Hello guys...
I have diversified my portfolio to about 25 different cryptos which were worth about 7000-8000$ just before the bitcoin crash came and I am wondering whats the exact reason behind this, when or will it recover (and so the alt coins I hold, don't have any bitcoin).
Why do almost all alt coins crash because of the bitcoin crash or correction?
My portfolio is worth only 4000$ atm.
Sorry for being an beginning idiot and asking this and thanks for everybody who can explain it to me
What we saw during December was a huge price rise across the whole market. It was clearly unsustainable, and the question was how far it was going to rise before it eventually fell back - but it was definitely always going to fall back hard. Just look at the historic price charts. Every mammoth rise has been followed by a fall.
So the market in early Jan was just waiting for an excuse to correct. There were a slew of negative mainstream news articles, particularly from Asia, and these were enough to trigger the fall that everyone knew was coming.
For people who have been here a long time, even just early 2017 like me, even if the market fell 75% we would still be in profit - but this was not the case for all the newcomers who came into crypto during December. These were the people who fuelled the immense price rise, and these were also the people who would be in a loss-making position the minute the markets fell.
So I think once the fall started, a lot of these people decided to panic sell and cut their losses, which caused the price drops to be much steeper than would otherwise be the case. And then experienced traders could see what was happening and took advantage, selling their coins and buying back in at a lower point. Again this activity caused more price drops.
Just my opinion, but I think panic selling by newcomers cutting their losses was the main reason that the fall was so steep.
Why do alts crash when bitcoin crashes? Because alts are linked to bitcoin in trading pairs, and because bitcoin is much bigger than other coins, and bitcoin news dominates the whole market.
When will it recover? I would say look at price charts over the last year, not just the last week or month. You will see a clear pattern.