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I have a bunch of stocks and mutual funds in my portfolio. I’d like to sell some small percent of these “traditional” investments and purchase some cryptocurrency. But I’m trying to figure out how to calculate when is the best time to do this transfer.

Basically, what I want is to see some chart and setup an alert that tells me:

  1. When the stock price is high (relative to my fiat currency) and
  2. When the price of the cryptocurrency is low (relative to the above fiat currency)

First, how do I do this theoretically? Is there some way to construct a chart that simplifies two lines into one line, which is some calculation of the two lines that shows a single line with points very high on the y-axis when the above two conditions are true, and very low on the y-axis when the above conditions are not true?

Second, how can I setup an alert that tells me when the chart above is at some sort of year-time-high, so I can be alerted that “now” is a good time to sell stocks and buy the given cryptocurrency.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

You're never going to be able to adequately guess an optimal time to buy or sell unless you're a Washington D.C. billionaire hanging out on one of Donald Trump's signal chats. The market is impossible to time with any real consistency.

What you can do is look at the 52-week highs and lows (and for crypto, likely beyond that.) determine what threshholds are reasonable for you and your goals, and set notifications around that in your broker app of choice. For example, I have mine set up to let me know when my crypto is up 10% or down 7%. I also have stop-loss orders in place so if it falls below a particular threshold I sell automatically.

Other than that, stick to dollar cost averaging and, over time, your chances are better that you'll be in profit.