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When technical and fundamental signals conflict, the core principle is “Fundamental factors override technical signals.” Fundamentals drive the market’s “mood” and “direction,” while technicals depict the “path” and “position.” During conflicts, it’s essential to prioritize the impact of fundamentals.

Here are three more practical and robust steps:

🔁 Step 1: Weight assessment and cycle alignment

First, clarify the nature of the conflict. This determines who you should “trust.”

Fundamental signals are “black swan” events (such as war, major regulations, exchange collapses): unconditional obedience to fundamentals. At this point, market logic is entirely dominated by panic or euphoria, and any support/resistance levels in technicals may instantly fail. Your trading cycle should automatically switch to daily or longer-term charts, abandoning all short-term technical signals, with risk avoidance as the primary goal.

Fundamental signals are “ordinary events” (such as economic data, officials’ speeches, industry news): allow technical and fundamental signals to “dialogue.” If a technical signal (like a golden cross) conflicts with the fundamental direction, this itself is a warning, indicating significant market disagreement. At this stage, reduce position size and look for entry points on smaller cycles, or simply abstain from trading this time.

In the current ETH scenario: Trump’s “48-hour final ultimatum” is a geopolitical “black swan,” with a weight far exceeding the MACD golden cross on the 4-hour chart. Therefore, the strategic tone should immediately shift to defensive, abandoning any long plans based on that golden cross.

🛡️ Step 2: Implement defensive trading discipline

In conflict environments, survival is more important than profit.

Downgrade and observe: immediately switch from short-term trading (like 4-hour cycles) to daily observation. Until the message clarifies (such as the expiration of the ultimatum on April 7), the best position is usually cash.

Set “escape lines”: if you must hold positions, stop-loss levels should no longer be set at conventional technical levels (like 4H MA60). Instead, base them on the potential destructive power of the news, for example:

- Price breaks below previous lows or key support levels on the daily chart.
- Price drops with volume below the daily MA60.

Once triggered, exit immediately—don’t hold onto the hope that “technical indicators will save” you.

Abandon the left side (prediction), wait for the right side: never predict “bad news is exhausted and turns into good news.” Patiently wait for the fundamental risk to subside (e.g., no war breaking out) and for the price action to give clear technical confirmation (such as volume recovery above the daily MA60 and structural breakout). Only then consider entering.

📈 Step 3: Look for resonance signals for re-entry

After the conflict subsides, the market will seek a new balance. At this point, you should look for signals where fundamentals and technicals shift from conflict to resonance—that’s a high-probability entry point.

Signal structure: macro news improves + price breaks key technical levels + volume expands.

For example: if after April 7, the situation does not escalate further, and market sentiment improves. Meanwhile, ETH price volume increases, consistently staying above the daily MA60, and MACD forms a golden cross near the zero line. This constitutes a “fundamental relief” and “technical strength” resonance, which is a much more reliable long entry signal than just a 4H golden cross.

Ultimate summary:

Technicals are the map; fundamentals are the weather. In fair weather, the map is precise and reliable; but in storms (black swans), obsessing over map details can lead you astray. Prudent traders will take shelter (stay in cash and observe) during storms, and once the weather clears (fundamentals and technicals resonate), they will follow the map’s guidance to continue forward.