Bitcoin has fallen quite substantially in the past 48 hours from $11,600 to roughly $9,750 at the time of writing this. While there have been some headlines today, it appears this began yesterday by hitting resistance at roughly the $11,500 level, a level that Bitcoin has tested multiple times in January, February and now March as well. Now that we've bounced off this resistance yet again, it might be a tempting area to take profit in the future until we break out above 100-day moving average.
There was some news related to some significant sales from the Mt. Gox bankruptcy trustee that could have helped facilitate the market crash back in January and beginning of February. I don't think this is an outrageous claim: Liquidity has been a common criticism of the cryptocurrency space as the amount of cryptocurrencies actually available for trade can be quite different from the supply, and often the available trading supply is fragmented across many exchanges, spreading out the liquidity.
This is a commonly cited argument for why Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are manipulated on exchanges - not only are regulations and enforcement loose, but it also requires a relatively smaller pile of money to substantially change the market price of many cryptoassets.
There are a few other news items I bring up in the video related to the Coinbase Index fund which I don't recommend (2% annual fee and it forces you to hold Bitcoin Cash) along with the SEC statements relating to online trading platforms. They're sticking with their prior statements that these "exchanges" aren't really regulated as exchanges and hence investors should be cautious. The major concern is that massive exchanges with many cryptoassets like Bittrex likely have some securities, although it seems like the SEC is just warning investors right now as opposed to enforcing.
What are your thoughts on the market moving forward? Thank you for watching / reading.