My favorite analyst in the space uses on chain data to make price predictions. This to me is cutting edge. The whole point of blockchain is that you have unprecedented access to information. In some ways it looks like technical analysis, but this stuff isn't reading tea leaves. You're looking at data on chain and tracking how money is moving between wallets.
The guys that I think do it best are in a hedge fund and they go on the Tone Vays channel. Yes, I know Tone hates Steem(it). it's a dan scam and crap... I've heard that kinda thing from other bitcoin maximalists. That's ok, it's a big space and there's lots of room for different opinions. It's ok for him to be wrong about one of the best projects in the space. (It just means you get a better deal while trying to accumulate).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XoNlimszfGQ
There's a video with the team that I like. The lead guy is Willy Woo who goes by woonomic on twitter. He has a few fascinating things to share.
Willy shares
Miners are dumping about 1800 coins per day. The plus token scam is dumping roughly 500 per day. There's 40k btc left in teh wallet. So roughly 80 days at the same pace.
Based on that
So, today the market is absorbing 2300 bitcoin for sale from just these two places. In April it'll be down to 1800. In May it'll be down to 900.
Woonomic seems to think we're turned the corner based on his approach of evaluating on chain data. So, if we can be bullish with 2300 BTC of sell pressure what's going to happen when it suddenly drops to 900.
More math
Right now (BTC = ~$8000) there's about 18M USD worth of selling pressure on bitcoin every day from miners and plus token scam. It's turn down to about $140M USD worth of selling pressure in April. It goes down to ~$7M USD worth of selling pressure in May.
So, IF (big if) there's enough money coming in today to turn the price around there's got to be at least $18M USD coming in per day. In May the market only needs $7M. But if $18M is coming in, and $7M is all that's needed to sustain price what do you think will happen to price?
Will Steem and the alts get a taste if it happens to rise?
Look at this chart and you tell me.
Does it look like all the gains are just for bitcoin? Or does it look like all the tokens will catch a bid? Who knows for sure, but I think greed will be very strong for alts.
No hype yet
Notice this is happening without any real uptick in people looking to buy bitcoin. Actually, it looks like interest is just starting up again.
But I'm a open conspiracy theorist. Here's my theory. Large investors use their economic weight to depress prices. They have a lot of friends in media who can add doom and gloom while they are accumulating. They time their moves with halvening because they are large sophisticated investors capable of doing math and then taking risks on price. When it does get to moon time they switch gears from accumulation to selling and take crypto they bought at doom and gloom lows to sell to retail investors who buy at fomo highs (with the help of media who are out inflating the price with hype).
So, in that regard, we're pre manufactured fomo, but if I make one prediction in this whole talk it's that the number of people looking to buy bitcoin as recorded on google will surpass 2018 highs.
One last thing
There's enough wallet addresses formed now that roughly 1% of the world population has a bitcoin address. Willy did some studies and looks at another study and saw that the number of accounts doubles in a bear and can quadruple in a bull market. If the halving means we have 2 bull years we'll go from 1% of the world having a bitcoin address to 16%. Ladies and gentlemen if that comes to pass it'll be an amazing two years for crypto.
Keep your powder dry.
Disclaimer
I'm not a financial analyst. I've been wrong before. I'll be wrong again. I don't know you or your financial situation so it's impossible to know what's right for you and your family. Don't invest money you rely on for things like rent or eating in a crazy ass market. Do you own due diligence. This is a post by an internet dude. Make choices based on reading this accordingly.