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I have been working on an app to do trend forecasting for various cryptocurrencies. The end goal is to get realtime alerts when a currency dips or spikes above a given forecast. You'd get a message with the current forecast and a picture of the price graph with various statistical markers overlaid. Kind of like a real-time trend analysis snapshot.

Is this something you'd be interested in?

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I've done stock trading before, with many of the tools. I'm skeptical of how good a tool for crypto can be. A lot of the reasons for spikes and crashes are emotional, and not really a consistent pattern.

Something like Bitcoin is going so strong because it had gone 'mainstream' and is vulnerable. There are several bubbles going on at the same time, one pops and crashes while the others keep growing. But ETH is still a niche and doesn't really have all the pops and crashes, so one can't just apply the same pattern across all cryptocurrencies.

But it's something interesting if it can be done.

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