Reading market data
Price, volume, market cap, dominance and the ways each one can mislead.
- 01Market cap: what it measures and how it misleadsbeginnerMarket capitalisation is the number the whole industry ranks by, and it is one multiplication. Knowing what goes into each side of that multiplication is the difference between reading the ranking and being fooled by it.4 min read
- 02How to read trading volume — reported vs measuredbeginnerVolume is the figure that tells you whether a price is real. It is also the figure exchanges have the most incentive to exaggerate. Here is how to read it, where the distortions come from, and what changes when you count trades yourself.4 min read
- 03How to read a market heatmap in thirty secondsbeginnerA heatmap shows the whole market on one screen — size as area, performance as colour. Read properly, it answers three questions a price list cannot: what is moving, whether the move is broad, and where the money is concentrating.4 min read
- 04Bitcoin dominance, breadth and altcoin seasonintermediateIndividual coins tell you what happened to them. Dominance and breadth tell you what happened to the market — whether money is flowing into bitcoin, out of it into everything else, or out of crypto entirely.4 min read
- 05The Fear & Greed index: what it measures and how Coinmico calculates itintermediateSentiment indices are easy to quote and hard to trust, because most of them mix survey answers and social-media counts nobody can check. Coinmico's version uses market data only. This lesson opens the box.5 min read
