Encryption | STAR Radar | July 28

The radar gave me 25 points, but one data point surged to 99%. Would you dare to go all-in?

$BTC was just dumped into 63,000 again. $SOL is still lying there at 73. $ETH 1880… the broader market is slipping lower. Even the bottom-fishing crowd’s mindset has been ground down.

The STAR radar I built myself scanned its 404th time today. The target stock was listed 18 days ago and has retraced 20%. My overall score is only 25 out of 100—so the system directly tells me to keep waiting.

But there’s one metric that made me stop and take a second look: the proportion of active buying jumped to 99.3%.

Almost all of the trades are on the buy side—meaning sell pressure is already very low. Yet the buying strength only increased by 5.8%, not reaching the 10% threshold. It’s that delicate state of wanting to buy but not daring to go heavy.

Look at two more signals: the 7-day holding has fallen by 14.5%. The shorts are closing positions, but not completely. Trading volume has shrunk to 0.04. The bottoming window just opened on day 18, and there are still 6 days until the average bottoming period.

In plain words: the chips are loosening, but the buy orders aren’t truly powering up. This is bottoming-and-grinding, not “the bottom is in.”

My discipline: I keep 30% position size as bids placed at the prior low for a test. If it doesn’t break, I don’t change. If the active buying strength can hold above 10%, I’ll scale up to 50%. What I fear most is seeing a sudden selloff and dumping in a heavy position.

Do you think this kind of left-side signal is an opportunity or a trap? How many points does your own bottom-fishing system give it?