Totally wrong!
If these are not related then explain me how exactly the downtrend started in the same phase of time that Corona was started to get spread?
Markets often move together:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/there-are-few-places-to-hide-when-markets-all-move-together-11566993602It's not just correlated markets either, so it's not all about financial cause and effect. There are global psychological and even more esoteric factors at play. When major panic strikes (as in a financial crisis), it tends to hit everything at once. That's what we saw in 2008.
There are two very good reasons why BTCUSD corrected off the $10,000s:
Remember how crazy the funding rate and futures premiums were a week back or so. Obviously a correction had to happen.
Yup, and there's another obvious reason why the market corrected:
Corona virus induced panic in the stock markets may have provided an additional factor, but I wouldn't consider it the primary cause.
If the stock market keeps crashing at this rate, it will probably signify a major incoming global recession. That means job losses and outflows from high-risk investment assets. This would be a bearish factor for BTC.
The DOW and S&P 500 mini futures are about to open. I'm excited to see what they have to say about the market's expectations for next week.