INDEPENDENT TECHNICAL ANALYSIS

An archive of charts, by Dark Defender.

This is a personal archive of technical analysis on cryptocurrency and select traditional markets. Every chart shown here was published publicly on 𝕏 at the time it was drawn. The site exists as a quiet reference point — a record of how the markets were read, with a particular emphasis on Elliott Wave structure.

— Dark

THE METHOD

Reading the market in waves.

Elliott Wave, simply put

Markets move in repeating patterns of five impulse waves followed by three corrective waves. A complete cycle reads as Wave 1, Wave 2, Wave 3, Wave 4, Wave 5 in the direction of trend, then Wave A, Wave B, Wave C against it. Every wave nests inside a larger wave, and inside every wave there are smaller waves with the same structure.

The discipline is not in calling tops or bottoms. It's in noticing which wave a market is currently in, what would invalidate that reading, and where the next move is most likely to terminate. Conviction comes from the structure, not from feelings.

What each chart shows

Most charts in this archive label the suspected wave position at the time of publication. A Wave 3 read at the time may look different in hindsight — and that's the point. The archive preserves each call as-is, dated and timestamped, so structure can be re-examined honestly without survivor bias.

The repeating timeframes used most often are 1-hour, 4-hour, 1-day, 3-day, 1-week, and 1-month. Ratio pairs (XRP / BTC, XRP / ETH) appear when relative strength is the more important read.

What it is not

None of this is financial advice. The archive does not give entry prices, exit prices, targets, leverage settings, or position sizing. It is a record of how charts were read at a moment in time — useful, perhaps, as a way to study Elliott Wave practice on real markets, but not as a basis for any trading decision.

You are entirely responsible for your own decisions. Markets are volatile. Past chart reads do not predict future outcomes.

SELECTED ANALYSES

A glimpse of the archive.

Six examples from the archive. Each was published on 𝕏 at the time it was drawn. See the full set on the Analysis page.

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WHERE THE WORK GETS PUBLISHED

𝕏 @DefendDark

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