The only part of your viewpoint I’m disagreeing with is, the point you said that the peak of the current cycle might take several more quarters to play out. For me, Bitcoin will go through the same cycles, but it will take several such cycles of price discovery to play out.
I think that the point is that none of us know how long it will take for this cycle to play out, and/or if the cycle is going to look like the historical cycles or if it will take some kind of new form that causes the use of cycles (or the 4 -year fractal) to become a less convincing way of framing BTC price expectations. So, if we speculate that there still is going to be a kind of four year cycle that could end this calendar year or it could drag out until the 3rd quarter of 2022.. those all seem somewhat reasonably plausible in terms of attempting to frame expectations regarding more likely scenarios.. even if you or I might assign higher/lower probabilities to certain ways of attempting to frame the matter.
Personally, I do believe that it is better to attempt to prepare for a decently large variety of scenarios even ones that go beyond your expectations.. but of course, your level of preparations should also attempt to be proportional too..
You’re right that “no one knows”, but it’s not merely a “yes or no” situation either. There’s only probabilities. Then what, in your opinion, would be the probability of this current bull cycle to continue longer than the length of the historical bull cycles of the past? More than 70%?
For sure, whether we are referring to bitcoin price cycles or even various price points on the cycles there can be a lot of deviation from expectations in terms of how far from the expected mean whether we are referring to whether the price is above or below the mean or the quantity.
The combination of the three models that I have liked to attempt to use because they seem to be most credible in current times would be the stock to flow, four year fractal and exponential s-curve adoption based on Metcalfe principles and networking effects.. so yeah, both the stock to flow and four-year fractal contain the four-year cycle built into them, so quite a bit of weight is given to the prognostications that stay within the confines of the four year parameters, so yeah more weight would be given to expectations that would keep the price runs falling within time frames that they had occurred in the past - again within 4-year parameters.
Am I making no sense yet, Loyce? I agree it does not make a lot of sense to plug percentages into whether BTC prices peak in this calendar year (less than two months left - presuming the peak is higher than it has already gotten - $67,017) or whether the price peak for this cycle drags out until 1st quarter, 2nd quarter or 3rd quarter of 2022..
But as I think about it, maybe I can force myself into a way of reconsidering the whole matter and come out with assignments of probabilities something like this:
Already peaked out in 2021 at $67,017: 41.5%
Peaks out higher than $60,017 at some point in 2021: 18.5%
Peaks out 1st quarter 2022: 17.5%
Peaks out 2nd quarter 2022: 10.5%
Peaks out 3rd quarter 2022: 7%
Peaks out after 3rd quarter 2022: 5%
Sure, somewhat I am shooting these numbers out of my ass, but they do add up to 100%... and to answer your question Wind_FURY, it appears that my numbers for peaking out in 2021 add up to about 60%, so that leaves about 40% odds that they peak out after 2021.
And as I think through the matter.. assigning percentages did seem to help me to attempt to put some more specific context in my thoughts... so it appears that even if we might not be able to verify exactly how right we are, we still can assign probabilities to timeline and to price
(here's one that I did regarding BTC price 5 days ago).. and sure the more that we attempt to structure those matters the harder it is to exactly pinpoint them.. and we can ONLY do our best to attempt to estimate from our own perspectives (which is also something that does not exactly stay static). So, not being able to verify whether we were right or not because we are not making 100% assignments to black or white on x date, but it still seems to help us to get through some of our thinking about if we might be assigning (even on a personal level) too high or too low towards the occurrence of certain scenarios.
Members here are going to have differing views on how they assign probabilities to these matters, and maybe few of us have thought about how to specifically assign to timeline in a similar way as we might assign to price.... but it makes sense that we do need to consider both timeline and price, and just calling one might not be as helpful as being able to attempt to assign probabilities to both (each of them). We can move this over to another thread, too because it seems to be deviating quite a bit, no?