One reason for investors' endless optimism and belief in infinite upside could be BTC's decreasing issuance and the 21 million coins fixed supply limit.
That is wrong.
The reason for increasing price is not the fixed supply but the
increasing demand. If anyone doubts this they can visit the altcoin market and see the long term price of altcoins with capped supplies that keeps declining due to lack of demand.
However, not even the most accurate models, including the stock-to-flow (S2F) from analyst Plan B, can predict bear markets, crashes, or FOMO-induced (fear of missing out) pumps. Traders usually misinterpret these concepts as value and price expectations can be easily mistaken.
You are not supposed to be able to predict anything with absolute accuracy. Wizards and witches can do it and they only exist in fairy tails. What we can do is to speculate and when it comes to bitcoin we can speculate its price in long term which means all the short term crashes and FOMOs become irrelevant.
Bitcoin does not exist in a vacuum, even if BTC maximalists think so. Therefore, its price action heavily depends on how many dollars, euros, and yuans are in circulation and interest rates, real estate, equities, and commodities. Even global economic growth and inflationary expectations impact the risk appetite for people, companies, and mutual funds.
Bitcoin is only affected by these things but it has never depended on any of these. As I said above the only determining factor that affects bitcoin price when you look at the bigger picture is its adoption. Otherwise the short term risk takers with a big appetite who come in to make quick profit due to some other market's crashing and fiat inflation are increasing the short term volatility.
Is there a chance?
Let's just say that we either see the end of the 4 year long cycles and there won't be any big bear markets or the target is still $400k.