I haven't bought any BTC yet.
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It is impossible to predict when the bottom of the bear market will be, you may have already missed it. Bitcoin has a history of defying predictions and expectations. The current bear market has been going on for 5 months and is showing no signs of an end anytime soon. However, the new Bitcoin bull run will certainly surprise the pundits and shake up all their beliefs.
There are many predictions regarding the current decline in Bitcoin, but I believe that no one can accurately predict it. It will be here when it's here, and only time will tell when it is over. Bitcoin has survived worse collapses than what is taking place right now and will most likely survive this one, too. So, I believe in the beautiful resilience of Bitcoin. There are other options to consider for your strategy. You can, for example, consider buying Bitcoin in small increments for long-term investments.
Today's date is May 11th, 2022. BTC price is at $31,500. That is around -55% from ATH. This is a big dip but it can go lower because the alts haven't reached 95%+ is losses.
Conditions for bear market bottom:
1. Most non BTC alt coins should fall down 95% from ATH. (This makes sense because most alt coins are worthless and will tend towards losing much of their value.)
2. Around 1 year from BTC previous ATH. This is a bit tricky this time because it was a double top. So it either in May 2022 i.e this month. Or a few months from now, i.e November.
3. Typically Bitcoin crashes around 80%. That would mean a bottom price of about $15k per coin. It could crash atleast 70% this time and that would put it around $20k.
4. The bear market bottom will last for 3 to 4 months and even then it won't shoot up suddenly. There will still be more opportunities to buy it but it won't be at the rock bottom level.
5. The hotline has to be posted. This hasn't happened yet. Crypto is a zero sum game. All we are doing is shuffling money from one pocket to another in tricky ways and then trying to rationalize it.
In order for one person to make money in crypto someone else has to lose it. When people lose a huge amount of money they have no choice but to drop out of the game. They will only sell
and permanently get off the crypto game because they over invested in crypto. This marks the bottom and is followed by a slow steady rise and marks the beginning of the next bull run after a prolonged
bottom period of at-least 3 to 4 months.
Here is the down from ATH list as of May 11th, 2022
1 BitcoinBTC -54.40%
2 EthereumETH -50.70%
4 BNBBNB -55.70%
6 XRPXRP -87.10%
7 CardanoADA -79.90%
8 SolanaSOL -76.60%
10 DogecoinDOGE -86.50%
11 PolkadotDOT -80.60%
12 AvalancheAVAX -73.50%
13 Lido Staked Ether -42.10%
14 Wrapped BitcoinWBTC -54.30%
15 SHIBA INUSHIB -83.20%
17 TRONTRX -77.60%
19 CronosCRO -76.10%
20 PolygonMATIC -71%
21 LitecoinLTC -81%
22 Near ProtocolNEAR -60.90%
23 FTX TokenFTT -60.90%
24 UNUS SED LEOLEO -41.10%
25 Bitcoin CashBCH -94.80%
26 ChainLinkLINK -84%
27 OKBOKB -67.50%
You should see a good hard 90% and I would say at-least 95% drop in most of the alt coins. Many of these alts would be ignored and not developed further. They may not even ever recover in the next bull run.
Why? Because the founders and early adopters already made their gains. It is far easier for them to wait a few more years and then start a brand new alt coin and create hype than it is to try to work on a dead project. Unless, ofcourse the founders have integrity. But most are practical and there are forces at play which will keep them practical.
The next few weeks should see a brutal crypto bloodbath. Once BTC is at around $20k AND the alts bleed 95% and more AND people start swearing off of crypto permanently. That is when I will buy BTC.
Just as it was extremely difficult to sell off at the top, it will likely be extremely difficult and painful to buy at the bottom because you will feel that it could go still lower or that BTC will be worthless in the future(to be fair this is still a possibility). But, I will force myself to buy it. I won't DCA in. I will go all in on BTC (70%) ETH (30%) in a span of 2 to 3 weeks. After that will wait till the next halving to liquidate 10% and reinvest in the new crop of altcoins 3 months before the halving. Then, in 2025 I will sell everything in the mania phase and never ever again touch crypto. Perma exit.