This is looking nice and healthy.
Healthy indeed. This is not the springy action of a pump and dump sort of asset. For example, right now we see BSV in the pre-coingeek pump that happens every time (money to be made if you can stand the stink) they have a conference. But Monero does not tend to follow that sort of line. It trades more organically.
When Microstrategy was buying 10s of thousands of bitcoin they had the luxury of being able to use an extremely active OTC market. And there are certainly some OTC desks that handle Monero (I dunno Kraken? others?) but the reality is it is still an extremely thinly traded asset compared to big daddy.
I would posit that this is the very best that money moving into Monero can do in regards to not moving the market. What we are seeing is sustained, patient buying.
Monero is #15 in market cap, but #10 in trading volume (measured in USD). This is a sort of bullish divergence (of a kind) in my opinion. Since it shows that there is more trading action for Monero than all but 9 other coins. Of course this is hard to measure, and fake volume is rampant... with nearly 1 billion traded in the last 24 hours at a place called "Citex?" But Monero has SIGNIFICANTLY more volume there than even Ethereum, and is second only to Bitcoin. Even TradeOgre shows it at #2 with neatly $30k in volume, which is a lot of volume at basically a dark market exchange. The other thing that possibly even WE forget is that Monero can be traded just about invisibly. Anything happening outside of a reporting exchange is fully in the dark thanks to the properties of our little buddy.
I think something is definitely going on out there in Monero-land.
And the fun thing is, if this buying pressure holds up it is just about to thrust us over a fairly significant threshold. Once we sustain prices in the 0.0095 range it gets to be pretty clear skys for the most bullish price action we have seen in years.
Here's to that being the case! It's hard not to be excited.