Topic: Retail investors mostly absent from the market in 2024? (Read 53 times)
Im not sure if retail is not part of the cycle so far. Just from own experience I’d say that retail is at least beginning to join the ‘party’. News outlets should be taken with a grain of salt imo.
Bitcoin is already volatile enough, why people want to get involved with crap that is two to ten times more volatile is beyond me.
In the long run they will lose money. Might as well throw all your money on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas.
I can't imagine treating any shitcoin as a long term investment like millions do with bitcoin.
In the long run they will lose money. Might as well throw all your money on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas.
I can't imagine treating any shitcoin as a long term investment like millions do with bitcoin.
People are joining the industry with very high expectations because they got to know about the market by the testimony of people making lots of profits from the market. Retails investors are more into altcoins and they specialized in memecoins, there are many tokens that should not be worth a penny but they have millions of market cap. Some notable exchanges are also encouraging this behaviour by listening them and giving early investors lots of profits. The news spread and more retail investors search for the next memecoin to give this profits. There is a misconceptions that everything rises during the bull market therefore people are investing into everything that they see without considering that the tokens that they are buying might not rise.
That is the mantra I heard repeated ad nauseum by pundits and media through most of 2024.
They say the digital asset market was driven largely by governments and institutions this year, with a notable absence of retail.
They say the digital asset market was driven largely by governments and institutions this year, with a notable absence of retail.
institutional investors use OTC or private trade direct with mining pools. they dont trade on CEX to any large amount
the retail market IS the CEX market
what people need to realise is if they are looking at cex btc volume charts. it may seem lower than previous years.. however if you measure it in a fiat price of said btc you will realise that more trades for more $$ have been made compared to those previous years, meaning that trade volume is actually higher as more money has changed hands
simplified example:
imagine i bought 1.5btc each month in 2020, but only bought 0.5btc each month in q3-q4 of 2024
in 2020 1btc was ~$10k meaning $15k average investment monthly 2020
in q3-4 2024 1btc was ~$75k meaning $37.5k average investment monthly 2024
so 2.5x more invested
That's the reason why Bitcoin is the King.
These retail investors who went to some altcoins hoping for higher rewards for sure will realize what they missed on Bitcoin.
This is the same mistake I did way back around 2017-2018, I already learned my lesson.
These retail investors who went to some altcoins hoping for higher rewards for sure will realize what they missed on Bitcoin.
This is the same mistake I did way back around 2017-2018, I already learned my lesson.
That is the mantra I heard repeated ad nauseum by pundits and media through most of 2024.
They say the digital asset market was driven largely by governments and institutions this year, with a notable absence of retail.
But what they don't mention is that retail has always had a strong presence in the shitcoin casino.
Since institutions tend to deal with only bitcoin, the shitcoin casino is almost exclusively left to retail.
Bitcoin dominance has been 55-60% in 2024 so the remaining 40-45% are retail which is by no means insignificant.
Bitcoin is already volatile enough, why people want to get involved with crap that is two to ten times more volatile is beyond me.
In the long run they will lose money. Might as well throw all your money on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas.
I can't imagine treating any shitcoin as a long term investment like millions do with bitcoin.
They say the digital asset market was driven largely by governments and institutions this year, with a notable absence of retail.
But what they don't mention is that retail has always had a strong presence in the shitcoin casino.
Since institutions tend to deal with only bitcoin, the shitcoin casino is almost exclusively left to retail.
Bitcoin dominance has been 55-60% in 2024 so the remaining 40-45% are retail which is by no means insignificant.
Bitcoin is already volatile enough, why people want to get involved with crap that is two to ten times more volatile is beyond me.
In the long run they will lose money. Might as well throw all your money on the roulette wheel in Las Vegas.
I can't imagine treating any shitcoin as a long term investment like millions do with bitcoin.
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