It's fiddling with bet sizes instead of card counting...

There aren't many sites that will offer thst and I bet they'll switch out the deck every now and then...

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Try a low ish weekly ema too like the 15 or something. A lot of the TA guys think well go down to 21 so the 20 ema should be crossed... But they do have "moving" in the name.

I managed to lose £1000 yesterday while trading on bitmex.

The first £500 went because I managed to cancel a trade that had gone through  (somehow) and the second went because it kept saying the queue was full and then executed all of the trades regardless, I was at £100 profit and then it couldn't close the order and shot up so I'm now speculating their server is buggy and slow because they want you to make a loss and them to make a gain...

My trading account will be limited to £20 on there until I can work out why it's so buggy (if it's something I'm doing). Stop losses finally work though on there.


I normally don't go lower than the daily. I think the 4 hour can sometimes be useful for some TA but most people use it in conjunction with the daily ema to try to work stuff out...

I think 8000 is a bit risky. The last fall was from 10200 to 9020.

I'd say we look like we could be forming a bear flag and if that's the case, my target would be around 8260 (the second pole doesn't go down as far as the first in this market)...

I've just sold with a hope to buy back at 8300.

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Nice jazz music, is this your new background noise? I do quite like the jazz genre (it's a bit like classical but more upbeat and thus with more texture/timbre).

All of my possessions won't fit in a car...
I mean it'd probably take two lorries to hold everything I have at least but...

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I'm thinking of trying to experiment with selling casascius coins at auction in the UK. I feel like the greater fools theory might work there and they are quite rare...

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I think my blackjack strategy works by determining the likelihood of the dealer going bust along with a small amount of martingale (it gives you the first card of the dealer, if its a 5 or 6 they're quite likely to go bust after being tempted to hit on 15... But its a bit more advanced than that so I can't explain it so well...

Keep it simple:
More low numbers = bet higher.
More high numbers = bet lower.
Never take insurance.
Never hit 12+ on dealer 3-6.
Always hit/double otherwise until hard 17.
Soft to 18 for dealer 2-8. Soft to 19 for dealer 9 to A.

You should know when to double down.

Yup. If you want to be more exact, double on 11 unless dealer has an Ace and you're not playing a <=2 deck table. Double on 10 for dealer 9 and below.

And here's another stipend when it comes to insurance:

Let 10-value cards be -9 and everything else 4. When the running total reaches a true count of 4 (i.e. total > 4 * cardsLeft cardsTotal) you place insurance.

Always split Aces, never split Faces (unless you're counting).

Live counting is where the money is, though. The point to make is to make your bets fall in line with your character or current mood. If they are suspicious (i.e. stagnant bet size then sudden increases) then you will get caught.

I don't think card counting works with online casinos. The only people I know who have made money from playing in online casinos ( apart from affiliates ) are the pro poker players who start tables to draw in new players. They play with the casino's money, and get a %age of their winnings.

It does work. But not as efficiently.

Most online places will have 8-deck games with a penetration of 4 decks. This means that to beat the variance you have to be quite lucky.

The highest true count I've ever gone up to (for only a few rounds) is somewhere around 8 before I got shuffled away. This was over the course of scores of hours, over multiple tables.

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Gamble for fun and adhere to basic strategy. Count if you want to... but it will detract from your enjoyment and if there's a marginal gain, it's not worth it.

(I believe it's somewhere like $5/hr with a 10K bankroll in online play)

Well here we are on Monday, and I seem to have misread the Bitcoin price movement once again. I have an open buy order at £8,995, and I thought we would have a pump and dump over the weekend. The pump was pretty weak, and the dump doesn't seem to be happening. I think we are due for another run up in the price soon, but the world political situation seems to be in chaos. It's even worse for me as I am in the UK, and the media puts their globalist spins on all the news. They portray the resignation of the treasonous remainer MPs as a disaster, but in reality Boris would have sacked them as he "drained the swamp". I wish he would do the same with the senior civil servants who are leeching the wealth and economy of the country.

So is Bitcoin going to be a safe haven, and thus increase in value, or will people take the misguided view that the US dollar is the true safe haven for wealth. I see that £4 million in gold has been seized as part of a drug payment, and they say Bitcoin is the currency of the drug dealers and money launderers. https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9549512/gold-bars-seized-heathrow-south-american-cartel/

At the moment institutions seem to be buying Bitcoin through direct deals away from the exchanges. One miner sells to an ATM operator for example. These transactions are not reflected in the price movements for Bitcoin. I wonder what will happen if a government or bank starts a major mining operation, because they aren't  able to buy coins without using the exchanges.