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Cryptocurrency prime dealer SFOX released its monthly volatility report this week, and while it is not all plain sailing for the crypto market the indicator clearly affirms that this week’s massive Bitcoin price rally was built on a firm foundation.


SFOX: Low Volatility and Rising Investment Bolster Crypto’s Bull Case

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The crypto market remains “mildly bullish” heading into April. | Source: SFOX

According to SFOX, the crypto market remained “mildly bullish” heading into April. In March, the main fundamentals were low volatility and increasing investment. Similar to February’s report, SFOX was encouraged by the continuing investment in cryptocurrency infrastructure despite Bitcoin’s sideways trend.

    “At the same time that crypto volatility was decreasing, reports told of major companies like Visa and Facebook investing in crypto technologies. This reinforces the narrative that the industry as a whole is continuing to mature, attracting the attention of more institutions as infrastructure improves.”

Maturity is a big deal for an asset class that wants to become a widespread medium of exchange. Of the two corporations mentioned, the involvement of Visa is possibly the most interesting. Naturally, they have the most to lose from not evolving to the threat from Bitcoin. If Visa sees applications for cryptocurrency, this is a tremendous affirmation of the “usefulness” case argument.


Reference: https://www.ccn.com/crypto-market-bullish-in-wake-of-bitcoins-20-surge

this is the beginning of q2 this year and the bitcoin value shows a significant increase of 20%. this is a good start and if it can continue to q3, it is not impossible that the end of the year will exceed the end of 2017.

It is true that companies Visa and facebook are investing to blockchain, it is a technology used by crypto but they can used it as stand alone.

But it doesn't mean that if they invest to blockchain, they'll automatically invest to crypto, it's their call if they would do that.

Looks like more news i read that bitcoin will hit 50,000$, but we can't be sure of nothing and to reach 50,000 will take a lot of time, and maybe this is just an exagerated prediction, but i really want to see that price for bitcoin if possible.

This is the site where i read the news
https://oracletimes.com/bitcoin-btc-to-surge-to-50000-due-to-a-parabolic-bull-run-says-expert-who-predicted-the-2018-btc-fall/

It seems like bullish from the recent days so the possibility of getting the increment from Bitcoin is available right now but I don't know about the current situation if it was stable for again some time there will be a few chances to be a good year for the Bitcoin.

In the coming days it would be clear, if the bull has come or the market manipulation. Some people are skeptical about the recent 20 percent price surge of bitcoin, they are of the opinion that some big traders have done some manipulation in the market that's why the price of bitcoin has increased sharply.

We have obviously move past the low volume hurdle, we had the all time highs in terms of trade volume a few days back and we are still in good range.I think April may be the decisive month for 2019 crypto bull run. A lot of positive news in the air

Lol, I like how they term it, "mildly bullish". How about in the other side? "mildly bearish",  ;D. Anyways, this could be a start and I'm sure that the index will change a lot in the next couple of months. It could be very bullish. So it's going to be interesting, we have touched $5k already, and still going strong and I don't expect the bears to be back unless there is some FUD or some event similar to what we have seen in November (BCH vs BCH SV hash war that took BTC by surprised.)

The crypto bull is expected because bitcoin is the leader and has made some profit, so every other coin will follow from that. Therefore, I'm not surprised that exactly that is what is happening.

April has mostly been a very generous month for investors and traders, but I don't see how it will be a crucial month. If we tank afterwards it won't change my view on the market at all, because that's what happens in a bear market.

The bull run people are hoping for won't be coming any time soon. 2017s bull run was largely fueled by ICOs people needed Bitcoin and Ethereum for. What do people need these coins for right now?

Maybe that IEOs will be able to initiate a bull run, but it won't be sustainable at all, because every hype cycle ends with a massive correction where people rekt themselves in the worst possible way. I hope the next run won't be based on any of this.

Yes, the good news and increase in price and volume are good signs. Even a few countries have changed their minds about crypto and even accepting cryptocurrencies in smaller systems is the beginning of better news.

Mildly bullish, I guess it's an accurate description of what is currently happening now.
Price is increasing so we can still expect that there will be higher increase to come since we are not full bullish yet.

Will probably be waiting for that time.

Hopefully it will spread to other countries, and we can see the expected development of crypto. with many countries allowing crypto to carry out its duties as a currency

I can say that it is not a news, it is a prediction only. I believe this kind of prediction which is being published in crypto news website or other economics news sites is to attract people to invest in bitcoin. If many people believe with the prediction then they will start to invest more and more and it will make bitcoin price goes up time to time. But the bullish is still not coming yet imho.

Huge price increases on a solid foundation? I do not believe in that. It seems that this is the whale's now, they want traders to buy more BTC and then make BTC's price plummet to $ 4k.
in 2018 there were too many such developments and I was on guard. I trade bitcoin with a profit target ranging from 5-9%. Don't be greedy at this point, we won't know what's ahead.

In this article, I disagree with SFOX. they only offer positive views on BTC prices but do not talk about purchasing power and other related factors. When the market surged unexpectedly, I was quite worried. because it doesn't have much news for this legitimate price increase. I'm quite worried about this. Perhaps I will stop investing at the present time because I cannot direct the direction of the market.

No one can really tell the direction of the market. No need to be worried about the situation and we are profiting from this mildly bullish market. What other factors are you looking for with the current situation?

Looks more like a calf market to me, with moderate surge rather than massive climb we saw in 2017. I really don't see any reason for bitcoin to see that kind of growth this month.

I guess enjoy it while last? If you bought around 3k, just a few more hundreds would already be a nice exit.

We all know what happen if the same massive climb happens in this year rally,. it will be followed by another massive dump.

This moderate surge is better to create a steady momentum and price growth.

yes, I also think that now Bullrun is almost here, because now the price of bitcoin also has a better surge, so I'm sure the price will also be higher in the near future

That's true, after this pump there will be another corrections but i believe that would be on a higher price. Its too early to be pessimist, we are just starting to pump and until now there is no confirm uptrend so better to thing for the possible pump first before thinking for a dump. The market wake up, but the bull is still waiting for the time it will finally come unexpectedly so wait for that. We are on the second week of April, let's see the trend this week patiently.

Nothing much convincing facts that support the sudden surge for me, no major adoption or real dataset supports the insane 20% pump, it's either a miracle outbreak or simply shady injection that profits from other coin pumps by placing huge orders on bitcoins.

Yep, i do think that "Mildly bullish" is the suitable illustration to the current market. Especially, it shows our big expectation of a bull runs, even the increase is not too much, it's alright and it has been pleased many of us. To say frankly, the rising is setting the tone for the reason that my holding decision is completely accurate. With the current situation, the market shows a continuously slight increase. Although nothing can say for sure in the crypto market, still i believe that bitcoin will soon have a breakthrough again in 2019.

That is the thing about bitcoin, it all starts with just one move. If you see the price at 20k and than it moves to 18k you know its going to keep going down. If it stays at 3.5k and then doesn't move anywhere you know its not going to move anywhere. If you see it go up than you see it keep going up as well.

Basically, when bitcoin does a move to any direction, its never a small one, it keeps moving to that direction until that direction can't be sustained at all, like when going up 20k was the limit and we couldn't move beyond that, I mean we wanted to but we couldn't so this is the same, this time we will try to go as high as possible again and we will do it as much as we can afford , not just a small tiny increase, just full on big increase that all our efforts combine can help us reach.

Mildly bullish is a bit of an understatement. It has risen a lot this past week and managed to push itself into the recovery zone. A break back to the $6500 stable levels will guarantee it's survival and it can take a new status i.e 'recovered'.

Just Bitcoin was the leading coin was not the major reason for the bullish market because the genuine reason was the strength of resistant to dump which Bitcoin was the reason why investors and trader decide to hold more Bitcoin than altcoin which literally to the bullish movement of Bitcoin price.

it is inseparable from the influence of bitcoin on other altcoins. besides that with the biggest marketcap, of course bitcoin is the main choice for investors to put their funds. especially with the current increase, of course the closest hope is to be able to penetrate the resistance above

Yes, there's always are correction after. It's hovering around $5200, have no idea how high it can climb before falling again and how low the new floor would be. Hopefully it'll be 50% lower than the ceiling so we can get some profits.

But now it's hard to call which started the bullish trend , I just think the market is still bearish , for me the figure of 6000 would mean that the market is recovering , but now we are near the resistance area and I doubt that'll work on the level

In May 2017 Bitcoin was worth U$ 1200.

That's 433% in 2 years.

In the meantime the fiat markets are fighting over 30 year Treasury yield curves of 2% a year. You need 216 years in Treasuries to earn what Bitcoin paid in 2 years.

Let that sink in for a moment.

Still far from that level and most of the achievers might be cashing out by now, the good thing is bitcoin still trying to hold on its ground and we are not
experiencing any massive dumped where the value fall too much, if this will continue and additional investors to come forward, recovering stage will continue to prosper and possibilities to have a good bull momentum will happen.

Yes, I think people today seem to be able to switch to Bitcoin trading rather than trading Fiat, because it's very clear what you write here is that it's very long to wait for profits from Fiat trading, very different from Bitcoin trading which is a very price increase high. it only takes 2 years.

Yeah and that's what a lot of people are aiming for i think. And currently we're holding strong above a 5k support line and that's what i was looking at when we made this run a few days ago. If we could hold on to this level them it could possibly be a jump off to higher value in the next 2 or 3 months. Not saying it's a bull run but that would be a good start.

The question is whether this surge can be sustained or not. If the demand is not there, then it may not be possible to hold on to these prices. Also, another thing to remember here is that the exchange volumes are still no way near those we had during the 4th quarter of 2017.

You are right, and believe me, most of these achievers are cashing out not to really leave the market completely but to wait for another opportunity that will come for them to buy at lower price, and if they succeed, they will still have their money back in the market to join the strong and mighty that stood in the market and by the market without removing a dime, all these joined together will really make us to see a faster bull run as soon as possible.

I know that the ATH for bitcoin might not be this year but the price increase will be so great this year too that we will confuse it to that of its ATH.

We are ending the first quarter with a good market condition, but we have still a long way if great continues to flow including the ETF approval I don't see any reason why cannot reach or even surpass the all-time high, who knows we can also set another all-time high record.

it will not sleep for very long time there is some time to wake up everything and I think this year will be the year for making the Crypto field more stronger than before and the possibilities are also seen by me in recent times to get involved with the market.

You’re making a huge point that no one else has mentioned here. Though before this time I have seen a few people claim that this was going to be a short bull run and I don’t know if that’s true. But, the price has been going up steady without turning back. We don’t know what it is going to be next, since the market is hard to predict.

Overall, I think the market has entered into bull. I just woke up today to the price rate being at $5,260 and within few hours of checking back on it, it was already selling at $5,280. That was really quick, and this is a sign that the bull run is about to start but I don’t really know for how long this is going to be. Hope it kicks off bigger anytime soon.

Yes massive climb will always end up with a massive drop, but this is not bitcoin like in the past years anymore. Bitcoin price is surely steady and slowly crawling back to its peak, so if there is a dump, it will not that deep. Everyone sure need this kind of investment and with this everything can be secured and make a bullish market coming and gain profit

Impressive gains but still we need to be cautious for some reasons that it could also drop sharply. It seems that more positive news are publish potentially good catalyst for bullrun probably can trigger all time high again, who knows? Everyone is expecting a good gains this year and I believe this year has a lot of potential.

Its hilarious how fast opinions change.  We go through a very small dip and now people are calling for 3k prices again. Lol, this is why the best strategy is to just buy and hold and don't even concern yourself with all this nonsense.

We can't change the way they think, they certainly have their own opinion.
Holding our coins is a good strategy, in fact I can confirm this is working, and this market is full of surprises, so we have to stick on what we are up to.
The bullish market might come or not, but eventually at the right time it will come.

with the nature of the market which always gives a surprise, then we must prepare the bait, if at any time the surprise occurs. by holding it or buying it, at least we have helped develop the market better, until later all of our goals are achieved

I think what can change their ideas is that when bitcoin reached above 4k it was still possible that we turn back to 3 thousands, it happened multiple times before, however this time around they have to realize that our "drop" was to 5k, like not even 4.4k which I was expecting it to drop, it literally didn't move below 5k at any given time (maybe couple dollars in this exchange and a hundred on that one but never too far away).

So, if they still think it will go back down to 3 thousand dollars that is a bit of their own problem, anyone who sees that even the "drop" which in reality was a correction only took us as low as 5 thousand dollars means we are going to just go higher from here on out. I think the best way to actually change their minds is to simply show the charts that is it.

Yes, Bitcoin has just experienced a price increase, so stay alert to the price movements of Bitcoin, because we don't know the way the Bitcoin moves next, so we still have to be careful.

Name of wake up is not known by anyone but the pre plan is important because if we don't know when it happened if it was suddenly happened there is no no use in it it and there is no opportunity after getting the profit that's why planning is important to do anything.

I know they are entitled to their own opinion, this is the recon why they need to make it a personal opinion and not public opinion, if they are truly believe of cryptocurrency and they really understand how the market works, they need to understand that opinion has a way of affecting people either positively or negatively.

The people creating FUD, do you think that every FUD created is deliberate, some of them is as a result of opinion, just like yesterday when I got to know about Binance delisting BicoinSV, at first, I said to myself that they will sort their issue out, until someone gave his opinion that investors will start dumping, it was then it done on me to start changing my BitcoinSV to Bitcoin.

You should not look at that as changing of opinion but the way the market work and whales strategies in plan to pull the price down in other to buy low again.  Because of bearish predictions many new investors will sell at cheap price out of panic and as such the whales buy it for profits.

At last the bulls are coming. I like the spreadsheet with the bull. This time the price will go high to the moon, can't wait for it.

absolutely right and my hope this year that bitcoin can experience a price increase of up to 50% hopefully it can happen because if it happens then there will be a lot of people happy with the increase in the price of bitcoin

Newbies only sell if they actually see the price go down. Most of them don't pay attention to what is being said, because if that was the case, it would also work in times where all sorts of self claimed experts throw around with bullish predictions. It all comes down to action -> reaction. Price up = people buy. Price down = people sell.

This isn't something that only applies to Bitcoin. The exact same market psychology also applies to the stock market and other tradable assets.

You are right, we cannot completely predict the movement of Bitcoin, but at least, one of the moves it made early this month has already lifted us out of the bear market partially and you can imagine what other moves would do.

Bitcoin is a coin full of surprises and I believe that whatever surprise bitcoin will have for us for the rest of the year would be similar to that of the one it gave on the 1st of this month, so it is better we get prepared now for more surprise by investing more if we still have any spare fund left, so that its surprises does not catch us unaware and group us with the people that will FOMO when the sharp increase happens again.

Hopely, bitcoin price reach $6000 first and i think its a sign market start to recovery. Many analysis said bitcoin price could rising to $50k end this year and i hope that happen because it will lead others coin price increase

I think it is looking bright once again, not many people believe it when I say this but I think this resistance will be easier than the one we broke at 4200. That was built for months until we managed to break it so it was definitely something to be considered, we are here for much shorter time now and we didn't fall back that much, we are still holding out strong so that gotta mean that we are going to try to break the next resistance much quicker, it is going to take less money to even test it so we are not going to lose ammo in the way neither. That is why I think because we didn't do anything since the increase we are going to try again very soon and with that try either we are going to break the resistance and go higher or we are going to really leave the resistance very vulnerable.

I don't know the exact reason, but the trends indicate that the extra supply has been removed. I have one possible explanation, but not much sure about that. The uncertainties regarding Bitcoin mining in China may be pushing the price upward for the past 2-3 days. Now the prices have stabilized at around $5,300, which represents a 5% gain from last week's prices.

This is just the beginning of the bull run, what we are now experiencing is what I call the recovery time and this will happen all through the year 2019, then we are going to see a bull run in the price of bitcoin and other crypto in the market that have a very good potential and also have a real life value, my guess is that we are going to see this bull run happen in the fourth quarter of the year when a lot of persons have already given up on the bull run we are to see in the crypto space, let's just hope for the best this year in the market.

Better days are coming, while we are so disappointed with the long bear period, the market shift is already happening.
The surge is expected but not that high, but I could not complain anymore since we are trading at $5,000 already, at least that was the support. 
It increase a bit, but were not able to surpass big resistance level, it will take time, a week or two, then we will pump it again .

I think this $6000 mark has become fact, because virtually every place I have read prediction all point out to $6000 soon, I am sure it wont be long before we see this value, hopefully by the start of next week. No one can really tell exactly the peak of BTC when it goes on bull run, the $50000 is possible and it may even go far above that, depending on the things that happens now, the year might really not be too strong to accommodate that price but I am sure within the next 2 years.

The bulls would have gathered enough energy to push the market to reach such value within the next 2 years; we need to just focus our mind on a long term investment, the longer our investment stays in BTC market, the more increase we will get over time.

That price will come to us, don't worry about that. We still have time to see the coming, and we can see the bullish market will happen. But I am not sure if the price could rise to $50k at the end of this year because we are far away from that price even for $10k, we still too far. Perhaps, the price will be back to the $6000-$7000 until the middle of this year. And then the price will go up and down in that range, and after that, the price will rise more.

I am sure that many of us still waiting for that moment to happen and now, they still buying bitcoin while the price is down again. We should prepare ourselves for the bullish market and don't be late to sell when it's rise.

price rises 20% does not mean bullish has happened, you're right we must remain cautious, prices may fall instantly.
when the highest price has come then sell, when the price will continue to rise then keep hold and buy. keep watching mate :)

Crypto market bullish is strong sentiment we are seeing among most of the investors we can say this type of market sentiment we saw way back in 2017 now the same positive atmosphere in cryptocurrency

The amount of Good Publicity about bitcoin and cryptocurrency is a good sign that we are indeed entering to pre-bull run stage. With the price holding in $5200 level its only a matter of time before we break the $6K USD price level

It's already being a part in this time the wake of the bullish market will be not been far from us and the development will continuously happening only this type of things we can expect and I hopefully make the changes will always been important to made the market to 20 table.

I know I am being referred to as a Troll and an Idiot on the forum by you as well as TheQuin.  I am not appealing my case to you but would just like you to know through censorship you have not gotten to see the whole story.  I tried in all sincerity to resolve the issues through Freebitco.in's support site FIRST and after being completely ignored I came to this forum in an attempt to resolve a problem and became the subject of public humiliation, ridicule and name calling.  This is the post no one ever got to see through censorship and when sent to TheQuinn he used a "British Law" term for Blackmail.  He blocked my ability to respond back.

This is to all those who are referring to me and my friend Ken as an Idiot and a Troll:  Just think about this for a moment, say you deposited 5 Bitcoins which at todays price is over $25k USD with Freebitco.in, then due to threats made by another person (which would be Ken) and fake accusations of "Multi Accounting Abuse" took place.  You are locked out of your account and just lost that $25k, not to gambling, but to actual theft of the deposits.  This is exactly what took place, not the amount shown by example and on a much smaller scale.  It happened to me.  I tried in good faith to tell "TheQuin" that I was not a part of this complaint and actually had no beef with him or his site.  I asked to access my account so I could withdraw my balance and was quoted "British Law" Demanding money with menaces.  I tried to respond to his reponse and he put a block on my ability to do so.  This is a significant part of the complaint at hand, confiscation of deposits.  I have, or had 1.3 million Satoshis on deposit.  I opened the account as Ken's referral using my own cell phone and email address.  Tell me complaints are not warranted.  I did in fact witness the pre-clicking of jackpot bets between hourly claims and while it was argued to be related to his device as well as others, Freebitco.in was able to fix the issue.  Now it is stated by the owner/manager of Freebitco.in that this matter was corrected yet I have not been allowed to withdraw my balance and no adjustment was made to Kens account which was also blocked.  So he deserved to lose everything he deposited and has no ability whatsoever to try and gain what was lost and this is "Good" Business Practices and not worthy of rebuttal and should just be forgotten?  I do not think so.  I am not saying the customer is always right but NO EFFORT was made to even TRY to resolve this matter in an amicable manner.  To me and others who have an open mind fully agree with me.  If this stealing of deposits could happen on a small scale than surely it could happen on a larger scale as well.  This is all about "Ethics" where there were NONE!

it is fitting that we must remain vigilant after a very sharp rise in market prices can easily reverse the situation, but many people believe that this year the bitcoin price movement will increase but cannot be predicted accurately how much market price increases will occur. as much as possible we must be able to increase the investment that we have and not take actions that can be detrimental because it can easily dispose of our valuable assets, be patient and wait until the right time arrives

$6K is likely the price everyone wanted to see. We have seen the price stable around that price last year, I think it was like 4 months wherein the price is around $6k-$6500. So getting to $6k will give some confidence again to the market. So let's see how the price will move, I'm positive that we can get to $6k.

Once $5K is breached, the next major resistance level is going to be $10,000 per coin. I am telling this from the trends that I observed during 2017. But reaching there obviously requires a major trigger.

The whole switch button has been placed in our hands, we the users or investors, we have the freedom to choose which direction the price goes, our investment is what is really paramount here, and like you said, it is better we continue to hold and invest more in the cryptocurrency till we see the highest price.

If we continue to manipulate the market, and selling at low price or little profit that tops it, it might really take a very long time before we see the bull run, so for us to quickly see the BULL run and enjoy our investment, we need more money to remain in the market and keep climbing.

Now, in my opinion, it cannot be said that the cryptocurrency market is neither bullish nor bearish. While there is a market with a small uptrend. We have seen that Bitcoin has recently risen to almost $ 5,600, but now it has dropped in price to about $ 5,250. Let's hope that this is just a manifestation of its usual volatility and after a while it will again at least grow as much as it behaved during April. It seems that this trend with its small growth and manifestation of volatility will continue throughout the year.
 This, of course, is better than the stagnation that we saw last year.

 the amount of money that continues to flow into blockchain and cryptocurrency applications is definitely encouraging.

I wonder what's taking it so long to get to 7k. I've seen some people claiming that news about Tether has encouraged sell-off across the board, hoping BTC would recover and continue its climb.


Yes, there should be more money coming in than going out. I wonder if whales are still accumulating at this point or if they've already had their fill and just waiting.

This is what I've been watching since the market is always unpredictable and everything could just happen after you sleep and you wake up. But it seems that the market is quite stable at the moment. More traders and investors are expecting the bull run to happen soon but it is not the right time yet i guess. Since next year there will be a halving of Bitcoin and everyone expected that the real bull run would occur.

For the meantime, let's not expect too much yet since there is a lot of time that the market would dramatically change as we don't expect it to happen.

Bitcoin may receive a temporary boost, as users are rushing to convert their USDT to other crypto-currencies (primarily the BTC). This is evident from the Bitcoin dominance, which has risen to almost 55% now. Another factor that is influencing the prices is the bearish momentum affecting both BSV and BCH after the Craig S Wright drama. Ripple is also facing some issues. In general, none of the crypto-currencies apart from Bitcoin is looking to be in good health and this should propel BTC over the $5,500 per coin mark.

That increase of BTC is at the expense of some altcoins, bitcoin gaining more dominance is crucial for the success of some altcoins
as people would choose BTC more than altcoins and even if in times altcoins will begin to be bullish and the FUD will shake the market, it will easily dump as it's not holding a good dominant rate in the market.

There are two ETF decision were scheduled on Q3 of 2019 so that also will play a huge role to bring the crazy bullish price movement on the bitcoin.For now the price of bitcoin settling at $5000-$6000 range and I believe it will stay for a while before entering into Q3.

If the cryptocurrency market would be bullish now, now we would not have seen its next drop in price. Bitcoin already reached $ 5,600 in price, after which it fell to about $ 5,250. Now he again, according to CoinMarketCap, has risen to 5300 dollars. Such a market is most likely the most common with a good uptrend. Most likely, it will continue to grow, but its growth will be slow.

Yes this could be the next scenario in the next day's, Binance just move their 120M+ Tethers out of their wallet and this could signal a massive sell off in their holdings. Currently bitcoin is holding at $5,200 price mark and there's no sign of going down.

I don't think so. The market has taken enough distance from the initial hype around ETFs after the many delays and rejections, and I'm glad the price isn't reacting to this nonsense anymore.

It's clear that the SEC has a list of things it want to see happen first before they approve an ETF. Everything that's happening with Bitfinex and Tether make it even less likely for an ETF to be approved in the coming year or so.

I honestly can't even blame the SEC for being so strict. I as Bitcoiner consider the ecosystem to be unhealthy as it is right now. Too many unregulated exchanges and Tether that could potentially implode is a big no go.

The SEC has a huge market to protect, one that Bitcoin isn't worth entering.

If the etf decisions get passed then I am pretty sure we are going to see a bitcoin that is way above 20 thousand dollars finally. That is literally the way to get huge corporations like big banks JP Morgan or whatever into bitcoin much better, I am sure they are already doing some over the counter deals and keeping some for themselves and all that but making it legit and official for ETF would help us get to 20 thousand dollars and more super quickly.

Moreover, it is still not known if it will be accepted or not, we have been waiting for it for over a year now and they keep postponing to another day constantly, I have some small hope in me but every time it gets pushed back I lose a bit of that hope and it starts to look like if it gets postponed once again than I will lose all my hope about it.

This is one of the game changer this year, but honestly, I am not counting on this anymore, it seems like i forget that we are still waiting for the SEC decision about the submitted applications. This has gone long and we never heard good news, and hopefully this year we will have a positive response, one approval and the rest will surely follow.

An healthy bull does not rush in its growth, it will eventually attain its aim but will be a gradual growth till it reaches its ATH, you know that when a market gradually increase as it is, it would have dies down lots of tension in investors, as they would have gotten use to its price movement and its slow growth, so it would not be so easy for people to decide a dumping point.

So being continually patient as we see the price slowly increase is what will give many investors the chance and opportunity to make profit in all their investments. The price of bitcoin might be stable this way for the next few weeks till Little bull decided to stair the market up.

Undoubtedly, there are well-founded bases to believe that the growth bitcoin has had in the month of April has not been due merely to speculative maneuvers, but that the fundamentals of bitcoin look healthy and consistent, so for several months ago it seemed obvious that bitcoin was very undervalued, and there already seemed to be a lot of upward pressure, which has been observed in a remarkable way this month to end.

even though most of the indicators are showing positive with the new update from bitfinex and tether investigation  we may expect bitcoin prices may come down to 4500 dollars thereafter again accumulate and price pump

While I technically agree with the points made, I have to say that even if the Bitfinex and Tether problem gets resolved somehow (for example, there's no more either), this is unlikely to change the attitude the SEC had taken. It is just Bitcoin's decentralized nature that makes it not "worth entering" (whatever you may mean)

Gold is also decentralized but it is decentralized in a natural way, i.e. in a way which can't be changed or massively affected by humans (read, it is not susceptible to the whims as well as manipulations of certain individuals or groups with vested interests). So, in a sense, with Bitcoin there will always be a bitfinex

And that's the major problem with crypto

You should check and visit Bitfinex, Bitcoin is currently being traded at $5,650, It is higher compare to other exchange so i don't see any reason for BTC to go back down to $4,500 USD.  We have no other way to go up to $6,000 Mark before the month ends.

I still have my concerns with Bitfinex. The exchange is saying that some of their funds were seized by the authorities. And this can mean that the users may find themselves at loss. In a related development, Stuart Hoegner of Tether yesterday admitted that only 74% of USDT is backed up by cash or equivalents. And this is what we had suspected for so long. On top of that, there is not much clarity on the alleged losses by Bitfinex. But with the passage of time, it looks ever more likely that Bitfinex suffered some huge losses with currency conversion and had to borrow a significant amount from Tether.

Bitcoin is in uptrend again after a short decline a day ago and compared to last year, the situation is more positive. The price of bitcoin managed to comeback after that bitfinex and usdt incident that brought down its price temporarily. This show that the bitcoin is now more resilence than before and can manage to overcome any FUDs and negative decelopments. But I believe that this sign will not lead to another ATH this year because it is still slow compared to the bullrun last 2017.

We had all already seen that, let's call it, inconsistency

It happened when Bitfinex had been cut off from the banking system and people couldn't withdraw fiat (only on an individual basis). Such discrepancy typically means that people are trying to withdraw their funds via cryptocurrencies no matter what the price is. I can tell you what might happen next. If things continue to develop along this path, expect limits imposed on withdrawals up to a point where all withdrawals are disallowed altogether. They will start to tell you all kinds of bullshit (like what Craptsy did), but in actuality it means just one simple thing, that the exchange is bankrupt

some crypto currencies actually fall with a bitcoin increase that is slow and sometimes falls within a few days, therefore this has not yet fully happened. bullish is still running slow maybe it can't even say that bullish has come. this is still in process, until the bullrun really happens some time to come.

I think not being able to withdraw fiat is not a huge problem in the bitcoin world today. Thankfully there has been surge of bitcoin exchanges recently and that trickled down to local exchanges as well, even in many third world countries there are at least couple of options to choose from to turn your bitcoins to fiat.

It is changing fiat to bitcoin that has been an issue and that is the reason why we dropped from 20 thousand dollars too, not having the ease of fiat to bitcoin at any time.

Bitfinex not being able to allow people to withdraw fiat is fine, people could use another exchange just send their bitcoins from bitfinex to that exchange and the problem is solved, hell they could even do localbitcoin to change as well and that is open to whole world so its quite easy.

By now, I think everyone should have seen clearly that ATH this year would be impossible, bitcoin BULLS really wishes to really get it to ATH these year, but all these FUD news are just not helping the situation, but I believe they will all be overcame before the end of the year for us to see the ATH next year.

Bitcoin not setting foot on ATH this year doesn’t mean that bitcoin will remain stagnant and not appreciate, as you said, with all the tether news, bitcoin still did not dump below $5000, we will still continue on this green market till the end of the year, so it’s very much safe to invest in BTC now.

The atmosphere is really positive and we can see it at today's price of bitcoin(5823$) and other cryptocurrencies.The bullish trend will of course dictate bitcoin.

a few hours ago the increase in the price of bitcoin was very good and made a lot of people impressed because the price could rise as expensive as that and this could make traders more enthusiastic because it was triggered by price increases that occurred at the exchange.

current price could be the trigger to attract new investors or old investors comeback to cryptocurrency market again.after few days ago bitcoin shows good growth, they maybe will be interested again to invest in bitcoin.

Yes Bitcoin seems to hit the bottomed and now entering a bullish phase, that %20 gains is huge and investors are accumulating bitcoin again because as you said big companies like facebook is entering into cryptocurrency with billions of users around the world the impact on bitcoin as well as other crypto will be huge.

Those who invested at the bottom are now enjoying the increase, this rise really brings more people to get involve with crypto industry, we will be seeing or expecting more of it when every big businesses and players also join in and start riding with this investment currency, there's many more to expect when adoptions will take place.

If I say that taking a step to buy in wasn't the right thing to do, then I'll be saying the wrong thing. It's really good that I took the step to buy and also had the patience till this time. The price seemed to be declining a bit this week, cause I saw when it dropped back to $5.3k, today is a different story cause it seems to be bullish to today, already at $5.6k, even close to $5.7k. Some analysis I have seen have predicted that there is going to be an increase to the rate of $6000 before the month ends and I really hope that is true.before this year ends we are likely going to see another high price indeed.

What? I have been so busy for the past 2 days that I didn’t check the price of bitcoin, people that don’t believe in prediction can now see that sometimes, it is good to listen to experts, I am not saying follow their opinions, but listen to them and build on them.

So many speculators, speculated the price of Bitcoin to really hit $6000 at the end of this month, but it seems that bitcoin is trying to get faster than its shadow and I am really happy that it has disappointed those who are still think bitcoin has not bottomed and would still fall lower than the value, even when they tried to use tether news to discourage investors, it still didn’t work.

It is necessary to agree with the opinion of many participants of this forum that the slow growth of the cryptocurrency market with numerous kickbacks in price can hardly be considered the beginning of a bull market. Undoubtedly, we are seeing a good uptrend: only for the past April, Bitcoin increased its price by almost one and a half thousand dollars. In recent days, we again see a good increase in its price. Bitcoin for the second time will try to master the price of 6000 dollars. If he does this and exceeds the price of $ 6300, then we can assume that the bull run has begun.

If to look at the dynamics and statistics a price of  bitcoin , then it depends on the state of the global economy. Another world crisis is advanceing. Bitcoin acts as a funded asset and capital is accumulated by major players and corporations.
In 2017 year , the Bloomberg agency predicted a price of $ 40,000 btc at the end of 2018) ;)

It looks like bitcoin has always followed the same price trend, for bitcoin to end lower than it started this calendar year it would break every past trend. So to me it is always gonna be bullish for this year at least

Gosh, I hope, it will not happen so soon. My relatives decided to join us. They entered the crypto market this year. Now, we are all watching Bitcoin progress and waiting when it can grow.

I think your relatives are not too late because the price of bitcoin can experience an increase in prices, what you need to note for your relatives is that they must be able to keep their assets from being sold before prices rise and I suggest not using money that is important for your life which is not being used too much for trading capital to be safer and stay calm.

I don't know what I personally, or people like me, can do to help Bitcoin rise, but it looks like it keeps rising, because it was $5,220 at the time you were posting, and it is $5,784 currently. If this is happening due to efforts of some people then I really grateful to them. And I don't think they are manipulators or speculators, I think they are new adopters who realized that anything below $10k is definitely a good price for buying BTC.
Thank you, guys! You will not regret your decision. In the long term you surely won't.

The rise of bitcoin brings back the interest of investors and traders, we can see more people to start believing back and making its move to invest
and accumulate more coins while waiting for the exact bull run to move forward and bring the entire market to its strong positions.

Nah, those ones just wasting their time. Posting negative news about bitcoin can't do anything, people have heard the story, a lot of people have done that and those of them that wants to invest in bitcoin now believes in it and they all knows what can happen. No matter how many times you try to say negative stuffs in order to push it off, it's still going to rise. 2017 it's already an example of that, despite everything that happened, and everyone felt like it was the worst year ever, but it turned out to be the biggest year ever in bitcoin history. Last year and this year has been seeing challenges that are similar to all that and I believe that at the end is going to end with shouts of joy.

This is the star of new bull run after a long bearish trend and this market is now bullish after Bitcoin starts its upward journey. Many new investors come to this market if this surj continue and it will.

It is more dangerous than it seems at first sight

Any information affects your choices in subtle ways and more often than not in ways you don't expect or even suspect. Technically, this is what FUD is essentially about and depends on as it aims to change your emotional state which you can't consciously control. You read something and even if you see that it is full of crap and bullshit, it still affects you (and thus your future decisions) in ways which you may not quite like. That's why you should choose what to read and what to refrain from reading altogether. ZeroHedge posting doom and gloom 24/7 seems to be the most conspicuous example of this kind (but definitely not the only kid on the block)

I foresee it achieving this quicker before then end of the month, it there had been  a little more forceful push on the 3rd, I am sure by now, we would have seen the $6000 value and already taking about targeting $7000 because I can see that the ATH recorded for 3rd was $5865, which is virtually very close.

It would have been very lovely if I had bought when the price dropped to even $5100 which I saw, I think that was during the tether FUD news, but couldn’t buy anymore because I already ran out of investment cash and would not want to tie down my family’s feeding money, but at any chance I get even with this price, I will still buy, because end of the year is my real target.

They made the right decision. They entered the market when the cryptocurrencies are still not expensive, but they are definitely going to grow. Probably, we will all greet bulls soon.

Another thing he might let is relatives know is to fully understand the nature of the cryptocurrency market and how patience is needed, while they should not always expect too soon result from their investment.

One of the major reasons why we see lots of FUD news about Bitcoin from some investors is because they are not patient with their investment; they want to put in money today and because of the speculations they have seen in the market, cash out the next day.

Investment does not operate that way, one thing we can be certain of is that the market will grow far bigger than their investment in future, but what cannot be guaranteed is the time and year it will occur.

The growth of crypto market this year might be moderate if we compare it to bullish 2017 and bitcoin price uptrens might be slower and can't still able to break its all-time high. The surge should be continuous if the bitcoin really going to make a bullrun this year. But comparing it to last year or 2018, this year is far more better abd there are signs that market will make some significant gains this year.

Bullish! They always say this is a bullish period. But until today, I did not satisfy my investment. My ethereum turns to a doom when I left without any profits. Maybe, I just need more time to wait because ethereum will soon moving up. Bullish season is not permanent, we should make it more profitable once it will show to us.

market is filled up with positive news we can expect more bullish with bitcoin chart even technical indicate bitcoin may touch again previous all time high so next target for bitcoin is 13000 dollars as per some techinal analysis

psychological traders greatly influence the market of cryptocurrency. when the price is in a resistance area, of course there will be many traders who release their assets, and buy back when the price corrects.

There's one negative news last week though, it's about the Indian government trying to ban bitcoin. I don't know if this is just FUD, but it looks like it affected the price recently at it slide ~ $8k in the last couple of days.

But I'm still very bullish though, I'm still expecting that this month we still be a good month and could probably hit around the $9k levels once more.

I do this a lot too, and which is why I don’t panic anytime I see price correction because I know that most traderspractices this and trader really have very great influence on the market, they are the ones that mostly move in money in and out of the market, and it is not every time that it’s a whale that causes this.

We have very big time traders that trades with huge amount of money, I remember recently I saw where an op posted an information about a whale moving up to 25,000 BTC out of an exchange and they think it could be whale which I laughed, many people don’t believe we have traders that trades with such he amount of money.

And after the small bull trend, the market still returned to a lower state and is now struggling to get passed the rate $8000. Recently it had managed to reach $7977 and has remained stable at that rate without making any move to cross the $8000 rate. So what's going to be next this time around? Is it going to drop back to $7000 and start all over again to climb the ladder or is it going to cross this rate? Investors are finding it difficult to break this particular resistance level. I believe that if the price gets to pass the next resistance level, then there is going to be a sharp upward trend.

I think that the state of the cryptocurrency market, as well as Bitcoin pricing will depend not only on market speculators, but also on real investors.  If Bitcoin is interested in Big Business, then it really improves the performance even before the end of this year, if forecasts of relatively heavy industry and the stock market get better. 

the point of resistance is indeed a psychological area for traders. in that position, of course, traders are faced with two psychological choices. whether to keep buying to break resistance or sell it assuming that many traders sell it too. therefore it is necessary to look at a larger time frame

I think we all know that the price could easily go on either direction. I'm very bullish about bitcoin price but it seems that we have someone entered a bearish trend here. So I'm not surprised if we go sub $7k again because it looks like the bears have been exhausted after having pushing the price to the $9k mark.

I do hope I'm wrong here, but hey if the price goes down again, if will be a perfect opportunity to stash more bitcoin at a cheap price, so let's see how everything pans out.

For me as a trader, I believe whatever happened in the past that has dropped the price of Bitcoin and has made it struggle several times is just a normal correction which I believe is over now with what I am studying, investors might be reluctant a little bit to make investment now, because of not being sure if there will be a correction again or not.

I know that there will be a little push soon, which will make investors to start buying Bitcoin again and in other for traders to prepare for that, it is still not risky to buy now. I did not allow all these to affect me psychologically, the simple strategy I just use is to buy dip every time I see any.

Its been 2 months since the first bull run shocks the people. As of now, market is continuously recovering. I guess if bitcoin breaks down the 10K dollars resistance then the real bull run will start. But since it becomes stable at 8k dollars, we cannot tell if it will rise or fall in the end of 2019.

So what's going to be the next thing that's going to happen? The market seems to stable this time around though it has managed to cross the $8000 mark recently, which has been a difficult thing to happen since we got into this month. After getting to around $8.4k the market price slides back to $8.3k and has been stable at that rate. Some experts has been predicting that there is going to be another all time high and it is going to be this year, and there are also those that are predicting next year as well (2020) so we don't even know which ones we are going to believe cause they are all not sure of what they are saying.

nah as of now the Bitcoin market price has gone already 9K USD and taking it to 10K USD will be possible also as it seems that 9K is nearing already to 10K USD. Now, if bull run will going to happen then probably many users now will going to earn unlike in the previous bull run to which only few had anticipated the bitcoin market price bull run. We will just hoping that it will going happen.

It has been predicted that the price of bitcoin will reach USD 40000, of course the great optimism that accompanies bitcoin owners involved in trading because the profits are clearly illustrated.
But my prediction will not be reached by the end of this year, because the price of bitcoin is currently still in the range of USD 10000. The most common increase now is 20% to 50% and that will continue until the end of the year. Of course this is my personal opinion that seeing the bitcoin price increase is not too drastic.