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1. Top Good News for LINK HODLERS !!!

• Grayscale Acquires More MANA, LPT, LINK, FIL
  Statistic as of 2021-05-17 12:42 AM EDT: 21 positive votes, 0 negative vote
  
  Major cryptocurrency fund Grayscale has added large amount of MANA and smaller ones of LPT, LINK and FIL altcoins, enlarging its crypto holdings. 
  (Extracted from CryptoPanic)

2. How Chainlink Performs Relative to Other Cryptos ?

As of 17 May 2021, Chainlink has made a cumulative return of 2200.27% since Jan 2020 and 336.34%  since Jan 2021. It is currently the 12th greatest performing crypto asset since Jan 2021 as compared to the other cryptocurrencies presented above.

3. Technical Analysis on Chainlink

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 LINK 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 LINK (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 LINK (blue line) to rise to its average level (orange line).

As of 17 May 2021, VWAP is suggesting that LINK is trading below its average price range of USD 44 to USD 46 per ChainLink token.

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 LINK 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 LINK is gaining momentum and whenever it goes trends at a lower level than Signal (9),it signifies that LINK is losing momentum. 

As of 17 May 2021, MACD is suggesting that LINK is losing 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 LINK
- Upper Band (orange line), which is computed by adding 2 standard deviations of LINK on SMA (20)
- Lower Band (red line) , which is computed by subtracting 2 standard deviations of LINK from SMA (20)
- Close (green line), which is the daily closing price of LINK

Whenever close line (green) touches the lower band (red), it indicates that LINK 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 LINK is gaining too much momentum and is being traded at an overvalued level, thus indicating a 'sell' opportunity. 

As of 17 May 2021, Bollinger Band is suggesting that LINK is trading at its fair value.

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 LINK 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 LINK is gaining too much momentum and is being traded at an overvalued level, thus indicating a 'sell' opportunity. 

As of 17 May 2021, RSI is suggesting that LINK is trading at its fair value.

Based on the technical analysis presented above, quantdoge holds a neutral stance on the short-term price outlook of LINK, but I could be wrong, hence please make your careful due diligence before making any financial decision. 

4. Chainlink Risk Profile

Based on the 100-day 95% historical Value-at-Risk (VaR) profile of Chainlink defined above, LINK seems to trade at a higher risk level on 17 May 2021 as compared to 10 days before on 07 May 2021, with its biggest pullback being seen at - 19.33% 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 Chainlink

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

Over the last 7 days, LINK has been trading near the lower price range of quantdoge simulations, indicating that LINK was trading at a highly undervalued level over the last week.

6. LINK Community Analytics

ChainLink has been gaining a lot of followers on both Twitter and Reddit in the past year.

ChainLink has gained a lot of Twitter followers this month, as seen from the peak in 2021-05. 

ChainLink has gained the greatest amount of Reddit followers in Feb 2021, although the monthly increment of Reddit followers have slowed down, it is still much higher than a year before.

Overall, ChainLink has received a community score of 54.2% on Coin Gecko.

Based on the last 100 days data, there is a strong positive correlation between community support (measured by the increment in number of Reddit and Twitter followers) and ChainLink price. 

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If you are into Ethereum (ETH) and Cardano (ADA), I have made similar analysis on them at:

• 11 May 2021 (TUE)- Ethereum (ETH) Daily Risk Report
  
  
• 10 May 2021 (MON)- Cardano (ADA) Daily Risk Report

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