I definitely see no end in sight as far as volatility goes, and until mass adoption actually occurs, I see no end to these speculative market cycles either. However, I think it's important to note that Bitcoin's price is a direct reflection of adoption. So if that mass adoption scenario occurs, we should expect the resulting price increase to greatly surpass the magnitude of past cycles.
I think FOMO and panic outweigh people's changing perceptions about the value money. By which I just mean the speculative market will continue the boom/crash cycle so there won't just be some turning point where we hit the vertical part of the S-curve and Bitcoin goes from say $50k to $500k and stays there without crashing.
I just think we'll continue to see the same cycles and nothing will be dramatically different
Too easy. I've been trading markets long enough to know this: when a pattern (like these boom + crash cycles) becomes too obvious, it stops being reliable. Too many traders recognize it and front run the pattern, then it fails. This is why fractal analysis tends not to work in general.
That could mean the next cycle is a flop and tops out way lower than everyone expects, at $30K or something. It could also mean the early sellers trying to front run a top at $50K or $100K get steamrolled and the bull run
accelerates instead of topping.
The only thing you can do is expect the unexpected. Don't sell all your coins at any one price level. We may never go back there.
Yeah I can agree with that. But all the cycles are a little different, which is not what the winkle twins were trying to say. Like 2013 had a like half way peak, and a quick but normal depth (-80%) crash followed by finishing up the cycle 6 months later, while 2017 was nothing like that and a repeat pattern of extended pump, 40% crash, extended pump, 40% crash, and then the big blow off, in which each pump and crash took about a month before the big pump and blow off happened, that's very different from the 2013 full on peak, crash, short bull run to another full on peak.
I think it is possible we get a series of smaller boom/bust cycles from people trying to get out before the big crash they expect to come, and possibly this past year was the first one of those: parabolic rise to ~$14k, then down for a half year or so (and then obviously the pandemic global crash messed up the patter a bit). Maybe this next year will be another small run and mid-term crash to $25k or something and then instead of the boom starting there it'll be a mini-cycle that falls back to low $10k's for a while before another mini-cycle starts.
I don't see the flop thing you mention happening unless its in this mini-cycle type pattern though. Because the only reason major prolonged bear markets happen is precisely because of the huge bull runs. Just topping out at say $30k wouldn't be that much of a parabolic run so it wouldn't cause like a year long -80%+ bear market like the past two cycles, it'd probably just be more like what we had the second half of 2019.
The Winkle twins though were trying to say it's gonna be different in a positive way because of like infrastructure and institutional investment but I just don't see that playing out in such a way this cycle that the top is like insanely high, ya know. Like to give a super broad prediction, $50k - $150k is a reasonable prediction of the top, whereas I feel like they are saying no the game has changed and bitcoin will shoot far into the 6 digits because this time is different, and therefore the bull run will actually get larger this time rather than smaller, and I just don't see any reason to think that. This time is not different, it probably won't be the exact same as the last cycle, but in general its gonna be the same thing of gradually building up to the point where a global FOMO frenzy takes over. It will surely be a different shape that 2011 or 2013 or 2017, but the overarching cycle will be similar, and I don't see a reason each marco cycle will stop getting smaller gains just because there is more infrastructure or just because institutions are tip-toeing into bitcoin now.