Hi, my name is Michael Valtos and I spent 25 years as an institutional trader at JP Morgan, Cargill, Commerzbank, EDF Man and Dean Witter Reynolds. The one thing that I have found to be single most important part of market analysis is order flow because it gets you as close to the market as possible so you can best analyze what is happening in the market and, more importantly, why its happening in the market.

I got involved in crypto markets a few years ago because I was looking into alternative ways to accept payments and bitcoin fascinated me. I quickly realized it was great for trading and not just for processing payments or transferring money. However, at the time, my style of trading (order flow analysis) just wasn't feasible based on the technology at the time (2016-2017). However, fast forward to 2020 and the technology finally started to catch up. Now, in 2022, more and more crypto exchanges are opening up their API for trading software companies to connect to.