Since the FTX crash I listened a lot to Gareth Soloway and Nicholas Merten from Datadash. Both expected lower lows. Soloway even expected BTC to get under 10k at some point. With the recent price rise I'm a bit worried that the ship has sailed. In his most recent video he no longer mentioned these lows. He even mentioned a 50k possibility for this year.
What are your thoughts? How big of a price rise do you expect if an ETF gets approved?
And is a scenario of World War III (Israel + USA + NATO vs an alliance of Islamic countries) bullish or bearish?
You shouldn't listen too much those so-called forecasters when you trade, because if you lose money, you will just accuse them and you won't learn from your mistakes.
Regarding ETF approval I don't think it will have a significant impact on the price, as it is already priced in by the market IMO and because
CME and
CBOE futures listings along with
Bakkt carried high expectations towards the community but didn't really pull up the price sustainably at the end.
I don't listen to them, planning to just copy their advice. I listen to consider their arguments if I find those arguments intelligent. And I compare those arguments to other channels. Someone else I often listened to is Mark Yusco, a hedge fund manager with great geopolitical insights.
I remember there was a time when many channels predicted that BTC would at least 100x within 3 months. This was not so long ago.
I also believe that the argument for this was the bank failures (Silicon valley bank and others who follow, which would cause a run on the banks and massive buy pressure for BTC)
This argument makes me frown because many others here say that a monetary collapse (bank failures) is bearish. I don't see why in case of a banking collapse, people would run to BTC. At this point in time one can not buy groceries and pay off a mortgage in BTC.
I dumped all channels who predicted this so I stayed with Soloway and Datadash.
While I have no understanding about short term market timing (graph analysis and short term trend prediction), I do understand the geopolitical situation quite well. I follow Ray Dalio for this (multi billion dollar hedge fund manager, and historian of the monetary system).
I personally estimate the odds very high of an all out war within the next few years. The current monetary system will eventually end in hyperinflation and bank failures, due to the escalated amount of debt on a global scale. This monetary system with the USA as a leader has been running since WWII, and WWIII will just be a battle to transfer wealth and power to a new leader that establishes the new financial rules. I believe that these will be the BRICS countries, and that the hegemony of the USA will be over.
If I stand by my prediction, I guess there should be new lows and I should not enter the market now.
However, I have no idea if the impact of such a war (and a monetary collapse, hyperinflation) would be more negative than that ETF approval will be positive.
I also don't know if the upswing caused by the 4th halving, would overpower a downswing caused by a huge war and a monetary collapse.