In brief
- Investors are split over where Bitcoin's price will head next.
- Markets have cooled over the last seven days with smaller market cap projects feeling the pinch.
- Nasdaq has a record-breaking day as investors wait out COVID.
It was a quiet day in crypto overnight as the frenetic activity from the last few weeks seems to be simmering down.
The global market cap of cryptocurrencies ticked down by just 0.99% in the last 24 hours as most currencies in the top 20 saw minor losses.
Bitcoin is down 0.58% at the time of writing, taking its 7-day rolling average to a 1.44% loss. Ethereum slipped marginally too overnight, dropping 0.91% despite its record-breaking run over the last few weeks.
Bitcoin Treads Water While Ethereum Continues to Set New Records
It was a quiet weekend for Bitcoin. The currency has moved sideways over the last 48 hours, bobbing around the $19,200 mark. Which will be good news for investors after the nail-biting 10 days of market highs and instant crashes. Ethereum’s price too has been pretty stable over the last two days, but the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap by setting records of its own. Ethereum’s realized price - a measure of how many coins are actively being used as opposed to those stored o...
But further down the crypto cap charts, things are looking a little starker. XRP is down nearly 2% taking its weekly losses to 7.5%, Bitcoin Cash, EOS and Tron have all lost 10% in the last week, and Stellar an eye-watering 15%.
XLM had up until two weeks ago, been climbing steeply. In one week it was up 111% up, and in one day it leapt 60% thanks to its connection with XRP.
Stellar Price Spikes 60% as Altcoins Ride the Bitcoin Boom
Stellar (XLM) is up more than 60% today and 111% for the week, as prices continue to surge alongside Ripple (XRP) and other altcoins. XLM is currently trading for around $0.190 per coin. That's its highest price in more than two years. Meanwhile, XRP, a closely related crypto asset, has exploded over the past few days, approaching $1 before heading back down to around $0.70. The altcoin rush comes on the heels of a historic Bitcoin bull run. The price of Bitcoin is up 10% over the last seven da...
But when Bitcoin’s price teeters around a fixed point, the wobbles tend to hit alt-coins harder as investors feel uncertainty may be creeping into the market. While that relationship has weakened in recent months, it’s still a useful indicator.
Over in Futures Markets meanwhile, opinions are firmly split over where the market will move to next. While the overall sentiment remains in the buy camp, there are a number of metrics that suggest Bitcoin is becoming overbought.
Looking at the oscillator index - which looks at two different moving averages to get an indication of whether an asset is being overbought or oversold - sentiment is now “sell”.
And on the Mayer Multiple, a measure of whether Bitcoin is in a bubble, while things are far from over-inflated, the charts are continuing to move in that direction.
But the fear and greed index meanwhile, has sat at record highs for the past few days, with an “extreme greed” score of 95. Is this just hubris or is there still a chance Bitcoin can breakthrough the psychological $20,000 barrier just in time for Christmas? Only Santa knows.
Nasdaq breaks records as investors use tech stocks to ride out COVID
The tech-centric Nasdaq stock exchange broke new records as investors moved their money to tech stocks and away from companies found on the S&P and Dow markets.
The FAANG companies - Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google - have become safe havens during the lockdown as their services rely little on high street retail to drive sales.
Why Bitcoin and Stocks Went Wild During A Global Recession
When historians look back on 2020 and ask what will it be most known for, there are two stories they could tell. On the one hand, 2020 could be defined by a planet rocked by a pandemic that caused millions to die, and an economic fall out that will be felt long after a vaccine is rolled out. On the other hand, historians might say that 2020 was the year investors and their returns took off into the stratosphere. In particular, Bitcoin’s record-breaking price surge, and the American stock market...
As we explained last week, the divergence between stock market performance and that of the economy has been widening over 2020. The economic slowdown of the US economy has continued to bite, especially around job creation and consumer spending.
COVID cases have been averaging 200,000 per day in the US over the past week, and daily death rates surpassed 2,000, approaching levels found in early April.
But investors are banking on record low-interest rates to allow cheap borrowing, an expected $1 trillion stimulus bill and low inflation to set the stage for a record-breaking 2021.
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