I heard that the reason for this dip was a rumored security problem/hack on one of the exchanges. 
A lot of people leave their cryptos on exchanges even though they are far less secure than any wallet, so they are tempting for ciber attacks. 
This kind of drops in prices can be easily stopped by speeding awareness, but for that is needed a big campaign or a public figure(yes that is you).

Sentiment is right now cautious I would say and there are probably still a lot of weak hands in the market who sell at any bad news... not because they believe they will loose everything, but because they want to buy back in at lower levels.

Most of the newer participants are getting burned over this strategy. Especially as these kind of drops, could also occur to the upside, because not only liquidity is low, but also supply. We saw what happened with the futures annoucement and that probably had no sustainable positive impact on price, it was just speculation.

However, we need to look at some positive developments, which would sustainable raise the price and value of bitcoin:
1. Crypto friendly regulation in one of the major western countries, so institutional money could buy in, without legal risks
2. Approval of an ETF
3. More adoption
4. Technological improvements (like lightning)
5. A killer app for a dApp

There are probably more, which could push the price upwards a lot and once price moves up, the real FOMO will set back in and push the price even higher. Why bother for a 1000$ drop, if BTC could be +30.000$ at the end of the year?

So again big banks doing their best to take down crypto-currency... 👍👏👏👏👏👏🤔 interesting to see what happens next.

The blood bath is over for the moment. After Bitcoin fell 10% today, the buyers stepped in at $9400. However, there are stacks of sell orders waiting at $10600. If price is going to start a new leg up, the buyers must overtake the sellers at $10600 first. Thus, my short term target is $10500. I still like the level at $8400 which represent daily demand.

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We are going to see another pump in bitcoin. The reasons are:
1. Segwit and lightning network adoption - low fees and fast transactions,
2. Bitcoin futures - major players got money from shorts, now it is time to pump it again and it doesn't take that much money, as you mentioned in your post, to pump even bitcoin.
3. Watch Dow 30 - any big drop in Dow will drag bitcoin with it.

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Excellent view again. Thanks for the open eyes.

I was looking at this the other day.
[Bitcoin Volatility Index](https://www.buybitcoinworldwide.com/volatility-index/)
No idea how to interpret this correctly but it might mean that not as many new people 'hodling' and people who cashed out at near ATH or(more likely) one of the dumps have not bought back.

Wouldn't the liquidation of the Mt.Gox coins add volatility to bitcoin? It has stayed above 6% from the start of the year, and with this added it might stay there longer.

More coins on the market might not equal lower overall price but it might mean it will take longer to get up to new hights.

A lot of assumptions here though so I might be thinking about this wrong.

@CryptoInvestor do you believe that a 2013 scenario (prolonged bear market and bitcoin to 2600+-) is more likely than not?

Im genuinely afraid to buy bitcoin at the moment

Looks like the price is getting stabilized for a few hours. I hope it will go back to above $10k again.

What i think:
Don't buy index funds, do your own research invest in coins you do your research and do your own index fund! And if you buy those index funds where are you going to store them? can they be stored in a wallet like a ledger?
I'm going to stick with my plant, buy what i believe in, which right now is VEN, EOS and NEO ( i like cryptos that give me dividends and that have good companies behind them) 
The market moving forward is either going to go up, down or sideways :P JK, i think we will se a stable 9k-11k btc price until may at least and only then will the price increase smashing trough 20k and going right to 40-50k, but this is just speculation which i hate to give

Have you considered make videos how to use tradingview for example also use the basic indicator? As usually as pleasure to wear you.

I think the market reacted correctly to the announcement of exchanges needing to be registered as this will limit adoption and access to cryptos in the short term.  However, this will be a positive measure to ensure adequate retail investor protection from fraudulent exchanges and scams.  It will also increase the quality and security of the exchanges going forward which are needed given news in the past.  The exchanges have made enough money to put proper compliance innplace.  However, short-term volumes will probably continue to suffer.

BitCoin dropped for a myriad of reasons ,i believe.

-Low volume is a killer on financial markets.If you ever watch BTC on tradeview or even Gdax ...Volume spikes pretty hard when selling starts,but as of recent with the slow rise towards 12k,volume was actually not too heavy on the buying side. So yes BTC failed to hit/go past the 12k resistance point...which is huge in signifying a bullish trend.

-Buyer sentiment or should i say  indifference. BTC was  the"It"subject a few weeks ago on every news/finance program be it positive or negative.
Now,after that downward spiral to 6k...yes i do believe alot of newbies ran away from this market after selling their BTC/LTC/PaCoin etc. And with a steady influx of negative news on cryptos part (BitGrail/ICO scams/Binance 'issues'/etc) it was somewhat easy seeing this cause some negativity in consumer sentiment.

-Binance having 'issues" be it the false accusation of McAfee's on they being hacked. Or Today's issue of compromised 3rd party bot software. Binance is face it ...one of the most recognizable crypto currency exchanges...anytime it has issues.
Expect a nasty downturn based on people panicking. Binance to their credit are quick to respond and just as fast to shoot down rumors.

Excellent business management on their part.

Even NEO had its own issues when a DEV commented on its node issues on Twitter. Neo's price dropped there after.

Twitter.

Seriously.
   
Now to a person who works in finance last 20+ years,seeing a decent price drop caused by a single person who was critical (and still is from what i read)...shows that this market is as hyper sensitive as a 13 year old girl going through puberty . 
 Not very assuring to someone new wanting to invest some money in this market.

-For those wanting stability...you need the 1% in this market....or at least the top 10%
Wealthy people DO want to get into this market ....but just don't understand it.
 When they see a coin which is considered a top coin (Neo) drop like that off a social media post...well...that sure as Hell doesn't convince them to invest.

Now i know,im going to get "Fuck them we DONT need them....blah blah" responses to this part.
But alot of you complain ...even here on Steemit about crypto's instability.
And unless you got in real early in this game (and im talking early last year or before)....you most likely got in Oct/Nov/Dec...which means you got some red in that portfolio.

If you want stability,realize some things need to change. 
We need real investors ...not just speculators.  

Or this market will keep crashing 
And alot of people will keep losing money.


Excellent video as always my friend @Cryptovestor

Thoughts on this chart? Someone from [Reddit mapped it out.](https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/82ryay/ive_mapped_the_exact_time_when_money_was/dvcc77d/) looks like $400m worth of selling may have been what brought the price down from 20k to 6k. It seems strange because the daily volumes are $10bn+ so you would think they could have avoided pushing the market down by spreading out the sells

https://i.redditmedia.com/gqv4sfXLj2OvXisoG2thJigmpVFhyAx3xcRoZ9fbiM4.png?fm=jpg&s=981813c7d3f574fa196e58c32115fa3f

Little off topic, but I wanna ask you about your recent tweets where you asked people to shill you coins which are enterprise applications and not platforms. What was the reason behind it? 

I'm a pretty passive investor, bought some ETH (in the last 6 weeks) to hold for probably at least a year, thinking that if successful projects are created on ETH, that will raise the price of ETH too. Do you think that's false?

 I know the profits are not gonna be the best with this approach, but it's safe and I dont have to worry about it too much.

👍

Next buy is around 2-3k

Every little thing makes the price go down

Wonderful post.. Thanks for news about cryptos

What about your promise of delivering more high quality content in 2018? You are focusing alot on short term price action and trading aspects atm which - in my opinion - is very boring. I really liked your youtube videos because they were so different from the rest. Now they have become very similar, just with a more negative tone.

I would really like to hear more longterm opinions about certain coins or the whole market in general since your name is "Crypto Investor" and not "Crypto Trader" or "Crypto Speculator". You mentioned that you want to buy more Monero but you are waiting for it to dip. So basically you are saying that it is overpriced now, but how do you know that? How do you know that it will ever drop further from its current price and if it does, how do you know when it has reached its bottom? The current market price is always the best estimation of its actual value. No single person in the world can make a better estimation than the whole market. 

All these people trying to outperform the market are waisting their time. You cannot tell where the price is going just by looking at a chart. You cannot even make a prediction which is significantly better than a random guess. There has never been a scientific proof of someone beating the market over longer periods of time by using technical analysis and there never will be one. All this constant buying and selling will most likely cause you to underperform the market because of taxes and transaction costs.

With that said I suggest to just buy and hold the coins you like instead of desperately trying to find the perfect timing. Your videos should be more about longterm perspectives. For example I would really like to hear why Monero is your largest altcoin holding and where you see its place in the future rather than talking about short term price action.

Greetings @crytoinveestor; awesome video as usual. Completely agree with all you are saying. I too am patiently waiting for Monero to dip although because at the end of the day it is a very good coin with useful utility that ai am starting to sense that I could be waiting for a long long time...Keep the insightful videos coming. Peace ✌🏽

As you said, there are a lot of reasons for BTC price to go down, but I think we are comparing the price with the $20K mark that we reached late last year, which in my opinion doesn´t make much sense for now. Of course it looks bad because the price was affected by speculation, now that all the rumours are not true (yet) we see the market behaving in a normal way and BTC price is at a fair price to be traded at.

Now BTC has to show it´s potential and utility to take out the $12K resistance line and consequently the 100 MA, otherwise we will be floating around this prices like an usual market, but with bigger volatility (more opportunities to make profits from day trading)

I have been liking your videos for a while now - however you seem to have made two incompatible comments recently:
"buy the dips"
and:
"Monero can't seem to go anywhere but up"
- so really, if you like Monero, you should just buy it instead of waiting for a dip?