Ether - Bitcoin - bubble (Correlation)The Ethereum blockchain has been released in 2015 and is therefore still very new to the vast majority of the public. However, sharp rises in value recently have caused more and more news stations to pick up on this topic, publishing more and more articles about it. The consequence was that many could in fact see that there is a huge potential behind this technology and the projects based on it, yet, did not really understand how it in its core works or more basic, what it actually represents. This caused what some would call "dumb money" to be invested into cryptocurrencies and other blockchain tokens, pushing their prices even higher and causing more people to invest in them in a wave of excitement about blockchains and their seemingly unlimited possibilities. On the other hand, the last few bubbles were not too far in the past and therefore everyone knew that it was a bubble. The reason they still invested was simply that they thought the bubble was still at its beginning and not about to burst yet. Everyone, especially the "dumb money", was thinking they were being smarter than everyone else and saw themselves as the "smart money" (no-one likes to be seen as dumb) and in order to be the "smart money" they had to be out before the bubble would burst.
On Monday the 12th of June, immediately after the end of the Bancor ICO which raised ether worth roughly $153 million, this wave of excitement finally reached an end. Since, unfortunately, Bancor can neither use ether to pay any kind of employees nor use them to rent premises or something like that which leaves them no other choice than selling at least some parts of their ether holdings in order to ensure that they will be able to cover their expenses. The drop briefly broke the excitement and caused more people to sell their holdings, yet, the price mostly recovered after the news leaked out that the ICO raised about $153 million in just a few hours, recreating the believe that there is still more upside potential. Though, what the actual "smart money" realised at this point or already had realised before was that due to the increasing amount of money flowing into ICO's (e.g. EOS), even bigger amounts of ether will be sold at one time and, thus, after a certain amount of time, entirely breaking the current excitement and causing the bubble to finally burst. Additionally, almost simultaneously, there appeared some fake news about Ethereum's co-founders Vitalik Buterin, having died in a car accident, making prices drop even more.
On Sunday the 17th of July, just after the price hitted its low at $137, it seemed for many investors low enough to get back in the game and buy some ether. Also, now that the bubble seems to be gone, investors are again considering ether as an investment with "guaranteed returns". However, all the news which created this abnormal excitement around the blockchain blockchain have been leaked now, meaning that there is nothing to get excited about anymore which is why we are still in a bear market with ethereum and other cryptocurrencies.
As the chart above shows, there is a significant correlation between the current ether price chart and the bitcoin bubble in 2013/2014 which is only logical since the situations in both cases are quite similar:
1. A huge wave of news, causing more and more people to get excited.
2. Excitement breaks (no "new" news, "smart money getting out", ...)
3. Price is now low enough for investor to get back in.
4. No new excitement is created: slow depreciation in value.
Trading:
Since the price is likely to keep rising for the next couple of days, I suggest now to buy some ether and to set your take profit at the resistance level at $316.
