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Grayscale on the Cost of Missing Out: Why Bitcoin Timing Fails
According to Grayscale Investments, timing Bitcoin's dips and peaks is a difficult and often unproductive venture.
Long-term investors benefit more, with crypto bringing in more than twice as many gains as compared to legacy stocks.
Bitcoin's profitability is mostly concentrated in a couple of days, further making the case for consistent exposure.
The world’s largest digital asset manager, Grayscale Investments, is convinced that attempting to time the Bitcoin (BTC) market is quite often a fruitless endeavour.
In a recent publication titled “BTC’s Hidden Risk: The “Out-of-Market” Opportunity,” the company noted that multi-year returns are highly dependent on a short window of high performance days.
Timing Bitcoin is a losing game: Grayscale
Citing Blockchain media company ME Group, Grayscale says Bitcoin gave about a 225% return on investment (ROI) in the past 3 years, as compared to the less volatile Nasdaq, which gave 109%.
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However, most of the returns came from just a few days. Removing the top 5 days caused returns to fall to 95%, removing the top 10 days made returns dwindle to 27%, and removing the top 15 days led to an 11% loss.
Quarterly returns and current price analysis
Coinpedia previously covered how Q4 is one of the best quarters in the history of Bitcoin, while also noting that some of these quarters closed in loss positions.
Many traders now anticipate a bullish Q4, but Bitcoin is facing clustered resistance between $84,000-$87,000, with more hoops to jump at the $88,000-$89,000 range.
At press time, BTC was trading at $85,821, after slightly pulling back from the $86K hurdle.
The parting shot
Grayscale concludes by saying long-term investment is the best strategy for assets like Bitcoin, which can experience massive price swings in either direction.
Additionally, while the most profitable days are few and unpredictable, missing out on them vastly and negatively impacts yields. This last remark further builds on the long-term strategy that Grayscale advises.
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