Mid May update: Technical analysis

Charts bode bad for TRX but the tides seem to be changing for Tron but also for the whole altcoin market. Both on weekly and daily TRXBTC, Tron has been cemented in the descending channel that is currently ranging between 300 and 500 sats but tilts towards lower levels. Tron is right now attempting to bounce up a bit, and it did manage to close couple of green daily candles. However, the volume is still paltry but rising.

The 4h timeframe paints a different picture as TRX clearly enjoys higher volume and started creating green candles. First task for TRX is to climb back up into the descending channel by breaking this black resistance line. Volume and ATR (volatility) are evidently picking up which is further confirmation of a probable bull run.

Weekly chart looks still the same where we clearly see that TRX is welded in the descending channel whose shackles TRX needs to get rid off before it starts rising up again.

One thing to bear in mind is the turbulent and erratic nature of bitcoin – a sudden thrust up or slide down is always on the cards which would invalidate this and all other analysis and predictions. In such cases, market is shaken up with most traders exiting altcoins and entering bitcoin positions, especially in the initial phases of bitcoin pumps. So it is always good idea to keep a close eye on bitcoin’s behaviour before opening a long or a short on any other coin in the market.

Should this happen, stop by again to check out our updated charts and thoughts.

Trading volume is big but questionable – reported volume in the last 24hrs is $649m and “Real 10” (trading volume on the exchanges that provably prevent wash trading) volume is of course much lower – $22 million. This means that TRX’s liquidity is highly inflated and overstated by whopping 28x which indicates that a lot of the alleged interest in TRX is manufactured and not organic.

Moreover, TRX comparatively has a solid buy support, according to coinmarketbook.cc. Buy support is measuring sum of buy orders at 10% distance from the highest bid price. This way we can eliminate fake buy walls and whale manipulation and see the real interest of the market in a certain coin. TRX currently has a sound $7m of buy orders measured with this method, which sets TRX buy support/market cap ratio at 0.49%, an above average value. Bitcoin and Ethereum have a 0.27% and 0.28% ratios, respectively. This novel metric indicates there are a lot of manipulations, inflated liquidity and fake orders on all crypto trading pairs, including TRX pairs.

Tron’s sentiment score, measured by the market analytics firm Predicoin, paints a neutral picture.

Predicoin wraps its analysis up into a single simple indicator known as the SentScore, which is formed from the combination of five different verticals:

Interpreting the SentScore’s scale:

Tron currently has a Sentscore of 4.2, a significant drop from the 5.7 it had back on April 10th. Overall, Tron lost social media buzz around it across all platforms – Twitter, Reddit but also search volume are all moderately down right now in comparison to the beginning of April.

To assess fundamental health of a project, we used the FCAS metric. FCAS is a comparative metric whose score is derived from the interactivity between primary project lifecycle fundamentals: User Activity, Developer Behavior, and Market Maturity.

There are a few sub components which provide data to each fundamental:
User Activity is comprised of Project Utilization and Network Activity
Developer Behavior is comprised of Code Changes, Code Improvement and Community Involvement
Market Maturity is comprised of Liquidity and Market Risk. Market Maturity has less than 5% impact on a project’s overall FCAS.


FCAS ratings are on a 0-1000 point scale with a corresponding letter grade. Break points are based on standard deviations in the underlying component distributions.

900 – 1000 is marked as S for superb. 750 – 899 is marked as A for attractive. 650 – 749 is marked as B for basic. 500 – 649 is marked as C for caution. And finally, below 500 is marked as fragile. You can read more about it here.

Tron has been ranked as the A category – attractive with overall 855 points as of May 8th. The strongest metric that contributed to this score is user activity that got 891 points, followed by developer activity with 858 and market maturity that had 652 points. This data backed fundamentals valuation model is a good insight into underlying driving forces of a project and as you can see TRX fares excellent under the scrutiny of FCAS.

Below are some of the most important news around the project in the last 30 days.

This week in TRON:

1. #USDT–#TRON launch on #TRX Blockchain – $50M USDT issued by Tether
2. @Poloniex, @bitfinex, @OKEx & 25+ exchanges/wallets support USDT-TRON & $20M airdrop
3. BitKan, China's largest crypto trading platform, adds 3 $TRX pairs
4. @Ledger supports TRC20 tokens pic.twitter.com/MuKl01dS6P

Below is our long-term forecast where we cover general market movements and sentiment shifts before delving deeper into the specific predictions for TRX.

June saw the launch of the TRON mainnet, also known as TRON’s Independence Day. To re-cap, the launch of the TRON mainnet saw TRON move from the Ethereum blockchain, onto its own rival blockchain, bringing with it the launch of an independent TRX token. Formerly, the TRX token was built upon the Ethereum ERC-20 protocol, however after the mainnet roll out, TRX is now built upon its own architecture. The launch of the TRON mainnet allows for the development of dApps on the TRON blockchain, finally allowing TRON to become a true competitor to Ethereum, by improving on transaction speeds and scalability.

Gloomy days of 2018 were sweetened a bit for TRX holders when Tron founder Justin Sun dropped a bombshell back in June – Tron acquired legendary P2P sharing platform Bittorent. Enthusiasm deflated significantly when they found out that TRX will not be the native token of Bittorrent, rather a new token BTT that had its super hyped ICO only a month ago, collecting $7 million in couple of minutes, thanks to Binance’s Launchpad, new service for launching tokens.

The downfall of altcoins that were mainstream media darlings at the start of the year, Tron among them, can be attributed, in part, to novice investors getting scared off once the bear market kicked in with a vengeance. Every resurgence of bitcoin in recent period, was met with the inability of altcoins to rally with it. Reason for that can be rookie investors learning from their mistakes, while smart money that was previously watching from the sidelines has begun to enter.

These entities weren’t about to buy BTC when it was trading at an all-time high, but they’ll take a look now, having missed the boat the first time around. None of them, it seems, are interested in altcoins however, despite the fact that many are trading at a 5x discount. Institutional investors may be cautious, but they’re not foolish.

TRX, as the rest of the market, is tied at the hip of bitcoin’s price action. If bitcoin embarks on another bull run, TRX can hope for one as well. Since that is very unlikely, don’t expect much to change for TRX price-wise in this year. So 2019 will be a year of boring sideways action with minor bitcoin ignited jumps and slumps.

In general:

The main currency in cryptocurrency markets is Bitcoin and given this, altcoins tend to fuel Bitcoin runs and Bitcoin tends to do the same in return. Given this relationship, Bitcoin price movements (or lack thereof) tend to effect altcoin prices.

When Bitcoin goes up swiftly, it will likely:

In cases when Bitcoin plunges, it will likely:

When Bitcoin moves sideways, it will likely:

The vast majority of trading that occurs in the crypto markets are between BTC and altcoin trading pairs. Since most altcoins do not pair with fiat currencies (and only a few are paired with stable coins like USTD), Bitcoin is the next best option. Therefore, when Bitcoin is stable, it forms as the ideal base currency for buying altcoins (which is why altcoins tend to do well when Bitcoin goes sideways).

Correlation is measured on a scale from -1 to 1. Values above 0 shows the degree to which altcoin is moving in the same direction as BTC prices (either up or down in tandem), and values below 0 shows the degree to which altcoin moves in the opposite direction of BTC prices (so when BTC goes down, altcoin goes up, or vice versa). Values around 0 shows that when BTC price moves, altcoins stays steady, or alternatively that when altcoin moves up or down that the BTC price is staying steady.

According to the correlation analysis, BTC and TRX have a strong negative relationship. The correlation coefficient of their values is -0.61, which was calculated based on the last 100-days’ price movements of both currencies. This means that TRX has been decoupling from BTC in recent months but it is still far from being considered autonomous in price discovery. Our abovementioned analysis about BTC’s impact on TRX price movements still stands.

RTo summarize, Bitcoin is the focal point of the crypto market in many ways, and with BTC trading pairs on every exchange, the gravity of Bitcoin is hard to evade.

The majority of projects will fail — some startups are created just to gather funds and disappear, some would not handle the competition, but most are just ideas that look good on paper, but in reality, are useless for the market. 

Vitalik Buterin, co-founder of Ethereum said:

“There are some good ideas, there are a lot of very bad ideas, and there are a lot of very, very bad ideas, and quite a few scams as well”

As a result, over 95% of successful ICOs and cryptocurrency projects will fail and their investors will lose money. The other 5% of projects will become the new Apple, Google or Alibaba in the cryptoindustry. Will TRX be among those 5%? Hard to tell but probability for that is very low as TRX has been in the media more for its founder’s marketing prowess rather than their technological or business achievements. Generally, Tron is not seen as a legitimate project by majority of leading figures in crypto space and Justin Sun is not seen as a peer of Vitalik Buterin or Bitcoin’s core developers and is dismissed as an incompetent charlatan.

All of this summed up means one thing: TRX might live through couple of orchestrated and, for a regular trader, completely unpredictable pumps but the majority of time will be murky sideways trading with small volume and no significant interest from the market. 

Price will heavily depend on what BTC will do and since many analysts think BTC will not be making big moves in this year, it is hard to expect TRX will do them either. The price will probably stagnate and record slow-moving depreciation or appreciation depending on the team activity, potential technological breakthrough or high-level partnership.

With the market being unpredictable and highly volatile, predicting the price of the cryptocurrencies is really one of the most difficult tasks.

Let’s throw a glance at couple of their predictions regarding Tron (TRX) price prediction, which will give us a fairer idea:

According to investingpr, Tron might rise to $1 only in five years, and that sounds like a  realistic and conservative prediction.

According to jiomobilephone1500, they predicted that Tron might not go up as much as $5 by 2019 end as they believe 2019 is going to prove favorable for it. They even added that by 2020, they believe TRX might reach around $47, to be bullish optimistic.

By 2019, Tron will grow as it will regain new investors from payment platforms like PayPal, which can make its value rise up to $1.5 per coin.

Cointame gave a very conservative pessimistic prediction of Tron, wherein they stated that by 2019, TRX might reach $0.633, and might touch $1 by the end of 2020.

Their automatic trading alorithm is not too found of TRX as they see the token price sliding constantly throughout the year to the price of $0.0149 at the end of 2019.

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