2020 turned out to be one of the S&P’s best performing years despite the pandemic. It seems the overall bullish trend in the past year is luring more investors and traders to the stock market. Data shows that searches for “stock market bubble” are peaking as the most recent frenzy with GameStop stock rages on.Stock Market 2020 Recap: A Few WordsThe raging pandemic saw millions of people losing their lives and jobs. These should have been more than enough to trigger a looming bear market,...
Read More »Reason For Bitcoin’s Dump? Miners Realize Profits Since BTC Hit $42K
Bitcoin has been in somewhat of a slump over the past few days as the price doesn’t seem to be able to kick-off and reclaim the previous highs.One possible reason for this could be the fact that bitcoin miners have been realizing profits since the price hit its all-time high at $42,000, according to the CEO of cryptocurrency analytics company CryptoQuant. Data also shows that there are many investors sitting on the sidelines, waiting for a clearer market direction.Bitcoin in a Slump as Price...
Read More »Will Bitcoin Price Rally Continue In 2021? 8 Key Considerations
A Fortune magazine story about bitcoin began making the rounds Friday. In it, senior Fortune and Data Sheet writer Aaron Pressman cops to tripling his money in bitcoin– then losing half of it.It’s a cautionary tale alike for prudent long-term investors in cryptocurrency and day traders who are very smart at getting very stupid with money. The endlessly interesting and complicated question: “Where is bitcoin’s price going next?” is no idle curiosity. It’s a question with a lot of zeroes on...
Read More »ETH Spikes To 4-Month High Against Bitcoin Surpassing $1300: BTC Dominance Dropping
Bitcoin has failed to double-down on its recovery and has remained stagnant between $32K and $33K for the past day. Large and mid-cap altcoins, led by ETH, have charted gains against BTC, while the Bitcoin dominance continues its negative sentiment, dropping to approximately 63%.BTC Fails At Breaking Above $34KAfter bitcoin dipped beneath $29,000 earlier this week, the asset seemed to be headed for a quick recovery session as it has done before. Just yesterday, the cryptocurrency gained over...
Read More »LINK Soars 25% To New ATH As Bitcoin Recovers $5000 (Weekend Watch)
After a few consecutive days of price drops, bitcoin has regained some value and has jumped to around $33,000. However, most alternative coins have outperformed their leader with massive gains and have reduced BTC’s dominance over the market to 64%.Exploding Alts, New ATH For LINKThe past several days have been rather harmful to the altcoins as the cumulative market capitalization lost about $200 billion to beneath $900 billion.However, most alts have bounced off hard in the past 24 hours...
Read More »Bitcoin Correction Intact While Altcoins Skyrocket: The Crypto Weekly Recap
Bitcoin failed to recover in the past seven days, and it marked a further decline of about 8%. This has its current price hovering around $32,000, and its dominance has declined to 64.1%. But before we take a look at what this means for the altcoin market, let’s see what happened with BTC.The cryptocurrency started off trading above $35K and even took a shot at $38K on Saturday. The bears had a mind of their own, however, and prevented this from happening, sending the market in a sideways...
Read More »VanEck Seeks SEC Approval To Launch An ETF Tracking Crypto Companies Performance
After several unsuccessful attempts to receive approval for a Bitcoin ETF, the US investment manager VanEck decided to try its hand with an exchange-traded fund that follows crypto companies.The firm has filed a document with the US Securities and Exchange Commission to release a Digital Asset ETF to track the price and performance of the Global Digital Asset Equity Index.VanEck Goes For A Crypto Companies’ ETFFounded over six decades ago, VanEck is a New York-headquartered investment manager...
Read More »Over $100 Billion Wiped off the Market Cap as Bitcoin Slided Beneath $29,000 (Market Watch)
Bitcoin’s decline continued in the past 24 hours as the asset dumped below $30,000 for the first time since early January. Most altcoins are also covered in red, and the total market cap has plummeted to $900 billion – meaning a decrease of over $100 billion in a day.Bitcoin’s Drop Took It Below $29KJust a few days ago, BTC attempted to overcome the $38,000 price tag but to no avail. Ever since that rejection, the cryptocurrency has been gradually decreasing in value.The situation worsened in...
Read More »Bitcoin Dumps $6,500 in Massive Selloff Below $30K
Bitcoin and crypto markets are bleeding out this Friday morning as the selloff which initiated on Thursday, January 21, has continued with fervor into the Asian trading session.Bitcoin has shed a whopping $6,500 since the same time yesterday as it dumped to $29,000. The intraday high for BTC was $35,500 according to Tradingview, and it has currently reclaimed the $30k level.Chart – Tradingview.comFirst 30% Correction In 2020-2021 Bull RunSince its all-time high of $42,000, which was recorded...
Read More »Largest Asset Manager BlackRock May Start Trading Bitcoin Futures
The world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, may start trading cash-settled Bitcoin futures. This is according to new filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).BlackRock is the world’s largest asset manager, with almost $8 trillion worth of assets under management last year. To put it in perspective – that’s almost 8 times the current capitalization of the entire cryptocurrency market.Now, the Wall Street giant has filed two Prospectus documents with the United States...
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