Bitcoin crowd sentiment hit multi-month high as BTC price touches $21K

The bullish market sentiment, aided by the price rebound, has also let many analysts believe that the Bitcoin price bottom is in. 2766 Total views 10 Total shares Listen to article 0:00 News Own this piece of history

Collect this article as an NFT Bitcoin (BTC) climbed to a four-month high above $21,000 in the third week of January, embellishing traders hope. The market has seen the most substantial investor optimism since July due to the January BTC price rebound.

According to data from crypto analytics firm Santiment, the trading crowd sentiment has touched its highest in six months and second highest bullish sentiment in the past 14 months. The data indicates that traders are treating Bitcoins price rebound as a signal of a possible bigger breakout in the near future.

The term crowd/investor sentiment describes how investors generally feel about a specific asset or financial market. It refers to the mood of a market, or the psychology of its participants, as expressed by activity and changes in the price of the asset exchanged in that market.Bitcoin weighted social sentiment Source: Santiment

The chart above shows three major spikes in investor sentiment since 2021. The first major spike in sentiment came in November 2021, followed by the BTC price surge to a new all-time high of $68,789. The second major spike came in July 2022 amid hints from the United States Federal Reserve about possible inflation ease, followed by a minor price surge. While the price rise post-spike in crowd sentiments in July 2022 wasnt very significant due to marketwide bearish sentiment, traders did buy the dip at $19,000.

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The latest spike in crowd sentiment came after a prolonged winter in 2022. Market analysts believe the BTC price rebound could signifya market bottom. According to independent market analyst HornHairs, the time from bottom to top and top to bottom has remained constant since 2015 at 152 weeks and 52 weeks, respectively.

$BTC #Bitcoin
2015-2017 bull market: 1064 days
2017-2018 bear market: 364 days

2018-2021 bull market: 1064 days
2021-*current* market low: 364 days

Days left until the top if we just carbon copy the cycle timeframe again: 1001 days pic.twitter.com/KoNZxJRuy5 HornHairs (@CryptoHornHairs) January 12, 2023

The run-up to the top and bottom of the prior cycles look surprisingly similar when examining the long-term price behavior of Bitcoin. Whats more intriguing is that the 2020 to 2021 cycle appears to follow a similar trend. #Bitcoin #Cryptocurrencies #Bitcoin Price #Cryptocurrency Exchange #Trading Related News What is impermanent loss and how to avoid it? FTX fallout: SBF trial could set precedent for the crypto industry How crypto tokens (but not Bitcoin) will outperform stocks in 2023 Arcas CIO explains Price analysis 1/17: SPX, DXY, BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, DOGE, ADA, MATIC, DOT Bitcoin holds $20K while flirting with a neutral futures premium for the first time in 6 months