Bitcoin: Who Is Selling And Buying Right Now?
Martin Petkov | May 20, 2021 06:34AM ET
Retail and institutional investors behave differently in the times of large corrections on the crypto market. The current 50% Bitcoin retracement from its historical high is no different.
Elon Musk’s change of mood coincided with an overheated market that has growth threefold this year alone. Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA) has not sold its coins (as claimed by Musk) but its refusal to accept BTC as payment has triggered a slight panic on the market.
As in the last year, retail investors began to transfer their Bitcoins from their wallets to exchanges to sell them. Meanwhile, institutional investors are buying the cryptocurrency at lower prices. The difference in the behavior of the two groups of market players come to the surface thanks to the different types of target audiences of different exchanges. Retail investors primarily trade on Binance, while Coinbase's (NASDAQ:COIN) trading volumes are primarily provided by institutional players.
On May 17, Binance registered an inflow of 26,000 BTC, while Coinbase registered an outflow of 146 BTC. Similarly, big players were buying the fall in March 2020.
The MicroStrategy CEO Michael Saylor is not far behind, having announced a purchase of 229 BTC (%10 million) on May 18 at an average price of $43,633 per BTC. The company’s total balance exceeds 92,000 BTC ($2.3 billion).
Meanwhile, different analysts demonstrate different approaches. Thus, Carter Worth from Cornerstone Macro predicts a drop to $29,000, which corresponds to the coin’s traditional big retracement worth 55% from its ATH. Bank of America has surveyed 194 investment fund managers and has found a growing interest toward Bitcoin as a long-term investment.
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The founder of Investment Ark believes that institutional investors underestimate Ethereum, so her fund has bought Ethereum Grayscale Trust shares for $21 million in the first quarter. It was the right choice as Ethereum Grayscale Trust shares have grown by 179% this year as Grayscale Bitcoin Trust shares – only by 1.7%.
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