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From last few days, so many negative news regarding btc have been aired. Then lot of people speculate the price of bitcoin and just after that I have noticed some significant change in the price index of btc. Do you think that these speculation affect the price of btc a lot???

Yes. Most of the negative effects of Bitcoin's price fluctuation come from speculation and negative news. There are very few events (the hacking of an exchange for example) that -should- impact the price of crypto; the rest of it is speculation.

Well, I think not all speculation are brings negativity to bitcoin because most of it gives good effects to bitcoin movements. It is true that our speculation has a biggest impact to bitcoin so it is better for us to be much careful in giving speculations or maybe it is much better that let us keep it only into our mind so we are the only one who knows what we are speculate.

Yes it does, it is speculations, fundamentals and technical analysis that traders use to determine and push the price of bitcoins. Speculations of the outcome of bitcoins price from the news been read, and the charts on technical analysis help traders to make informed decision.

It depends on who is speculating mate. If big media companies and whales are speculating it would effect the market right away as you can see on the market. They always throw some news about how China or Russia had regulations about bitcoin and after couple of hours another news comes and says that there were actually no regulation. If you want to be successful trader you should try to be away from all those speculations.

No it will just create a good atmosphere for bitcoin discussion and could also be the reference on members holding some bitcoins. Some members here could excellently explain the good things on bitcoin and their speculation. This is why we have the bitcointalk forum for bitcoin discussion and it is good to discuss about bitcoin speculation. For me this is a good thread to start the speculation for bitcoin.

No, speculation doesn't affect the price of bitcoin in a huge way unless these people are whales who could manipulate the price whenever they want. Bad news in general could affect the price but if we are only talking about speculation alone I doubt it. These could just be FUD I mean anyone could post "Bitcoin heading $XXXX  next week/month/year".

Slightly off topic but since we are talking about Bitcoin's down ward movement the MtGox trustee might be the one who caused the price to go down today.

You can't say that "a lot of people are speculating" because all of us are speculating the price of Bitcoin, and of course it does affect the price and the price of Bitcoin is driven by traders, investors, miners, exchanges especially the big ones. I'll give you an example, lets say that a huge company announced that they will invest huge amount of money in Bitcoin after the price dropped a lot, this means that they believe it will become more valuable in the future and that is considered speculating. It will affect the price because they bought huge amount of the supply of Bitcoin.

   Of course, the news affects everything – on our lives, markets, on the value of securities and on bitcoins. Ecли you're new and reading bad news, giving out what you're going to do? Of course Panic! I think that we who have been doing this for a long time, visit strongly believe the news, but the newcomers are many and they panic.

Negative news about the crypto currency has always had a bad effect on the price of bitcoin. After all, the price of bitcoin is formed on the basis of supply and demand, and the demand for bitcoin depends heavily on whether good or bad news comes about crypto currency. Recently, the bad news is hindering the growth of bitcoin prices.

Yes, I think that bitcoin is not strong and stable enough not to succumb to negative affects. We see how bitcoin falls on the background of bad news and takes off against the background of good ones. Such kind of speculation affects Bitcoin in both ways. That`s why the crypto currancy has to become more confident and less prone to different kinds of speculation.

Yes, speculation not only affects the current market but it creates consequences which work as an obstacle to the growth of cryptocurrencies as a payment system. It creates market volatility and that is not good for the companies having a turnover in billions because even 1% fall in the price might cost these companies in millions so we must seek stability as soon as possible.

maybe the negative news will also slightly affect the bitcoin.

Speculations affect bitcoin negatively for sure, but you can't avoid it easily, that is part of bitcoin to some extent but I think as market is getting regulated, speculations may decrease.

Definitely, crypto is based on speculation so if  there's a negative news coming, or even fake news, it will surely put a impact on the price. Just look at how the statement of Warren B and Bill G., it has somewhat happen the spirit of some (newbie)traders that's why they decided to sell off.

And who would forgot Jamie Dimon attacks last September, damn that was intense, but the good thing though is that this kind of attacks affect the market short term. Because investors take the opportunity to buy in dips resulting in the market recovery.

Depends on who's making the speculation. Likely no one will listen to a new guy spreading words of dooms day but if someone, who's more significant in crypto, starts spreading the same word, that might lower the price. Also, depends if those words get to people who are holding larger amounts of btc.  ;D

Yes very much so especially if it's from the media

It will not affect that much. No it will simply make a decent environment for bitcoin dialog and could likewise be the reference on individuals holding some bitcoins. A few individuals here could astoundingly clarify the great things on bitcoin and their theory. This is the reason we have the bitcoin talk gathering for bitcoin exchange and it regards examine about bitcoin theory. For me this is a decent string to begin the hypothesis for bitcoin. It will open a new door for bitcoin discussion.

I think all these speculation leaves a great impact on Bitcoin. The price of Bitcoin is manipulated to a big extent through all these speculation. It creates a dense atmosphere in the market and the investors starts panicking a lot.

FUDs or negetive news are the most crucial part which affect the price of bitcointo great extent. Because of different FUDs the price dropped few months ago. But, right now, the price is increasing and i think it will be recovered fully very soon.

Bear markets cause market events, not the other way around. This is something most people don't get.

In bull markets, bad news doesn't matter. Nobody cares because demand is too strong to affect price. In bear markets, sell pressure is already strong and people are looking for any excuse to sell. So market declines have less to do with bad news itself and everything to do with bearish market conditions.

Broadly, speculation is extremely important. Healthy price discovery is vital to the market.

I think its big impact in bitcoin price because every speculation will bring the price down and people starting to panic that cause of dropping. And we cannot avoid that because it's a different opinions of others but it cause sometimes of fud news.

Of course! Baseless speculations/predictions or what most of us call is, FUD is one of the major things that affects the price of bitcoin in the market. News about bitcoin influences weak handed people to believe on what they are saying so for example someone who is known in the crypto community posted something on their social media account like "sell now, blah blah blah" so immediately, they will believe it and sell their bitcoin thus resulting to them contributing more to the dip.

i guess speculation affect the price of btc because most of the people do not have the concept clear about the cryptocurrency yet. after hearing any kind of speculation there people starts to panic and take wrong decision. there are on other ways rather then having clear knowledge.

It does, speculations can affect the value of bitcoin negatively.
Especially if it is related to "failing" of bitcoin, it will influence a few of the users to panic sell their coins contributing to the dump and somehow to the drop of the price depending on the volume they dumped.
Speculations can affect it positively still, too, if it is about the rise of the value or constant, steady growth, it can attract more buyers and investors into bitcoin changing the demand-supply of crypto thus increasing value.
Knowledge is a first in the field to not fall into false speculations and lose profit.

Well one of the major factors dictating the market movement is speculations. Fuds, fomos, these are driven by specularions picked up by more and more people hence the bulk in puchases and sell offs. It largely affects bitcoin value both negatively and positively

If there were no speculation within the market, then it would mean that bitcoin prices will solely be based on the adoption rates of bitcoin. If adoption goes up, then demand will go up, and prices will indeed increase as well.

Price speculation obviously would affect the price of bitcoin, and also increase the volatility of bitcoin as a result. It's not always negative, though. Prices can also go up as a result of speculation, not just go down.

Speculation is just an element of bitcoin, and is the case for any asset traded on the market.

Well for me i am not yet convinced that speculations do affect the price of bitcoin or any cryptos because as what i know speculations are only statements and coments that are not really proven , not unlike to a news that there is a legit source . Therfor i will only believe on a news rather than a speculation and i guess many people will also think that way , so overall speculations wont really have a direct effect to the prices of the cryptos.

Yes, I think speculation affect bitcoin negatively because most of the time bitcoin's  price fluctuation is occur for speculation and hacking also makes a negative impact on price. ??? 8)

People should not speculate much and should be buying/selling considering the price and the future. Also knowing the global economics is very essential as it also plays a vital role  in determining the price which can move either ways up or down.

I guess the market of bitcoin price or market cryptocurrency as whole in a few months back have a downtrend, so every speculation who made by someone or some company will affect the price of bitcoin, especially came a bad information.

Each user will considered between hold and sell, but most user take decided to sell bitcoin because they afraid the price will continue to decline. Psychological users of cryptocurrency will be hung when the conditions of the market trend.

All we know, a few day back many some news who create by some expert which has predicted bitcoin prices by the end of 2018, they say bitcoin prices will touch $50,000 or bitcoin price will touch $100,000, should this speculation affect the market, but if the market is downtrend then the speculation is not affected.

It's a free market. In the end, we don't like banks and governments telling us what to do, so let's not do the same. I don't mind short term speculators to hop on board, because every person, long term minded or short term minded, brings in capital. Speculation is a crucial part of every market, and without that, markets just aren't as interesting, and thus fail to attract capital. It's not for nothing that dividend stocks exist. If you can't provide volatility or speculation because your business is consistent in its earnings and everything, you need to find other ways to attract that capital and to keep it in your market....

No . Speculation will not affect the price of bitcoin.In a speculation section,we will found only few negative speculation.Most of them are positive speculation.So it will gives positive energy to the price of bitcoin.Due to the FUD ,the price of bitcoin will reduce.I don't get any bad news about crypto currency.

This will not gonna affect much which we are thinking. No it will simply make a decent environment for bitcoin dialog and could likewise be the reference on individuals holding some bitcoins. A few individuals here could astoundingly clarify the great things on bitcoin and their theory. This is the reason we have the bitcoin talk gathering for bitcoin exchange and it regards examine about bitcoin theory. For me this is a decent string to begin the hypothesis for bitcoin. Based on this investors are knowing many things and learn things about btc.

It's just some "chicken-or-the-egg" type of questions.
It's OK for people to speculate as everyone wants to get fast and easy money, right? That's why positive speculations are taken as something usual, while negative can really make the price drop, especially if they are spread through media. That is obvious, as scepticism is contagious. That's why it is the obligatory rule of every trader not to read chatbox on exchanges while day-trading.

I would say yes they do affect a lot. Good and bad news in crypto market plays a vital role in marketing. This falls on the number is inventors come in and go. Onviously when the good news come is when the price goes high and investors come in to sell to see genuine profits.  This makes to circulate the coin more and gain more values.  Like wise when the value is low and medias spread news affecting price growth,  investors do hesitate to buy coins still and wait to get more investigation before investing in. So speculation and fluctuations play vital roles 8n price growth.

I think yes. No, I'm totally sure about it! People who speculate and those bots who always changing their orders to smaller, hate it.

Cryptocurrency network is entirely speculative, because if you go through the growth chart along with the reason for the price bump and dump it can be understood easily. The negative form of speculation moves it in the negative manner while positive speculation help with the growth.

Actually people speculate affects bitcoin negatively because it is like fuds or spreading news to others. So better we don't listen to false news or speculation as it is not accurate. Price is unstable it become decrease and increase.

because almost all bitcoin users are either investors or traders whose primary goal is to profit from the difference in Bitcoin price fluctuations, they are the fastest responding to a global issue, and these speculative actions are obviously a major adverse effect on Bitcoin volatility

I don't know what's your point but trading is all about speculation because no one knows that will happen exactly in the future. We all just have to use the historical price chart to aid us in speculating what the future price will be along with market sentiment and fundamental news which would be the key of how the traders would react. Maybe what you mean is the negative news that would affect the bitcoin price negatively so I would just say that may it be true or not, it would have an impact on its price due to the fact that there are many newbies in the market who would panic sell when they heard or see a negative news.

Yes bitcoin users always do speculate about the prices just to earn profit on the amount they had invest. It affects bitcoin negatively as other users listen easily and breaks their trust on the future of bitcoin. Their faith just disappear when news comes out that price of bitcoin drops.

It has always been so, but this year after Consensus and array of some positive news, stagnation is continuing and I don't know if all these speculations has any impact on BTC at all

when the news is full of negativity panic created by government agencies then bitcoin price to react to such news and market crash thereafter but it is for short time

  They do affect Bitcoin. All the Bitcoin experts have been speculating about the future prices of the coin and speculate that the monetary value of the coin will rise as much as 30,000 dollars. Well people follow these experts and after doing some research on their own as well they invest their money right away. This is the power of speculations and has been of great worth back in 2017.

Maybe yes it affects the price of bitcoin but not all is true there's some certain reason why bitcoin price is changing and go down and sometimes goes up. We can't base for every speculation why btc is down and so on...

Yeah, it will be pretty hard these days, except very few that utilize bitcoin as a currency, day to day means of payment unless there is just that huge need for it.

Yeah, we cannot blame anyone since it will always be their decisions to make and in that case, one thing has to give way for the other. With real life usage, in a massive form, the fluctuation would not have been highly huge but fluctuation is always a norm in any market. Speculation is the norm of the day and the only thing that pretty much drives the value of bitcoin as it is today and that sure do have an effect massively on the market.

That is true mate. For me, negative speculations without clear and true bases does not affect the market price and bitcoin as being the number one crypto-currency. It also depends on how big is the impact of the news to crypto business industry.

Speculation affects the Bitcoin if the speculation is in positive or negative will alter the value of Bitcoin by encouraging and discouraging the people to proceed or not. The market of Bitcoin will surely go high if we speculate positively then this positive speculation will encourage people to invest in the market of Bitcoin and conversely of we speculate negatively then the market will turn against.

Yes of course that the news in circulation will be able to change the price of Bitcoin so quickly and easily. Even hoax news that is still untested can make the price of Bitcoin decrease and increase very quickly. This is a thing that is indeed a characteristic, something like this that makes a lot of people sometimes feel that Bitcoin has unexpected price fluctuations. Even people feel frightened when hearing the word cryptocurrency. but all things there must be a negative side and the positive side, we should do is try to take advantage of the positive side that we can get. Do not always think negative because it will make things worse.

Exactly! These fake news are just like a poison to bitcoin success. People who are new to this industry often get panicked and fall prey to these false news ultimately resulting in giving up on their mighty bitcoin. Panic selling badly affects the value of bitcoin and it often results in some heavy decrease in its value because of the decrease in its demand. So we all bitcoin lovers should stay alert and do investigation before trusting rumors.

Speculation cuts both ways, it can be positive or it can be negative, in its positive side as soon as there is a positive news about bitcoin coming form the developers you can almost instantly see the price going up and then if we keep receiving positive news a bull market can form, the bad thing about speculation is that the media can influence people very easily and if several bad news appear then the price can go down dramatically and if it is big enough a bear market can form.

Fake news isn't poison to Bitcoin, the noobs believing everything are. In the end it all comes down to the people here not understanding what they invest in. Why do you think Warren Buffett keeps mocking Bitcoin? It's because of all the gamblers here just hoping that the price will sky rocket. That's why I don't like how even the Winklevoss twins went in with this. Instead of reacting to oldies trolling Bitcoiners, they should have been ignored completely. Even if you try to prove them wrong it gives them joy, so the best case is to not do anything. If you ignore them long enough, they won't even bother trolling anymore. They are like kiddos, the more you try to correct them, the more rebellious they become.

Speculation is a huge part in the bitcoin market right now, but is it really something bad that we need to be concerned about? I think not. Speculation can move prices both upwards and downwards, and it doesn't necessarily always have to be downwards.

And also as exstasie mentioned, a lot of the times, what really influences the prices are the current sentiment in the market, not individual pieces of news coverage.

Right now, we're in a bear market, which means that naturally traders will have the tendency to feel pessimistic about the market movements in the future, causing the downward movements that we see right now. It's part of how prices naturally moves in cycles, it's not anything negative.

Normal for people to have speculations since this is a very speculative market after all which means we would really able to see countless words to the entire community but these speculations doesnt mainly affect on the price of bitcoin. There are several factors to be considered that do affect price volatility which is indeed basing on supply and demand together with some fundamentals.

Being too speculant will only be affected by those people who expect too much, its ok to speculate what the price would be, how much you wanted it to reached but never get too disappointed if it not achieved yet,that's how the market works.

Not unless it will ruin the reputation of the bitcoin, i don’t think so it will give negative effect of the bitcoin that affects its price going down, i think it won’t give any impact to that. The main reason of the market fluctuation is the stability situation in the market and the worldwide economic stability as well.

There will always be a guys like that, on every market on a world, stock, food market, there are guys, who have money and power

No I don't think so that these speculations affect the price of BTC. Suppose is it so then why not to increase as well? Some people are also speculating positive as well. I think price goes down suddenly whenever there is a change in rules of trading in any country. Some people who believe rules strongly, they use to stop trading after getting bad news about BTC or change in trading rules. Although it is ban in many countries but you can see that people of that country are trading. Have a look a localbitcoins then you will get an idea that how many people from how many countries are dealing with btc trading. 

yes of course which is sometimes it really affects especially negative speculation that can cause people to panic sell which is from people who always claiming their selves as a expert by doing technical analysis in the market. 'cause actually most people nowadays always sharing negative speculation instead of positive to manipulate the price , that's why the market experience drastic change nowadays because of that reasons . So that's true that the speculation is can affect really hard on the btc price.

I think it is a vicious circle it is true that newbies are very easy to influence but there are newbies in every market and the media knows it so they know they can influence the market easily by spreading all kind of FUD in the market, and since the media is not going to stop spreading their FUD because they stand to benefit from it by getting more clicks the only thing we can do is to try to inform the newbies of what is happening and how they are being influenced.

if depends on the person how would he reacted about issues,because speculation is only one opinion and does not imply to the rest,we have all the rights to speculate but not to the extent that we will assume things are truthfully that.

I dont believe that cryptonians is matured and educated just to believe this kind of black propaganda or rally to put bitcoin down

Yeah of course. This is very sad truth about bitcoin, every news can easily affect its price and start rally in reverse. Single bad news create effect like winds hitting harder to markets like binance or bittrex man.

It Will affect Bitcoin market value negatively only if the speculation talk about negative effect on Bitcoin which will definitely create panic selling and that will lead to low price of Bitcoin and probably other altcoins.

Speculation is normal in the market, but if your a investor you could turn negative to positive. Matured investors are not affected by the negative news but immature and not so educated investors suffer more losses. To avoid being a victim you must do research and don't rely on information that media publish because some them are not true or fabricated.

It affects but not as much as the news, FUD's and manipulation done by the whales and some groups, speculation is just a small part of the factors that influence the flow of the price and its vast fluctuations whether it is a positive or a negative movement, it is not just negatively but you can count some positives when the speculation is favorable.

I believe that speculations or predictions by people affect bitcoin's market cap or price in the future negatively or positively. If people are speculating that bitcoin will really become valueless, then only few people will invest on it. Otherwise, it will attract more people to invest if positive speculations are always spread all the time.

True, speculations are normally done by people and we can't control the way they are going to take the changes in the market. We speculate not to affect bitcoin negatively nor positively, we do it for the soul reason of sharing what we feel and think about bitcoin. There is nothing wrong if we speculate negatively, it is part of the observation, it will just really depend how you are going to accept things.

Honestly, negative speculations can affect bitcoin negatively but think about it. We can speculate positively as much as we want but if the market is still not moving positively, accept the fact that there will always be negative thinking.

this may not be the reason why the effect of the bitcoin price may sometimes decrease and lower its value because of the miners and investors who hold the bitcoin where they sell the high value is decreasing its value.

in some ways it does.  Because people tend to listens to what other people has to say.  If other speaks ill of a certain altcoin word of the mouth will go around and certainly will make some damage. Like a potential investor might shy away in fear of losing his money.

Definitely yes, Opinion, suggestion, point of view and etc. were affects to the circulation of bitcoin, its because words from the mouth of the other people would be listen by the other people who cannot updated to what will happen. specially if the news are negative, more people are panicking even they hear are fake news and no supporting evidence. So be careful listening news regarding crypto currency, try to reads some article or news in internet to become updated.

Yes it is, speculation,rumors ,fud are the common factors that affects bitcoin price negatively. As long as this factors exist expect the price to go down or up.  But the main reason is its because of the demand and.supply.

Anything related to bitcoin will definitely affect the bitcoin price, whether it is a significant influence and minimal influence. Bitcoin prices will always be affected and this is a rational thing to happen. So anything related to bitcoin will make the bitcoin move. Well stay seen how the movement happened. Does the bitcoin move positively and or negatively.

Yes, it can affect the price movement of Bitcoin because it can trigger it to those people who are affected by their emotions. From my point of view, crypto value depends on the speculation because we know that it's decentralized wherein no one control its value.

Ironically, people do indeed take all the negativity for granted, but they completely ignore all the positivity that reaches them in the exact same way. I fail to understand why exactly this keeps happening.

If you are subject to this form of manipulation, it should work both ways, but it doesn't. The only thing that comes to my mind is manipulation. The average person always waits for a movement in order to act.

If whales initiate a dump after bad news, people think it's affecting the market because the price is going down, so they sell. If whales decide not to pump after bullish news, it means that people won't be buying.

It's makes sense, but there might also be a few other factors that play a role of importance.

Bad news always have effect on btc and that is common in this world not just in btc. If there's a bad news, people spreading FUD will follow, followed by dump and that's make the situation worst. Any kind of news related to crypto have effect from slight to big.

It's a known fact. Even the stock market can be affected by speculations. One negative rumor can spread to panicky holders and then panic selling happens. It will snowball into more people selling, often at a loss.

All the markets are easily influenced by the news what it happens with this market is that since it is relatively new the bad news can move the market very easily and this gets amplified by some other actors like the whales that take advantage of this and begin to sell some of their coins to try to create panic and force people to sell, this does not always works but when it does the whales then stop selling and then they wait for the price to reach the bottom and they now can buy bitcoin for a very low price.

Speculation negatively will affect the Bitcoin as negative news and statements discourage people to invest and take the ways towards the market and this negative speculation reduces the interest of people. Speculation positively will affect the coin positively and will encourage the people to take the ways straight towards the market as the market these days are on the increase trend but achievable and in the circle of our ability.

Yes many people who invested their money in bitcoin are those who do not know better about bitcoin and do not understand the price structure and the chart so they rely on the others speculations and when they hear about any negative speculation then they sell their bitcoin and because of that fool decision the price of bitcoin reduces.

Every news either positive or negative ones can really make such impact into the price but this doesnt happen anytime. Sometimes fake news or fuds doesnt make any movement  at all depending on what kind of news is being aired. Speculations would be just a normal thing and  Fundamentals would always been good to get some basis on your trades.It might not be accurate but chances would really be there for you to profit or even buying the possible lowest dip of price.

These all things play an important role in giving push to panic selling and this is what I always advice young investors that they should not trust rumors talking about the end of bitcoin, replacement of bitcoin by some altcoin and stuff like that. They are spread intentionally by the competitors of bitcoin in order to attract bitcoin investors for their coins. Smart people never fall prey to them and keep supporting bitcoin.

Obviously it does. There is actually no market even outside the cryptocurrency market that news either negative or positive will not affect it fundamentally. So far, instead of being a currency utilized for what it exactly is, bitcoin has turned to more of a speculative asset which obviously has affected the high level of volatility over the years, with the level of FOMO rush in, as well as weak hands. In cases like this, the impact is always going to be felt.

The mental state of the ones trading in the market is very important as well, when the participants are very bullish about the market FUD and other bad news have a tendency to be ignored and only the good news have an effect in the market, and when the participants of the market are bearish then FUD has an easier time affecting the market, this is one of the reasons of why the price does not seem to recover since people are simply too afraid to keep investing in the market right now.

It was actually depending on the speculation of the current user who created it if the topic is negative or positive, there are companies as well and not just cryptocurrency that are being affected by articles and that is the reason why we should not believe on speculations easily.

The negative news about bitcoin affects the price of it, not the speculation. Speculation is just a prediction towards its price what will happen. But it depends on how good or bad the news is to change the price of bitcoin.

There is no doubt FUD affects the market of bitcoin and when you add the volatility of bitcoin to the mix this only make things worse, however while this can affect the price negatively there are moments where the opposite happens and we saw this in bubble of the last year, where many positive news came at the same time and we saw a huge growth in the price of bitcoin.

It depends on the speculation, if most of the speculations that is being created by different users are all negative then there is a huge chance for the price to sink in since there will be more people who are going to sell their coins more than holding it.

Speculation has both positive and negative effect on the market whichever one that outweigh the other that is what will prevail in the crypto currency market and that is what has been happening in the previous years.

I think speculation is always there in a currency or crypto market, no harm in speculation and the whole world and the life here is always a speculation. Bitcoin price is based on the news spread out and good/bad things happening about crypto around the world and the major things is supply and demand of it.

I don't think speculation plays a vital role in creating negative for Bitcoin.

Speculations and fud are just the same, if most of the people will prefer to create black propaganda's in order to lessen the amount of investors then there is a chance for the price of bitcoins to decrease even more in the future.

Speculations will always be there especially when a good name has earned a lot of great feedback. A lot may have had talks and comments about it, sometimes, some will make their own cryptocurrency just to be equal or even higher. But those who trusted and tested Bitcoins already knew that once a master will always be a master!