the market is pumping, how well it does.

11:35So OM right now, I think it's about 25 % from its all-time high. It leads the real-world asset space as well. So we know that was a very bullish narrative heading into this market. So definitely a great, great call there, Chris. So we are going to get to some questions now because this first question comes from Ben. And Ben, I apologize if I'm butchering your last name here. But Ben Busanovsky has a question about the FOMC. So let's hope these don't wreck all of our trades, right? Yeah, no, right. FOMC, I believe, is probably going to come out right after this show airs. I think it's an hour after the show started.

12:20Well, it's in an hour, whatever, 50 minutes from now. Yeah, right? So we could look brilliant or just completely wrong in about an hour or so. But Ben wants to know, is this rally into the news as the next event-driven trade opportunity? So do you think we're kind of in, are we seeing coins going up right now because we're rallying into the news or is this going to be kind of a sell the news event, do you think? What do you think is going to play out? This is obviously just my opinion and everybody's got their own opinion in terms of what's going to happen with the FOMC. I feel like we're not going to get a rate cut today is my gut.

13:06I don't think we will. And I think the general consensus probably is that we won't get a rate cut today. So I feel like any surprise would be if we did get a rate cut, we would get a bump to the upside. But if we don't get a rate cut, I don't know that that's going to result in a reversal. It might result in some volatility, which it almost always does. We'll get some kind of whipsaw type price action up and down, some spikes to both directions. Definitely not something I would recommend trying to trade. I never recommend trying to trade the FOMC because it always whipsaws in both directions and you'll easily get stopped out.

13:41But that said, like I said, I think if we don't get a rate cut, I'm not expecting too much downside. If we do get a rate cut, I do think we could see an unexpected bump because I do think that the consensus is we stay static for today. So in terms of the price bump leading up to today thus far, I don't know. So maybe it's trying to be priced in. Who knows? I mean, there's been some positive news in the crypto standpoint with the XRP case getting dropped, and that resulted in a bump, certainly, for that asset. And I think that that might have trickled down through the rest. But also, stocks are up today, too.

14:17So who knows? They're not up a ton. So I don't know that it's a product of the FOMC, necessarily. Yeah, I could see us not getting a rate cut, either, and it just kind of continuing this kind of sideways chop that we've been seeing and just kind of more of the same. So I guess time will tell, but we'll see. Another trade I wanted to highlight, this one gets put on our platform quite a bit, which is buy deep. So we have several of our members that are really big into deep. And I wanted to highlight this trade as well, because it is the liquidity layer on suite. And usually new tokens tend to do well during bull markets with that speculative pump that they receive.

14:59So I think because of that, Sui will perform very well this cycle. And I like Deep as a beta play to that. I think it has the potential to see some very nice gains off the back of that. So right now, Deep is down about three and a half times from its all-time high. About three and a half X back to its all-time high. So I do like that as a trade to get back to its all-time high and then some. I know this isn't a like-for-like comparison. But I see what Radium did last cycle. And it jumped all the way up to about$16 off the strength of Solana. And I really do like that trend for Deep off of the strength of Sweet.

15:42They do have those similarities in that they are liquidity providers. So I think, hey, why can't Deep see something similar to that? So that's my shout out for Deep as well. Guys, on this show, we are going to be taking questions. So if you guys ever have any questions, you can just throw them into the chat and we'll get to, you know, whatever we can here. I do also want to mention that Chris will be releasing a Crypto Academy course next month, going in depth on how to use TradingView. Chris, like I mentioned, does TA every Monday and he really dives into the charts and he's going to show you our Crypto Academy course, just exactly how he does that.

16:27maybe some of his favorite indicators and how he looks at trades. So Chris, I think we're definitely looking forward to seeing that come out next month. Yeah, I had a fun time doing that. I basically just kind of literally went through all of the functions on how to pull up charts, how to make custom charts, not all the drawing tools, but a lot of the common drawing tools and just a lot of the basic functions. Because I know when we do the show in particular, obviously, I've been using this program for seven or eight years now. And I'm just jamming through clicking buttons and doing stuff left and right.

17:00And, and, and it's hard to like follow along if you're new to the program, the trading view app rather. And so I wanted to just kind of slow everything down and show, you know, what all these buttons are and how you, you know, how you access all these functions basically and what they do. So, so yeah, I, I dug into it quite a bit and had a good time doing it. I went on for probably over an hour, just kind of flicking around and showing what everything is. So yeah, it was fun. Awesome. Awesome. Everyone, thank you so much for joining us on our debut episode of Trading the Markets. We'll be back again next week with some fresh new trades for you.

17:37And we'll be looking to tackle some of your questions. Don't forget to tune in tonight at 6 p.m. Eastern as we have drinks with our monthly drinks with Rouse sessions. I know all of you have lots of questions. So definitely make sure we tune in to see Rouse take on the market. it. I'm sure I'll have something to say about the FOMC. So we'll see you all then tonight. Thanks again for joining, everyone. Thanks, everybody.

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