Market Watch: Mini-Dip Incoming!

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I should have wrote this post last night but I was too lazy. It was very obvious the market was going to take a slight dip. I've never seen BTC volume this low on Coinbase Pro. Yesterday we were testing $60k at 6k BTC/day volume; lowest I've ever seen it. In comparison volume is in the 30k-50k range during the big pumps and dumps, and I even saw it get as high as 100k during some points which was absolutely legendary. Lot's of money trading hands. Heathy market.

When Bitcoin volume is low, usually the answer is to dump it in order to incentivize buyers to reenter the market. I'm expecting slight downward action for the next couple days, perhaps as long as a week. We can see the pattern pretty clearly of BTC bouncing upward across shorter and shorter time periods. However, we again are clearly on a downward trajectory in the extremely short term.

I'm thinking we bottom out at something like $55k. Volume is still really low and we might need to fall all the way to $50k for the buyers to wake back up again. I'll be making no trades based on this assessment, as Q2 has just started and the FOMO can start at any time.

That being said April (especially early April) is traditionally a very boring time for the market. Mark my words: this is the last accumulation phase we are going to get for a while. Hopefully the sideways action lasts for a week or two in order to give us a solid baseline to springboard up.

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We can see I've made a slight adjustment to my cycle calendar. I made it way more symmetrical by flipping Feb to yellow and March to red. Originally I had Feb in red because the bull run usually crashes into the dirt during that time and it's very deflating. However, if traded well, there is often a super profitable dump/pump dead-cat-bounce if you time it right. March is more of a really deflating month where the market bottoms out; just like September. Of course these are all very broad speculations and generalizations that must be taken with many grains of salt.

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Not that kind of salt.

In any case, we're still on track for the greatest bullrun of all time. Setting a new all time high every month. April will likely be no different, but we'll probably have to wait 2 or 3 weeks before anything cool happens. Early April is really boring. If we spike up significantly before then I'll consider it yet another sign that this mega-bubble is the mega-bubble to end all mega-bubbles.

May is going to be a pretty fun month.

Traditionally we would expect nothing but steady upward action with very little (if any pullbacks). This should be good for the alt-market as well, as alts only tend to get scared when BTC is making big moves up like 30% at a time. BTC has a way of sucking liquidity from the alts and propping itself up, and only gives that liquidity back during the more boring accumulation phases. Trading bots are weird.

Conclusion

April usually a super boring consolidation month. Looks like it's gonna take a week or three before we can break new all time highs. May is a fun/consistent month and I wouldn't be surprised if we broke all time highs every other day. June gonna be crazy. Nuff said.

Even after dropping from $60k to $57k, Bitcoin still only has a trading volume of 8k on Coinbase Pro. That's really low; expect more downside until we get to around 15k BTC per day. Looks like a lot of bulls are simply waiting to buy the dip, no matter how small that dip may be.

Be patient.

Time is the great equalizer.

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I've got money coming into an exchange and it's taking daaaaaaays and stressing me out.

I still haven't decided whether to grab BTC with it or grab some alts. I do think there is a waterfall effect of money going into BTC -> Large Cap Alts -> Medium Cap Alts -> Small Cap Alts -> BTC -> Retrace... and I assume we're in the Large Cap Alts stage now... but I also don't know anything so I'll probs just figure it out in the moment...

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yeah I would say BTC first and try to ride the waterfall come June.

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This is an interesting piece around April and you're going to laugh. So I do audits, reviews etc for work. I should have known why April was like this but the penny didn't drop.

April is the year that everyone starts putting their financial reports together and preparing their annual reports. Balancing books and all kinds of reporting.

This usually takes a month to prepare sometimes longer. Commencing this process in April provides the ability to commence writing in May and have everything ready before June 30 which is tax time.

So effectively everyone stops buying and doing massive trades so they don't ruin their books and receipts.

I should have known that considering I'm chasing up and reminding organisations to commence their financial reviews and reports.

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I’d love for the price to dip back down to 50k so I can grab my money back and balance out a damn tax event. This year I’m getting fooled with my feeble attempts at playing the ups and downs lol. If we touch 50 I’ll make my last buy and sit back and see what shit goes on!

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Lol, that's exactly what I'm waiting for and have some funds ready when the time comes.

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Yeah, it's going to be nice if it happens!

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April seems to be a "funny" month, at least here in the US. Even though the IRS gave an extension to the due date for filing taxes, this is the time when people turn to bookkeeping and looking at whether or not they need to sell assets to fund taxes, or hold.

From what I've observed, BTC going sideways on lackluster volume tends to be pretty good for the Alts... so I'm looking in that direction.

=^..^=

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From what I've observed, BTC going sideways on lackluster volume tends to be pretty good for the Alts... so I'm looking in that direction.

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Mark my words:

April usually a super boring consolidation month. Looks like it's gonna take a week or three before we can break new all time highs. May is a fun/consistent month and I wouldn't be surprised if we broke all time highs every other day.

Yes, cryptos by months, sort of like astrology! - Marked for checking this theory later!

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Volume is still really low and we might need to fall all the way to $50k for the buyers to wake back up again.

I'm a buyer but not sleeping. I'm 👀 the market closely, waiting for the moment. Have my funds ready and hope it dips to $50k. Let's see if your predictions are right :)

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yes dear i think we all are waiting for the price to be low. Everybody is playing like a bull. Patience is the best friend which leads us towards success.

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Great article and information! I have not personally been interactive with Bitcoin, more focused on the Ethereum blockchains with many more engaging and promising projects. Bitcoin going down does seem plausible from your reasoning, but it is also possible for a pump to a small extent. What I think could happen is that Bitcoin would move up to $61k before slithering down in price, hitting around $57-$59k to rise once more.

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Yeah we are testing the BTC $60K level we need to break soon or we might get a selloff down to $50K

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Any dip is most welcome, a dip as far as $2,000 a BTC would be out of the question, but stranger things could happen, I certainly wouldn't complain if It did, I would probably sell everything I own and buy up what I could LOl

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Hey I didn't know April was a slow month, well it's a perfect opportunity to buy.

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