as this weekend dump is coming to a close, a few points I would like to make.
1: a lot of money has been flowing into bitcoin recently... as such I imagine the price will continue up this week.
2: if you think the ETF will be denied, your optimal strategy will be to sell later this week... perhaps Wednesday or Thursday, and then rebuy on the dip after it is denied.
3: there are many people who are expecting the price to collapse if the ETF is denied. they are wrong. let's say the price rises into the upper 1300s this week and the ETF is denied I would expect a $100-$200 drop to bring us into the lower 1200s. perhaps lower but only briefly. then we resume up. many people attempting to buy the dip will miss it.
4: if the ETF is approved, you can buy afterwards. the best case scenario in terms of price increase is for the ETF to be approved and to start trading in a month or two. speculation would drive the price up very nicely and when the ETF starts trading, it will likely keep us up there.
if the ETF is denied we get to start speculating on the next ETF right? or the GBTC $500 million IPO which is planned for October? correst me if I'm wrong please.https://www.reddit.com/r/BitcoinMarkets/comments/5xl1hv/daily_discussion_sunday_march_05_2017/deja03k/ I appreciate your detailed analysis, but I don't agree with some of your points.
I think you're right that, barring any announcement, the price will continue to rise this week.
When the SEC is planning to reject an ETF, they usually tell the submitter in advance, and the submitter usually withdraws the proposal, on average 3.5 days before the deadline. In other words, a withdrawal could happen any time in the next week. Therefore, the best play for those anticipating rejection would be to sell and place low buy orders now. (I don't like selling, so I found some other money to cover my extremely low buy orders. While I'm hoping for approval, I wouldn't mind the opportunity to double my coins.)
I believe much of the run-up in recent months has been in anticipation of the COIN ETF, and bitcoin tends to overreact to news, so I expect the flash crash will be lower than you're anticipating. However, I agree that we will recover to the current levels, although I think it might take a few months. If the flash crash is not low enough to hit the extremely low buy orders I placed last week, I expect to be able to buy the dip after a withdrawal or rejection below $800.
If the ETF is approved, I expect an immediate price jump, not a gradual one. Markets tend to price things in well in advance. I expect the upward jump from approval will be much larger than crash after withdrawal or rejection, so it makes sense to be long, although I'm not brave enough to be leveraged long.
Yes, you are absolutely right. We will soon start speculating on the next ETF, so even if the COIN ETF is not approved, I expect that we'll be hitting new all-time highs before the end of 2017, which is another reason to stay long through the next week.