Questions are being asked constantly when it comes to Bitcoin's battle with the $4000 mark. The result of this battle sets the tone for a bullish or bearish trend. Since December 14, 2018, there have been several battles between bulls and bears at the price level of $4K. In each of this battle, bulls have lost the war because, after the first attack at the $4K level, the bears have been able to gain enough strength to push the price back below this critical mark. It is in this essence, that the $4K level has become a matter of death or life for crypto traders .
If you are a long-term investor, you will not really worry about these short-term levels. In my keynote speech at Coinadvice conference, I talked about risk premium, it is of critical importance here and I find this immensely interesting. For simplicity’s sake, consider this as a premium that one is willing to pay over the previous low which would have been a better entry price. For instance, the price of Bitcoin at the time of writing this article is trading at $3962 and the recent meaningful low was formed on March 4 when the price touched the price level of $3671. The difference between the two is your risk premium. We all know that it is extremely arduous to catch the extreme low. It is all about making an intelligent choice and buying when the price is still close enough to its bottom. For investors who are buying at these levels, they usually have a target of previous high, and for Bitcoin, it needs to be the level of 20K.
This is because there is a high chance that the next bull run has a minimum potential of pushing the price 5 times higher. That is over $100K. I personally believe that each Bitcoin can go up as much as $400K and if history repeats itself, this number is not a fool’s paradise. This is a simple math calculation: approximate percentage projection of the price which we experienced during the last bull run.
Why am I saying that crypto winter is coming to an end?
Well, before I go and talk about fundamentals, the below chart shows the percentage drop for the Bitcoin price after its major rallies. Back in 2011, the price plunged nearly 93 percent and in 2014, it dropped 84 percent. As for the most recent price crash, we have experienced the smallest price crash, 79 percent from its recent high. The most important part is that the price has started to rally back up. This argument becomes even more clear when we look at the bottom panel of this chart. The drawdown percentage curve is much higher now (shown in green circle) as compared to what happened back in 2011 (shown in red circle).
Similarly, if we look at the monthly gains of Bitcoin and plot this on a chart (as I have done this in the chart below), it becomes clear that Bitcoin has broken its longest streak of monthly losses. This is the strongest signal for the bulls that crypto winter is no longer as cold as it was back in December or November.
Another major bull signal comes from the weekly chart as I discussed before, the 200-week moving average (shown in green) has saved the day for the bulls. The 50-week moving average (shown in pink) is moving fast towards the price to close the distance between them. Now, if the price kisses the 50-week moving average goodbye and moves above it at that stage, all bets would be in favour of the bulls. Looking at the chart, when the price breaks above the 50-week moving average, it sends the strongest bull signal and so far it has worked really well.
But this is something that we would have to wait and see. It may take a couple of months for this to happen. Heslin Kim, VP of business development at Polymath said "liquidity in this market is sparse and has dried up in many exchanges. I think we can all agree this is a good thing, if temporary."
As for the fundamental aspect, there is absolutely no shortage of positive news. We are seeing more actual use cases of blockchain technology now than ever before. For instance, TreeCoin is one of the strongest projects out of Switzerland which is using an asset class that has performed extremely well, timber. The project is geared to resolve two main issues: liquidity out of the illiquid asset class, a highly desirable product for pension funds, and more importantly, save the environment with their German technology of reforestation trees.
The action is not only limited to start-ups, but more and more major firms are jumping in this space. The battle to own the custody space has become even more intense with IBM also stepping into this space. Dr. Stef Savanah, a blockchain researcher with over 100 patent applications to his name added "2018 saw a much-needed correction in a market driven by speculation, misused ICOs, and gross misunderstanding of appropriate blockchain usage. The recent stabilization in bitcoin prices heralds a return to prudence. 2019 will see the original bitcoin vision re-emerge with killer applications such as properly implemented asset tokenization."
In summary, the momentum has changed and the headwind isn't that strong, it is only a matter of time and more adoption before we see an actual bull run.
Disclaimer: I hold digital assets in my portfolio
