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Follow on Google News | ![]() Atrad.io Announces February results at 8.51%By: Atrad.io While many people were still seeing the queen of cryptos, Bitcoin, blithely exceed $60000 without scruples, it is worth remembering their recent warning. However, no particular news seems to have justified the recent sharp correction, except for some understandable profit-taking after the new records at over $58000. It should be noted that "market liquidity is currently much lower for Bitcoin than for gold or the S&P 500. Implying that even small flows can have a significant impact on prices", as Nikolaos Panigirtzoglou, an analyst at JPMorgan, recently stated in a recent note quoted by Bloomberg. Bitcoin's trading volume is approximately $10 billion per day for the cash and futures market combined, compared to an equivalent figure of $100 billion for gold. This corresponds to liquidity ten times lower for Bitcoin than for gold (to which Bitcoin is - too? - often compared). As more and more individual and institutional investors are moving into Bitcoin, such a context opens the possibility of sudden movements in both directions, generally dragging other cryptos in their wake. Once again, this volatility is a source of satisfaction and fuel for Atradio's model, even as new exchanges (some of which are decentralized) End
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