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legendary
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We are used to it. Going back to $5k or even $3k at this point doesn't mean anything to me other than "cheap coins". We already survived it once, we can do it again.


If we drop to $3,000 I will honestly put every single penny I have into bitcoin. I’m already way too heavily (for most people) invested in bitcoin but I will put my emergency fiat stash into bitcoin (which I said I’d never do).

I hope you would.  I hope I would too.  But from experience I suspect we would be sick to our stomachs with fear.  It is astonishingly contagious at such times.

Let us hope that we muster the fortitude to take advantage of opportunities when they come.
legendary
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Self-Custody is a right. Say no to"Non-custodial"
That's why people warn others to not sell any bitcoins unless it is your final move.

Many noobs sold their coins when the price was 1-2k. That's not really bad actually... if you bought many when it was $100 or below. After having X10 returns why would anyone complain? But that's not the case with these nocoiners/shitcoiners.

They either bought too little or they couldn't wait long enough. Maybe they doubled or tripled their $1k to 2-3k. And that's it. That's why they are so bitter now.

They had the chance to hodl till $20k but they fucked it up. I had some of their problems too. It is a combination of overinvesting, not having complete trust in the asset you are investing, listening to FUDders etc. All of these can cause fear if you don't know what you are doing.*

It is pretty easy to lose your focus and lost the sight of the bigger more important picture. Thanks god I started to gain my vision in 2016 and it didn't really happen in one day. It was a damn slow process for me.

*Here is a cheatsheet: If you can sleep tight (I mean if it doesn't bother you) at night, you are doing it right.

All they need to do now is to forget the past and replan their investment strategy (like I did in the past) but they are refusing this because they are both (unnecessarily) proud and dumb at the same time.

I sold all when it was $1k. Got my main stash after $2k. I sold high, bought even higher. And still winning.

It seems that a lot of forum members (or at least WO readers) should be able to profit from hearing your renditions, and even see that persistence in learning and attempting to put your learning to practice (like you seem to be doing on an ongoing basis) will tend to pay off, especially in the longer term (even if there are a decent number of mistakes along the way).

It can be quite tough to categorize differences between no coiners, pre-coiners and previous coiners (who are currently no coiners) who are going to join into BTC again.

Surely, like you mentioned, mindrust, there are likely a BIG ass number of example of people who got into bitcoin and then got out after making sufficiently decent profits, and then they want to get back in, but the BTC price never ends up going back down below the price of one of their earlier sales.

Therefore, they end up kind of mentally handicapping themselves because they continue to wait for the BTC price to come back down below their previous selling (and making profits) price.  

I personally believe that one of the best solutions to this mentally handicapping tendency is to engage in a BTC strategy that causes you to never sell all of your coins, no matter what, even if you believe that there is a likely blow off top going on.  Even if you end up selling 50% or 80% or some other seemingly high percentage of your BTC holdings, you also hang onto a decent amount of BTC at all times, so that you always have some skin in the BTC game.

But, like you mentioned, part of the problem that a large number of people have is a certain amount of lack of confidence in the fundamentals of the underlying asset (in this case bitcoin) that causes them to value their wealth in dollars rather than bitcoin, and therefore, they end up either 1) selling too much too early or 2) they get all worked up because they could have made more money if they would have sold more BTC at a higher price (during a seemingly prolonged BTC downfall period).  

Sometimes, I have some difficulties understanding the ladder (2) perspective by people who get so fucking concerned about their not having had maximized their profits in their BTC because of BTC price volatility, even if they might have sold a pretty decent chunk of their BTC at a higher price than the current price, but they are so worried that they could have made more and their wealth in dollars is going down because they continue to hold a decent stash of bitcoins.  Many of us still have to go through the suffering of this number 2 situation, and even some of us long term WO BTC HODLers express some of our frustration when our dollar wealth is going down because the BTC price continues to correct way beyond even our most extreme expectations (for longer and lower).  

Another seeming solution to the psychological issues that we get from perspective (2) seems to have historically been solved in bitcoinlandia with the passage of time in which guys (and gal) have been able to employ a mostly HODL BTC and BTC accumulate strategy which causes them to have gone through more and more up/down cycles, which in the end, causes them to having had built a decent amount of dollar equity in their bitcoin holdings, and therefore having had built more confidence that the BTC price is only likely to fall so far in order to erode into such equity cushion that has build-up through the passage of time of a sufficient amount of time (likely 3.5 years or more, but if you double such 3.5 years to 7 years (I probably should not even be talking about 7 years, because I have only been in bitcoin for 6 years myself, and of course we know bitcoin has really only been in existence for less than 11 years and only with a meaningful price for less than 9 years - even if we are being charitable towards its price existence timeline), then such equity cushion seems even more likely to have become sufficiently large to ensure such a psychological comfort level).
sr. member
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nothing to see here
Somehow the last few days remind me of early september 2018, when we were around $7.3k, and entered capitulation stage in mid december after going sideways at around $6k.
If this repeats, $6k wet dreams could become true. So i'll probably keep at least half of my fiat until feb 2020.
legendary
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Nobody was talking about BAKKT when the price was rising....

I don’t think BAKKT have had anything to do with any pump yet from this year....



For sure we spoke about Bakkt being a positive catalyst on the exiting from the crypto winter.
There was a lot of theories about bakkt launch, with mini-dump each time it got delayed..
legendary
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We are used to it. Going back to $5k or even $3k at this point doesn't mean anything to me other than "cheap coins". We already survived it once, we can do it again.


If we drop to $3,000 I will honestly put every single penny I have into bitcoin. I’m already way too heavily (for most people) invested in bitcoin but I will put my emergency fiat stash into bitcoin (which I said I’d never do).
legendary
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Nobody was talking about BAKKT when the price was rising....

I don’t think BAKKT have had anything to do with any pump yet from this year....

legendary
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Be a bank
is it the whole supermarket building?
legendary
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In November 2018 we broke down sharply from 6k on Nov 14, it lingered range bound for 5 days around 5500 and on the 5th day it plummeted to the 4ks.

For those seeing thinking the breakdown of 9k is analogous to the 6k breakdown last winter, it should be noted we have lingered for 5 days around 8k since the 9k breakdown and if its a similar pattern we can expect a sharp drop very soon, maybe today.

Holding in this area is critical to avoid further massive damage to price.

Be safe out there.

good find, btw. but the drop was caused by fundamental issues (HashWar).

EDIT: question because I cannot remember. what caused the rally to > $10k from the bottom $3.2k? were there fundamental events for this? not really right?

BAKKT bought 10k coins. I don't know any other good explanation to that pump.

ok, thank you! and now they are selling back slowly to investors. roughly $6k should be the lowest bottom until halving and some time after in my humble opinion. if nothing wild will happen like the HashWar or TulipFund / Faketoshi.

Exactly, BAKKT bought their stack and now its investors are dumping on each other. It will go on and on till only buyers and holders left. $6k is also many people expect as the next bottom. I don't want it but I am ready for it.
legendary
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What is it in 2024. I failed to recognize it.

seems for me like a truck in the basket. roughly 500k worth.
sr. member
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nothing to see here
There's a bit more downward momentum than the beginning of the day now, but pretty good resistance figures too.
Maybe a little chance to visit $7.500?

EDIT: The time i wrote this it bounced off $7.940, there obviously has to be a substantial dump to break through to $7.5k, despite the low volumes of today.
I'll wait if monday will be bloody or not.
legendary
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Farewell LEO: o_e_l_e_o
legendary
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My explanation for price pump and following dump is the following:

Related to this news, I can tell you that so far, the best explanation for the BTC price dump is the following:
1.Big swinging dicks got ready for a successful BAKKT launch, comparable to CME/CBOT futures, with 5000x Bitcoin volumes in the first days. This would have sent the BTCUSD Price skyrocketing.
2.Big swinging dicks loaded guns leveraging long position on Bitmex and buying bitcoin outright. This happened in the past months.
3. BAKKT launch was a disappointment, with ridiculous volumers.
4. Big swinging dicks understood BAKKT was not meant to be an immediate success they had to close their long, because VaR constraints.
5. This forced liquidation, than moved the price lower, forcing slower money to force their own liquidations, like a snowball effect.
6. Unfortunate coincidence (no tinfoil mode here) Hashrate dipped spurring a lot of concern (again, no conspiracies theories about a 51% attack against BAKKT, it might have been only a cloud services outage in inner China that temporarily stopped some mining pool).


Speaking of futures, I wrote this thread on the future definition, usage, contract detail, lingo etc.

Everything you wanted to know about BTC futures but were afraid to ask!


Please let me know if you like and how to improve it!
I am going to add details on the next days. This work was more time draining than expected!
legendary
Activity: 2856
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Bitcoin Legal Tender Countries: 2 of 206
In November 2018 we broke down sharply from 6k on Nov 14, it lingered range bound for 5 days around 5500 and on the 5th day it plummeted to the 4ks.

For those seeing thinking the breakdown of 9k is analogous to the 6k breakdown last winter, it should be noted we have lingered for 5 days around 8k since the 9k breakdown and if its a similar pattern we can expect a sharp drop very soon, maybe today.

Holding in this area is critical to avoid further massive damage to price.

Be safe out there.

good find, btw. but the drop was caused by fundamental issues (HashWar).

EDIT: question because I cannot remember. what caused the rally to > $10k from the bottom $3.2k? were there fundamental events for this? not really right?

BAKKT bought 10k coins. I don't know any other good explanation to that pump.

ok, thank you! and now they are selling back slowly to investors. roughly $6k should be the lowest bottom until halving and some time after in my humble opinion. if nothing wild will happen like the HashWar or TulipFund / Faketoshi.
legendary
Activity: 3276
Merit: 2442
In November 2018 we broke down sharply from 6k on Nov 14, it lingered range bound for 5 days around 5500 and on the 5th day it plummeted to the 4ks.

For those seeing thinking the breakdown of 9k is analogous to the 6k breakdown last winter, it should be noted we have lingered for 5 days around 8k since the 9k breakdown and if its a similar pattern we can expect a sharp drop very soon, maybe today.

Holding in this area is critical to avoid further massive damage to price.

Be safe out there.

good find, btw. but the drop was caused by fundamental issues (HashWar).

EDIT: question because I cannot remember. what caused the rally to > $10k from the bottom $3.2k? were there fundamental events for this? not really right?

BAKKT bought 10k coins. I don't know any other good explanation to that pump.
legendary
Activity: 2856
Merit: 1520
Bitcoin Legal Tender Countries: 2 of 206
In November 2018 we broke down sharply from 6k on Nov 14, it lingered range bound for 5 days around 5500 and on the 5th day it plummeted to the 4ks.

For those seeing thinking the breakdown of 9k is analogous to the 6k breakdown last winter, it should be noted we have lingered for 5 days around 8k since the 9k breakdown and if its a similar pattern we can expect a sharp drop very soon, maybe today.

Holding in this area is critical to avoid further massive damage to price.

Be safe out there.

good find, btw. but the drop was caused by fundamental issues (HashWar).

EDIT: question because I cannot remember. what caused the rally to > $10k from the bottom $3.2k? were there fundamental events for this? not really right?
legendary
Activity: 3276
Merit: 2442
We are used to it. Going back to $5k or even $3k at this point doesn't mean anything to me other than "cheap coins". We already survived it once, we can do it again.
hero member
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In November 2018 we broke down sharply from 6k on Nov 14, it lingered range bound for 5 days around 5500 and on the 5th day it plummeted to the 4ks.

For those seeing thinking the breakdown of 9k is analogous to the 6k breakdown last winter, it should be noted we have lingered for 5 days around 8k since the 9k breakdown and if its a similar pattern we can expect a sharp drop very soon, maybe today.

Holding in this area is critical to avoid further massive damage to price.

Be safe out there.
legendary
Activity: 2744
Merit: 13647
BTC + Crossfit, living life.
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 Cheesy haha nice one lol
legendary
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BTC + Crossfit, living life.
legendary
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Anyone else feel like Greta's speeches sound rehearsed? I don't know, the way she talks creeps me out.
There is a clip of her off-script. She has nothing to say on her own.
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