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What They Were Saying At the Top
With cryptos in a bloody free-fall, I thought it might be instructive to look back at what they were saying a month ago, when Bitcoin futures were launched at almost $21,000. Let’s take a look at the predictions of experts and self-proclaimed crypto-geniuses.
Vacillation and Vaseline
Yesterday’s sharp and unexpected selloff in equities has, as required by federal statute, largely reversed. Hopefully in a week when earnings season kicks in full-blast, we’ll get some more fundamentally-based direction that sticks as opposed to all this zany “will the government shut down” nonsense. In any case, it’s a bizarre funhouse ride so far:
That Is Why You Fail
BrokeCoin
Earlier this month, I did a post defining what I considered important support levels for BitCoin. In part, i said:
$14,000 (green tint) – a break here would end the series of “higher lows” in place
$13,000 (magenta tint) – a failure here would snap the lowest levels of the year so far (and the Big Round Number thing always affects traders’ nerves)
$10,600 (yellow tint) – this, I think, would send prices swiftly back into the quadruple-digits, since obviously the “besting” of the big price plunge we saw in December would renew the terror that there’s really nothing holding the beast up.
As you can see, we blasted through those first two levels. It has found support at the crucial lowest level (propped up, I suspect, by masses who know all too well what’s going to happen if it fails). (more…)
