{"id":520256,"date":"2023-02-20T14:30:04","date_gmt":"2023-02-20T14:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=520256"},"modified":"2024-06-11T07:10:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:10:14","slug":"bitcoin-bull-run-too-soon-call-quant-cautions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/bitcoin-bull-run-too-soon-call-quant-cautions\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Bull Run Still Too Soon To Call, This Quant Cautions"},"content":{"rendered":"
A quant has cautioned that a Bitcoin bull market may still be too soon to call, as this on-chain indicator is yet to meet the proper conditions.<\/p>\n
According to an analyst in a CryptoQuant post<\/a>, the recent rally in the BTC price could just be a bull trap. The relevant indicator here is the “Spent Output Profit Ratio<\/a>,” which tells us whether the average investor is selling their Bitcoin at a profit or at a loss right now.<\/p>\n When the value of this metric is less than 1, it means the overall market is realizing some losses with their selling currently. On the other hand, values above the threshold imply the average holder is moving coins at a net amount of profit at the moment.<\/p>\n At SOPR exactly equal to 1, the profits being realized in the market are equal to the losses, which suggests that the investors as a whole can be thought to be breaking even at this mark.<\/p>\n One of the two main investor cohorts in the BTC market is the “long-term holder<\/a>” (LTH) group, which includes all investors that have been holding onto their coins since more than 155 days ago, without having moved or sold them from a single wallet address.<\/p>\n Now, here is a chart that shows the trend in the 14-day simple moving average (SMA) Bitcoin SOPR specifically for these LTHs over the history of the cryptocurrency:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n As shown in the above graph, the 14-day SMA Bitcoin LTH SOPR has been below the 1 mark since May 2022. This means that this cohort has been selling its coins at a loss all this while.<\/p>\n In the chart, the quant has also marked the trend that the indicator followed during the last couple of cycles. It seems like this metric was under this level in the previous bear markets as well.<\/p>\nLooks like the 14-day SMA value of the metric has seen some rise in recent days | Source: CryptoQuant<\/a><\/pre>\n