As of today as per CMC bitcoin is at $8,273.20 a slight dip from the $8,000+ level it already breached. This can be the mini-correction that some analysts predicted before bitcoin will finally go beyond the $9,000 level. It is time that we cheer bitcoin to hang on in the vicinity of $8,000+.
Are you buying more bitcoin at this stage?
No, I've switched to alts.
What tends to happen when a bull run starts and the markets turn green is that bitcoin leads the way. This is obviously true of new money coming into crypto, with bitcoin being effectively the fiat gateway (yes, you can buy a few top cap alts with fiat, but it's mainly BTC). So people see BTC going up from the new money, and they FOMO, sell their alts to buy more BTC, and BTC rises further.
Once BTC price increases start to slow down, a lot of people then look at alts - which now look undervalued against their historical BTC price. Plus you have the new money that came from fiat to BTC, has seen some profit, and now wants to branch out to other coins. So then alts take over the bull whilst BTC takes a back seat.
I'm not saying this always happens, but it has happened enough times in the past to become quite a good indicator of how the markets might play out.
One more point is that I'm not a fan of huge unbroken price rises. They tend to be unsustainable. I'm much happier with a rise that pauses for a while to establish a new support level before building up again. We all know what happened in 2017, and when the fall started no-one knew just how far it should drop, because the mega-rise had not built in any support.