BREAKDOWN: After Bloody Weekend, Crypto Market Sentiment Goes Full Bear
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4.8 • 689 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2022
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Stocks also opened the week down on growing fears of conflict in Ukraine.
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On today’s episode, NLW looks at the growing bearish sentiment around the crypto industry. The culprit, he argues, is a deepening macro malaise that has been exacerbated by growing concerns about war in Eastern Europe. That, piled on top of existing inflation concerns and the Fed’s 180-degree shift from quantitative easing to quantitative tightening have the week kicking off in a particularly bearish mood.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
| 0:08.9 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
| 0:14.9 | The breakdown is sponsored by nexo.io, Abra, and FTX, and produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
| 0:22.7 | What's going on, guys? It is Monday, January 24th, and today we are talking about why after an |
| 0:29.2 | extremely bloody weekend. The crypto market is going full bear. Before we get into today's |
| 0:37.2 | topic, if you're enjoying the show, go subscribe to it, give |
| 0:41.0 | it a rating, give it a review, or if you want to get deeper into the conversation, come |
| 0:46.0 | join the Breakers Discord. |
| 0:47.9 | You can find the link in the show notes, or you can go to bit.ly slash breakdown pod. |
| 0:53.6 | We've got discussions going about everything from macro to markets and |
| 0:57.5 | beyond, and I know that you'll have a good time there. Finally, disclosure as always, in addition to them |
| 1:03.3 | being a sponsor, I also work with FTX. Now, the markets are, as you well know, and will need no reminder, very, very painful right now. |
| 1:14.5 | Arthur at Defiance Capital tweeted throughout my five years of crypto investing experience, |
| 1:19.9 | this is the move that caught most pros in Wales offside the most, |
| 1:23.9 | was not expecting a 60% drop from the peak without a single 20% bounce. |
| 1:29.6 | Massive supply-demand-driven sell-off without significant liquidation cascade. |
| 1:35.1 | Jason Choi, who invests with Spartan, agreed, saying, plus one, |
| 1:38.9 | I think most pros recognized that the froth was apparent and the headwinds well telegraphed. |
| 1:43.6 | What caught most people |
| 1:44.5 | offside seems to be the severity and magnitude of the drawdown. Most were expecting one to two |
| 1:49.6 | year down chop at worst rather than good by 50% of value in a week. So if you're feeling raw, |
| 1:55.8 | the point is that you are not alone, but I want to go a little bit deeper in trying to understand |
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