Is this TA in action? 20 days of ups and downs and no returns with potentially more drawdown and maybe another 20 days of your capital sitting on a move you expect to happen.
"The idea that you can’t use past price action to determine possible future price action is simply and categorically false"
Lets evaluate your platinum position as an example of what i have been saying - and to touch on some fundamentals which you so dearly hate.
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Have you asked yourself lately if this is accumulation or distribution? If you are a long term holder then I guess you are happy to watch your unrealised position fluctuate while this past analysis you have done eventually\maybe comes to fruition.
If I were a technical only trader, i would probably be looking to trade the ranges as shown here - i certainly wouldn't have added to a position when price is telling me it can't reach the central diagonal range - you see i do pay attention to details like this - it shows weakness. Now perhaps this will bounce at the lower end of the range but then you would have been sitting in unrealised profit then loss. Lots of range opportunity there but you are hoping for a breakout of some kind?
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What is the catalyst for this expectation or yours besides past price?
As more and more people convert to electric cars which use about 3 grams of platinum per catalytic converter for about 1.3 billion vehicles in the world translates to 3306 tons of platinum in a world that mines about 190 tons each ear - its a big deal, hence they are trying to invent a platinum battery because they see the writing on the wall for profit margins. Added to this you have global demand that is not where it should be.
some backdrop on EVs
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All car manufacturers are working on EVs and some even have targets to be full electric in the coming years. There's some really simple fundamental analysis to set the expectations for platinum demand to diminish as the years tick by. Your past chart wont tell you this but future price will do.
I recently published a summary view of the electric vehicle plans of the world's 3 largest automakers and then automakers #4–7 and then automakers #8–10. Per reader request, here's all 10 of them together.
cleantechnica.com