The best TradingView indicators for trading a crypto bear market

In a bear market, the single most dangerous habit is fighting a strong downtrend. ADX quantifies trend strength on a 0–100 scale — when ADX is above 25 and rising, the downtrend has momentum and countertrend longs are high-risk. It is the chop filter you need before any other signal.

Supertrend's ATR-based trailing line flips to resistance above price when the trend is down and stays there through the noise. It gives a clean, mechanical read on whether a bounce is just a retracement or a genuine regime shift — and it doubles as a trailing stop for short positions.

RSI in a bear market lives between roughly 20 and 60 rather than the full 30–70 range. Understanding this shifting range is the key read: when RSI fails to reclaim 50 on a bounce, the downtrend is intact. Bearish divergence prints consistently at dead-cat-bounce highs on crypto majors.

Bear markets bring expanded daily ranges and sudden volatility spikes. ATR-based stop sizing — placing stops a multiple of ATR away from entry rather than a fixed percentage — is essential for surviving the wide intraday swings without getting stopped out on normal noise.

In sustained downtrends, price often 'walks the lower band' — staying pinned against the lower Bollinger Band for extended periods rather than reverting. Recognizing this pattern (rather than fading it as a reversal) prevents the classic bear-market mistake of bottom-picking into a trending move.