A end of year santa rally would be nice right about now, not liking these 40s, 50s is where its at.
I think it is unlikely. This end-of-month is the mother of all end-of-month events, and the landscape has already bears spotted around. Endure my friend, endure. I promise the reward will be sweet.
Well let me remind u not so long ago everybody and his dog was waiting for the moonshot, new ATHs and six digits. So did it happen? Honey badger doesnt care. It doesnt do what everybody expects it to do.
Actually more frequently it does the opposite...
She likes to go against expectations: I concur, serveria.
I guess you know I'm a permabull (although possibly not quite in your league
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However, keeping rational expectations, as in assigning fair looking probabilities to different outcomes, is the name of the game - at least for me, if I want to keep my feet on the ground and whatever's left of my mental sanity.
Reason says the short term landscape isn't too bullish. I think we'll have to grunt our way through 2021.
What about the bull? Still in place is my gut feeling. Sophisticated SOMA analysis and all. Ready to be proven wrong of course...
Of course, those of us who have been pinned to the BTC price charts attempting to figure out what is going on for several years likely appreciate that if bearwhales can push the BTC price down for a long enough time and keep it down, then they no longer need to use their coins.. so for example they might go onto exchanges and dump 10k or more coins, and maybe get some help from some other bearwhales, momentum traders and even the liquidating of longs, so once they get some of that momentum, they rely somewhat on the normies to be scared out of some or all of their BTC to keep the price down long enough in order that they can get back all of their dumped coins for less than they dumped them at.. and surely there are vested fiat bearwhales who may well not give too many shits if the whole dumping of BTC comes at a loss because such dumping of BTC gives them profits in fiat spheres... but still the questions remain how low they can push it and how long can they keep it down.
There does seem to be some potential benefit to keep the BTC price down through the remaining of the year and perhaps for a while into 2022... and so they could shake a few more normies out of their coins.. so maybe it does not cost so much to keep it down for a short period of time.. less than 2 more weeks
tm now... so maybe we could expect the BTC price to stay down for the remaining of 2021.. not guaranteed but surely does not seem unreasonable when we are so close.. so then the next million dollar (bitcoin) question would be for how long into 2022 are these bearwhales ready, willing and able to keep the BTC price down? the whole month of January? the whole 1st quarter?... surely difficult to know.. difficult to know..
One thing is sure (and even reflected in your post d_eddie) ... we have been in some kind of similar disheartening place before, and are we less disheartened this time? if we are less disheartened this time, how much more downity will cause us to become equally disheartened as previously or more disheartened? is it possible?