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if you look at the price development chart of the last two years, the beginning of the year always starts with a weakening price as if bitcoin will be destroyed, what I question is whether the pattern will return and continue to recur in the current year and the next few years?

the pattern will be repeated but it doesn't have to be as visible and obvious as previous times.
for example last year we were in the middle of a big bull run and also there were a lot of good news and media coverage that worked as advertisement for bitcoin. this year we still don't have either of them.

we can see the drop stop or some small rises during summer if the bear market were to continue that long and that will be the repetition of the same pattern as previous years.

It might however not the same way as how it happened for the recent years. This year could be better or not for crypto. We can just safely say that crypto is becoming main stream and more and more investors and traders are getting into crypto which is good for the market.

If you truly look at the charts, it show that bitcoin drop always at the start of each year. But it gradually recover over the following months. The recent news about crypto give some people some chance to look into it and invest in crypto so better watch out for the price recover in the following months.

I guess it has a high possibility because people tend to have develop a habit or idea that little by little becomes the norm. Just like the thought that you think it will happen again. Hopefully it does so people can regain confidence in the market once again.

I don't know that I buy into the annual cycle narrative. There are some strong data points but not a sure thing.

Nope. It has got nothing to do with the last years patterns and they might just reflect them but they might not be with the same intentions. I mean the price does rely on many factors which are going on always and they are different all the time. Where last year at the same point of year Japan declared the good news of accepting the crypto currency as legal tender and today we have no news like that. I do believe that Japan tried to create one by G20 summit but the effect doesn't seem to be strong enough to move market upwards.

However, the time is not far when we will see the prices resetting to the ATH and what we have to is stay strong and keep investing, thats all I would say really.

yes, maybe bitcoin can be rise in last of the year.

If what happen this past two years is a movie then why can we just replay it again? We are the second factor that it may cause happen, just imagine if we could double the number of people who will join us this year, isn't it the possibility of the last peak Bitcoin price can be achieve again?

Well there is obvious a pattern you are right.
But history shouldn't be used to predict the future, at least this is what you often will hear. :)
When you speak about the last two years you should also take into account, that this was the time where we left a 20 month long bear market (2014/2015) behind us. The price started to climb significantly again in october/november 2015.

However right now we are in a different situation. These two years you are talking about ( 2016/2017) were an amazing bull run as we know. So it could be possible that we will see more a pattern playing out like in early 2014, as we ended the 2013 bullrun and went into this long bear market.
If that should be the case I hope it'll play out much faster, talking about 6-10 months here, as Bitcoin itself and the whole crypto ecosystem is much bigger and diverse.

This year also same pattern Because June month Russian government is legalised in cryptocurrency so we should expect the bull run in this year. But peoples are still panic in current situation. So all the investors are waiting for the day it will going to peak in end of June. So don't worry to cryptocurrency it will always supporting to investors.

the pattern is like that every year but dont makes a high hopes about the pattern maybe in this year the pattern is not like that, maybe in this time the pattern will be different and will going down, but i believe that it wont happen in bitcoin now, because as we know that bitcoin is more popular and more popoular than before and i hope that bitcoin will rise again

2018 is a unique year, probably it is different from the other years. If you want to ask why here are my answers. First, bitcoin was overvalued and thus there is a need for correction thus the price drops from 20k$ since that price is too much. Second, after the correction in value bitcoin hits 10k$ but several issues and negative news hits bitcoin thus it fell down to 6700$. But there is one thing that we should know, the price drop were not done by whales it was done by several people who panicked because of the news. This means that their is a higher chance that bitcoin will recover soon.

this drop is not seasonal per se
it is due to the market going up too fast too soon
also due to many factors like rumours about more stringent internet  control globally,global markets falling down,risks of war,China banning ICOs,Japan introducing draconian rules for the exchanges etc.
one thing is for sure:bitcoin is here to stay and this time last year people would be so happy to have even half of the current price
so,yes,it can happen again and we haven't reached the lowest low yet and no,bitcoin is not going to drop to 1-2 k as many nosayers predict

it might but not in the same way. bitcoin is already famous now and it is already legal to some countries it also use as a payment method. bitcoin will be more famous but in the price is not. bitcoin will be pumping and dumping because it is a currency but the price will never be the same like the last 2years.

Yes that's right, at the beginning of the year always happens it and we will feel panic of course. The decline in the Bitcoin price is greatly felt by many people and when they experience it there is a tremendous sense of panic. with calm then we will be able to maintain the circumstances and in the end we will get a profit when Bitcoin prices start to improve.
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Experiences like the years that have been, may also be repeated, at the beginning of the year bitcoin as if killed and resurrected after that

When the market has fallen to it low it is the best time to start buying rather than keep waiting for more fall and which may not happen and price shoots up quickly like 1000- 2000$ and then you will not be able to buy more coin due to price rise.

Yes, if you look at the changes in the price of bitcoin over the past few years, you will find that bitcoin will recover after a few months of decline, so we don't have to worry about the death of bitcoin. So I think it's a good time to buy bitcoins.

well,I really hope that it'll happen again. because in my experience I can see that the last two year we were in the middle of a big bull run and also there were a lot of good news and media coverage that worked as advertisement for bitcoin.this year we still don't have either of them.we can see the drop stop or some small rises during summer if the bear market were to continue that long and that will be the repetition of the same pattern as previous years.

Yes,there is a possibilities that it will happen again.No one can says that it will not happen again because we didn't know when the price or value will rise up or will going down.We hope hat it will not happen again,we just have to trust it.

Hodl till May

Well a bit difficult to guessing it, of course., it could be influenced by various factors/new things that can affect it from time to time and it's uncertain or not known yet. But obviously., I still believe it can moving up and it will not get down much more down and be getting the value so low until the enthusiasts diminish, it's impossible.

That's why invest on bitcoin is risky and challenging investment , unlike other common investment tool like gold,diamond,etc
As bitcoin holder, I believe that bitcoin will increased once again so I just hold it as long as possible , only sell when you needed the money or profit at the right time !

the price has been falling too fast and too big compared to any previous major dump and bear market that bitcoin has ever experienced before. so it has to come to an end faster than previous times also.
with that in mind we can say it is possible that we see the trend reverse back up again sooner than expected and if that happens then this patterns OP is mentioning comes true.

There are some patterns like price is going down with beginning of the year and rising when year is close to an end. That happen every years since I'm here, and I think that after this huge drop we will see uptrend in the end of the year. This up trend should start from late summer, so will it happen or not we will know only then.
Looking at current situation I believe we will see price recovery only in the end of the year, there is a lot of fud and money is going out from crypto very fast in some moments. I believe in bitcoins and crypto generally, so this is just some rough time we are passing trough, if you don't earn from this fluctuations, be patient and wait for recovery, when it's start to go up we will see new ATH, in that moment all of us will be in the profit.

It's not necessary that Bitcoin will follow the same pattern at particular interval of time but there will be ups and down in the price irrespective of the user base and trade volume at any given point. We are in the last phase of the correction process and I am expecting price recovery from the next month and I believe that Bitcoin will hit a fresh all time high level in this year itself.

This is a funny thing actually. I'm always amazed how the human psyche works when it comes to these things. I think charts have something to do with that, because not many people set them to something higher than 1h. We usually watch the 30m-1h charts and after a month or 2 the left side starts to disappear from our screens. If the price starts to go up from there there's euphoria, BTC going up again, but when it starts going down there's panic. It doesn't matter that 6 months ago the price went up by 500%, all that matters is that how it looks on the 1h chart.
The second interesting thing is that people have a wrong understanding of the mean price. They tend to look at the last couple months and treat the 6 month lows as "the lows" and 6 month highs as "the highs".

Yeah if you look at the history of bitcoin price, it is always falling at the beginning year.
but it is hard to assume that bitcoin will have the same pattern this year, because it is already falling to the dips.

Definitely this is routine for bitcoin by this time of the year

There is a chance of that happening for sure, but just like anything in life there are no guarantees and as such you gotta protect yourself in every scenario. If we all knew this correction was coming, everybody would have cashed out at 20k thus making the correction much more severe. It is probably a good thing long term that most of us didn't foresee the crash, Bitcoin has survived because of it :P.

Well that will continue to happen as long as the market exist, the beginning of the year is always rough for any business and bitcoin is not an exception, you still remember the price we were at this time last year and where we were before the year ended. It may not be in the same format but the correction will still happen after the end of each year the beginning is always use to built the year and how the market will excel through put the year. So bitcoin as at this time last year was little above $1000 but as at this year is seating at $7000 so there is a difference in the market.

It looks like the history is repeating now because thenprice chart looks same as in the past but it is no meed to follow the same chart because the current situation is different from.past.The regulations from the government also is a huge negative for the cryotocurrency so it needs time to know the actual condition and status of cryotocurrency in the countries then only people will invest on it without any fear.

I'm not sure the price of the bitcoin will be pumped in the future but I think the bitcoin will last for a long time with an average price of $ 8k.
Because the cost of bitcoin is based on the whale's control and we can not predict it. I predict the price of bitcoin will still be $ 8-9k by the end of 2018. There will be no pump price will be made later this year.

It will always happen. Thats the way its meant to be.

In last year growing started in April and in May was huge pump. I think same will be in this year. If look to the global news, we can see, that big players dumping price now and buying cheap crypto.

It seems to me that people pay a lot of attention and effort to the study of schedules. I think this can only be done for informational purposes. It is impossible to construct not such indicators to the theory of the standard behavior of cryptocurrencies. The behavior of bitcoin is illogical and does not depend on external factors. We can only reflexively react to the behavior of graphs.

all that can not be proved, because now many issues if the party who has a lot of money is spreading the issues, even there are juka who manipulate the data, causing the market turbulent, this is very harmful

I do not think the pattern will be repeated in the coming years. The is because the circumstances surrounding the phenomenon in the previous years is quite different from the one we are in right now and will also be different from the ones of the coming years.
In the previous years, bitcoin made use of the help of social medias such as Facebook and Twitter but we can see that bitcoin and any crypto-rrlated issues have been banned by these medias and so will not be available for use in the coming years.
Also, in the previous years, not so many people are into bitcoin but as time goes by,  more and more people have been venturing into bitcoin for investment and as each year passes,  there will higher figure than the previous year.

It is obvious that it will repeat it pattern as the year goes by a lot of market increase will take place despite the urly news on bitcoin itself and the hold crytocurrency as a whole.

Well, if you look at the chart in the last 6 weeks there was an almost exact same pattern, bitcoin dropped down to about $6,000 and then doubled to $12,000 over a couple of weeks. There is definitely a recurring pattern to bitcoins price changes, but I don't think these patterns drive future patterns.

I think it is, there is always a correction at the beginning of the year. This year will probably repeat it but not exactly the same. With more and more investors, it allows bitcoin to be better than last year.

Well you can't count on the chart, though you right about your analysis but bitcoin survival depends on investors if in months to come more investors will invest more money or pull out what they have there. But until then let's hope for the best and keep believing in the bitcoin idea

The problem is, we are no longer in the beginning of the year and still correcting. If we fall below $6000 next week it's going to look much worse than it used to in the previous years. In 2017 we were dropping in January, but after a month it was all over. In 2016 March and April were months of stable prices. I don't think that we can compare.

We just try to do the best analysis. The possibility of the pattern is the same after the price decline is deep enough, then the price will bounce high enough. As you mentioned, even the price can double.

it is so that happens but there are still many investors who dare to invest with bitcoin because they believe will gain profit in the future belief and patience to the success and profits in investing

As you have rightly said op, bitcoin will definitely bounce back but who knows when it will happen? Sooner or later? The most important thing is that bitcoin will test another "all time high" when recovered from the dump.

Bitcoin had ups and downs, but it always rose and reached a new level, it is impossible to estimate and predict the crypto according to the laws of the old economy, Crypto is the economy of a new level, which must be poznovat anew, it is still formed.

Results from the past are not guaranteed to repeat, it's hard to tell whether we'll see the same pattern or not. Back then there weren't so many threats, there wasn't so much resistance from authorities and financial institutions. Now with last year's ath of 20K, they start to see bitcoin as a real threat and they'll do everything they can to eliminate bitcoin. Like the IRS, planning to tax people who made a profit with cryptocurrencies and chasing exchanges to provide information about transactions and customers.
Hopefully authorities will back off and cryptocurrencies will get a chance to rise again.

all that is possible, because it is also needed the bitcoiners in buying and selling, and hopefully something like that does happen inside bitcoin today. hopefully the price can go up again.

That's right sir, I also see in the last two years price of bitcoin always fall in the beginning of the year. And back up at the end of the year, I think this year will be the same. End of 2018 bitcoin prices will rise. But not at the $ 20K level. Because it is very difficult.

Indeeed, there is much more volume than before, and many other coins on the market at this moment.

I doubt that we are going to see another crash just like that one, so no.. For me, it is almost impossible and unreliable.

The fact that bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies are volatile, there is no patterns that are completely alike. It may or may not follow the pattern last year.
But yes, during the first to mid-months of the year prices always go down and starts to pump until the end of the year. We can still observe it by then and see if charts will always be similar. We can also compare charts from years ago. But still, even though we can get answers about it, there is no assurance of a specific price prediction.

Nope it will not happen again even if it try to repeat itself it be as obvious as the previous one yes every one is happy that the price of the is now gradually coming up again on like before but the price bouncing back to it normal price and that what are praying for it come back fully.

Yes Bitcoin price sure will be rise and shine again. Just hold your Bitcoin and you will see the price increase again. I have no idea why the price is drop down much, many specualtion tell because Facebook banned and many issues. But I believe Bitcoin still good investment.

Yes but it may not be the same way as how it happened over the last few years. This year could be better or not for crypto. We can safely say that crypto is becoming mainstream and more and more investors and traders are getting into a good crypto for the market. this is good news for the continuity of crypto.

Fact is, Even if we can see some pattern in price stream, the market doesn’t follow any pattern. Still pattern helps us to understand long term market condition and to predict the future price. It’s true that the price is still pretty low, but there are some positives happening around Bitcoin, we can expect some positive turn in the price soon.

It does not matter, at the beginning of the year there is no reason to be worried whether Bitcoin market is good or bad. If there is a bit worse then the bitcoin's pattern will come back and it is normal. Bitcoin will be the same in the current year and it will also happen in the next years.

Well the pattern is repeated every year but this year is kind of different i think, the price crashed so hard since january until now and it's because of many negative and bad news towards to bitcoin. I hope it will repeated this year and the price will start go up again in this month or next month.

It is happening again, the price is now on a dump and it is like the price from the few years past so i think that we are entering the same cycle and when the dumping and manipulation is done then it will be the signal for us to get into the boat again because the price or the market will start to go up and give a lot of highs for us to get a lot of profits.

one of the basic concepts of finance is that "Past Performance is no Guarantee of Future Results" now you can have statistical studies and predictions but at the end of the day you're guess is as good as the next guy's. I find that what makes one wealthy or successful in not the prediction but the decision making process.

Hopefully it will. Due to the continuous zdecrease i  the market value from the start of this year, the market price is now low and is struggling to recover. If things will be better at the end of this year, surely the loss on the investments due to the dumps will be redeemed. This is a possibility which makes sense to invest at this moment whereas the price is currently low.

It seems to me that it will be repeated from year to year in the middle of each year at what it falls and at the beginning and end it increases.

It is difficult to predict bitcoin rates because bitcoin prices are determined by the market, but it can happen, bitcoin falls and falls and then there will be a very high jump.

I think this year it will be different because in this year with passage of time the deep of price will be deep to deeper more deeper

I don't think charts can guarantee anything as crypto is just too volatile, and there are many other factors influencing the price of cryptocurrencies now a days compared to previous years (more ICOs in 2017, bans, news, FUD, etc).
Just like charts indicate that the year starts with a weaker price, if we go back we could also say that if it took Bitcoin 3 years to reach the 1K ATH again (Jan. 2014 - Jan. 2017) then it could take another 3 years for it to reach the ATH of almost 20K. Could this happen? Sure, but I would prefer to be an optimist and think the 20K will happen before Dec. 2021.

I am a newbie I don't have previous experience but just can hope about its well being and hike only :(

It is occurring once more, the cost is currently on a dump and it resembles the cost from the couple of years past so I believe that we are entering a similar cycle and when the dumping and control is done then it will be the flag for us to get into the vessel again on the grounds that the cost or the market will begin to go up and give a great deal of highs for us to get a considerable measure of benefits.

Bitcoin will grow in value for a long time. But we need to understand that influential people will continue to manipulate the price as long as this is possible. It is worth considering this and not panicking.

Yep, that happened, but already prices of cryptocurrencies are incresing. And i think, nobody or any government can not stopped it after that bullish.
We should get any coins from deep.

So the pattern may happen again or it might not I just do not think anyone is sure. But the charts are interesting in past few days, and if you look yesterday the price shot up more than $1000 which was a bigger jump upwards than any move downwards this month.

You are correct, Yet it's just one of the factors that affect the trend of this industry. Given that the nature of the industry is volatile, there would always be a chance that it will happen from time to time. But, the catch is, It became more and more unpredictable through years goes by.

Yes as per your statement last two years bitcoin charts price action shows that some trending pattern is being followed on a consistent basis and we need to find and track it so that we could gain higher accuracy of prediction.And Yes there are high chances that the pattern will return and recur in the coming months and years of time period. We should be taking advantage of this trending cycle and try to implement in our trading strategy if found on profitable then you can scale it up slowly.

I agree but you must also know that using the past events to predict the future especially in a market as unpredictable as crypto is very dangerouse, one day the trend might get reversed, then what/. LOSES  will follow

It is unpredictable and say that the price trend for the next year will be like days. Only the thing we can assure of is that bitcoin will still exist as long as cryptomarket exist.

Yes i think it will hapoen again because if you think about it, our life cycle is repitious. Iur income gemeration is slso repitious. In tge first quarter we get outr paybacks from the goveenment dor our 401k so we buy a lot of bitcoin. That's when the surge began. By tge end of the year there's Cheistmas so peoplw tend to withdraw a lot during that time. So i think t will happen again

I see the price rises $1000 up just in one day suspiciously. some hands must be in this situation.
I think this year is tough. now Bitcoin has high popularity, but investors will think twice to start projects because they will be difficult to advertise due to the ban policies by some social medias.
I don't think the same repetition as last year will exactly happen.

There is too much parameters that have influence in bitcoin price to predict its price with certainty.

Consider that Bitcoin is worldwide cryptocurrency that isn't tied specially to one country, but all countries in the world influence in price little bit.

Political changes, upcoming holidays, insecurity, positive and negative media coverage, interests of various cartels and big players - they all influence bitcoin price.

Too much unknowns to have any certain prediction.

I guess it can happen but there are several factors that may prevent it.  The pattern from previous years is a good guide but it should not be the soul basis you would want to use.

I think it will happen,as the saying say 'history repeat itself' it will happen again what happened the last few years,the highest price and the lowest price will happen.

Like last year, in Q1 and Q2 bitcoin prices have dropped and gradually recovered in Q3 and Q4, but can not be a benchmark because now many ICO, FUD, as well as negative news stories about bitcoin and one more news about the ban on bitcoin in a country also it could also affect the bitcoin price, it takes time for bitcoin to recover. but let's just look at it, I hope and believe the price will be high again by the end of this year.

I think so, every year the bitcoin price always down at the beginning of the year and goes up at mid year until the end of the year. Based on the bitcoin market price trend, fluctuation of price is very normal and it always have downfall every year. Current price is already halved the peaked price last year. I think that it will just repeat the trend from previous year so I hope it will happen again and again every year.

History repeat itself.we know that right?so i think it will happen again.but i also keep that on my mind that 5e last year ups and downs is a huge guideline for btc.so i think exact same thing wont happen.

one of the fundamental ideas of back is that "Past Performance is no Guarantee of Future Results" now you can have factual examinations and forecasts however toward the day's end you're figure is on a par with the following guy's. I find that what makes one affluent or fruitful in not the forecast but rather the basic leadership process.

i think it will happen again.  8) 8)

I think not, because the price of bitcoin is still very difficult to predict. sometimes can quickly go down can sometimes rise rapidly. what's more there is now turmoil in bitcoin.

It always our expectations that bitcoin price rise all the time. This year is not exception as the price would be more than that of last year before the end of this fruitful years of bitcoin.

There are possibilities that it will happen again and maybe it won't because I think nothing is impossible. But I think the best thing that we can is don't base too much in the pass years experience because that's already happen and what important for now is actually the present and upcoming future so I think that much better at this moment is to be more actively alert on the movement in the market. We need to be much aware in daily happening in cryptosystem so we can manage our investment better.

Yeah, im observing this too, when in the statting of the nrw year the price will surely fallinh down and down until the people got panic. But in the end of year the bitcoin is always on the high price. I don't know but i fell the cryptocurrency are being manipulated now. They dropped the price so that many people got invest it. And become popular again

this cycle will continue to run and may not be stable. if at the beginning of the year the price is so falling down, it means there is a great chance to rise to the moon in the middle of the year or at the end of the year.

I don't think it's just bitcoin at the beginning of the year when the market was depressed, and in every industry it was a bad month. I certainly hope that bitcoin will start to surge in the summer, as it has in previous years.

It is true that at the beginning of the year there is often a weakness in prices and the beginning of the year will increase, and if this happens every year, so we can learn and can determine sales and purchases.

yes, because bitcoin is a currency that fluctuates every second. so I think the bitcoin weakness will happen every year. and that is a correction.

and after correction, bitcoin will make the market stable and make the market become bullish.

If it repeats I don't think its matter much as finally the btcs aren't going to die ;)

Spent time with CMC pulling out data of January for last 5 years. Yes, every January had to go through corrections pushig the value fall drop. This indicates, every fist quater until the financial year end, the value would be circulating at low level. But right after the financial year, the value had started blossoming a bit recovering in July. Then July takes off the rides causing the values reach the sky. Everyone expects and predicts that 2018 is going to be the year for every crypto currrencies. Lets just watch.

You are right. CMC confirms that every first quarter has been so challenging in terms of altcoin's price until the financial year ends. By middle of July the bitcoin value would recover back to normal. As like last year the bitcoin value would go to the moon with its 60 percent growth compared to last December. We could see a minimum of $30K this year end.

I believe that there is really a pattern that makes bitcoin price become high or low. The only difference are the value that varies every moment and the time when the decrease or the increase happen. Despite the fact that there is a pattern that bitcoin follows, still there is no definite amount and date or period when this will move. But the thing is that, it has the same movement at the same span of time.

There's a possibility that bitcoin price will go up high by the end of the year, just like what happened last year, but don't expect the price of the last ATH's last year because I think it is too far from possibility. Yes, we can still consider it but expecting too much can hurt you.

It can be yes & it can be no, it's certainly very influenced news related to bitcoin, and coincidentally it often happens the same thing about certain news to affect the price movement at the beginning to the end of the year. But I would rather rate it would be the same because certain moments including certain days will continue to spin and still will happen to affect the price movement that looks like repeating what happened.

What happened last year will happen again this year. Another ath will happened before the end of the year bullish run will start on the last quarter of this year.

Yes, I believe that we shouldn't use the usual pattern as there are different situations or things that might happen that will become a huge factor affecting the price of it. We should not always expect and believe the patterns instead we should know how to ride with the trends.

Two years is a very short period to talk about some regularity. It could be a coincidence. It seems to me that the order Chen depends on the mood of users and the interests of the whales. When whales agree on coordinated action, they become a terrifying force capable of exerting great influence on prices.

I don't think anyone can predict about that anyway because Btcs love to surprise

BTC will always have the unpredictability trait but in the market, its price trend will always follow the law of supply and demand. We must have our own strategies and goal to beat the market fluctuations and manage the risks involved with it. The volatility could hurt an investor, it is futile to those who does not understand it.

Cryptocurrencies can't be determined its fixed value and from time to time it has the ability to pump. If the graph will be the same on the previous years then we should expect more wise traders to buy some tokens.

Markets always repeat itself. This is called patterns. Elliot wave is saying similar things.
Market is going to repeat itself and market going to rise over 20000 in few weeks.

automatically fantastic prediction, But which the current market is not capable of. If we recall the past year of 2017, Bitcoin has raised its price steadily throughout the year, but this year it can not be.

If it repeats I don't think its matter much as finally the btcs aren't going to die ;)

I’ll be surprised if it works out that way, I don’t expect to see $20,000 until 2019.

That's right, if we look at the Bitcoin's price historical Chart then we can see this repeats many times "down in the begin of year and increase in the end of year".
In the begin of year, there are always two big events:
1.  News years of Chinese and some Asia countries ;
2.  Tax Day of United States.
Two events always affect to the crypto market because investors usually sell Bitcoin or altcoins which is holding to use for individual demand like: shopping for New Year in China and taxpayer in United States. So that will do the price of Bitcoin and the crypto market goes down. And then investors will go back the market on end of april, this will do the market go up again.
So i believe the price of Bitcoin will soon go up on May until end of 2018.

Everything is always going to be under probability. Yeah, we can switch back to an uptrend before the end of the year, but the truth is how far we are going to go is one thing only time can tell. We have had a huge bear year at the starting of the year and the after effect is not something we should just expect some sudden recovery in price.

Nevertheless, we are in a market where surprises can happen but I personally would not be expecting so much, but whatever comes is good enough for me either bull or bear scenario.

You guys should stop deceiving yourselves, and no one can know anything. The thing here is that you cannot expect a bull run every year, and we will be lucky even if we get to hit the previous ATH.

Once a market has been hugely dumped, it always take some time for accumulation before we even start seeing any major uptrend. The good thing however is that it would come, but when is what no one can know. Anyone who is looking for moon this year though is absolutely expecting so much.

nothing impossible because crypto currency are always surprising and I sure crypto will repeat success like last year. day by day the price are continue to increase again, I think the hard time for crypto has passed and now the future of crypto begins to brighten again.

I am really thinking of the same thing. We still don't know but chances are really high that same thing could happen this year. Last year is the biggest year for Bitcoin so far because it is when its value gone skyrocket reaching a market value of 18000 usd from a market value of 1200usd in the beginning of that year.

This is what excites the investors and users more. Since the market value at this moment is currently low and in a line with that is the increase at this moment,investing is advisable. The market is now showing green and positive marks and if this situation will continue it is not possible that what happened last year will be repeated this year.

I do believe in the sayings that "History repeats itself" so therefore it might reoccur again until there is something that will occur for the changes. It might not be the same date but it will recur again to make some changes. People should wonder why it still happen again and again and not just going with the flow for as the time will come that we trader might suffer the catastrophe again.

Then we can test this year, if the market booms again like it did last year then your theory will be proven, at the last quarter ,I know it will increase but another ATH is too far for now due to slow recovery

it is a matter of time ,waiting is a good thing.and then we will find out.

Well as we see the market, its giving us hope to believe that the possiblity that it can happen might be true, due to this recovering mode and increase that seems to happen the same month last year in  just a slowmo mode now.

It's been like this more times before than that december run. Just because we've had a pump like that doesn't mean that it'll happen annually. I'll be happy if we hit around 20k again this year but i think we have to be modest with our expectations as to not get burned.

This is indeed a very modest expectation, as few hope that in this year 2018 we will again see a stable and huge increase in the price of Bitcoin. Although it would be good if btc rose at least slightly above $ 11,000.

That could be consider as a life cycle of crypto and definitely it would come such time but it doesn't mean that it's price will literally the same before. We experience dump at the start of this year and it could be possible to happen again early next year.

The most problem from others is they always compare the last year performance of bitcoin. So many changes happen in crypto market and it might more changes will happen today this year. The price from last year may differ from last year or may overpass it's price. Well we will know again what be the actual price this year ends so let's see.

I'm sure for the next few years bitcoin prices will start to increase as people around the world are familiar with bitcoin and are trying to invest. Probably lately bitcoin has decreased drastically but not to worry this calamity will end soon

Bitcoin must continue to prove himself for being a better investment after stocks or even real estate. Until now, a lot of people are being scammed simply because of bitcoin, I know the price will go high this year no matter what but I still wish for everyone to be profitable in crypto market.

I think it is, there is always a correction at the beginning of the year. This year will probably repeat it but not exactly the same. With more and more investors, it allows bitcoin to be better than last year.

Bitcoin's one of the commodities consumed by most users, and it can happen depending on the abilities of the users themselves, in addressing the financial problems facing especially in the face of big days, such as New year, Religion and Culture. For those with limited funds, they may sell their bitcoin even though the bitcoin price is in decline.
By existence that assumption I am very sure if the bitcoin price will go up and down repeatedly.

It seems to me absolutely incorrect to compare the behavior of the price of bitcoin taking as a reference the previous years, because it is unquestionable that the conditions that have guided the market are now very different from the conditions that prevailed in the past.

In fact, I think that bitcoin prospects at this time are much more promising than last year, when there were many critical moments in which confidence in bitcoin seemed to decline, but only speculation led to the price to the moon.

Now, when many governments have shown interest in being more permissive with the use of bitcoin and develpers have found functional solutions to the problems that bitcoin experienced last year, bitcoin is at a much more stable price, but with more solid foundations, so I do not think that such a pattern will be present permanently every year.

Yes you are right, there are a lot of drama today in the market because the price of bitcoins is dropping but still the price might grow up again in the future or before the year ends just like what happened last year so you should hold your coins today before you regret on losing a huge amount of profit.