Let's talk correlations: Bitcoin and the Stock Market
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Bitcoin has lost around 30% of its value since its high on February 13th 2020. At the same time the SP 500 fell over 20% around the same time. So, is there any correlation between the two markets, or is it just coincidence?
That is what we will explore in this newsletter!
Correlation or coincidence?
Throughout 2017 both cryptocurrencies and the stock markets experienced strong growth in an almost unbroken uptrend.The SP 500 grew around 20% from the beginning of the year until the year’s end. Meanwhile Bitcoin had an astonishing growth of over 1,300% in the same year. Although this seems to be a strong sign of a possible correlation between Bitcoin and the Stock market, this is just about where the correlation ends; at least for the time being.
Over the course of 2018, Bitcoin was in a steady decline until February 2019. Meanwhile the Stock market has had a small downtrend, an uptrend where it made new highs, then an even stronger downtrend until December 2018.
Afterwards, Bitcoin had a strong uptrend from February up until June but it failed to make a new high, then followed an over 50% correction, and then a short uptrend from December 2019 until February 2020. At the same time, the stock market has had an uptrend where it just made higher highs, a range, and then an even stronger uptrend where the price rose by 15% more than the previous high.
In the middle of February however, both BTC and the SP 500 started a rapid descent at the same time. Many people suspected this is due to the Corona virus outbreak.
To find out whether there really is a correlation or not between the Stock market and cryptos, we have looked at the total number of days in which both BTC and the SP 500 have been in an uptrend or downtrend simultaneously. We have thus found out that 64% of the time Bitcoin and the Stock market are both in an uptrend or in a downtrend simultaneously. This number is dragged higher due to the strong uptrend of both markets during 2017. In 2018 and 2019 there hasn’t been a strong correlation between the two markets. However in 2020, since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, both the stocks and the crypto market have been behaving very similarly.
In conclusion it is hard to tell with certainty whether the crypto market and the stock market are correlated, however there are more chances that they are correlated rather than not
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Bitcoin has lost around 30% of its value since its high on February 13th 2020. At the same time the SP 500 fell over 20% around the same time. So, is there any correlation between the two markets, or is it just coincidence?
That is what we will explore in this newsletter!
Correlation or coincidence?
Throughout 2017 both cryptocurrencies and the stock markets experienced strong growth in an almost unbroken uptrend.The SP 500 grew around 20% from the beginning of the year until the year’s end. Meanwhile Bitcoin had an astonishing growth of over 1,300% in the same year. Although this seems to be a strong sign of a possible correlation between Bitcoin and the Stock market, this is just about where the correlation ends; at least for the time being.
Over the course of 2018, Bitcoin was in a steady decline until February 2019. Meanwhile the Stock market has had a small downtrend, an uptrend where it made new highs, then an even stronger downtrend until December 2018.
Afterwards, Bitcoin had a strong uptrend from February up until June but it failed to make a new high, then followed an over 50% correction, and then a short uptrend from December 2019 until February 2020. At the same time, the stock market has had an uptrend where it just made higher highs, a range, and then an even stronger uptrend where the price rose by 15% more than the previous high.
In the middle of February however, both BTC and the SP 500 started a rapid descent at the same time. Many people suspected this is due to the Corona virus outbreak.
To find out whether there really is a correlation or not between the Stock market and cryptos, we have looked at the total number of days in which both BTC and the SP 500 have been in an uptrend or downtrend simultaneously. We have thus found out that 64% of the time Bitcoin and the Stock market are both in an uptrend or in a downtrend simultaneously. This number is dragged higher due to the strong uptrend of both markets during 2017. In 2018 and 2019 there hasn’t been a strong correlation between the two markets. However in 2020, since the outbreak of the Coronavirus, both the stocks and the crypto market have been behaving very similarly.
In conclusion it is hard to tell with certainty whether the crypto market and the stock market are correlated, however there are more chances that they are correlated rather than not
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