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1A. Top 3 Good News for ADA HODLERS

• Cardano Active Addresses Increased by Over 200% Despite ADA Price Slip
  Statistic as of 2021-12-01 05:59 AM EDT: 36 positive votes, 4 negative votes
  
  The active address count on the Cardano network increased by more than 200% this month. The number currently stands at 191,500, though it peaked at 485,000 towards the tail end of November.
  
  (Extracted from Crypto Panic)
  
  

• Hoskinson believes THIS is ‘critical for the long-term viability of Cardano’
  Statistic as of 2021-12-01 05:59 AM EDT: 25 positive votes, 10 negative votes
  
  “Client diversity is critical for the long-term viability of Cardano. I’d love to see a Typescript, Rust, and Haskell client all working together and certified against the formal specifications.” - Charles Hoskinson
  
  (Extracted from Crypto Panic)
  (Source: AMBCRYPTO)

• MELD’s $1B ISPO highlights emerging use cases for Cardano, crypto fundraising
  Statistic as of 2021-12-01 05:59 AM EDT: 16 positive votes, 2 negative votes
  
  Roughly 40,000 participants staked nearly 620 million ADA as part of MELD’s first-ever initial stake pool offering, which concluded on Oct. 27.
  
  (Extracted from Crypto Panic)

1B. Top Bad News for ADA HODLERS

• eToro to delist ADA, TRX for US users over regulatory concerns
  Statistic as of 2021-12-01 05:59 AM EDT: 7 positive votes, 19 negative votes
  
  Starting Dec. 26, U.S. users won't be able to open new positions, and by Dec. 31, staking for the assets will no longer be available on social trading platform, eToro. 
  
  

  (Extracted from Crypto Panic)

2. How Cardano Performs Relative to Other Cryptos ?

As of 30 Nov 2021, Cardano has made a cumulative return of 4,775.45% since Jan 2020 and 912.74%  since Jan 2021. It is currently the 8th greatest performing crypto asset since Jan 2021 as compared to the other cryptocurrencies presented above.

3. Technical Analysis on Cardano

3.1. Volume Weighted Average Price (VWAP)

VWAP is a technical indicator used by a trader to gauge the overall trend of an asset price movement. VWAP line (orange line) represents the volume-weighted average price (average price here is defined as the average of high, low and close prices) while close price line (blue line) represents the price when ADA is closed at the end of every single day. 

Whenever blue line (close price) is above orange line (VWAP), it indicates that the asset is gaining momentum and being traded higher than its average price level. This would represent a 'buy' opportunity for short-term momentum trader whom task is to trade following the trend while a longer term mean-revision trader might take it as a 'sell' opportunity, anticipating that the price of ADA (blue line) to fall to its average level (orange line).

Whenever blue line (close price) is below orange line (VWAP), it indicates that the asset is losing momentum and being traded lower than its average price level. This would represent a 'sell' opportunity for short-term momentum trader whom task is to trade following the trend while a longer term mean-revision trader might take it as a 'buy' opportunity, anticipating that the price of ADA (blue line) to rise to its average level (orange line).

As of 30 Nov 2021, VWAP is suggesting that ADA has been losing significant momentum.

3.2. Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD)

MACD is often used by trader as a momentum indicator. There are 2 lines that form the above charts, namely MACD (12, 26) lines and Signal(9) line, while the histogram is calculated by subtracting Signal (9) from MACD (12,26). Histogram would fall to the negative territory whenever MACD (12, 26) is trending at a lower level than Signal (9) and rise to the positive territory whenever MACD (12,26) is trending at a higher level than Signal (9).

MACD (12, 26) is computed by subtracting the 26-day exponential moving average (EMA) of ADA closing price from its 12-day EMA. 
Signal (9) on the other hand is calculated as the 9-day EMA of MACD (12,26). 

As MACD (12, 26) goes higher away from Signal (9), it signifies that ADA is gaining momentum and whenever it goes trends at a lower level than Signal (9),it signifies that ADA is losing momentum. 

As of 30 Nov 2021, MACD is suggesting that ADA has been losing significant momentum.

3.3. Bollinger Band

Bollinger band is often being used by mean-reversion trader as a gauge to assess how undervalued or overvalued an asset is. Its chart made up of 4 lines, namely:

- SMA (20) (blue line), which is the 20-day simple moving average price of ADA
- Upper Band (orange line), which is computed by adding 2 standard deviations of ADA on SMA (20)
- Lower Band (red line) , which is computed by subtracting 2 standard deviations of ADA from SMA (20)
- Close (green line), which is the daily closing price of ADA

Whenever close line (green) touches the lower band (red), it indicates that ADA is corrected too much and is being traded at an undervalued level, representing a 'buy' opportunity. On the other hand, whenever close line (green) touches the upper band (orange), it indicates that ADA is gaining too much momentum and is being traded at an overvalued level, thus indicating a 'sell' opportunity. 

As of 30 Nov 2021, Bollinger Band is suggesting that ADA was oversold.

3.4. Relative Strength Index (RSI)

Just like Bollinger Band, Relative Strength Index is often being used by mean-reversion trader as a gauge to assess how undervalued or overvalued an asset is. There are 2 psychological levels, i.e. 30 and 70 in RSI. Whenever the RSI reaches 30, it indicates that ADA is corrected too much and is being traded at an undervalued level, representing a 'buy' opportunity. On the other hand, whenever RSI reaches 70, it indicates that ADA is gaining too much momentum and is being traded at an overvalued level, thus indicating a 'sell' opportunity. 

As of 30 Nov 2021, RSI is suggesting that ADA was oversold.

Based on the technical analysis presented above, quantdoge is bullish on ADA, but I could be wrong, hence please make your careful due diligence before making any financial decision. 

4. Cardano Risk Profile

Based on the 100-day 95% historical Value-at-Risk (VaR) profile of Cardano defined above, ADA seems to trade at a higher risk level on 30 Nov 2021 as compared to 10 days before on 20 Nov 2021, with its biggest pullback being seen at -12.37% on a single day during the last 100 days. However, I could be wrong, hence please make your careful due diligence before making any financial decision.

5. Price Simulation for Cardano

How did quantdoge simulation perform vs the actual ADA price movement over the last week ?

Over the last 7 days, ADA has been trading near the lower 25th percentile of quantdoge simulations, indicating that ADA was oversold and is currently undervalued. 

6. ADA Community Analytics

Number of ADA Followers In The Past 24 Months

During the past 24 months, Cardano followers have grown 374.56 % from 155,012 to 735,620 on Twitter and grown 778.05 % from 75,811 to 665,661 on Reddit.

Monthly increment of Cardano Twitter followers peaked on Jun 2021 and its monthly increment of Reddit followers peaked on Jun 2021.

Number of ADA Followers In The Last 30 Days

In the last 30 days alone, Cardano followers have grown 6.94 % from 687,889 to 735,620 on Twitter and grown 2.75 % from 647,817 to 665,661 on Reddit.

Daily increment of Cardano Twitter followers peaked on 07 Nov 2021 and its daily increment of Reddit followers peaked on 09 Nov 2021.

7. Google Trends Analytics

cardano reached its peak in Google Search on 2021-05-09 00:00:00 with a Google Score of 100
Over the last quarter, cardano Google Score has decreased 35.53 % from 49.25 to 31.75
Over the last 6 months, cardano Google Score has increased 10.43 % from 28.75 to 31.75

Based on Google searches, cardano is most sought after in Gibraltar, followed by Guernsey & Liechtenstein this month.

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