Travel and Trade Don’t Mix . . .

Hello Ugly Old Goat Kids. . . just this note and Exthit update. . . (pronounced with a lisp and a weak wrist).
My wife and I are on the CoinsBank BlockChain Cruise . . . and here is what has happened so far . . .
Baggage got lost and will not be delivered for two more days. . . so while my wife and I are here . . . Ugly Old Goat is somewhere between Ensenada, Mexico and the Mediterranean Sea. . . so the long anticipated debut The Goat has been delayed. . . but Delta said to buy a suitcase and all the clothes we need and they will reimburse . . . so my wife, The Leona del Mar, has been on a shopping spree at the airport and aboard ship.
With the brief reprieve from three children we decided to relax and enjoy one another . . . and she apparently enjoyed this naked old goat too much (if you can imagine that!). . . and started the morning with a severe orgasm headache. . . . I checked the internet . . . which is extremely slow. . . about what to do . . .and learned there is nothing to worry about. . . it is a common phenomena . . . unless it is accompanied by stiff neck and vomiting.
So everything was fine. . . I go to the conference leaving my wife to rest in bed. . . listen to the Keynote speech by Bobby Lee . . . which sets the stage for a dynamite conference . . . meet Leah Wald for the first time. . .and we together mosey on down to the Tone Vays seminar. . . laughed with Leah why my wife was absent . . . returned to check up on her 2 hours later only to find she was vomiting and the right side of her face disfigured . . . with a stiff neck . . .and she was still in severe pain. . .
So we spent the day at the hospital in Monaco getting a CT scan . . . and thankfully no stroke. . . but it was fun trying!

Now I know why Tone Vays does not trade! It it difficult enough while sitting at home with dependable internet. . . but impossible if you travel. So keep that in mind. . . do not trade Bitcoin while traveling!
EXTHIT UPDATE (pronounced with a lisp and weak wrist)
Bitcoin broke hard shortly after my last post . . . demonstrating more than a sympathetic selloff. . . my comfortable groove quickly disappeared!
Warning! When you find the grove be quick to step out of the market at the first sign you are not in the grove. This I did correctly.
By not trimming my btc position above 7400 I ended up giving back more profit than I should have . . . again I was long BTC, in the short BTC perp/long BTC dec spread, short Eth/USD, short Eth/ Btc, and short BCH/BTC . . . the first sell off my equity actually increased . . . but the sell-off from 6900 to 6300 reversed my fortunes because my long BTC position was 4 times larger than my shorts. My stop was the two week low. . . I could have moved it up . . . but as a position trader I did not. . . risking the profit for the hope of substantial gains. . . further I covered the short leg of BTC on the hard break below the previous weeks low . . . it did not work out either. . . if and buts were candy and nuts . . we would all have a Merry Christmas! . . .this is part of trading . . . everyone has a different style. . . but the principles for successful trading are true regardless of style.
Essentially, I sacrificed 5 BTC I could have saved with a close stop . . . but I wanted to pay to see the cards. . . when it become evident we would have little or any bounce (and I had little to no internet) I liquidated my positions except for my short BCH and very small long BTC.
. . and yesterday the market performed the coup de grace, breaking below the two week . . . which is how I define a down trend and my equity started trending positive again.
All in all a nice trade and finally showing a decent profit for 2018. I went from a small trader to a medium trader, with the goal of becoming a large trader again. . . did not make it. . . so back to being a small trader again.
Again, many large traders become small traders, most small traders remain small traders, a few small traders become large traders, and the wise large trader chooses to be a small trader . . . and does it all over again.
BITCOIN DOMINANCE VERSUS TOTAL MARKET CAP
It should be noted that while Bitcoin dominance is recovering, the total market cap has been declining, hence the USD price decline in Bitcoin. This is an area that demands further study.
Bitcoin gained substantially basis ETH and BHC and other alts . . . but, of course, got hammered basis USD. So the million bitcoin question has been answered. . .
Further, there was sharp one day rise in open interest suggesting the reversal, just as the sharp two day drop in open interest suggested a rally. I saw it but did not heed it. The reason being it was so close the the two day decline. . . but things happen fast in bitcoin . . . 10 to 100 times faster than traditional commodity and stock markets. . . in hindsight I should have trimmed.
Hope this helps.
