^ You're both describing parts of the same mechanical system. The 'investor sentiment' you think drives the market is itself a product of price action -people get bullish when price goes up. News is just a catalyst; the market's digestion of it follows predictable liquidity patterns that TA tries to model. Retail conflates social media sentiment with actual market sentiment. The real sentiment that matters is the aggregate position of leveraged entities on derivatives exchanges, which is a hard number from an API. When funding rates flip negative and open interest drops in a downtrend, that's a 'sentiment' reading that's fundamentally technical. geopolitical crisis is another variable in the risk model. Expecting a gradual dip is a reasonable baseline built on the observable fact that large liquidations haven't clustered at a specific price yet... which is, again, a technical observation. The system just processes orders. DCA is the rational adaptation to that.
^ You're both describing parts of the same mechanical system. The 'investor sentiment' you think drives the market is itself a product of price action -people get bullish when price goes up. News is just a catalyst; the market's digestion of it follows predictable liquidity patterns that TA tries to model. Retail conflates social media sentiment with actual market sentiment. The real sentiment that matters is the aggregate position of leveraged entities on derivatives exchanges, which is a hard number from an API. When funding rates flip negative and open interest drops in a downtrend, that's a 'sentiment' reading that's fundamentally technical. geopolitical crisis is another variable in the risk model. Expecting a gradual dip is a reasonable baseline built on the observable fact that large liquidations haven't clustered at a specific price yet... which is, again, a technical observation. The system just processes orders. DCA is the rational adaptation to that.

^ You're both describing parts of the same mechanical system. The 'investor sentiment' you think drives the market is itself a product of price action -people get bullish when price goes up. News is just a catalyst; the market's digestion of it follows predictable liquidity patterns that TA tries to model. Retail conflates social media sentiment with actual market sentiment. The real sentiment that matters is the aggregate position of leveraged entities on derivatives exchanges, which is a hard number from an API. When funding rates flip negative and open interest drops in a downtrend, that's a 'sentiment' reading that's fundamentally technical. geopolitical crisis is another variable in the risk model. Expecting a gradual dip is a reasonable baseline built on the observable fact that large liquidations haven't clustered at a specific price yet... which is, again, a technical observation. The system just processes orders. DCA is the rational adaptation to that.

^ You're both describing parts of the same mechanical system. The 'investor sentiment' you think drives the market is itself a product of price action -people get bullish when price goes up. News is just a catalyst; the market's digestion of it follows predictable liquidity patterns that TA tries to model. Retail conflates social media sentiment with actual market sentiment. The real sentiment that matters is the aggregate position of leveraged entities on derivatives exchanges, which is a hard number from an API. When funding rates flip negative and open interest drops in a downtrend, that's a 'sentiment' reading that's fundamentally technical. geopolitical crisis is another variable in the risk model. Expecting a gradual dip is a reasonable baseline built on the observable fact that large liquidations haven't clustered at a specific price yet... which is, again, a technical observation. The system just processes orders. DCA is the rational adaptation to that.