https://pasteboard.co/GZob5ki.png Before I say anything I did read the earlier disdain for alts that luc has, but on this occasion it may be worth bringing them up.
Something that's been bothering me for some time are these charts, and now that this sell off is starting to sink in, I think there may be a clue here. The charts are almost too perfect, but as you can see, the lower trendline of ethbtc had massive support, and btc sold off massively at that time despite being in a full blown parabolic rise. The alts were respected and money moved from btc to them. LTC also pumped massively. I don't think we should discount the action of alts.
So, in isolation, luc has compared this BTC run to the April 2013 run, and has previously suggested a wave 4 coming which are generally quite long correctives. If the ether charts are remotely correct, then the arbitrary targets I drew would give us BTC at $10k at the time ether reaches a value of 0.4 btc or $4k. Please bear in mind I just drew those lines freehand looking at the general trajectory of previous waves so there is no real accuracy there. The trendlines give us something to work with, so you can pick any date along the upper trendline and see what you come up with for a BTC price.
So a price of 10k at those ether valuations simply points to a ranging BTC market. Nothing else I could think of made sense if those charts are to be taken seriously. Given that the post 2013 correction/sideways market lasted for about 6 months, I think luc's earlier suggestion of modelling this run on that year makes a lot of sense given these other clues.
A lot is similar in this market now in terms of the behaviour and the rapidly evolving fundamentals, challenges to the network, lots of new participants, news/hype cycle, exchanges overloaded, people getting burnt, all that stuff... We may even have a new Gox on the cards if the rumours around BFX are true. It's all just an order of magnitude bigger. But humans are humans, markets are markets, lots of noobs got involved, now they are getting burnt in time for Christmas. It makes sense the market needs some time out and some time to coil up again.
Also if the ether charts play out cleanly, they suggest a massive ether sell off once the run is done and ethusd falls out of the wedge, and a move to btc in time to start to give btc some momentum and get a sideways market trending up. So BTC would still be king
Thoughts would be appreciated, cheers
EDIT: not really sure why my image is not displaying... if anyone can please let me know how to fix it? Is it because I'm a new account perhaps?
EDIT2: I also meant to say, I wouldn't be surprised if BTC hits somewhere below 60%... The 2013 run sold off around 80%, I doubt we hit that level but $5-6k wouldn't be surprising. Lastly, I can see a case for ethusd just dropping like a stone and these charts getting voided... So feel free to void my analysis and let me know why
EDIT3: We my just drop out the ethusd wedge from here, and touch a new lower trendline... so, if that happens my idea is void.