Bitcoin, Stocks Fall as Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19

[Harlot]

Really nothing to worry about here since this is what really happens in bigs news like this one. Stock markets and other markets are also speculative in nature as well as even their board of directors and owners of the company are speculating what will happen next or the affects of Trump testing positive with COVID-19. This is similar to how the markets have react during March where majority of them fell hard because the coronavirus is affecting their businesses. As you may remember stock prices went up when the congress have impeached Donald Trump so really this is just a proof that the price movements happening with these kinds of events are speculative in nature.

[snipie]

Stocks market depends a lot from good or bad news especially if it is related to an important figure.. He will take dexa now, will it fall further? Bitcoin for the moment are rising slowly from $10.5k to $10.7k, tight resistance in both ways making a big move of the price unluckily to take place soon 

[beerlover]

I guess market will react obviously, this is president of USA and you might imagine if he dies there is going to be some economical "what are we going to do now?" period, which is obviously going to affect the prices of stocks, forex and basically everything else, maybe not bitcoin because trump dying doesn't change anything with bitcoin, it may with stocks and all because it is their president that dies, but for bitcoin there is no president.

However since stocks fall, people may lose money and that loss could come out of crypto end as well, because people who lose money on the stock market could still have some expenses or they might want to get in at lower for stocks and they could use that by cashing out their cryptos which could lead us to lose money as well, but we have to hope that doesn't happen.

[gabbie2010]

Stockmarket effects yes, agree. But Bitcoin nah. Come on. Bitcoin was probably affected by a lot of thing, including stock market price performance for sure, but no way directly because a US president got Covid come on guys.

This is just all about confidence and stability -- what makes stockmarkets go up and down.

As indicated by the reports Stock business sectors fall after the declaration from Trump Tests Positive for COVID-19. The situation is entirely clear stocks market would go negative if Biden wins. Whether or not crypto will continue following stocks is the central issue there.

Trump = will have a positive effect
Biden = will have a negative effect

Stocks are also politically affected so who ever wins the stock market will react and so the investors. This is shocking news actually considering Trump who made a lot of good statement that they already have the vaccine and they already controlled the virus. Bitcoin seems unaffected, it didn't dump that much but no sign of pump as well. Whoever the president of USA, if there's a bad news I'm sure it will matter on the stock market.

This is were importance of fundamental news can never be overemphasized in any trading system, meaning that whatever technical analysis of stock, forex, crypto market without considering any upcoming negative or sudden shocking news will influence price volatility of that market, however immediately the news of Trump contacting Covid-19 was announced Bitcoin price dumped for some period of time thereafter price recovery commenced
thus the impact was not much.

[exstasie]

Imo, Bitcoin was relatively unaffected. A 2% increase or decrease in price is not out of the ordinary and does not have to be based on any specific event. The fact that the price held off so well is also an indication of the increased stability in the value of Bitcoin.

exactly!
some people don't seem to be able to comprehend daily fluctuations of bitcoin and have never seen the bitcoin price charts before. right now price is back up to $10600-$10700 and in a couple of days maybe next week we will be back to $10400 again and it will be repeated until the resistance breaks.
these small fluctuations don't have to have any reasons even though a handful of newbies might have actually panicked after seeing this news and sold their bitcoins.

There doesn't need to be a reason for fluctuations like that, but in this case I think there was. I was watching the charts when the news broke. There was clearly a 1-2 hour dump in both stocks and BTC because traders anticipated more of a selloff in reaction to the news.

Those traders were just wrong. The market seems broadly unconcerned about Trump's illness. I'm not sure if that's because investors don't believe he's really sick, or because they believe he'll be fine despite his age and other risk factors.

Believe me though, if he takes a turn for the worst and the market thinks he might die, be ready for a crash. In both stocks and BTC.

[LUCKMCFLY]

The cryptocurrency and Asian stock markets sold off early Friday after U.S. Pres. Donald Trump announced he and his wife had tested positive to COVID-19.

In a tweet on Friday, Trump said he and First Lady Melania Trump had tested positive for COVID-19 and would begin their quarantine process "immediately."

"We will get through this TOGETHER!," Trump tweeted.

The Australia ASX All Ordinaries is down 1.35%.

In the U.S. markets, S&P 500 futures fell about 2%.

Gold is up 0.32% on the day to stand at $1,908 after falling to a low of $1,888 in early Asian trading hours.

Bitcoin is also down by 1.9%, having fallen from $10,678 to around $10,400, at press time.

The price action comes several hours after a 3.7% fall on news that U.S. officials indicted BitMEX owner Arthur Hayes and other company executives on charges the crypto trading platform violated know-your-customer and derivatives trading laws.

Trump will quarantine as he enters the final month of his reelection bid. His major-party opponent, Democratic nominee and former Vice President Joe Biden, has been touring the midwestern states following a debate with Trump on Tuesday.

Reference- https://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-stock-trump-covid?amp=1

This may simply be a small drop due to the panic of many Americans who think that Trump is like that pillar that supports the markets, especially the stock market, but it is not like that, it must be remembered that many traders and investors also take advantage of it in China. This type of news to buy cheap bitcoin, at any moment can make a good jump to $ 12k, if the fundamental Covid-19 did not manage to lower the price of Bitcoin to fear levels, much less now with Trump and his wife.

In the news they have said that President Trump has already been discharged, which means that it is very likely that he is improving or that he is already healthy.

[Oasisman]

I guess big news like this in the US pretty much are affecting everything from stock to cryptocurrency. Well, maybe because the USA has the biggest share of stock and Bitcoin adoption, thus people there are easily influenced with bad or good news from both political and economical aspect.
Well, I won't blame the people who are speculating on the current stock market and crypto market price movements and I won't say there's no correlation between this event either.

[whyrqa]

In my opinion, it is not personalities that play a big role for the cryptocurrency market, but the political direction that the new US government will pursue. The presidential election will in one way or another affect not only the cryptocurrency market, but also the stock market, since the United States is a central player in the global economic political arena.

[adzino]

Well it doesn't matter anymore. He is "saying" he has already recovered, but who knows  (he is arrogant and that is what lead him to catch the virus. He says anything to proof himself right). I wonder what magical treatment did he receive that gave him a prompt recovery (people over here are even saying that he is faking everything to proof that the virus isn't as scary as it looks). I hope we don't see another Herman Cain case with trump.

[pilosopotasyo]

It's not affecting Cryptocurrency at all Bitcoin even reached the $10900 level before settling to $10800, the market that is affected is the stock market but in the Cryptocurrency market there is no issue at all, the Crypto market might even go up by 2% next month nothing it seems Crypto market when it comes to US politics.

[adaseb]

It's not affecting Cryptocurrency at all Bitcoin even reached the $10900 level before settling to $10800, the market that is affected is the stock market but in the Cryptocurrency market there is no issue at all, the Crypto market might even go up by 2% next month nothing it seems Crypto market when it comes to US politics.

Did you bother reading this thread even. It was already concluded that his positive test for covid19 affected all risk-on assets including bitcoin. Risk-on is generally stock markets and crypto markets. Right when the tweet happened the stock market immediately started to crash. Then BTC markets followed, including ETH and some alt coins fared worse.

Yes BTC reached almost $11000 because he seems to have fully recovered already. In a few days he will take another test and it might be negative. So what is said already happened. If he gotten more ill then the markets will either trade sideways or would go downwards.

Next verdict is going to be what happens with the US election.

[Reatim]

Well it doesn't matter anymore. He is "saying" he has already recovered, but who knows  (he is arrogant and that is what lead him to catch the virus. He says anything to proof himself right). I wonder what magical treatment did he receive that gave him a prompt recovery (people over here are even saying that he is faking everything to proof that the virus isn't as scary as it looks). I hope we don't see another Herman Cain case with trump.

Well if he is really recovering and going to back in normal what he needs to face is the coming election in which looks like Biden is on top of Him.
The stocks and Bitcoin is now recovering maybe because of His being stable but when the election near to come then another fall will happen temporarily .
I think we must be ready in this ups and downs until we finally kill the Virus and the world will be in good move again thats one thing for sure.

[justdimin]

There is already a panic in the air right now, things are not looking good in the economy and the recovery is not doing that well neither, there is a big chance that stimulus package could be accepted and agreed and that is why it could be used to help people once again but until that happens people are really starving at this point, it is harder to find food let alone pay other stuff, so at the end of the day I am not really considering Trump is the real issue here, he may have caused a ripple effect and made it go down at first but this is the reaction of a nation that is unsure about what will happen with its economy, that is the reason why people are not really considering stock market to be a good investment right now, even though prices are low and that is when you should buy, the pandemic is still out there so people are afraid and keeping tight on their money.

[Spaffin]

In fact, today the markets are not showing good results, but I believe that not only Donald Trump's coronavirus disease is the reason, since the current situation is influenced by other factors that pull market indices down, including the increase in the number of COVID infected in the world, as well as big disagreements between Republicans and Democrats over the new stimulus package. In addition, the confrontation between the two parties is already beginning to go beyond what is permitted.

[rodskee]

There is already a panic in the air right now, things are not looking good in the economy and the recovery is not doing that well neither, there is a big chance that stimulus package could be accepted and agreed and that is why it could be used to help people once again but until that happens people are really starving at this point, it is harder to find food let alone pay other stuff, so at the end of the day I am not really considering Trump is the real issue here, he may have caused a ripple effect and made it go down at first but this is the reaction of a nation that is unsure about what will happen with its economy, that is the reason why people are not really considering stock market to be a good investment right now, even though prices are low and that is when you should buy, the pandemic is still out there so people are afraid and keeping tight on their money.

while there is a panic but the price of Bitcoin now grows up to $11,000 the highest we got since almost 1 month now when the price starts to fell down.
Pandemic started to be lessen and people try to live even with the potential of being infected because life must continue .
We have been in scary moment for more than half year now and we believe that its time to move on and make things normal again but of course with care in every movement we do.

[YuginKadoya]

There is already a panic in the air right now, things are not looking good in the economy and the recovery is not doing that well neither, there is a big chance that stimulus package could be accepted and agreed and that is why it could be used to help people once again but until that happens people are really starving at this point, it is harder to find food let alone pay other stuff, so at the end of the day I am not really considering Trump is the real issue here, he may have caused a ripple effect and made it go down at first but this is the reaction of a nation that is unsure about what will happen with its economy, that is the reason why people are not really considering stock market to be a good investment right now, even though prices are low and that is when you should buy, the pandemic is still out there so people are afraid and keeping tight on their money.

while there is a panic but the price of Bitcoin now grows up to $11,000 the highest we got since almost 1 month now when the price starts to fell down.
Pandemic started to be lessen and people try to live even with the potential of being infected because life must continue .
We have been in scary moment for more than half year now and we believe that its time to move on and make things normal again but of course with care in every movement we do.

I really believe in manipulation in the recent fall back and this currency increase in the price, But I think that the market of cryptocurrency is striving even in the midst of this Pandemic and people are choosing economy Versus their health,

In the light of the rise to the $11,000 USD I guess it will keep going up until the end of October, but this is just my opinion and I guess we really have a great price for the moment and I am loving it right now.

[dunfida]

There is already a panic in the air right now, things are not looking good in the economy and the recovery is not doing that well neither, there is a big chance that stimulus package could be accepted and agreed and that is why it could be used to help people once again but until that happens people are really starving at this point, it is harder to find food let alone pay other stuff, so at the end of the day I am not really considering Trump is the real issue here, he may have caused a ripple effect and made it go down at first but this is the reaction of a nation that is unsure about what will happen with its economy, that is the reason why people are not really considering stock market to be a good investment right now, even though prices are low and that is when you should buy, the pandemic is still out there so people are afraid and keeping tight on their money.

while there is a panic but the price of Bitcoin now grows up to $11,000 the highest we got since almost 1 month now when the price starts to fell down.
Pandemic started to be lessen and people try to live even with the potential of being infected because life must continue .
We have been in scary moment for more than half year now and we believe that its time to move on and make things normal again but of course with care in every movement we do.

We are already into a transition for the new normal and yes, life must go on but now we are on a different way of living where mask and face shields is already a part of our daily lives as long the vaccine for covid isnt
still available or ready.On the topic about Trump test positive and about on how market reacts? Do it really matter? Some said its dumb to consider but these sentiments can really make out some significant impact
towards traditional markets but excluding on having mentioned about bitcoins price dropped 1.9%? Its just normal or typical day on the market and also crypto market isnt really correlated from others.
Good thing that Trump is on their recovery at the moment, Is it really just right to mind of economic events than someones health?