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I understand that the expectation is that between 10k-13k will be the Bitcoin value before it steady will go up. But could it be that at 16k it will hold and grow from there?

Just think of any possibility is there.

We can't hold the market from here and there. Just be open to any possibility that's for sure can happen since bitcoin is volatile in nature.

It can nosedive to $10k but it could also go back higher than the last ATH but, the matter on this one is that it will sure take a lot of time before it proceeds.

Thanks for reply Boyptc.

I will invest 5k and can do long term investment.

So I estimate that in the long run, even today is a good time to invest.

Its entirely possible that bitcoin reached the bottom, but my gut feeling is telling me that we are not yet there, mainly because some other platform/exchange might be affected with what happened lately and that may unravel in coming months which could bring bitcoin even further down.

While current entry price is certainly good (and timing the bottom is practically impossible), if you are not sure about going all in (or afraid that bitcoin may go down even more), you might consider using dollar cost average in order to have some funds ready if we dip lower. At least that's what I have been doing for quite some time and so far it worked like a charm.

Rikafip, thanks for your posting. What do you mean with dollar cost average?

UPDATE: Found it on internet, so invest in small amounts over time instead of all at once!

It is an investing method in which you divide the amount you plan to invest in several equal parts and you buy the asset in regular intervals, no matter the price. So for example, you mentioned that you want to invest $5k now; with DCA method you divide that amount to let's say 10 equal parts and every 2 weeks/month /etc you buy $500 worth of bitcoin.

Thing is, many people try to time the market to buy at the bottom, which they usually fail (unless very lucky) or sometimes not buy at all as they missed it so instead worrying over that, you simply buy bitcoin at regular intervals. Way less hassle and worrying, and it works very well if you plan to hold for longer period of time and not buying for a quick flip.  Keep in mind that there is a chance that you may profit more if you go all in now, but another reason why I prefer DCA is because it helped me to be more disciplined when investing.

Here is also an article about it https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/dollarcostaveraging.asp

Thanks Rikafip, can you credit users here and how?

Np. By credit I guess you mean merit, so here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2766177.0) you can find the guide about it. If you have any further questions how forum works I suggest you to check pinned messages in Meta (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=24.0) and Beginners & Help (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?board=39.0) sections (especially focus on the latter) as we are kinda offtopic here. And yeah, welcome to the forum. :)

No one knows, but based on experience, when we expect something, the opposite happened. Just like in the last bull run, we thought that $100k could be the highest, but we didn't reach that price.

So expect the unexpected as others will say.

And it's just a question on how you are going to cope if the price suddenly goes down to $10k-$13k levels, are you ready to buy more? or still wait still?

The possibility is there, we thought that $17,500 could be the bottom for this year and yet it was broken when we have an FTX collapsed.

And so we still have the bearish market till next year, 2023, so who knows, maybe there will be another shake up due to some FUD or we will have another Terra Luna or FTX scenario that will put a dent on the market price. The sad thing is that it's not bitcoin's fault, but since we are all connected then we can't do anything about it.

if in case, we will hit rock bottom like 10k level, guess, a lot of whales will be buying that dip. and so eventually, the price will bounce back. but indeed, in this market, it is full of surprises. we can't exactly predict what will happen next. this will be another history in the making if in case we will go down to that price level. time to stash your satoshis before it is too late.

I just don't expect a Bitcoin/crypto bull market before January 2025. Buckle up for a crypto winter in 2023 and 2024.
I don't care about the BTC price going below 10K USD. Even 5K USD price bottom is possible, but there will be a price recovery, unless all crypto exchanges collapse as a house of cards and the crypto market returns back to the 2014-2017 "glory days". ;D
Selling during a period of panic/bear market/crypto winter is always a wrong move, but many traders simply need cash and they don't have any alternative other than selling their crypto. The global stock markets will be facing a winter as well. Big tech corporations had overpriced stocks for years and now their stocks are dropping like rocks.

It's possible to stay at this mark if it can survive the wave that is happening due to the FTX dump. If investors will decide to buy back their Bitcoin in a different exchange then we might even see it going back to 19-20k and it will stay there. Because for me, that is our bottom but recent event changed that.
Have you ever thought of what if the FTX bankruptcy didn't happen at all? We can definitely be stagnant at 19k and all it takes is another good news to be in demand again.

What I have learned with bitcoin is if you think the rock bottom is 10K, it will just not reach 10K, but probably a little higher than that.

I actually learned my lesson with this a few times with bitcoin since it was in the single digits.

When bitcoin was $30, I was waiting to buy bit in at $1.00, it got to maybe $1.98 and never looked back.

Then when bitcoin was $1000, I was thinking $100 was the right price when it tanked, but it never got there but close.


This is why, if you think 10K is the rock bottom, Its probably only going to 15K. This is why I'm adding a lot more bitcoin from the last bitcoin I purchased for 23K, doubling my position almost. 

I think things are just so bad right now, you have the economy tanking, the stock market tanking, there is so much fear with bitcoin. Everyone is very bearish. These are the best times to buy, I mean how much worse can things get?

Yes, I'm scared as heck right now buying, but I've been through this enough to know that the best times to buy are when there is max fear and we have well more than max fear right now.

Yes, the whales will pump bitcoin again very easily when things calm down globally.

I do agree that people who are acting quick to buy from these levels could definitely make a huge profit from it. Not that easy and wouldn't be really that amazing to do, but definitely going to help them in the short term for sure.

We are definitely going to 20k levels and that means we are going to end up with a good profit when the time comes. That’s not going to be an easy task, it’s going to end up with a bit of a problem in the long run if you wait too long and miss that chance. I would suggest everyone to get bitcoin right here at this price so that they could make a good profit. Anyone who thinks it will go down even more and wait could end up with a big chance missed.

It is good if you finally understand how to invest in bitcoin from time to time. It helps you to buy bitcoin at a much lower price, which gives you the opportunity to get more bitcoin when you can buy at a lower price. But you need to adjust your funds to be spread on many low prices and that means you need to analyze every bitcoin movement to find the time to buy bitcoin. For example, you can buy a few orders at $17k, $16k, $15k, $14k, and the last $10k (if this will happen). And once the target is reached, you can wait for the other target. And if the price increase, you need to wait until the price is down again. Maybe we will see many dips before the price starts a new rally and break the higher price.

That's definitely very possible since there's no particular reason for Bitcoin to rise from a price of $16K. As long as purchases can increase in the near future and investors will continue to enter the market to buy, an increase in the price of Bitcoin is definitely possible and there will be no obstacles if the demand for buying can continue to soar in Bitcoin. So the increase doesn't necessarily have to come down to a lower price than now, even though anything is still very possible to happen to Bitcoin.

My question would be, where is all of this Bitcoin going to come from that will crash the market?  Exchanges have sold more BTC than they have, the largest miners are going bankrupt with no BTC on their books, and most fly by night retail investors have exited the market completely.  Until the US dumps their confiscated BTC or mtgox distributes the BTC they're sitting on, the market is basically just collapsing as users on exchanges sell their imaginary BTC at market prices.  At some point these entities are going to have to start buying BTC to make their customers whole again, even if it's in bankruptcy.  This crash won't last forever.  Just take custody of your BTC and wait it out at this point.  The time to sell was above $50K a year ago.  Selling now makes no sense.

Good luck!

You're right that even today, it's a good time to invest. The price of everything has gone done and you just have to pick what you want to pick but, make sure that you won't ignore bitcoin.

There are analyses and speculations that it may go lower but it's all on you if you'll wait for that moment before buying or much better to buy now and just do the DCA.

Why not? I think btc can rise in any given value. One example is when the bull run is starting. It's rise is also consistent even if the value is already high. $16k is a low value already and as you can see the price became stable on this level. I think there is no drops that will be recorded anymore but the price is only preparing to take off.

Or maybe you mean is that there are no positive news right now that will trigger an upward movement? That can be true but there are always people who will start buying now because $16k was one of the bargain price many are waiting for. There's also a lot of encouraging posts and that helps people to buy instead of be scared of what have happened recently.

Yeah, maybe in the first 3 months of 2024, we might hit the tail end of the bear market. But after the halving, a slow increased in price leading up to the eventual bull run, but still a long way to go to talk about it.  ;D


Doesn't matter what will be the rock bottom, but for TA guys, maybe it's important because they can project what will be the future ATH. But for some non TA guys, maybe what's important is how long the price can go and how are we going to react to it. Do we need to wait further or just buy every dip thru DCA.

The difference between knowing bitcoin price will be high and buying right now and knowing bitcoin price will be high and buying when it is 5k is a lot. Even if we assume it is 15k right now (it's more) there is 3 times difference.

So let's assume you bought 1 bitcoin at 15k, and sold it at 100k that is an 85k profit, but if you buy 3 bitcoins at 5k each, that is still 15k spent, but when it's 100k that would be 300k, that means 285k profit. That is the difference, so people waiting for it to drop even more do not make a mistake, only a mistake if it doesn't drop. I believe it won't drop, that's why I buy now, but if it does, then they were right for waiting for it to go down.

Not everyone expects the bottom to be $10k-$13k. I personally expect that the Bitcoin price can survive above $15k, I think it is enough to be the bottom. Considering the last ATH is around $68k-$69K, it is already decreasing more than 75%. However, we can't determine what the bottom will be. It is something impossible to know, it can be above $15k but it is also possible to drop below $15k. But since the first year of bearish is almost over, ideally we reached the bottom already or almost reached the bottom. The bottom won't be far from the current price.

IMO

Its hard to believe also it will go much lower than 15K. Things are just about as bad as they get right now. The FED is raising interest rates, the stock market is collapsing, mass layoffs coming, global recession, global inflation, world energy crisis, major wars and potential wars,  FTX doom and gloom FUD. Things are pretty bad right now and as bad as they can get at this point.



Not only that bitcoin dropped a massive 70%+ since the all time high.

I'm slowly adding a little bit down here, but I am really scared too add to much so I am buying all the FUD. However, I did hear that these scary times are the best times to buy so I am trying to override this fear and buy even though I sometimes wonder if bitcoin should have never reached as high as it did, or even 15K and could just correct back down to $1000 a coin.

Yes it could, just recently Bitcoin was on good track of consolidating around 20k and higher. Until FTX happened. If no bad things happen from now on, there's no strong reason to go below the current prices.

But you shouldn't  rely on short-term price predictions and instead focus on trends. Now is the bear market, which means it's a good time to buy, regardless if it's the absolute bottom or not. Because a new bull market will come that will bring a much higher price levels.

At this point anything is possible, so 16k being the floor for bitcoin would not be impossible, however the bull market will not come until 2024, are we really expecting that the market is not going to suffer any crash during this period? And even if this happened do you think the price will not go below 16k? Because I find this difficult to believe, it could happen but if I were to guess I would think there is still some room for the price of bitcoin to go down even further.

BTC on weekends doesn't experience much price change, it tends to be sideways. If you see BTC is in the sideways range 17020 - 16300. This accumulation will later move impulsively when it exits the sideways range and now the price is $ 16,687.31

The price may stabilize at the current level of $ 16k but it could also decrease even further and that depends on people's sentiments towards the movement of bitcoin and the news circulating. If they could restrain themselves after reading the news, it wouldn't trigger instant sales as panic swept over people. And it's not going to make bitcoin drop sharply and it might be able to stay in its current price range. For now, the bitcoin price is still holding steady at $16k but we don't know what will happen next month or the end of the year. Hopefully, there has already started a reversal of the direction of the bitcoin price and even if it doesn't get above $25k yet, that should be okay.

Your example is 2 prices with a huge difference, so there may be many people waiting. But here, we have dropped from 69k to 16k which is a huge drop and if bitcoin continues to drop to 13k the difference here is not so big. I will call we are near the bottom, so I will not make predictions in this case I will decide to buy at the price from now on. If bitcoin continues to fall I will not regret because the price difference is not significant but if bitcoin goes up from here many people will regret waiting.

This question is difficult for any one to give a correct response because price fluctuation can move anywhere. Btc price started to drop early IMO and it dropped to around 25k-30k where investors thought it would gain momentum for a continuation of bull but it drop within $20k above and now trading below. This is a trend happening since after the ATH, so if the down trend will continue down or not is left for the future to determine.

I fear that it’s not going to be as easy as it used to be to calculate it this time around because the difference is that there are too many out of bitcoin related stuff that causes the drop. There used to be a simple fundamental analysis or technical, where you check the ma, or ema, or Bollinger band or whatever was your best bet and you did it, but at the end of the day it’s going to be not so much important anymore because nowadays none of that matters.

We are just basing all of our trades all on the fact that some "news" could break out, and that could cause the price to either crash or just go up, and that’s the thing, we don't read charts anymore because charts do not really show anything anymore.