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| Introduction to Cryptocurrency | crypto, web3, nft, blockchain | 2022-06-20 | our story | publish | The Introduction to Cryptocurrency explains how to use the Cryptocurrency and provides a brief description of its sub-menus |
Introduction to Cryptocurrency
The Cryptocurrency menu allows you to discover trending cryptocurrency (disc). Additionally, you can also perform research of a specific coin (dd), NFT (nft) or most lucrative Defi project (defi). It does so by handing you tools to (among other things) to perform technical analysis (ta), quantitative analysis (qa), and give you access to onchain information (onchain).
How to use
The Cryptocurrency menu is called upon by typing crypto which opens the following menu:
You have the ability to search a coin with find based on its name or symbol. An example:
As a result, you can see a list of coins matching your search criteria. Once you identify the coin you are looking for, next step is to load it. See the example below:
To view the candle chart for the loaded crypto, you can call candle. This will show you the coin's historical prices and volume, as follows:
In case you want to adjust the default period, you can do so by specifying the number of days to go back in time.
You might be wondering, how can I know about all possible options? You can type in command_name -h or load -h in this case. Here you will find available optional arguments that you can play with.
Lastly, by calling ? or help or h, the crypto menu will be re-populated. Here you can see that several menus have turned blue, which mean you can enter any of them now. In order to use these menus, you are required to first load a coin.
Sub-menus available
The Cryptocurrency menu has an extensive list of available sub-menus ranging from due diligence to NFT to onchain analysis. To find more information about each menu, you can click on one of the following:
- Introduction to Cryptocurrency Discovery: discovers top trending, top gainers or losers coins, as well as top NFTs, dApps and exchanges based on prices.
- Introduction to Overview: gives the overview of the cryptocurrency market, including global Defi market, stablecoins, exchanges as well as latest news.
- Introduction to Onchain: provides information on different blockchains, whales transaction and traded volumes on certain crypto pair. You can also specify a Ethereum address and look up past transactions and balance history.
- Introduction to DeFi: explore the decentralized finance market through a variety of indicators and data, from lending interests, staking ratio, Uniswap pools to top Defi dApps.
- Introduction to Tools: gives you the tool to calculate crypto metrics, such as impermanent loss and converting APR to APY.
- Introduction to NFTs: Discover latest NFT drops and OpenSea's NFT Collection statistics.
- Introduction to Due Diligence: performs due diligence on a chosen coin based on, among other things, tokenomics, roadmaps, news, and community.
- Introduction to Technical Analysis: analyzes the chosen coin's historical data extensively with moving averages and momentum, trend, volatility and volume indicators.
- Introduction to Prediction Techniques: applies advanced AI and Machine Learning models to form prediction of future stock prices including Recurrent Neural Network (RNN), Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) and Monte Carlo forecasting
Examples
When entering the crypto menu, you would typically want to load in a coin. Let's go with Ethereum. You can do this by specifying its symbol: load eth
Let's checkout its sentiments from major headlines news by typing: headlines
To perform further analysis, the best menu to enter is dd.
We can checkout the project's roadmap and its effect to historical price, by typing rm
Once you have finished analyzing a specific coin, you would want to get a good understanding of the overall crypto market. To do that, head over to ov by typing ../ov.
Hint: .. basically took you back to the previous menu. Instead of performing 2 separate commands, you can combine them together using /. As such ../ov will take us back to previous menu, and then enter the ov menu.
Bitcoin has such a big influence on the entire crypto market. So seeing whether we are in a Bitcoin season or a Altcoin season will be useful to your investment decisions. altindex is a great command for this purpose.
