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legendary
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So I thought I'd try and gauge sentiment over how another Bitcoin ETF will affect price in the immediate term if approved, as well as offer my own personal opinion.

I understand it's considered bullish for Bitcoin long-term, but in the short-term, I'm not so convinced it will be good for price. As many of you may remember, when CME/CBOE launched futures trading for Bitcoin in December 2017 this was very much at the peak of the bull-run before a -83% correction in price. Then there was the Bakkt futures launch in September 2019 prior to a further price decline of -50%+. Finally there was the ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF that was (again) launched at the very peak of the bull market in November 2021 prior to a 75% price decline. Is anyone else noticing a pattern here???

I realise that previous futures launches are different than the current proposed ETFs, as far as I understand, but the facts remains the same. Each time a traditional form of investment product based on Bitcoin has been launched, price has corrected significantly, between 50% and 83% basically. What's as concerning is that price is currently at a resistance level which could now become a local peak...

Ideally any new product won't be launched until price reaches $40K to $50K levels at a minimum, so that a correction doesn't threaten recent lows. But otherwise I imagine it will be the same old story of "buy the rumour sell the news", with a potential long-term bullish effect on Bitcoin but only after a short-term negative effect that becomes the catalyst for a considerable correction in price.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong if there were Bitcoin Futures/ETF launches that didn't negatively effect price in the short-term, as based on my current knowledge, this has been the only outcome so far.

Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Do you really think another ETF launch would cause an immediate price increase, or is it more like to have an immediate negative effect on price?

I hope you are not making this into a case of correlation = causation but as history indicates, there is always a hype before or during the long-awaited event. Especially when it comes to ETFs. I cannot think of a reason why ETF launches (or similar product launches) would cause a rapid sell-off, other than to superficially push down the price.

I think, that in the long term, Bitcoin's value will go up thanks to the ETF. But in the short term, I think we will see a unjustified speculative price based on hype alone. So good news for any hodler but bad news for traders with shaky hands.

We just have to wait and see what happens. Only time will tell.

sr. member
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Let me know your thoughts in the comments. Do you really think another ETF launch would cause an immediate price increase, or is it more like to have an immediate negative effect on price?

It is difficult to say where the price will go immediately after the approval of the ETF; expectations from the actions of the SEC may be too high. But an increase in the number of large players interested in investing in bitcoin will inevitably lead to an increase in the price of bitcoin. The number of bitcoins will not rise above 21 million, and all interested major players will not have enough bitcoins in sufficient quantities for their investment appetites. If not immediately, but the price of bitcoin will certainly rise and significantly.
legendary
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Speculatively its already had an effect and scared the shorts off which in of itself is a buying effect.  A short must always end in a buy, thats the thing to remember when you hear people are short its good to remember that.  I would mostly count that immediate effect as bullish and then if the ETF is setup it will enable a wider range of involvement in the population.   Part of why they dont just allow an ETF already is apprehension on BTC regulation and all sorts of worries.

This was part of my point though, while price has done well over the speculation of the ETF, which was also the case when futures products were proposed and approved in the past, is this not just buying the rumour in order to sell the news if/when it actually get's launched? I do think the speculation surrounding it could increase prices further, even all the way back to $60K if approved and a date is set, which is exactly why I'd be bearish on any ETF actually getting launched if price increases dramatically leading up to it (which is what most would expect as well). Until any launch I see upside potential, including approval and when a date is set.

I still remember a lot of 2017 futures speculation that accelerated price from $5K all the way to launch at the peak of $20K, literally the absolute top. This was about 4 months of bullish price action based on knowing the launch date of December more or less meant there would only be continued bullish speculation until the launch date, which turned out to be correct.
legendary
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It was interesting to me the Fidelity filed their ETF and then the SEC made a statement about ETF filings being incomplete and then Fidelity immediately updated their filing to show that Coinbase would be the custodian of their Bitcoin. This shows me that the SEC is in close talks with these banks and an ETF approval is right on the horizon.

What was shocking for me was the market's immediate reaction to the news. The market made a big dump on everyone's faces which might imply that there were many traders who were waiting for the latest news updates on the ETF hehehe. However, this also implies that if the next news update is positive, we might witness a big pump!

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It was interesting to me the Fidelity filed their ETF and then the SEC made a statement about ETF filings being incomplete and then Fidelity immediately updated their filing to show that Coinbase would be the custodian of their Bitcoin. This shows me that the SEC is in close talks with these banks and an ETF approval is right on the horizon.
legendary
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Is anyone else noticing a pattern here???

I think the pattern here is that there's a lot of interest in launching Bitcoin products when the market is bullish, and it itself contributes to the bullishness, but a bull market lasts for 1-1.5 years, so it's not a big coincidence that the launches and market crashes happen around the same time.

I seriously doubt that Bitcoin investment products shape the market, the most plausible theory explaining the bull-bear cycles is that they are caused by halvenings.
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legendary
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Speculatively its already had an effect and scared the shorts off which in of itself is a buying effect.  A short must always end in a buy, thats the thing to remember when you hear people are short its good to remember that.  I would mostly count that immediate effect as bullish and then if the ETF is setup it will enable a wider range of involvement in the population.   Part of why they dont just allow an ETF already is apprehension on BTC regulation and all sorts of worries.
 Clearly it could be labelled an advanced ETF but to have no provision at all is not reasonable imo, every asset has risk to it especially the commodity based ETF that are already in operation have a risk.  Oil price in trade went negative for example and we use that every day, seems quite risky enough to me and its not restricted so far as I know.
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Another day another large company showing their intent to create a Bitcoin ETF. the effect this is going to have on the Bitcoin market will in my opinion follow gold’s footsteps. Gold went up from around $275 per ounce to $1800 per ounce in the 8 years following its ETF’s launch. When you factor in BTC’s halvings and scarcity, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to make the statement that BTC will hit $800,000 in 2033.

(1800/275)*4*30,555.56=800K

(Get gold’s increase)*account for halvings*insert BTC price=BTC price 8 years after ETFs go live.
There are companies who are serious enough to make this happen, unfortunately the government are restricting them from doing this and that’s why until now, its hard to have one. If this will happen in the next five years then this could be one of the reason for that pump and many are waiting for the bullish moment again, only time can tell but if you’re bullish with Bitcoin too, better to save some now.
hero member
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Depends on which cycle we have in my opinion, as you have said, the CME/CBoe enter when we are in peak of the bull run in 2017, pushing to a new all time high. But after that, it was all downhill for us and even if we have the Bakkt news, still it didn't have significant effect on 2019 and almost everyone here forget about Bakkt.

So maybe if there is a chance that ETF be approved next year and the timing for a block halving and then a bull run. For sure it might added a new set of FOMO and bullish case for a massive growth 2024-2025.

This is indeed true on which if these ETF's would really be getting in line with the current upcoming halving event or on the year where most people been anticipating about bull run then pretty sure we might really be able to break some previous ceilings but i do agree on some points above made by some users that we've been seeing this ETF hype wayback on previous cycle on which it did really indeed make out some significant positivity towards the market but it was forgotten when the bear market hits. Now that here we are once again then if ever these ETF would really be approved then it would really be making those common positive impression
on which it would really drive the entire community into that bullish run we might be able to experience or see but im not really that expecting much because sometimes these sentiments are really just
trying out to hype the market and making these positivity to continue for luring investors in.  Grin
donator
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Another day another large company showing their intent to create a Bitcoin ETF. the effect this is going to have on the Bitcoin market will in my opinion follow gold’s footsteps. Gold went up from around $275 per ounce to $1800 per ounce in the 8 years following its ETF’s launch. When you factor in BTC’s halvings and scarcity, I don’t think it’s unreasonable to make the statement that BTC will hit $800,000 in 2033.

(1800/275)*4*30,555.56=800K

(Get gold’s increase)*account for halvings*insert BTC price=BTC price 8 years after ETFs go live.
legendary
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Apparently ARK updated their Bitcoin etf filing and made it a similar trust as blackrock and the rest of the proposed upcoming Bitcoin etfs.

What is interesting is that ARK deadline is in August. It’s before blackrock and the rest. So we should know soon if this will be a go ahead or not. Most likely if ARK is rejected, so will the rest of the etfs.
Those type of changes do not matter ,in fact ETF doesn't matter anymore, people acted as if that would make bitcoin be worth so much more but the reality is that we are not going to really see anything that would be as big. It is not that big because it is not going to be a great market addition to us. At first it was very important when the first talks started but the reality is that we are not going to see that type of increase all that quickly and the results will not be that easy.

I personally believe that the hype ETF has will not be a big deal and we should be considering that as a nothing at all and should be seeing it as easy option to just ignore. ETF will not make it bigger, I am sure of this but can't really provide any proof of that.
hero member
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Depends on which cycle we have in my opinion, as you have said, the CME/CBoe enter when we are in peak of the bull run in 2017, pushing to a new all time high. But after that, it was all downhill for us and even if we have the Bakkt news, still it didn't have significant effect on 2019 and almost everyone here forget about Bakkt.

So maybe if there is a chance that ETF be approved next year and the timing for a block halving and then a bull run. For sure it might added a new set of FOMO and bullish case for a massive growth 2024-2025.
legendary
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Apparently ARK updated their Bitcoin etf filing and made it a similar trust as blackrock and the rest of the proposed upcoming Bitcoin etfs.

What is interesting is that ARK deadline is in August. It’s before blackrock and the rest. So we should know soon if this will be a go ahead or not. Most likely if ARK is rejected, so will the rest of the etfs.
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legendary
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It depends. There's a significant difference between a futures ETF and a spot ETF filing. We've had a futures ETF for a while now, so price effect would be miniscule. A spot ETF from a major player on the other hand? Expect short-term bullishness.

As for the long term, it will totally depend how much demand the bitcoin ETF would actually end up getting.
legendary
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I realise that previous futures launches are different than the current proposed ETFs, as far as I understand, but the facts remains the same. Each time a traditional form of investment product based on Bitcoin has been launched, price has corrected significantly, between 50% and 83% basically. What's as concerning is that price is currently at a resistance level which could now become a local peak...

Does the futures market determine the price of bitcoin or does the spot market? I am quite certain that everyone already knows the answer to this.

In any case, a spot ETF will be very bullish for bitcoin. I do not know why there are some people who refuse to understand the difference between spot and futures ETF.
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I know that the approval period for the ETF application is 8 months. A few companies have applied for ETF recently, most importantly BlackRock has only one red eft transaction they have made so far. Most likely, if the supervisory authority approves at the end of eight months, you know, this time coincides with the halving, if it coincides with the same time, this parallel event can wake up the super bulls. Let's say the ETF was not approved and rejected, there is not much that can hold the bull because there will be a halving again and the supply will decrease, so the demands will come true at the right time. If the ETF application is rejected in less than eight months and the red lines increase further, this is an opportunity to buy Bitcoin cheaply.
Based on the number of Applicants seeking ETF approval recently, I do believe that the Bitcoin ETF this time around has more percentage chance of getting approved. Then I agree with you on the fact that, If eventually, ETF approval happens at the same time as the halving period, It is going to trigger the next bull run, but my concern here is that we may experience selling the news event may first play out. , meaning a slight dump first, then the main event, the Bull market kickstart.

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I know that the approval period for the ETF application is 8 months. A few companies have applied for ETF recently, most importantly BlackRock has only one red eft transaction they have made so far. Most likely, if the supervisory authority approves at the end of eight months, you know, this time coincides with the halving, if it coincides with the same time, this parallel event can wake up the super bulls. Let's say the ETF was not approved and rejected, there is not much that can hold the bull because there will be a halving again and the supply will decrease, so the demands will come true at the right time. If the ETF application is rejected in less than eight months and the red lines increase further, this is an opportunity to buy bitcoin cheap.
legendary
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I was just mentioning ETFs recently, been so long I'd completely forgotten their names -- the memories of seeing the likes of Bakkt get mentioned in 4 out of 5 articles, all that pre-euphoria about "institutional" and then when the product actually birthed, the laughable volumes.

But back to the question: are the launches correlated with price action? I think so -- but not so much a cause-effect. I think ETFs try to time when they believe sentiment is right (so less about a bear/dip but a great entry before the rally they're predicting). And whoever's advising them to make their bets doesn't seem to understand that rallies don't come so soon after a fall.

Another massive drop after another ETF launch won't be terrible news for me though Wink
legendary
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Bitcoin ETF is a kind of legal tint, and we are talking about a legal tint in the United States that will allow institutional investors to invest in the United States in bitcoin. As we note, the regulatory news reflects positively on the price, so it is expected that we will witness a rise in return.
Ideally any new product won't be launched until price reaches $40K to $50K levels at a minimum, so that a correction doesn't threaten recent lows. But otherwise I imagine it will be the same old story of "buy the rumour sell the news", with a potential long-term bullish effect on Bitcoin but only after a short-term negative effect that becomes the catalyst for a considerable correction in price.

No need to quote futures here as we already have Canadian Cryptocurrency ETFs that we can compare to the price of Bitcoin.
I expect the rise to be limited to 30% as a maximum in short term, according to the market situation and the strength of the resistance level at that time, and I expect it to be sometime in the year 2024.
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I don't think that previous events were crucial for price correction, because if we start from the end of 2017 then it is easy to conclude that the bubble simply had to burst after many investors completely misunderstood what futures contracts are and how they will affect the price of BTC - and the same thing happened at the peak of 2021.

As for Bakkt, that story has been pumped for months as something big, when in fact the pandemic was already knocking on the door even though mere mortals didn't know it. In addition, the 50% drop occurred only in March when a pandemic was declared, but then a lot of bad things happened and Bitcoin was no exception.

The story around BlackRock and Fidelity (Grayscale) can have positive effects, especially if the SEC accepts their request and this acceptance is closely correlated with halving. If we take into account the time limit within which the SEC has to make a final decision (240 days) then this brings us to January 2024, just a little more than 2 months before halving.

Given that BR&F are big players and companies with over $10 trillion under management, and that it is a spot ETF, I believe that a positive decision would have a significant impact on the price of BTC. The real question is whether the average investor understands what this is really about or thinks it's just a repeat of another old story with a failed BTC ETFs.
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