Bitcoin or Cryptocurrency in general are slowly been accepted and recognized by some financial institutions in some countries in the last few years. And there are well-known personalities that promotes the use of cryptocurrency around the globe.
But the questions is how come its value decreases after it has reached the highest in the last quarter of 2017. Was it being more accepted affected its value? What are your thoughts?
I had that same question a year ago, when I only followed tips from youtubers and influencers, and almost fell into the error of paying academies to teach trading, the reason is simple, it is simply that the speculative market always obeys the Supply-Demand , and that in the structure of an action or Currency in our case, such as Bitcoin, it complies with the structure shown by Richard Wyckoff, which basically derives it from: Accumulation Stage and Distribution Stage, where the accumulation stage consists of accumulate as much as possible of bitcoin currency, so much that it eliminates the offer, and at this stage is where you buy much cheaper.
And the stage of the Distribution is when it arrives at its ATH and it is where it must be sold, it is the ideal stage because it is the maximum price that determines the market to do it, this happens obviously it is sold expensive while others buy and the sales are massive , this causes the price to go down and fall, it is simply a pattern that always repeats itself. That's why we went from 20k to 3k, 4k, 5k, 6k ...