Crypto technical analysis
CryptoKeyhole rates every coin each hour from 25 classic indicators on its own candles, shows where the price sits against the averages traders watch, and publishes every rule with each signal’s record on that coin.
Where the close sits among its averages
| Indicator and its rule | Reading | Vote |
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| Average | Value | Close vs it | Vote |
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Signals and their record
When each classic signal last fired on Bitcoin, and how the price moved after every past occurrence, set beside any day.
| Signal | Last fired | Times | Median move after 30 days | Rose afterwards | Every occurrence |
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The daily rating over the past year
| Rating | Days | Median move after 30 days | Rose afterwards |
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Every coin at a glance
Each coin’s daily rating, its distance from the 20, 50, 200-day and 200-week averages, RSI and its last 50/200-day cross. Sort any column; a row opens that coin above.
| Coin | Close | Day | Rating | vs 20-day | vs 50-day | vs 200-day | vs 200-week | RSI 14 | Last cross | Latest signal |
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How the ratings are made
Every indicator reads the coin’s closed candles and votes buy, neutral or sell by the rule printed beside it. The oscillators’ votes average to one score and the moving averages’ to another, each between −1 and 1; the rating is the mean of the two. Strong sell is −0.5 and below, sell is below −0.1, neutral runs from −0.1 to 0.1, buy is above 0.1 and strong buy is 0.5 and above. An indicator without enough candles yet does not vote.
Moving averages: simple and exponential averages of 10, 20, 30, 50, 100 and 200 candles, the Ichimoku base line (26) and the Hull average (9), each voting buy when the close is above it and sell when it is below. The ladder adds the 200-week simple average (from weekly candles) and the Bollinger Bands (20, 2), which inform but do not vote.
The 50/200-day cross and TD setups: a golden cross is the 50-day simple average crossing above the 200-day, a death cross crossing below. A TD setup counts closes in a row below (a buy setup) or above (a sell setup) the close four candles earlier and completes at nine, as the TD study on the charts draws it.
Candles: each coin’s hourly price index from public exchange markets, closed periods only, read every hour. Bitcoin’s candles come from its hourly index closes since 2016, so its daily close is the last hourly close before 00:00 UTC and can differ slightly from the daily reference price on Bitcoin’s price chart. Values are exact in the API; the page rounds them for reading. It describes the chart; it does not tell you what to do.
Oscillators
- RSI (14)
- Buy below 30 and rising; sell above 70 and falling.
- Stochastic %K (14, 3, 3)
- Buy when %K crosses above %D below 20; sell when it crosses below %D above 80.
- CCI (20)
- Buy below −100 and rising; sell above 100 and falling.
- ADX (14)
- Buy when ADX is above 20 and rising with +DI above −DI; sell when it is above 20 and rising with −DI above +DI.
- Awesome Oscillator
- Buy above zero and rising; sell below zero and falling.
- Momentum (10)
- Buy when rising; sell when falling.
- MACD (12, 26, 9)
- Buy when MACD is above its signal line; sell when it is below.
- Stochastic RSI (3, 3, 14, 14)
- Buy when %K is below 20 and above %D; sell when it is above 80 and below %D.
- Williams %R (14)
- Buy below −80 and rising; sell above −20 and falling.
- Bull and Bear Power (13)
- Buy above zero and rising; sell below zero and falling.
- Ultimate Oscillator (7, 14, 28)
- Buy above 70; sell below 30.
Signals
- Golden cross and death cross
- The 50-day simple average crosses above, or below, the 200-day.
- Close back above, or below, the 200-day average
- The daily close crosses the 200-day simple average.
- MACD crosses up or down
- MACD (12, 26) crosses its 9-day signal line.
- RSI leaves oversold or overbought
- RSI (14) closes back above 30 after closing below it, or back below 70 after closing above it.
- Supertrend turns up or down
- Supertrend (10, 3) flips direction.
- Squeeze breaks up or down
- Within 10 days of the narrowest Bollinger Bands (20, 2) of the last 120 days, a close above the upper band or below the lower.
- Stochastic turns up from oversold, or down from overbought
- Stochastic %K (14, 3, 3) crosses %D with both below 20, or both above 80.
Questions
What does a sell rating mean?
More of the indicators point down than up on the coin’s latest closed candle: the price sits below most of its averages and the oscillators lean the same way. It describes the trend and momentum now, not what comes next. The record beside each signal shows how often such a reading was followed by a rise or a fall on that coin.
Which candles are used?
Each coin’s own hourly price index, the one behind its price charts: daily candles close at 00:00 UTC, 4-hour candles at 00:00, 04:00, 08:00 and so on, weekly candles on Monday at 00:00 UTC. Only closed candles count, so a reading never changes after it is shown. Bitcoin’s candles are built from its hourly index closes since 2016, so their highs and lows are the highest and lowest hourly prices.
How often does it update?
Every hour. Daily readings change once a day when the daily candle closes; 4-hour readings every four hours.
How is a signal’s record worked out?
For every past occurrence on the coin’s daily candles, the close 7, 30 and 90 days later against the close on the day it fired, set beside the same move from every day of the coin’s history. A signal whose median sits well above the any-day median has led rises on that coin; one close to it has added little. Signals that fire close together share part of their windows, so the counts are not all independent.
Why do some coins have fewer indicators voting?
An indicator votes once the coin has enough candles for it: the 200-day average needs 200 daily closes. Young coins start with the short averages and the oscillators.
Can I use these numbers?
Yes. The daily readings of every coin are free to reuse under CC BY 4.0, crediting CryptoKeyhole with a link to this page, and the same readings are in the API without a key. The 4-hour and weekly readings of every coin, and the signal records of coins other than Bitcoin and Ether, come with Plus.