Topic: In the event of Market collapse - Quantfunds & Hedge Funds' flight to safety? (Read 455 times)

No. All big banks of the world already banned bitcoin over four years ago in 2013. You cannot make a transaction with any big bank and mention that is being used for "bitcoin" otherwise your transaction gets stopped and blocked (the tellers and supervisors are trained to do this, however this is easily avoided by never saying "bitcoin"). No countries are doing anything to reverse such schemes of the big banks in their countries.

Despite this, Bitcoin has been growing exponentially and being adopted like crazy every single year.

It's clear that it doesn't matter if any entity (bank or government) tries to make legal nor does it matter if they try to ban bitcoin - it is completely out of their control.

Its a bit of an annoying task. I can understand why there wouldn't be many volunteers.

Would anyone like to volunteer to post a reply with update the data and table?

Any comments? On Global assets and fiat?

These past 24 hours served as yet another example; global newslines ringing alarms of N.Korea missles flying past Japan as well as continued floods in Texas and Mumbai India - amidst all the trouble, alot of money had flowed into "safety" of Bitcoin to push it to new highs.

It seems this pattern has already been established - and funds will continue to flow into bitcoin when other financial assets falter?

With a number of countries now legalizing Bitcoin and the pursuit of licenses for ETFs to trade on Bitcoin based derivatives still strong and gathering even more momentum , it would be only a while and the entire equation can't help but change because corporate investors can no longer afford to be spectators while Bitcoin is making phenomenal impacts in global finance.

Bitcoin's lack of correlation to other financial assets and its ability to hedge against market losses will do very well as more investment portfolios anywhere in the world begin to add or increase their allocation.

If the market were to collapse (modern-day markets pegging S&P 500 US Stocks index as a worldwide primer) - where will the flight to safety be?

Quantfunds (Quantitative investment funds that rely on mathematical models for investments) are infamous at crunching through vast arrays of data across all asset types to use combine investments of less-correlated assets together to acheive great investment returns while still being defensive during down markets.

What will hedge fund / quant-fund data show?

Since mid-June here were the performance of asset-classes when S&P 500 was down more than -0.2% in a day.



There were only 10 days since mid-June where daily drop of S&P exceeded -0.2%. The above compares how Bitcoin, Gold, Long Term US Treasury Bonds, US Commercial Real Estate (REIT), and Bullish US Dollar Index did on those same days.

The assets are represented by most established, regulated, liquid ETFs:
Gold  ticker: IAU - iShares Gold Trust
Long Term US Treasury Bonds ticker - TLH - iShares 10-20 Year Treasury Bond
US Commercial Real Estate ticker - VNQ - Vanguard Real-Estate-Investment-Trusts ETF
Bullish USD index ticker - UUP - PowerShares DB US Dollar Index Bullish

Where will the flight to safety be in terms of assets/investments?

There are already 3 large institutional investment vehicles for private investments, hedge funds, and quant-funds to get bitcoin exposure:
-XBT provider's bitcoin swedish nasdaq etf (priced in SEK currency) : bitcoinxb / bloomberg ticker: coinxbt [not real btc]
-Grayscale's bitcoin Over-the-counter markets fund : GBTC  [not real btc]
-Gemini's exchange's daily auctions of bitcoin buyers and sellers [real btc?]

This is outside of the many popular exchanges that exist for bitcoin and cryptocurrencies including p2p exchange localbitcoins. [real BTC]

Does it seem to be that private investors see an easy flight to safety into bitcoin for its investment portfolios?