Things I Can Learn From Knowing Who is Making and Loosing Money in Crypto-Assets

Jesus Rodriguez
IntoTheBlock
Published in
4 min readJan 14, 2020

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The In-Out-Money(IOM) signal has become one of the most popular analytical signals of the IntoTheBlock platform. Conceptually, the IOM analysis provides a statistical distribution of aggregated positions of investors in a crypto-asset relative to the current price. That’s a fancy way to say, that IOM shows you different groups of investors realizing gains and losses in a crypto-asset. The analysis leverages unsupervised learning algorithms against a dataset of all the transactions ever recorded for a specific crypto-token in a given blockchain. The basic explanation of the IOM signal is described in the following short video:

The result of the IOM signal, it’s a very visual representation about the distribution of token holder positions across the price spectrum. I believe that part of the popularity of the IOM signal is that analysts immediately get an intuitive representation of the positions of investors in a crypto-asset. To put this in perspective, compare the following IOM analysis for Bitcoin and Ethereum and see if you don’t get an…

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Jesus Rodriguez
IntoTheBlock

CEO of IntoTheBlock, President of Faktory, President of NeuralFabric and founder of The Sequence , Lecturer at Columbia University, Wharton, Angel Investor...