{"id":419373,"date":"2020-03-28T09:43:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-28T09:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=419373"},"modified":"2024-06-11T13:46:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T13:46:53","slug":"not-convinced-new-investors-are-buying-bitcoin-top-analyst-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/not-convinced-new-investors-are-buying-bitcoin-top-analyst-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Not Convinced New Investors are Buying Bitcoin, Top Analyst Says"},"content":{"rendered":"
While headlines about tanking bitcoin prices<\/a> serve ideal opportunities for investors to enter the cryptocurrency market, one top analyst thinks the asset is lacking new buyers.<\/p>\n Alex Saunders, the CEO & Founder of Australia-based Nugget News, offered a wave of discouraging catalysts<\/a> that might have driven people out of cryptocurrencies, including a wrecked US job report<\/a>. More than three million Americans filed for unemployment last week, providing first-hand information about how the Coronavirus pandemic is affecting the US economy<\/a>.<\/p>\n “A downside is [now] likely for stocks & crypto,” asserted Mr. Saunders. “I’m predicting it by next week. Are new investors entering crypto? I’m not convinced.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The statements suggested a potential drop in bitcoin’s retail demand<\/a> as jobless people turn to cash as their last resort amidst a pandemic. Meanwhile, institutional investors are also reducing their exposure in the cryptocurrency market for cash liquidity<\/a>: to cover their margin calls or just hold it near to find buying opportunities in a wider bearish market.<\/p>\n Bitcoin has long enjoyed the status of an offbeat, non-correlated asset that could behave as safe-haven for investors in times of economic crisis. But in its first face-off with the one, the cryptocurrency has chosen to follow the bearish moves of stocks and similar risk-on assets.<\/p>\n The following months will be crucial for Bitcoin to prove itself as an uncorrelated safe-haven asset. So far, in this bear market, it's been relatively correlated and has significantly underperformed gold.<\/p>\n — Larry Cermak (@lawmaster) March 27, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nBuying Sentiment on Hold<\/h2>\n
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