china banned btc several times and we didnt go below 400$, gox died and we didnt go below 400$.
why should anybody sell below 400$ this time?
i see the chances higher that we go up from here than down.
Well, the biggest holders won't sell everything all at once. They will sell their coins gradually, and in all probability, some of them are actually the same guys who are yelling "it's an trend reversal! Buy!" in this forum, so they could drop their coins with better profits. If the price reaches certain heights then there will be another drop. The drops that you are seeing, are the effects of those little spikes that you can see here
http://blockchain.info/charts/bitcoin-days-destroyed. And this isn't over yet. It will be slow and painful as long as there are fools who can be tricked with these constant "trend reversals". Only way how this would be over quick, would be if less people would fall for that. Then the dumpers would need to fasten their dumping.
and why would we go below 400 then? the market makers do not sell the bottom, they sell when we are up in the triangle, the weak hands sell the bottom. this might go on for another month.
i just dont see why we would go to 100-300$ like people post here. its more likely that we will leave the triangle sideways without a lower low and then start to go up.
There are plenty of people out there who doesn't share the vision of bitcoins long-term success. There are people out there who see bitcoin as an temporal phenomenon, that will go back to single digits or less. They are not selling, so they could buy back cheaper. They are selling, so they could get out and use that money for other investments. Because in an investment perspective, bitcoin isn't very attractive at the moment. It's a high risk, low reward investment, and if you have no emotional attachment to bitcoin itself, then it's a calculated move to get out. If you have experience with investments, then you can see plenty of better investment opportunities then bitcoin can currently offer.
Those who currently want out are patient, because there are still fools who are feeding them. But there is the final point where the amount of fools have dropped and there isn't enough buys to even support these low volume rises. Then they will dump quicker, because they know that there are many others like them and the last ones will be the ones who lose. This slow downfall will have a grand finale that's unprecedented and it will cause an 1w volume record. Hard to tell the exact sum where the price will finally rest. Easier to tell that this hasn't happened yet.