Entries by Peter Brandt

Bitcoin — a once in a lifetime trade, never to be equaled

There has never been and may never be another market like Bitcoin $BTC 2024 is my 50th year anniversary of the first futures market trade of my life — it was for contracts of bags of pre-1964 Silver quarters and dimes. https://www.nytimes.com/1971/04/02/archives/futures-in-silver-coins-traded.html I have traded a best-guess 35,000-plus futures contracts in my life covering everything […]

Does history make a case that Bitcoin has topped?

Judge for yourself It’s called Exponential Decay — and it describes Bitcoin I hate being the bearer of bad news, but data are data. The fact is that the bull market cycles in Bitcoin have lost a tremendous amount of thrust over the years. You may like the story of this data or not — […]