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Good chart - and I am sure BTC 'would' follow this, except that the conditions are simply not the same.
Once the new year starts things will be decided by huge wall street investors and governments - not relatively small time speculators like us.
Bitcoin is now making too much noise and is on the radar of the people who really decide.
There will be two camps - those who fear it will end their positions and want to damn it and crush it out of fear. And those who see it as a new opportunity, a game-changer to get in on early.
2014 will decide, awareness it at the stage when anyone in world finance must AT LEAST have an opinion.
And people who are paid to decide will take a position. This is how it works.
Bitcoin is a network, not just a currency and as such it is a groundbreaking technology. If Twitter is worth billions and all you can do is 'twitter' - what the hell is a whole new value exchange system worth?
So anything other than short-term TA is useless - as it will be overtaken by one thing:
Events.