Ron Swanson
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The problem is that the headline is either willfully misleading or ill-informed.
The crash yesterday wasn't because people got spooked by watchdog warnings, it was more a case of manipulation by big holders, the so-called whales. Their co-ordinated dumps always seem to originate in Asia. They sell off their bitcoin quickly resulting in fear in the market. At the same time (granted it could be coincidence... but isn't) the Whales start posting that they're worried this could dip to $XXX amount. Cagey new investors then start to sell, resulting in a massive sustained crash that even catches out seasoned traders by triggering limited sell orders. Once the price is low enough (usually below TA-predicted safety lines), the guys who initially started the crash buy back their initial holding and take out the profits in time for xmas.
The key to this is the recovery. The feared low isn't realised. The new, clueless investors see that it wasn't the bubble bursting and they learn the lesson that holding could've avoided that drop. The key is that they're not left 'spooked' enough to give up on crypto, so many will invest back in to recover any losses they made.
As long as crypto is in this bubble, we'll see this over and over again until it properly bursts.
Right now my crypto wallets are down £1.5k on what they were before this dip, but up on what they were this time last week - and in the interim I took out £1.1k that I made trading $BCH at it's high this week. I got in early with crypto and I'm playing with profit at this stage, so I'm happy to watch it ride out whatever way it goes over the next two years. I have a good wage, very little debt (car loan/small mortgage) and would absolutely not be in this with money that I can't afford to lose.