Bitcoin at Yuletide

[millensharon8]

I would say it depends on how things get to play out during or before the yuletide season. If we get to have some pretty good growth, with some chances of seeing the market make a huge move somehow to the upper side, and knowing there could be a correction afterwards for the mean time, before we continue with the uptrend in 2019, then I may likely sell, but not because I need money for some Yuletide, but because i need more money to increase my stash for the future. Pretty much that is what counts for me at this stage.

[Bustart]

we are expected to use some of our bitcoin investments to take care of some personal and family needs.

am i the only one who finds it really strange to see you talk about liquidating assets to "take care of needs"? it is like saying you will sell your stocks because it is the end of the year and you need to buy presents for the family members!
that doesn't make any sense to me. you either use the money you already have, the savings or the end of the year bonus or you take out the profit not the investment.

Hahhaha. Exactly, it looks like the OP has put his money on bitcoin market so that he can have a good Christmas season. However, things went for good to worst so the OP is really affected by the current shift of sentiments.

As others have mentioned, past performance doesn't mean future success and this is one classic example. Be flexible and don't rely on your investments so that you will have a better 2018 holidays. On the bright side, you still have 1 month to save and your Christmas bonus to burn. 

That's agreeable, we still have to wait for few days since one month is nearly approaching. This is a great and very crucial moments with bitcoin, and if we have to compare from previous year during November, many traders and holders enjoyed checking their graphical trend then do day trades. This was due to fast changing price caused by quick buy and sell activities.

[Febo]

We are gradually heading to the festive period of the year, we are expected to use some of our bitcoin investments to take care of some personal and family needs. With the current status of the market do you see bitcoin rising up at the end of the year? Kindly give your reasons

I believe when people will gather together at family diners (where they last year mostly discuss Bitcoin), they will avoid talk about BTC. If they will will mainly talk about how much loss they made and explain everyone that buying Bitcoin was worst decision in their life. Negative sentiment around Bitcoin will just increase to next level to the next year.

[BitHodler]

I believe when people will gather together at family diners (where they last year mostly discuss Bitcoin), they will avoid talk about BTC. If they will will mainly talk about how much loss they made and explain everyone that buying Bitcoin was worst decision in their life. Negative sentiment around Bitcoin will just increase to next level to the next year.

I'm actually not aware of how well willing people are to discuss things related to crypto with family members, especially when it comes to investments that resulted in severe losses.

Sure, some are very open to talk about what they have and what they made in profits, but most people that I know always say that they either aren't interested in crypto (while they in reality are), or they bought high sold low.

Most people are rightfully afraid of ill minded individuals and for that reason prefer to not talk about it at all. It might not directly look like it, but crypto holders are walking targets with how it exploded in popularity.

[buwaytress]

Seasonal patterns been brought up before. They certainly seemed to fall in line with Christmas spending or even end of year celebrations but I always felt that people who spend on this season anyway get bonuses so doesn't make much sense that they'd liquidate Bitcoin, certainly not so close to the day itself, given the shopping needs to happen way earlier.

If anything, had I ever earned bonuses, I'd be buying more Bitcoin, instead of selling. More Bitcoiners outside Western Europe and North America too, who perhaps don't spend as much this particular season?

[Ewinsane]

We are gradually heading to the festive period of the year, we are expected to use some of our bitcoin investments to take care of some personal and family needs. With the current status of the market do you see bitcoin rising up at the end of the year? Kindly give your reasons

I have fiat on ground to take care of family business and responsibilities, I basically see my bitcoin as a long term hold, and even though I trade the long term, unless I see bitcoin doing some pretty good change in trend and there is a possibility of a change in trend downward, I would not sell my bitcoin for anything. Normally, I have never considered selling my bitcoin stash at any point in time now, except that I am using my trading knowledge to just increase the stash for the long run. Therefore, yuletide season or not, I am still doing pretty great without having to get bitcoin involved yet in my spending.

There are only two months left before the year ends. There is no signal of a huge rise yet. We all would like to see a big increse in the price but there is a possiblity of that not hapenning this year.

Well, it is the market, we still have 2 months like you said it, and it is not a new thing to always consider the fact that there is always going to be a breakout somehow, and if it leads upward, there is always the chance that we might get to see the market making some pretty good move upward as a result. which the volatility as we all know tend to increase on breakouts and can start getting to see FOMO kick in all over again, which I would not be surprised to see us go test the previous ATH. However things get to turn out though, we will just have to wait and see how the yuletide season will all be playing out.

[Lucius]

The impact is negligible with how payment gateways use different exchanges to pull out fiat, which directly results in a situation where their sales are distributed amongst several orderbooks and for that reason don't directly impact the market.

If you also take into consideration that most of the payment gateways actually prefer to hold their coins, then you'll realize that there is little to no selling pressure going on. What they do is short a small percentge of their sales to preserve their fiat value in case the price goes down. On top of that, BitPay needs coins as well, so they won't ever sell everything they have because of how certain merchants prefer partly BTC settlements instead of fiat in full.

Another thing is that if they do end up selling to take out fiat, they won't blindly dump their coins at once but will patiently wait for orders to pop up capable of absorbing their sales.

Thank you for the explanation, I did not know that payment gateways actually work in such a way - It did not make any sense to me that they will hold most of coins when in the same time they need to pay merchants in fiat, but their strategy obviously makes sense and makes them profit.

In any case buying things with BTC according to what you wrote actually has virtually no influence on price, so this is something we can not count on.

[talkbitcoin]

If anything, had I ever earned bonuses, I'd be buying more Bitcoin, instead of selling. More Bitcoiners outside Western Europe and North America too, who perhaps don't spend as much this particular season?

exactly this. i think OP is only speculating not explaining what HE is about to do. and this seems to be a common speculation which is always proven  wrong but they keep repeating it next time.
the fact is people get bonuses and use that to to their purchases and if they are left with additional money they will invest in it bitcoin not the other way around.

[buwaytress]

If anything, had I ever earned bonuses, I'd be buying more Bitcoin, instead of selling. More Bitcoiners outside Western Europe and North America too, who perhaps don't spend as much this particular season?

exactly this. i think OP is only speculating not explaining what HE is about to do. and this seems to be a common speculation which is always proven  wrong but they keep repeating it next time.
the fact is people get bonuses and use that to to their purchases and if they are left with additional money they will invest in it bitcoin not the other way around.

I mean, sure, even I will probably spend a little bit more Bitcoin than usual, gifts and holidays so travel will be significant expenditure, that sort of thing. But I'm earning in Bitcoin, so it's just typical extra spending. Anyone not earning in Bitcoin would probably want to use up cash first, Bitcoin later. And that goes with any expenditure pattern. So yes, increased spending end of year, but most of that will be in fiat and cash. If there's any rise in Bitcoin spending, it'll only rise in tandem with cash.

[Whosdaddy]

We are gradually heading to the festive period of the year, we are expected to use some of our bitcoin investments to take care of some personal and family needs. With the current status of the market do you see bitcoin rising up at the end of the year? Kindly give your reasons

I believe when people will gather together at family diners (where they last year mostly discuss Bitcoin), they will avoid talk about BTC. If they will will mainly talk about how much loss they made and explain everyone that buying Bitcoin was worst decision in their life. Negative sentiment around Bitcoin will just increase to next level to the next year.

I can imagine what that would be like, when most people who came in last year, joining the FOMO start sharing their experiences or how they have felt over the years. It is one of those things anyway. I would not be expecting too much for bitcoin before the end of the year, and even if we manage to have some pretty good movement upward, I am pretty sure, we may just likely see something not too much and before we can start seeing anything serious, I will rather be looking at next year instead. For now, let's just see how the whole Yuletide will go, but all in all, it is still going to be an enjoyable experience in the long run.

Seasonal patterns been brought up before. They certainly seemed to fall in line with Christmas spending or even end of year celebrations but I always felt that people who spend on this season anyway get bonuses so doesn't make much sense that they'd liquidate Bitcoin, certainly not so close to the day itself, given the shopping needs to happen way earlier.

If anything, had I ever earned bonuses, I'd be buying more Bitcoin, instead of selling. More Bitcoiners outside Western Europe and North America too, who perhaps don't spend as much this particular season?

Most people who are so keen about the future that bitcoin holds will never consider selling at any point at all, unless for when it is oversold, and you are taking advantage of the trend anyway like we had last year, with the inevitable correction that was most definitely expected. For this year, bitcoin has been in its lows, and I believe even if we see some upward movement, it may not really be that much as some people may be expecting actually. However, it is though, time will most definitely give us the answer to our expectations before the end of the year, but I would not put so many minds to it.

[Febo]

I believe when people will gather together at family diners (where they last year mostly discuss Bitcoin), they will avoid talk about BTC. If they will will mainly talk about how much loss they made and explain everyone that buying Bitcoin was worst decision in their life. Negative sentiment around Bitcoin will just increase to next level to the next year.

I'm actually not aware of how well willing people are to discuss things related to crypto with family members, especially when it comes to investments that resulted in severe losses.

Sure, some are very open to talk about what they have and what they made in profits, but most people that I know always say that they either aren't interested in crypto (while they in reality are), or they bought high sold low.

Most people are rightfully afraid of ill minded individuals and for that reason prefer to not talk about it at all. It might not directly look like it, but crypto holders are walking targets with how it exploded in popularity.

Well, last year Bitcoin was center of conversations at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yes I guess people are more willing to talk when they get enormous profits then when they get enormous losses.  My point is that whoever expect this family times will influence good on Bitcoin prices is extremely wrong.

[Semaj123]

We are gradually heading to the festive period of the year, we are expected to use some of our bitcoin investments to take care of some personal and family needs. With the current status of the market do you see bitcoin rising up at the end of the year? Kindly give your reasons

Well, I don't expect much about it because time now is different. Crypto users seems to be more careful and others are probably been expecting that this quarter, they can see a bull run. Corrections have been made which we definitely heard about and this is why the value of it gets stuck. But I am still positive about the outcome of this technology because this will helps us a lot especially about transaction process.

[Pendularin]

I believe when people will gather together at family diners (where they last year mostly discuss Bitcoin), they will avoid talk about BTC. If they will will mainly talk about how much loss they made and explain everyone that buying Bitcoin was worst decision in their life. Negative sentiment around Bitcoin will just increase to next level to the next year.

I'm actually not aware of how well willing people are to discuss things related to crypto with family members, especially when it comes to investments that resulted in severe losses.

Sure, some are very open to talk about what they have and what they made in profits, but most people that I know always say that they either aren't interested in crypto (while they in reality are), or they bought high sold low.

Most people are rightfully afraid of ill minded individuals and for that reason prefer to not talk about it at all. It might not directly look like it, but crypto holders are walking targets with how it exploded in popularity.

Well, last year Bitcoin was center of conversations at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yes I guess people are more willing to talk when they get enormous profits then when they get enormous losses.  My point is that whoever expect this family times will influence good on Bitcoin prices is extremely wrong.

Yeah there might be wrong expectations to happen further, but we need to be more positive this time because the whales will going to take over the market soon. Just prepare and don't ever lose your grip on crypto, be strong and have courage.

[Febo]

I believe when people will gather together at family diners (where they last year mostly discuss Bitcoin), they will avoid talk about BTC. If they will will mainly talk about how much loss they made and explain everyone that buying Bitcoin was worst decision in their life. Negative sentiment around Bitcoin will just increase to next level to the next year.

I'm actually not aware of how well willing people are to discuss things related to crypto with family members, especially when it comes to investments that resulted in severe losses.

Sure, some are very open to talk about what they have and what they made in profits, but most people that I know always say that they either aren't interested in crypto (while they in reality are), or they bought high sold low.

Most people are rightfully afraid of ill minded individuals and for that reason prefer to not talk about it at all. It might not directly look like it, but crypto holders are walking targets with how it exploded in popularity.

Well, last year Bitcoin was center of conversations at Thanksgiving and Christmas. Yes I guess people are more willing to talk when they get enormous profits then when they get enormous losses.  My point is that whoever expect this family times will influence good on Bitcoin prices is extremely wrong.

Yeah there might be wrong expectations to happen further, but we need to be more positive this time because the whales will going to take over the market soon. Just prepare and don't ever lose your grip on crypto, be strong and have courage.

I am totally positive about Bitcoin.  But I am not positive about end of this year and start of next. Overall I dont expect price will be much different half year from now, maybe even whole year. Yes it will go up and down a bit but overall will be about where it is now