If the Fed hikes rates, monetary policy will be restrictive leading to lower lending, excess liquidity drawn out due to higher interest rates on credit and mortgages.
This would lead to lower consumer purchasing power, companies begin restructuring, unemployment rises, sales revenue falls, prices fall, and inflation drops to the central bank target.
Real Life:
Fed hikes rates from 0.1% to 5.5% in under two years, consumer purchasing power goes a notch higher even though a lot of households max out their credit cards, unemployment drops to record lows, the stock market hits all-time highs, and the dollar drives other currencies to record lows. Yield curve inverts for over a year, failing banks get bailouts, commercial real estate books tank, nothing happens, and a company with under $80 billion in annual revenue adds $2 trillion in valuation as investors price in future revenue 🥶.
In low volume environments such as weekends, it'[s better to increase the tick size you are using on the DOM as may create too much noise with so many low volume orders separated.
Here's why and when you should aggregate orders by increasing tick.
Stock-to-Flow model simplified: ALL bitcoin gain (and more) has been around halvings!
- green line = buy 6 months before halving, sell 18 months after - red line = buy 18 months after halving, sell 6 months before - blue line = green line + red line = buy & hold BTC
That's if we take the user growth curve as a guide for valuation. Remember I said fair value and not peak value in bull market hype.
- In the early days price was slow to catch up to user count, BTC didn't even have a price until the 1000th user came in. Thanks to the blockchain we have a high resolution view of users using forensic clustering of addresses into entities.
- Price discovery started with early markets like New Liberty #BTC Standard and MtGox. By Aug 2011 Bitstamp launched and we had multiple global exchanges to properly price the asset. [shaded region]
- After 2012 price pretty much oscillated around the increasing user count.$
Bitcoin April closing price $60,632 This was the last blue dot (month 0). Average price 2020-2024 halving cycle $34k (slightly below S2F 2019 $55k prediction). May will be the first red dot, the start of the new countdown to the next halving (S2F 2024-2028 prediction: ~$500k).
Bitcoin April closing price $60,632 This was the last blue dot (month 0). Average price 2020-2024 halving cycle $34k (slightly below S2F 2019 $55k prediction). May will be the first red dot, the start of the new countdown to the next halving (S2F 2024-2028 prediction: ~$500k).
this is a potential roadmap for the current cycle. As we stated before, we believe we are in a mid-term correction right now that could take us to mid-/low 50ks.
The rest of the year should lead to another pump fueld by continued institutional buying, halving itself and continued adoption.
Summer times are usually boring and sideways / correction months. Q4 should once more be a very strong quarter, potentially lifting uns above 100k.
Good times ahead. Don't get discouraged by pullbacks. These are normal and necessary for a healthy chart.
Happy bitcoin halving! (stock-to-flow doubling): - in the 6 months before the halving, insiders frontrun it: price 2x - in the 6 months after the halving, miner revenue adjusts: price 2x - 6-18m after the halving, the rest of the market rushes to get a piece of the pie: price 4x