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April 13, 2013, 11:10:34 AM
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In this market cycle, Where are we now with bitcoins , ....according to you



Well IMO we are either at beartrap or despair, but as others have said this graph can be really applied to many things and its relevance to BTC has to be questioned. The main problem being we haven't been through all of the background phases of the chart i.e investments, public etc. Which if you go by my guess' means that we are at beartrap, but the pattern of the line looks awfully similar to what we have witnessed meaning we could be at despair. Who the fuck knows where we are jumping from 90-100, but if you take either of those predictions then at least the only way is up eh.
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April 13, 2013, 11:10:38 AM
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I tought that I would be smart if I placed a sell order for 1 BTC at 117.9.

Well, as it turned out, the sell order was at 1.0 BTC for the volume of 117.9   Embarrassed

So all my coins were sold....  Shocked

these would have sold at market value right?  mtgox has normal exchange rules regarding min sell and max buy price?
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April 13, 2013, 12:22:59 PM
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... I just wanted to bring this back into peoples heads since we are looking at charts, or supposed to be, but this is looking awefully similar to the 30d charts of BTC




OK,  with this image being so prevalent I'm guessing I'm not the first to break it down a bit to see if there is anything of value in comparative terms to be gained from it but I'll have a crack at it anyway...

What would one expect the volume to look like on the rapid drop?  Assuming the 'mean' (I'll get to that) represents a stock value reflective of the underlying asset value/expected return then should one not expect the total of the sales for the duration of the total drop to be somewhere in the region of the total purchases from take-off (plus the amount that takes it under the 'mean')?  Even if it is nowhere near that I would still expect to see immense amounts of volume from those with 'fear' and 'capitulation' getting out with no intention to return.  In other words if this was what was going on with Bitcoin one should expect to see the biggest volume of sales coincide with the biggest drops in price.

But what if most of the people and most of the substantial holdings from the various stages of the build-up just step out of the market altogether for the drop - or sell speculatively a small proportion of one's holding upon seeing what's happening with the intention of buying back in - and maybe even bringing even more money to the table towards the bottom?  Again, where would one expect the main volume to be seen then?

Oh wait...

looks like lots of coins have changed hands in the last phase of the dip...


Indeed. Yesterday saw the 24h all time high for bitcoin volume on MtGox with 550k BTC, beating the previous one at 400k BTC during the bottom at 2$.
 

As labestiol points out the biggest volume here is as it hits the bottom.  Let's zoom in a bit...

We should be wary of reading too much into this apart from anything else because the lag, MtGox going off-line and activity around that.

However, it looks to me like it didn't take much to trigger the initial drop and the volume came in with buying pressure when it was first thought it had bottomed and was about to start going back up.  Likewise I think, (though not so obvious*) with subsequent drops.  In virtually all cases (other than immediately after MtGox came back on line) the big buying has been on the bottom or on the rise.

This suggests to me a vast amount never got near the market because:
  • It's held not by speculators in the first place but by those more interested in the bigger picture;
  • It's held by speculators who would not touch a fast-moving market run on a broken trading engine with a barge pole;**
  • Their bid orders were pulled off the order book as soon as it became obvious this was no mere blip in order to wait until the price got low enough to buy back in.

I would venture to suggest (accepting the iffy accuracy of the picture due to MtGox) that the market was moved immensely by a small number of people and not a large amount of coin.

In which case why is it not climbing today as rapidly as it fell?  Simply I would venture to suggest because there's no need for it to.  There's no rush.  Bitcoin isn't going anywhere in a hurry.  There are still some who believe bitcoin has a value related to its use and who believe that to be lower than what it is.  And they - along with the nervous who got bitten over the last few days - are reluctant to jump in too soon.  But Bitcoin's use isn't dependent on it having a value of a particular size.

And this gets me onto the last point.  That first illustration is to do with stocks.  The 'mean' is not a mathematical mean.  It suggests there is an underlying value backed up by the company's assets, customers, trade and dividends.  Bitcoin has none of the above.  Those who say it has 'no intrinsic value' are to a surprising degree correct so it could have no value in principle.  However in order to be of use it has to have 'some' value in terms of fiat for people sending money abroad or spending it with service providers to be able to swap in and out of fiat.  But for those purposes as I said it doesn't matter how big or small that 'value' is.

The 'mean' in the illustration represents a steady line upwards but unless the vertical axis is on a logarithmic scale this can't represent the adoption of bitcoin either - not by numbers of users, numbers of merchants, number of transactions or of anything.

So I would venture to suggest 'bring[ing] this back into peoples heads' is not helpful seeing as it has as far as I can see nothing useful to add to the discussion other than responses illustrating the multitude of reasons why it is so useless when comparing to usd/btc charts.


*Why I think it is not so obvious is that people were trying to get back in at every sign it may be bottoming out. 

** I'm still struggling to get the mentality of those whose reaction to seeing a broken trading was to panic and try and sell on it.  If they really don't understand Bitcoin well enough to see nothing was going to happen to it and that the the only option they could see was to trading blind on a market that happend some time ago then as harsh as it sounds maybe it's not such a bad thing they lost their shirts and went.
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April 13, 2013, 12:23:38 PM
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Well IMO we are either at beartrap or despair, but as others have said this graph can be really applied to many things and its relevance to BTC has to be questioned. The main problem being we haven't been through all of the background phases of the chart i.e investments, public etc. Which if you go by my guess' means that we are at beartrap, but the pattern of the line looks awfully similar to what we have witnessed meaning we could be at despair. Who the fuck knows where we are jumping from 90-100, but if you take either of those predictions then at least the only way is up eh.

Bulltrap totally out of question?
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April 13, 2013, 12:31:16 PM
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In this market cycle, Where are we now with bitcoins , ....according to you



Well IMO we are either at beartrap or despair, but as others have said this graph can be really applied to many things and its relevance to BTC has to be questioned. The main problem being we haven't been through all of the background phases of the chart i.e investments, public etc. Which if you go by my guess' means that we are at beartrap, but the pattern of the line looks awfully similar to what we have witnessed meaning we could be at despair. Who the fuck knows where we are jumping from 90-100, but if you take either of those predictions then at least the only way is up eh.

You will see this same chart over and over again on different scales. In a way we could very well be at both. It is just the perspective.

Looking at these charts trying to predict the future is wasted energy. You could as well open a fortune cookie to see what the price is going to do.

You should look at the long term and mid-term fundamentals and these are both looking great. The last couple of weeks millions of people heard about Bitcoin for the first time, thousands of them opening trading accounts. According to the MtGox figures there are 19000 people a day opening new accounts bringing in millions of fiat. Sure they are spooked by the events of the last days, but when the price climbs they'll rush to get in again.
 
In the long term we see tremendous efforts by investors and companies creating a better Bitcoin infrastructure. We all know the potential this technology has and it good to see people are working hard trying to realize this. Bitcoins were priced well above $200 some days ago, they should be priced over $2000, so IMHO I wouldn't waste a second and buy now, as sellers are practically giving them away for free.

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April 13, 2013, 12:33:01 PM
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What if we are still in the bubble? We had some crashes before the last one, wich recovered very fast, but some saw mt.gox lag stopping everything. What if this last crash is like them, just bigger because mt.gox lagged much more and was unavailable for like a day or more? This would mean that crash will recover soon. Price is already increasing.

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April 13, 2013, 12:39:52 PM
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What if we are still in the bubble? We had some crashes before the last one, wich recovered very fast, but some saw mt.gox lag stopping everything. What if this last crash is like them, just bigger because mt.gox lagged much more and was unavailable for like a day or more? This would mean that crash will recover soon. Price is already increasing.

You mean that the bubble froze mid-burst like this (I never tire of looking at that photo)?



If so then what do you think are the reasons its bursting did not continue or is not continuing to accelerate (let alone show signs of recovery) right now?

If you believe it was a bursting bubble then is the assumption it 'should' have burst back to zero? to single figures? to where?  And on what basis do you believe this lower figure is a more 'valid' or 'correct' evaluation than the price currently traded?
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April 13, 2013, 12:41:44 PM
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What if we are still in the bubble? We had some crashes before the last one, wich recovered very fast, but some saw mt.gox lag stopping everything. What if this last crash is like them, just bigger because mt.gox lagged much more and was unavailable for like a day or more? This would mean that crash will recover soon. Price is already increasing.

I suspect we will continue for a short time on the previous exponential trend getting back on track at around $180/$190.

It went parabolic before on around April 7th this will probably happen all over again in the next couple of weeks.
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April 13, 2013, 01:03:17 PM
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My reason is that this crash was like the crashes of the previous weeks, only bigger cause of mtgox epic lag and being closed for a day. Were (and are)we in a bubble? Dunno, you only know if it is a bubble after it pop. But the price is already increasing, just like the previous crashes. If this was a bubble pop then price should drop, not increase

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April 13, 2013, 01:22:14 PM
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So I would venture to suggest 'bring[ing] this back into peoples heads' is not helpful seeing as it has as far as I can see nothing useful to add to the discussion other than responses illustrating the multitude of reasons why it is so useless when comparing to usd/btc charts.


I have to say that you, judging your response, seem to have at this point a better understanding/ability to critique said charts. I agree with most of that you have to say with regard to the usefulness of the said chart,  as I mentioned in one of the prior posts I was simply judging it from a quasi-aesthetic stance. Seeing similar patterns etc. I have to say if everyone put as much thought into stuff they post onto here as you did then this would be infinitely more educating than it is at times.

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Looking at these charts trying to predict the future is wasted energy. You could as well open a fortune cookie to see what the price is going to do.


I couldnt agree with you more, but as humans we are trained to see patterns in (all) things. This is the speculation thread though so if we are gonna be using fortune cookies anywhere then no better place than here. But to reiterate you are right it is somewhat useless, which also lead to me not directly giving a definitive answer in relation to the 'where are we now on there' question.
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April 13, 2013, 01:23:31 PM
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What if we are still in the bubble? We had some crashes before the last one, wich recovered very fast, but some saw mt.gox lag stopping everything. What if this last crash is like them, just bigger because mt.gox lagged much more and was unavailable for like a day or more? This would mean that crash will recover soon. Price is already increasing.

It will be a series of endless bubbles, forever. Welcome to the profit-rollercoster. Buy low, sell high, panic, profit, rinse, wash, repeat.

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April 13, 2013, 01:24:06 PM
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Am I the only one here worried about
btc24 being "momentarily not available"
for the past 16 hours

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April 13, 2013, 01:35:10 PM
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Am I the only one here worried about
btc24 being "momentarily not available"
for the past 16 hours

I heard they got shut down. Aml violations and no permits. I have no source.


what about my coins?

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April 13, 2013, 01:36:48 PM
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Am I the only one here worried about
btc24 being "momentarily not available"
for the past 16 hours

I heard they got shut down. Aml violations and no permits. I have no source.


what about my coins?

It's all right on their homepage...
https://bitcoin-24.com
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April 13, 2013, 01:41:43 PM
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It will be a series of endless bubbles, forever. Welcome to the profit-rollercoster. Buy low, sell high, panic, profit, rinse, wash, repeat.
Not forever.

Bitcoin isn't a stock or a commodity. Those things have speculative bubbles because at some point you have to cash out of them.

Bitcoin is a new technology that replaces money. In principle there is no need to cash out of it - you can convert your legacy currencies into bitcoin and just stay in it forever. At least you'll be able to do that at some point. The ecosystem and the infrastructure just isn't ready for that yet.

These hyper-exponential runs are not cyclical bubbles, they are battering rams. Every time it happens we're going to rebound - except for the last time. There will be no cashing out of the final run up because after that there won't be any other currencies to cash out into.
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April 13, 2013, 01:49:17 PM
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It will be a series of endless bubbles, forever. Welcome to the profit-rollercoster. Buy low, sell high, panic, profit, rinse, wash, repeat.
Not forever.

Bitcoin isn't a stock or a commodity. Those things have speculative bubbles because at some point you have to cash out of them.

Bitcoin is a new technology that replaces money. In principle there is no need to cash out of it - you can convert your legacy currencies into bitcoin and just stay in it forever. At least you'll be able to do that at some point. The ecosystem and the infrastructure just isn't ready for that yet.

These hyper-exponential runs are not cyclical bubbles, they are battering rams. Every time it happens we're going to rebound - except for the last time. There will be no cashing out of the final run up because after that there won't be any other currencies to cash out into.


This, pretty much. A lot of people simply can't comprehend a world without fiat and/or they don't think it will change anytime soon. This is often due to not paying attention to the economic environment in the world around them, the rampant corruption, manipulation, etc. The world is ripe for a massive change that will improve everyone's quality of life.
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April 13, 2013, 01:49:30 PM
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Most likely: that graph can't be used to infer anything in regard to bitcoin

You are still in "denial" while the most of the world has moved to "return to 'normal'". Smiley
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April 13, 2013, 01:55:42 PM
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It will be a series of endless bubbles, forever. Welcome to the profit-rollercoster. Buy low, sell high, panic, profit, rinse, wash, repeat.
Not forever.

Bitcoin isn't a stock or a commodity. Those things have speculative bubbles because at some point you have to cash out of them.

Bitcoin is a new technology that replaces money. In principle there is no need to cash out of it - you can convert your legacy currencies into bitcoin and just stay in it forever. At least you'll be able to do that at some point. The ecosystem and the infrastructure just isn't ready for that yet.

These hyper-exponential runs are not cyclical bubbles, they are battering rams. Every time it happens we're going to rebound - except for the last time. There will be no cashing out of the final run up because after that there won't be any other currencies to cash out into.

Bitcoin is not new technology, it's merely the first crypto currency to garner sufficient hype to give it a veneer of legitimacy.
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April 13, 2013, 01:59:31 PM
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It will be a series of endless bubbles, forever. Welcome to the profit-rollercoster. Buy low, sell high, panic, profit, rinse, wash, repeat.
Not forever.

Bitcoin isn't a stock or a commodity. Those things have speculative bubbles because at some point you have to cash out of them.

Bitcoin is a new technology that replaces money. In principle there is no need to cash out of it - you can convert your legacy currencies into bitcoin and just stay in it forever. At least you'll be able to do that at some point. The ecosystem and the infrastructure just isn't ready for that yet.

These hyper-exponential runs are not cyclical bubbles, they are battering rams. Every time it happens we're going to rebound - except for the last time. There will be no cashing out of the final run up because after that there won't be any other currencies to cash out into.

Bitcoin is not new technology, it's merely the first crypto currency to garner sufficient hype to give it a veneer of legitimacy.

Lol and was before btc?


What are you asking me?
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April 13, 2013, 02:43:22 PM
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Well IMO we are either at beartrap or despair, but as others have said this graph can be really applied to many things and its relevance to BTC has to be questioned. The main problem being we haven't been through all of the background phases of the chart i.e investments, public etc. Which if you go by my guess' means that we are at beartrap, but the pattern of the line looks awfully similar to what we have witnessed meaning we could be at despair. Who the fuck knows where we are jumping from 90-100, but if you take either of those predictions then at least the only way is up eh.

If you are going with this chart, I wouldn't pay too much attention to the stuff in the background. That may be typical for a stock bubble but isn't necessarily a requirement for things to behave like that. You also have to take into account the tendency of the human mind to find patterns whether they're there or not. There were several bear traps, of various sizes, on the way up and the price was definitely not a nice smooth line. For me, I started getting concerned when we started climbing above exponential growth. My only two regrets are that I didn't cash-out my original stake at the  top and now, that I put a few btc on bitcoin-24 which I managed to parlay a little higher but now is apparently gone (I'm assuming forever)

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