I've done some market analysis and decided that 575 is a fair price for bitcoin as of now. It is now -0.114 below
the trendline. During the slump last summer, starting from the capitulation low and ending the day when daily average ATH was broken (122 days by the way), we were on average -0.251 below the trend. If we stay at this price until April 13, 2014, we will reach -0.251. This is regard as realistic. There is no need to go down, the trendline is going up and takes care that we will sink further below trendline as is predicted by the model.
I see the possibility for a further low below 400 as slim at the moment. If further flashcrashes occur, my target for the low point is 450-500.
The capitulation happened already. If you did not feel it, the reason is that here in the oldtimer threads in Bitcointalk people knew what was coming and were not afraid. Outside, people and media and newbies were, and still are, asking if Bitcoin is dead. There was blood on the streets. Don't expect that it will turn worse. It cannot. It can only go up from here.
There is no need to be hasty with purchases. Bitcoin is not going down, but neither is it going up. The trendline logistics prevent it from rising, and I would see 700 as a shorting price if I was in the intention to gamble now. In reality I just transferred the overmajority of my trading capital to cold wallets. If you want to buy now, bidding 500-550 is probably enough.
It is frivolous to think that history could exactly predict future, but because Bitcoin behaves self-similarly like a fractal, and because my past predictions based on this method have been quite amazingly correct, let's just calculate the day when ATH will be taken: June 27, 2014.
From there, it will likely take only 30 days to make a new ATH that will last several months.
Unless the Chasm interrupts the underlying, 5-year old growth paradigm in a way that nothing in Bitcoin's history has yet been able to do.
Risto, greetings from sunny and stunning New Zealand: another quality post mate ...thanks for confirming my own thoughts with regard to both our current situation and the medium term direction....although there's going to be a lot of MSM attention in the forthcoming months that will drive many smaller or less-informed investors away and despite what many here believe, sentiment will have an impact.
But every day we remain above 500 is another day the foundations firm - and the level of projects coming to fruition at present suggests BTC will (as always prove highly resilient) ride this storm to emerge from 'beta' much stronger with a far different eco-system around it.
The herd will join again but only when they have been convinced the waters are safe and the crocodiles have been banished.