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In early April, we saw Bitcoin’s latest rally of nearly $1000 in just over an hour, taking altcoins along for the ride, namely Ethereum, Ripple and Litecoin. This price surge saw with it trading volumes compared to those witnessed at the peak of the previous bull market.
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I would just think of it like someone feels the FOMO the first and bought a lot of BTC before it hits his $10K target. But it could be the start and the obvious bullrun may happen in the mid December of this year. A long wait but perhaps the most satisfying if it goes back to $19k once again.

No one knows for sure if we are back in a bull market, because that will depend on future price action. We could have another dip back to the lows, or maybe we will continue going up, which would indicate we are in a bull market. As time goes on, we are more likely to be in a bull market.

This can be a sign before a bull run but i think we need to invest with precaution because no one can guarantee that a bull will come soon, so best wait to see if is indeed a bull run or just a grow.

I highly doubt it. This is just a mini rally by the entire crypto market and I am not expecting an insane bull run anytime this year. Bitcoin will most likely settle in the $7k-$8k range by the end of the year.

2020 seems like the year for the next big bull run due to the upcoming halvening event in my honest opinion.

it has started to me as well.but after a year and half, we cant believe it i think.there is already "what if" question in our minds.it means fomo is not working right now

A brief and instantaneous leap doesn't necessarily signify an upcoming bull run but it does give you a glimpse of the current market sentiment and where it could the market be heading in the next few days/weeks. As for the move on April 1st, it seems that it stimulated the market to produce a little FOMO and do something that will instigate a push, although it was short-lived and we have since stagnated on the levels where the push lost steam. I'm pretty optimistic for the next couple of weeks, though the recent movement of over 40,000BTC, which was the same coins that was bought on April 1st is somewhat intriguing and worrying.

The recent pump doesn't necessarily imply that the bull-market is coming. We can expect the price to somehow rise, however, to expect another bull-run is a little too over. It might take maybe another year or two before we witness another bull-market.

I agree. Even the second half of this year is in play for us to be more clearly in a bull market, because the market anticipates future action. But a bull market will also depend on key catalysts, such as regulatory clarity and Bakkt coming online.

FOMO is already gone, they already sell when the price hits $53++ yesterday that's why the market suddenly turns red today. I don't see any news that will trigger a sell, except that the price is too high already and most of the speculators or those who FOMO last week sold-off.

So the price is now $5k, so are we going to see another FOMO again and make the price push to $6k-$6500?

Yes. We had a significant price pump just a month ago. But does it automatically mean we're in a bull market already? Heck no. Even if the price increase was 3x the recent increase, we can simply immediately drop down harder after a few weeks/months.

Its called a bull run but it is a mild bull run. You can't compare this tun to the 2017 run where the price hit its ATH. The run this year us just normal because of the of it bearish market that lasts for so many months. There will always be a bull run when there is some major adoption that has been going on within the bitcoin ecosystem.

And now we are witnessing a fast fall of all those altcoins. Correction hit them harder and generally, since the beginning of the year all prices increased on the same amount (maybe altcoins even a bit less than BTC). Also the larger MC the asset  got the larger price fluctuations we gonna see. For example it is easier to resell some cheap 1$ pen for 5$ to one person but you won't be able to do it with some thousands of people.

A long term bullrun for me is unlikely, sure its good to speculate a good period where candles are green, but when there's much speculators, combined with a heavy volumes of futures the price movements are less likely predictable in any means (at least for me, i could be very wrong). I see things pretty simple, more adoption, more users on a particular projects would grow like how stock markets did, its just these assets get super volatile on many factors, bullrun is about all greens and heaven which takes a long time for investor to finally realize the value of cryptocurrency that impacted daily lifes

The price has been around $5k for more than a week now, and this is of course a good sign. However, what is not so good is that the trading volume keeps decreasing, and at some point it just won't be enough to support this price. As for the beginning of a bull run, I agree with others that it does not seem very likely at this point. It's great that the price seems stable around $5k, but it's not even the infamous $6k barrier yet. Who knows how much time will pass before it recovers from the Wright's fork, and moving even forward after that is probably not something we should expect to happen in the near future.

we are. Perhaps this is just a correction after a long fall from 6000 to 3200 for Bitcoin and soon we will see another fall to 2500-3000 for Bitcoin or after a short flat, Bitcoin finally breaks through resistance in the region of 6000 dollars. For some reason, I don’t really believe that Bitcoin will start growing now. For some reason it seems to me that after growth to $ 6,000, we will again see a rather long fall in the area of ​​2500-3000 and after that a bull market will come, which we all have been waiting for so long.

What happened in the last days has created a bull effect, but you need to be very careful. Bitcoin had a similar increase, followed by sharp declines. So we all have to be careful.

Nope, the sudden rise isn't a bull run. We see an unexpected pump and the market rose with a speed that we never thought of. While the market was so sluggish by that time, a probable whale triggered the quick run but I really don't think that this is the start of bull run. But, majority is happy to see that we gain another support price and that run gives everyone confidence that bull can trigger anytime.

Apparently, we are having a hard time passing through 5200, the new resistance. Unless we got past that, there will be no bull run. I think the real bull run will start when we hit 6K at least.

Could be, might not. The recent pump we had is a good step towards ending the bear market and signifies a change in things to me, though it's still much too early to be sure. RSI is currently cooling off a little bit on the 1D level (was significantly overbought before we came down from the $5400s rejection) and 1hr bbands are getting tighter on Stamp and most other exchanges, might be another significant move soon. Seems most people including me think this one's going to potentially head down under the $5000s.

I don't think this is the start of any bull run as these price movements we are seeing lack the momentum/fuel to launch them to the moon and as far as I know there is no news or generally  anything exciting to get the panic buying going.

Only time will tell... it definitely seems to be the beginning of something, at least of a bull trend, nevertheless, doesn't seem that the bull run is already starting...
It would make sense if it kept this dynamics until December, and then it would arrive the actual bull run...
It still can rise and fall, but I would guess that the bottom is gone...
Hoping for a nice altseason along the year
cheers and good luck  ;D

 I am looking forward the rescent pump is a lead way to overcome from bearishness, thus it's growth may not look good, atleast it has shown a good sign to visionize the possible bull run will appear by this 2019. Just a matter of time and motivational determination, the big occurence of bull run will run its way and what we are witnessing today is accurately profitable.

We can expect a bull market for this year, it's a never ending cycle that we are going to witness again.
After the bear period, it's a bull period, and it take more or less one year for this market to be bullish again, and therefore I have a reason it's bullish time now.

imo 2021 at the earliest for the next bull run. unless there is a positive black swan event in the meantime. i think traders and whales are trying to lock in bagholders at $5k+ area then pull the rug out and double bottom at $3k.
a short squeeze isn't a proper start to a bull market like we just had with that $1k pop. It looked orchestrated to me. even if it was one big buy order that means nothing unless there are more like it which I don't see happening. there just isnt any real catalyst right now to justify buying. bitcoin needs new blood in the game and until the bear market is a distant memory for those that sold with heavy losses its going to be a grind. 2014-2017 was the doldrums and I see the same for 2018-2021. i hope im wrong, but even if the bull market is delayed, holders will still make decent returns.

Im the witnessed of the bull run in the year 2017, and it's a pleasure again to see the bull run this year. But now the market is quiet and we don't know again will grow but anytime for sure because everymonth bitcoin surprise us and I hope the surprise wl be good.

The BULLs really tried kick starting the BULL RUN, on first of april, they laid an example for other to follow which many did too by putting in funds immediately but unfortunately, it came to an end when those who prefer to take profit, forced the price back to bear market again, so it needs more time again to really pick of the pieces back again.

What do you mean quiet? The market is really making a lot of gains in the last two months now. So I don't know if you can categorically call it a quiet market.

It only becomes boring when the market trade sideways, but since mid February, bitcoin market is moving on the positives which means that slowly, there are people who are getting into the market specially after we bottom at $3200 in November. And if seems that the bull will continue to take over the market again this week as we posted $5150 earlier.

we have been seeing the new bull run for a while now. it is just that people don't want to accept it because they are either new to the market or have become so accustomed to the way things were in 2017 and at the peak of the bitcoin bubble. but the market can not be always like that.
other times we will see this type of slower rises that take a couple of weeks to come to a conclusion specially when it is the start of the reversal and the first step of the rise it will be slower.

and by the way when bitcoin rises, altcoins get dumped they don't go up with bitcoin!!!

Alot of speculation is still on going about the market and no one is totally sure about the trend which the market will pose but I believe it too early to use the word bull run to qualify the trend posed by the market because the market actually was experiencing surge in price and the trend which the market pose for acouple of week will determine the present of the bull run market.

I do believe like you op that the bull run has commence and most of the popular coins like bitcoin,  ethereum, litecoin, bnb, neo, waves and stratis are going to recover soonest and may be in another part of bullish trend that might last for years.  The market is in bullish trend for bitcoin and this will soon be transmitted to other coins.

With a more than $20 billion Volume in just a day?I guess this is enough reason to think thate are witnessing the start of bullrun,but I don’t wanna take this as a option for entering again unless i see atleast $8k for bitcoin this Q2 then i might be consider

It is probably a new rally created by those bigger whales to test the resistance of $5k due to FOMO but so far it is in a stable state as of the moment. At first, i thought it was just another bull trap but sooner or later it stays where it is then i conclude that it is not since it is stable at $5k now.

Then again, volume's dropping off to what it was before the massive green candle on April 1 on most fiat exchanges like Coinbase or Bitstamp. Not necessarily the strongest sign that we're out of the bear market yet, but still better than what it was before. Low volume doesn't exactly strike me as a good thing, though we've been going sideways for a bit more than two days now.

This could be the early days for it but its just too soon to decide. I mean we are on the path to higher prices thats for sure, the difference between breaking the first barrier upwards and second one is that the second one is almost always easier to break, the third one is even easier, that is why moving from 4k to 10k is harder than moving from 10k to 20k, because between 4k and 10k there are a ton of resistance but between 10k and 20k there are almost none so if you could find the money to break all resistance towards 10k then you can be certain that 20k will come a lot easier afterwards.

We are on the first stages now, if we could actually manage to break more barriers than it will get easier to go upwards and we will break our old all time high prices once again but if we fail than we will stay around these prices for a while.

Already, where is demand and supply, stability is impossible. And as you said, the cycle continues.
The continuation of the current increase will be welcomed by all of us. But we do not know whether it is the turn of the bull.

It could definately be a quick run up to the next halving I wouldn't be surprised.  If global demand keeps expanding the next four years after the halving could be epic in price fluxuation

That is very possible. Bitcoin prices could have experienced a significant increase. the increase phase is still possible to occur in the near future. Bitcoin prices are currently quite stable in the 5,000USD range. this is the latest level limit and I hope by the end of April we can exceed 6,000USD. nothing is impossible, as long as we support the development of bitcoin then we can reach that level.

considering the size of this rise from the bottom, we are already nearly $2000 or >60% up and that is a significant increase. and although I still say bitcoin is under valued by another $1500  but we can't ignore the pull that day traders have in this market where they are preventing the rise from continuing as they cash out their short term profit and slow down reaching $6k+.

New is not the only thing that get people into making an investment, the bitcoin system has more to even offer to some people than the investment part, you will agree with me that BTC bull run of 2017 really created lots of awareness, and since then, many people have been developing projects that will have Bitcoin payment system embedded in it as one of the payment processors, so we have some institution that are presently developing their own technology that will incorporate cryptocurrency, which will make us have many adopters of crypto through them, such as Visa, Facebook, twitter and many more.

..the sudden increase of Bitcoin price in the market doesn't mean that this is the start of a bull run,for as you can see,there is still a constant downfall of its price..the ups and downs of Bitcoins price still leads us to a hope that soon Bitcoin will reach its peak..if there is a continous needs and demands on Bitcoin,probably bull run might take place..

It could be yes and no since no one really knows what were going to happen. After a drop of few hundred of bucks, btc is gaining back those. Aside from that, good thing is btc showing resistance in $5k and I guess if btc break the barrier of $5.5k, it will continue to $6k and a drop will follow as usual and very normal.

up and down is not the same as "downfall"! and this IS the start of the bull run.
what we had was pure rise because what you are calling "downfall" was a simple correction. price went from $3900 to $5500 then it was corrected by going down to $4900 and that is considered a "RISE" not a "downfall". and this trend is a clear indication of the end of the bear market and it is showing how trend is changing into a bull run.

I think 5K resistance is very good for BTC and this indication will definitely bring a new increase above 7K ;) in the next month, the barrier does't determine the BTC limit instead it will be easily penetrated as it did at the beginning of April.

Watch the pattern of bitcoin price movement from the beginning of this year,which looks somewhat upwards with smaller downfall which is a sign of bull run as well but nothing can be said by now because we are too far from the all time high prices of cryptos so it takes time to confirms bull run is happening or not.

See dude, first you need to understand that, what kind of coin is Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is really stable and sometimes becomes volatile if you cannot judge it's value properly.
I mean The Price of Bitcoin affects only due to our activities.
If we invest more or buy more then the price increases, and the demand decreases for which the BTC is known as.
So Yes we are witnessing The Start Of Another Bull Run.

April days was too thrilling as price attempted more strikes of bull run, and eventually fall back down. But it doesn't stop the strong holders to remain braver even though, they've been starting to shake off their feet on red days after successive increase. However, I do believe that it was just a normal fluctuations that need not to worry all about. I don't expect another start of bull run, all I am longing for was consistent price growth that we will be witnessing this coming May.

Still no dramatically large drops so the bears are accumulating and are waiting for higher gains to drop the bomb again if not the bull is back. 

The problem here is that everyone knows resistance can't be strong forever, the higher you go and quicker you go the less resistance you get. Not unlike rockets I suppose (not like I know about rockets). The biggest is right before the bull starts, if you go up a bit that is fine, we can go up a bit all the time that is expected, if you go up a lot than its much better but if you skyrocket than nothing else stops you.

Going from 3800 to 4200 was always easy, going from 4200 to 5+ was hard but achieved, now the point is if we can go above 6+ it will become easier, if we go above 8+ it will be even easier. That is why we can't stop because the longer you stop the harder it gets but the quicker you get there the more unprepared the bears will be and unexpectedly we will reach ATH prices.

You we investors always have this mindset that there will always be a correction at every increase in price, meanwhile we are the ones using our mindset to control all these things, just like you have the mindset now that the price will drop when it gets to $6000, so many people would have grabbed this figure, waiting for the time to pull off the investment either before / on seeing the $6000, the accumulation of these actions are exactly what brings the price down.

Some of us would want to take advantage of the price then and waiting to buy it back when it falls. There is absolutely no reason for the price of BTC to fall if we don’t sell off our holding, even the ones done by traders does not have much effect as much as investors sell off does.

At first I do not want to believe in the next bull run but as I.have witnessed how bitcoin market price grow, it has a huge potential that it could still do another bull run and it can even surpass the last ATH for.bitcoin on 2017. If things like pumping bitcoin in the market will always happen then for sure bull run will going to happen.

I just hope that I can anticipate in the bull run process and made some.profit into it. I have regreted last year for.not anticipating bitcoin investment and taking advantage on its market price volatility.

the initial resistance after a reversal is always going to be the hardest because the market is still not accepting the reversal although it is happening not to mention all the bears who get stuck in denial mode.
and that is what $4100 was, the biggest and hardest resistance to break. otherwise going from $4100 to $5500 (unlike what you said here) was a lot easier.

The market could turn towards any direction in no time. With the prevailing market situation I believe it has been showing signs of growth that can take the price forward crossing the previous ath of 2017. By the same time we aren't sure of it, these days users have got increased hope which is completely upon the upcoming halving which is scheduled for the falling year.

Depending :o on your view .I think we are about to witness a semi-bull run, not actually a total bull run.

Current market conditions are widely considered by analysts that the bull run is happening. However, for me, this is a surge that occurred due to the saturation of a stable market from the last few months so investors and traders began to enter to increase activity in the crypto market and we can find this with an increase in volume from each market when the surge occurred.

We found the bottom and people took the time to buy in at the bottom so we bounced up a bit.
the real bullrun wont happen till some time after the halving but I expect us to recover to like 10k whiten the year

If we will compare the current situation we had right now to the ATH last 2017, it's not yet a mature bull. Hmm, probably it's just a baby Bull (Lol).

Don't yet expect too much mate, it's still early. Doing so might lead you to frustrations and disappointments if will not happen. So just chill and enjoy the uptrend. Nevertheless, i really hope that sooner or later we experience the bull run that we are dreaming of.

Nope I doubt it, still not breaked resistance at 6000$. I can said its just a Bull Trap but we don't know exactly.
If Bitcoin Break the resistance, I will consider to start staking on that time.

We need to do more than just break through $6K. We need to hold above it and establish it as support. Short squeezes often bust through resistance before crashing. On the long term charts, these squeezes show as a wick through resistance but not an actual breakout.

I could see the market spiking above $6,000 only to crash down hard back to the $3,000s.

Start of another bull-run will be when everybody is talking about Bitcoin again like in 2017. Basically all your friends started talking about BTC, cab/uber drivers, all over the media, all your facebook friends, etc. That will most likely happen if BTC breaks $10K.

People will assume since $20K was the previous ATH, that it should at least reach it again and it will be an easy way to double their money in a few months. And this is where the FOMO will start.

The amount for  this year can be achieved if there's a lots of pressures for buy and lesser for sell positions, we do need more real supporters
and not those daily traders who keeps sorting and working for their daily benefits, if we cross 6k$ before the mid of this year, chances to
create a break out and move stronger before the year will ends, still depends with investors and traders appreciations and support.

Not enough reason to think this is bull ,for more than a week now wete on this phase that market turna red and green but what is good now that bitcoin price stays strong in the $5,000 btacket in which waiting for anothdr breaking to grow.at $6,000 but don't be misleading by many speculation better wait until it happens

The current market conditions is actually pointing towards bull run . Many technical indicators are signifying a bullish trend and it is very clear that bitcoin has break some resistance level lately and those level were some of the limit that has been placed in it pricing before. However,  we cannot say this is a start of another bull run but a bullish trend as we might witnessing the next bull run in 2020 and this year will just be a sign to it.  We are going to see some recovering towards next year but I am speculating that next year it might break $30,000 . The halving is the major events that is going to place another part in bitcoin pricing  journey.

Today's bitcoin price is $5,400. And indicators seems pointing it to decreased it's price and will wake the small bears. Therefore, there is still some bear trends and dump situations before another bull run will happen. Expect another bull trend. I am not just so sure when it will gonna hit $6,000 and above.

the year 2017 was the ath for most cryptos while this year we can clearly see that cryptos are currently on the recovery phase but your right , this can be considered as a baby bull . on the year 2017 , most cryptos reach thier ath's on the 3rd and last quarter of that year so im thinking that this year maybe the bull run will also happen on the same date's .


people talks about bitcoin all the time here and outside on the forum but the bull didnt occur at most times  .  bull  only occur rarely because its hard to create a bull when people are waiting to sell after they see a good increase in the price .

Why is it that everyone is seeing what I am not seeing in my own indicators, my own indicator strongly goes against bear and all I am seeing is upward trend, please what indicator are you using, let me compare it with mine to be sure it is not a dummy one.

Well, even if there is a price reversal, I am still all set for the day, I expect storms like this before the bull run, but I am sure that very soon, the storm will be over and the bull will finally win in this competition between both (BULL and Bears).  Let us juts be patience and be hopeful for the future, there will surely be a way for the BIGGER BULLS soon.

A small decrease is normal, that is necessary for traders to know where the market is really going.

Based on the trend for 1 month, the price is most of the time going up, so we can say that the market has really change into bull market.
It's hard to convince some but there are signs, some needs more signs and that's alright but for those who already believe that the bull is here, they would no hesitate to buy again aggressively.

Two months actually. But some may argue that we have weeks wherein there was a close call. Similar to what we have seen for this week, but it seems that we have peaked at $5600 this week and will eventually end at $5200. But not bad though.

I still think we are in the bullish zone. This is just a minor setback because of the Bitfinex tether news. But seems investors are not deterred and are still confident enough and willing to invest as this very moment.

Any time we have a little FUD news in the market, there is always a minor pull back by the weak investors but it usually doesn’t last long before the market picks back again, so it is not something to worry about, very soon there will be a rebound in price.

We still have some investors that will see this value as an entering point and pick it for investment, once we get a little lift in price, others investors will follow behind and start investing too, which will make the price go back to the value it was before bitfinex-tether news came out, and just like you acknowledged, we still have stronger investors in the market.

Yeah i saw the volume of most of this alts and other altcoins that makes me think of. If this volume is real and would last long because in my personal point of view the volume comes from fresh money or with the new traders in the overall market. Meanwhile to say it was another bull run? It seems to fast for me i just witnessed 1 year bear and to have a bull run which is not completely convincing for me.