In the foreign currency market, I recently experienced the BTC/USD volatility effect, which prompted me to investigate what makes the pair (bitcoin) so volatile.
Volatility is the evaluation of how much value of a financial asset fluctuate on a particular time.
Averagely, Bitcoin volatility ranges between 1.68%_4.54%, where Wednesday is the most volatile day compare to other days and Saturday which is the least volatile days.
The significance of volatility is that an asset is risky to own on any particular day, Its value could significantly increase or decrease.
There are a number of causes for bitcoin's historically erratic price behaviour. By knowing the elements that affect its market value one can choose if to invest in it, trade it, or keep following its advancements.
Bitcoin's price; just as other commodities, stocks, other products and assets rely upon supply and demand.
As it is an asset which traders and investors have swiftly adopted, its value is heavily influenced by opinion about price changes.
Investors concern are also influenced by media sources, influencers, industry titans with strong opinions, and popular cryptocurrency supporters, which causes price volatility.
Factors that create bitcoin volatility.
1. Demand and Supply
2. Investors' and user sentiment
3. Government regulation
4. Media blitz
• Bitcoin demand and supply
As much as any other aspect, demand and supply determine the pricing of the majority of asset. The quantity of coins in spread and the price at which individuals are prepared to pay have a significant impact on the value of bitcoin. The total quota of coins in the cryptocurrency is set at 21 million by design; when the circulating supply approaches this number, values are projected to increase. Source: www.c[Suspicious link removed]m
• Bitcoin investors reaction
Since the quantity of bitcoin; the most popular cryptocurrency is getting more scarce, demand for it is rising.
• Government policy also influenced bitcoin volatility
• News/Media outlets
In the news, or media, we see different analysis from different “experts” predicting the future movement of Bitcoin, with that action, holders tend to hold more or even increase their shares.
You definitely make your point here, I mean there are just so many things that are affecting the market price of Bitcoin, and it's just the nature of Bitcoin and cryptocurrency, we can't really do anything about that because even though there are a lot of disadvantages on being a volatile market it's still a lot of advantages to the point where it makes the cryptocurrency unique to other investments and assets like stock, real states, etc.
I mean if Bitcoin or other cryptocurrency wasn't volatile like what it is we weren't really going to make a good profit on it, probably those Bitcoin and cryptocurrency millionaires are going to be rich after a few more years like the stock market since most of the time it would take many years before they could gather momentum and skyrocket its market price. I mean we could just compare it to the stock market with just a much faster movement, But we can't really control this kind of thing since it is cryptocurrency nature what we can do is adjust to how we can make a profit on it, probably most of the investors are already doing DCA in order to accumulate cryptocurrency and in the end still make a good amount of profit, bad side probably is there are always going to be losers since you're going to lose money if you didn't sell at the top, there where only a few investors that is going to be lucky to sell at the peak.