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Crypto Alt Season Expected, But Has Margin Trading and IEOs Captured Retail Money?

Tony Spilotro by Tony Spilotro
2 years ago
in Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency news, Ethereum, Litecoin, Ripple
Reading Time: 3min read
Crypto Alt Season Expected, But Has Margin Trading and IEOs Captured Retail Money?
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It’s been a common thread throughout 2019 thus far: alt season. Crypto traders and analysts have been calling for a prolonged period where Bitcoin’s altcoin cousins significantly outperform the leading crypto asset, which helped propel the emerging asset class into the limelight at the end of 2017.

However, some crypto analysts speculate that the lack of an alt season occurring thus far in Bitcoin’s bear and bull market cycle, could be due to retail money flocking to exchanges offering margin trading, or due to the recent surge in interest surrounding initial exchange offerings (IEOs).

Bitcoin Dominance Breaks Down, Letting Alts Have Their Bull Run

Bitcoin dominance – the percentage of market share the first ever crypto captures compared to the rest of the market – has been growing in recent weeks as Bitcoin leaves the depths of its bear market lows in its dust.

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Related Reading | Crypto Analysts Share Tips On How To Maximize Profit During Upcoming Altcoin Season

After Bitcoin broke out, altcoins diverged and bled out to new lows relative to Bitcoin. But now that altcoins have finished bottoming out, Bitcoin dominance has begun to break down, and the first glimmer of an alt season is finally here.

1D alt coin to bitcoin marketcap ratio:

– Consolidation under resistance (bullish)
– Swept and reclaimed range low (bullish)
– Similar structure as November/December 2017

Is this #ALTSEASON ? pic.twitter.com/ov2VQZB44b

— Stacked ? (@StackedCrypto) June 6, 2019

In the chart above, the total crypto market cap ratio against BTC appears primed for a powerful rally after painting a bottoming pattern similar to the pattern Bitcoin left on charts before skyrocketing back into a bull market.

If big cap alts continue a bullish trend they’re going to start to break off way larger gains. If that happens, the likelihood of new money buying $btc to buy alts with seems like a very probable outcome. Alt bull = strongest catalyst possible for #bitcoin bring on the #greed pic.twitter.com/nn257TmC70

— Jake aka Korean Jew Trading (@koreanjewcrypto) June 6, 2019

Crypto analysts believe that if “big cap alts” like Ethereum, Ripple, or Litecoin continue their “bullish trend” larger gains aren’t far behind. Analysts further expect the surge in altcoins to drag Bitcoin up higher past overhead resistance and further be a catalyst for a strong crypto market bull run.

But Have IEOs and Margin Trading Diverted Retail Investment?

The capital fueling alt season has to come from somewhere, and given institutional focus on Bitcoin, the bulk of it is from retail investors hoping to find the next Bitcoin and become rich.

But the recent surge in interest around margin trading, and the emerging IEO trend may have captured much of that retail money, and it could prevent an alt season from ever getting started in the first place.

Everyone keeps saying

“Altseason soon! When bitcoin goes sideways!”

I think people underestimate the allure of BitMEX for people who would have otherwise gambled on alts and IEO’s taking major share of retail money that would have pumped worthless alts.

— Flood [BitMEX] (@ThinkingUSD) June 6, 2019

Crypto analyst Flood believes that the “allure” of BitMEX and IEOs have taken a share of retail money that would have otherwise been “gambled on alts.”

According to the analyst, traders are getting their gambling fix from margin trading platforms BitMEX, and Deribit. Even Binance recently revealed their margin trading plans, and Coinbase has expressed interest in adding the feature in the future.

Related Reading | Ravencoin, HoloChain, and Binance IEO Altcoins Expected To Skyrocket Next Bull Run

IEOs have absolutely exploded in interest, and Matic, BitTorrent Token, and the other tokens born from IEOs are among the most profitable coins of the year thus far. The returns on these early investments have been enough to capture much retail interest, and it could be part of why we’ve yet to see an alt season kick off in 2019.

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Tony Spilotro

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I'm Tony Spilotro. Behind the pseudonym, I'm a global remote work leader with a decade of award-winning content experience and excellence. Here, I explore my newfound passions pertaining to privacy, finance, economics, politics, cryptography, property rights, and other libertarian-esque views. I am a Bitcoin evangelist, maximalist, and educator whenever I can be, helping to spread its message of freedom from government control, monetary policy mismanagement, and passing the buck - literally – to future generations. My journey from a curious retail crypto investor to a serious Bitcoin advocate, trader, and technical analyst is an unusual one, but life-changing nonetheless and has become less about money and more about a long-overdue revolution. While a firm believer in the laws governing math and science, I am profoundly fascinated by the impact of astrology and astronomy including moon and solar cycles and planetary alignment and their ability to influence and potentially predict markets. It hasn't yet clicked for me as to how to put anything to use, but I consider it my current rabbit hole I can't yet dig out of. My perspective of growing up alongside the internet, the dot com era, the Great Recession, and roots in video games collecting coins and rare items caused Bitcoin to immediately make sense to me. Through all of these lenses, I seek to produce content that is educational and entertaining, and I thank you sincerely for taking the time to read what I have to say. Please follow me on Twitter and feel free to drop me a line if you would like to work together.

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