![zimmyaa22.jpg](https://steemitimages.com/DQmbs1wohn6zquqetwEJYDHX62NiWU4GJQFegEP1TRL9UGX/zimmyaa22.jpg)

This post is the first in a weekly trading tips series called ’Writing On The Wall’, in which our game theory guide Eric Wall tries to decipher those writings.

The retail market forces in cryptocurrencies are governed by a mishmash of various ideas and concepts. The longer trends in which these are prevalent are sometimes referred to as fundamentals, which for bitcoin are things such as financial sovereignty, inflation immunity, and un-correlatability. The shorter trends are governed by what can be thought of as a multitude of competing memes, where the most prevailing meme for a given week will be the dominating factor in dictating that week’s price movements.