Veteran Trader Peter Brandt Warns Bitcoin’s Price Corrections Can Be Lengthy

Veteran dealer Peter Brandt has warned that bitcoin’s worth corrections have taken many months up to now and it might take a while for the value of the cryptocurrency to hit one other all-time excessive. He criticized bitcoin’s proponents for consistently hyping the crypto whatever the worth.

Peter Brandt Warns It May Take Some Time for Another Bitcoin Peak

Veteran dealer Peter Brandt cautioned traders Thursday that it might take a while for the value of bitcoin to achieve one other all-time excessive.

Brandt has been a futures and FX profession dealer since 1975. He is a chartist and the creator of the Factor Report. He trades a wide range of markets, together with Dow futures, bonds, corn, crude oil, European wheat, Osaka Dow, U.S. greenback, and sugar.

He criticized bitcoin’s proponents for consistently hyping the cryptocurrency no matter what the value is doing. “Cheerleaders who consistently beat the drums of ‘to the moon’ are doing an enormous disservice to BTC traders,” the dealer tweeted, elaborating:

Corrections will be prolonged. Long endurance, not fixed hype, must be the message.

Brandt additionally included a chart along with his tweet displaying main bitcoin worth highs and the variety of months to exceed them. Specifically, he identified that it took 21 months for BTC to achieve the following new excessive in 2013, 40 months in 2017, and 36 months in 2020.

The worth of bitcoin hit an all-time excessive of $68,892 on Nov. 9 final yr based mostly on information from Bitcoin.com Markets. Since then, it has fallen greater than 42%. At the time of writing, the value of BTC is $39,933.

Brandt didn’t provide an estimate of how lengthy it should take for BTC to hit the following new excessive. However, the veteran dealer just lately shared his “scared trading rule,” which is to “Never add to a dropping commerce.”

According to a panel of fintech specialists at Finder.com, bitcoin will peak at $94K this yr. By the tip of 2025, the panel believes BTC’s worth will attain $192,800 and $406,400 in 2030.

Meanwhile, international funding financial institution Goldman Sachs has warned that the value of bitcoin is vulnerable to the Federal Reserve climbing rates of interest. In January, Switzerland’s largest financial institution, UBS, warned of crypto winter. Nonetheless, international funding financial institution JPMorgan has a long-term price prediction of $150K for BTC however estimated its truthful worth to be $38K.

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