Tom Lee lowered his prediction to $15k hehehe - page 2.

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Quote from: pooya87 on November 18, 2018, 01:01:14 AM

to be honest i wouldn't have changed my prediction if i were him. mainly because the current drop is not because of logical reasons such as previous times (bubble burst, correction, ...) it is purely FUD based and panic of BCash fork which means it is not natural so if he thought price is going to be $25k then since nothing has changed, his prediction shouldn't have changed either. although it is still pretty weird that he made that prediction but that is another discussion.

The bitcoin cash forking attracted some hash from bitcoin, so the bitcoin is less secure. That will impact the bitcoin price negatively. The price will rise eventually as the hash comes back.

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People may change their predictions but $15k is still three times the amount we are at right now.
I mean I can definitely see bitcoin being at $15k at one point but not at end of the year. That is just too close. Does he really think that bitcoin will triple in price in one and a half months ? That sounds a bit too far fetched price estimate if you ask me.

I think the more reasonable answer would have been if he said the price of bitcoin could go up until the end of the year. Do I think bitcoin will go to $15k ? No, there is no way that happens in the next month, however I believe it will go higher than this unless something big happens like what happened a week ago.

This is just pure speculation of course and Tom Lee is entitled to share his own point of view.

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Quote from: pooya87 on November 18, 2018, 01:01:14 AM

to be honest i wouldn't have changed my prediction if i were him. mainly because the current drop is not because of logical reasons such as previous times (bubble burst, correction, ...) it is purely FUD based and panic of BCash fork which means it is not natural so if he thought price is going to be $25k then since nothing has changed, his prediction shouldn't have changed either. although it is still pretty weird that he made that prediction but that is another discussion.

There have been lot of news like these lately all the so called gurus are lowering their estimates thanks to the crash, Bloomberg has even gone ahead to say it'll come down to 1500$. These investors and companies are wrong as there's nothing wrong with bitcoins, once the war effect is over growth will be seen. The first bitcoins etf is making it's debut next week, I bet these analysts will again sing different tune regarding the prices once prices rise due to it's effect. I'll agree that his prediction is another topic, but honestly I feel one should not bother about such predictions.

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If the mining cost is $7000 then why should the fair cost be more than double that? Is that really a fair return for a very passive form of earning? No traditional investment gets close to that.

Again on mining costs, just because some can now mine at $7000 instead of $8000, why would it be in their interests to push the price down, instead of selling at the higher price.

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Quote from: buwaytress on November 18, 2018, 03:40:46 AM

If anyone ought to change his prediction it's Mcafee... But heh kudos for sticking to his million dollars.

He will pretend to not have made that prediction and blame it on imposters. He did it once already where he was asked what his thoughts were about his $78,000 before the end of 2018 prediction that was waaaaay off, and he said it wasn't him lol.

It's here to see for everyone; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBgFGwJA1D0

Skip to 48:00 and start watching from there. It's embarrassing.

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Tom Lee is trying too hard and continues to focus on metrics that might have been accurate back in the days, but clearly don't apply to the current market anymore. By the time he adjusts his prediction to $4000 or something, we are already on our way to $10,000 making newer highs. He's the perfect counter indicator, the lower his predictions are, the more bullish you should get.

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I believe he is right, especially by stating that it never sustained a price below break even. Miners will simply stop their operations eventually and the number of bitcoins entering the market will be reduced. It should be priced at no less than $7k by the end of 2018

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Too soon... Accumulation phases can last more than a year.

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Wall Street's best-known cryptocurrency bull just cut his bitcoin price target nearly in half.

Didn't he previously change his prediction as well just a few weeks ago IIRC? This is just absurdity.

Despite his prediction I still don't think that bitcoin would be able to recover that much by the end of the year. A complete trend reversal just seems completely unlikely given the bearish sentiments within the market, and that's not mentioning the resistance that the $10k level imposes which has proven to be hard to break (whether due to psychological reasons or not).

I'd just completely ignore his predictions, and all other mainstream media speculators. They're not worth listening to imho, to put it simply. They change their predictions every so often without any basis, and they clearly don't know what they are talking about half the time.

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Quote from: pooya87 on November 18, 2018, 01:01:14 AM

to be honest i wouldn't have changed my prediction if i were him. mainly because the current drop is not because of logical reasons such as previous times (bubble burst, correction, ...) it is purely FUD based and panic of BCash fork which means it is not natural so if he thought price is going to be $25k then since nothing has changed, his prediction shouldn't have changed either. although it is still pretty weird that he made that prediction but that is another discussion.

I know this Tom Lee guy is just another hype grabbing tailer but yeah, not sure what logic would tell him he go and do something like that. He just makes himself look silly, confirming that he isn't any different from the average speculator.

People didn't just wake up having realised overnight about the break even cost for mining.

If anyone ought to change his prediction it's Mcafee... But heh kudos for sticking to his million dollars.

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Perhaps Theymos should create a new sub-forum called "Crypto Jokes"and we should put all those "predictions" there and laugh at those "experts" and "crypto gurus".
The current sictuation in the crypto market is this:
1.BCH supporters and Bcash whales dump all their BTC.
2.BTC price goes down>all the altcoins just follow the bitcoin price,because they are useless anyway. Grin

3.Panic selling everywhere...

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to be honest i wouldn't have changed my prediction if i were him. mainly because the current drop is not because of logical reasons such as previous times (bubble burst, correction, ...) it is purely FUD based and panic of BCash fork which means it is not natural so if he thought price is going to be $25k then since nothing has changed, his prediction shouldn't have changed either. although it is still pretty weird that he made that prediction but that is another discussion.

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Is this as bearish as can Tom Lee go? $15k might also be too bullish hehehe.

@miners. What is the real breakeven price in mining costs compared to the trading price per bitcoin? I reckon the real war of the miners will occur in bitcoin and Bitmain might begin pushing smaller miners out.

In any case, I also predict that the trading price below mining breakeven price articles will be the new source of FUD.

Wall Street's best-known cryptocurrency bull just cut his bitcoin price target nearly in half.

Tom Lee, co-founder of Fundstrat Global Advisors, lowered his year-end target to $15,000 from $25,000 — still well above where the cryptocurrency was trading on Friday.

A key driver was bitcoin's "break-even" point, the level at which mining costs match the trading price. That level is down to $7,000 from an earlier estimate of $8,000 for the S9 mining machine by Bitmain, according to Fundstrat's data science team. Based on that, Lee estimates that fair value for bitcoin would be roughly 2.2 times the new $7,000 break-even price.

Bitcoin is trading well below that, near $5,539 on Friday, according to data from CoinDesk. This week, the majority of major cryptocurrencies saw double-digit downward swings, and bitcoin hit its lowest level of the year.

But Lee is betting on a recovery. He told clients in a note Friday that even in the depths of a previous bitcoin bear market between 2013 and 2015, it "never sustained a move below breakeven."

Read more https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/16/wall-streets-crypto-bull-tom-lee-slashes-year-end-forecast-by-10000.html

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