The market can definitely be confusing. I think most people were expecting a higher BTC price right now. It’s generally hard to predict when the fluctuations will hit and how bad they will be. For example, I was pretty convinced that after all the government overspending during the pandemic and the war in Ukraine we may head into a recession.
I suppose I was correct in seeing that the market was due for a correction but I just didn’t see when it would happen. It’s also hard to predict when the market will pick back up but rest assured it always does and Bitcoin value will rise with it.
I doubt that it helps towards attempting to clear up the confusion if any of us actually believes that bitcoin's price movements are actually correlated with the overall market or with the stock market or with the NASDAQ and variations of those superficial theories.
In other words, many of us need to figure out that bitcoin is a different kind of asset that is not fucking correlated with the stock market - even if so many folks wish that you consider it the same thing and to get confused about it.
People all over are saying that bitcoin is correlated with the stock market and they have all kinds of data to show it.. blah blah blah... baloney.
If you are able to zoom out, you will see that bitcoin is not correlated with the stock market - except on short time horizons.
So, yeah, I will concede that bitcoin prices are correlated to the stock market on short time horizons, but you better fucking be in bitcoin during those periods when it is not correlated because over the years there are a large number of times that bitcoin has done a wee bit of a step up and then goes back to correlation.. so what's the point.. bitcoin is correlated except for those short periods when it is not, and if you are not in bitcoin during those times when it is not, you are going to get fucked (or at least not end up having had been able to profit during those short periods of non-correlation).
Do I need to point out all the periods of non-correlation in comparing bitcoin to other assets (whether the stock market or anything else)? Look at September 2020 to April 2021. Or better yet, look at the bottom of the March 2020 liquidation event until April 2021. Does that look correlated? If you say that it does, you deserve to be slapped. There are quite a few other times in bitcoin's history that you are going to see similar kinds of non-correlation - so distinctions that make a difference.
By the way, some folks will proclaim some nonsense like bitcoin might move more from time to time, but it ONLY goes up when the stock market goes up. Maybe that is true, maybe not.. I could hardly give less than two shits. If the BTC price goes up 15x in a year, and the stock market goes up 50%.. should we be considering those two to be both going up together and does it help us out to recognize that fact? The fact is that we should recognize that we better have some stake in bitcoin because it is not as correlated as people frequently describe (or imply) it to be.
Another thing is that we cannot really know when BTC is going to have some short periods of price step up, so on an individual level it remains a good practice to have some healthy portion in your investment portfolio... and sure there are no guarantees, but bitcoin remains an asymmetric bet to the upside.
Of course, if we want to be confused we can throw shitcoins into our analysis too... and to me, it seems best to keep your shitcoin allocation very very low especially because any of them can end up getting rug pulled at any time, even if you have all kind of confidence in x, y or z shitcoin/project/nft... But hey if you are studying all of those topics of how various shitcoins perform as compared to bitcoin, those are other reasons to become confused and to lose sight of the prize which is obviously king daddy.
That's true and even after doing the analysis it's also not a guarantee to be able to know when the market can bounce back,
because the most widely done is technical analysis. everything we see is based on what the tool shows. and about the news, we rarely follow developments.
when the market is down, we don't need to be confused. those who have been trading crypto for a long time see fluctuations in the crypto market as an opportunity to make a profit.
will be a little confusing and even make us hesitate to start investing. but for bitcoin assets, when there is a decline, no one will hesitate to buy them. because everyone believes bitcoin will get another pump in the future.
Technicals would really be the most common tools which could really make use into this market specially when you do make out some trading because not all the times it would really be showing or there
are events or situations where fundamentals do really happen around thats why people would really be making use of those typical indicators which could help at least and letting them know on whats
the current situation or patterns that they could possibly see but we know that it was never been precise if you do ask me but at least we do try.
For sure, if you do not know exactly what is going on or how long the negative situation will last, those are all justifications to continue to DCA (dollar cost average) into bitcoin. So continue to accumulate bitcoin whether you are looking at a 4-10 year timeline or longer, and whether you are attempting to be somewhat aggressive in your BTC accumulation or you have already reached pretty decently high BTC accumulation target levels.
If you are not sure if you have enough BTC, then maybe it would be a good idea to continue to accumulate - perhaps lower levels of DCA while you figure it out... You can supplement DCA by buying on dips and lump sum investing too... and if you do not have that much cashflow, then $10 per week may suffice.. but it seems that aiming for $100 per week or more would be a better practice for anyone who is able to accomplish that....
If you spend years accumulating bitcoin.. .maybe 4-10 years or maybe more.. then perhaps some of these matters will become a wee bit more clear..., such as what is the market doing.. blah blah blah.. instead of confusing. Having some kind of focus on BTC accumulation should help to at least provide more options - and maybe less needs or desires to figure out how the various other inferior products compare to each other and how various monetary policies and ongoing shenanigans are affecting x, y or z asset - when we should at least recognize and appreciate what is the best and strongest asset and likely to continue to be the best and strongest asset, even if there might be some ambiguities in the shorter timeframes... but if you are in long enough 4-10 years or more, and if you have been sufficiently accumulating BTC during that time, you likely will have some kinds of clarity in terms of what is the likely better (or perhaps best) personal solution rather than trying to figure out problems and markets that are likely made confusing on purpose.