A Few Thoughts on Volatility

Published April 28, 2025

  • YouTube Video Transcript

    00:02 hey everyone a few thoughts on bitcoin
    00:04 from the last couple days um first off
    00:06 it’s been a wild ride the last 72 hours
    00:09 it uh Bitcoin has set multiple all-time
    00:12 highs about every other day for a week
    00:14 or two now and including in the last 72
    00:16 hours there was also a big price swing
    00:18 from 72,000 or sorry
    00:21 $74,000 up to um or down to like $66,000
    00:25 or like an $8,000 price swing in a very
    00:27 short period of time some of what’s
    00:29 happening there first of that is normal
    00:31 with high volatility assets whether
    00:33 that’s Tesla stock or something like
    00:35 that um but also uh a lot of people
    00:37 anytime an asset is rising especially
    00:39 quickly there are always some people who
    00:41 try to uh use leverage to get extra
    00:45 returns which frankly is stupid and
    00:46 hopefully nobody watching this would
    00:48 even consider using leverage to trade
    00:51 anything first of all you should not be
    00:52 trading Bitcoin in the first place
    00:54 Bitcoin is not an asset that should be
    00:56 traded it should be bought and held or
    00:58 at most uh spent with the coinbase debit
    01:01 card but it should not be traded because
    01:03 you’re absolutely going to lose if you
    01:04 try to do that but of course there are
    01:07 the always people that uh think they can
    01:09 outsmart the market and they trade with
    01:11 leverage and leverage means trading not
    01:13 only with their own funds what but with
    01:15 borrowed funds well when you do that um
    01:17 you get higher returns if you guess
    01:19 right you also get much lower returns if
    01:22 you guess wrong so for example if you’re
    01:24 trading with 10 times leverage and you
    01:26 guess right and you’re you know betting
    01:28 that it’s going to go up then if if it
    01:30 goes up 10% you make a 100% return but
    01:33 if it goes down 10% you lose all of your
    01:35 money uh conversely if you are betting
    01:38 with 10 times leverage that it’s going
    01:40 to go down and it instead of going down
    01:43 by 10% and making you know you you know
    01:45 10 times your money instead it goes up
    01:48 10% well then you lose all of your money
    01:50 so one of the things that makes uh High
    01:52 volatility assets like Bitcoin go up and
    01:55 down more is people trading with
    01:57 leverage and that’s just you know part
    01:58 of what they do um thankfully you know
    02:01 Bitcoin humbles everyone as I’ve always
    02:03 said unless you just buy it and hold on
    02:05 to it as I’ve always advocated it
    02:07 humbles everybody so what always happens
    02:09 is when there’s a big run up like the
    02:11 run up to
    02:12 $74,000 some people think they’re going
    02:14 to get too smart and they start trading
    02:16 with leverage and they get wiped
    02:18 absolutely just wiped out and liquidated
    02:20 when Bitcoin takes a you know5 to $8,000
    02:23 price dip in uh 24 hours and then
    02:26 conversely when it starts going down and
    02:28 everybody bets it’s going to keep going
    02:29 down they get absolutely wiped out when
    02:32 it starts going back up so as I’m
    02:33 recording this Bitcoin is about $70,000
    02:36 per coin uh again it was about 74 then
    02:39 it dropped to about 66 now it’s about 70
    02:42 about at the midpoint I would guess it
    02:43 just keeps going up who knows uh what
    02:46 matters is the medium and long term not
    02:48 the shortterm um but anyway all of those
    02:50 leverage Traders are getting absolutely
    02:51 wiped out every time that happens which
    02:53 is good for people like us because it
    02:55 means the crazy people that are doing
    02:58 wonky trading strategies are getting
    03:00 wiped out and not those are not the
    03:02 people who should be owning Bitcoin
    03:03 anyway the people who should be owning
    03:04 Bitcoin are not the people who are
    03:06 trying to trade it but the people who
    03:08 are holding on to it because it is the
    03:10 future monetary system of the world um
    03:12 in addition to this video I posted a
    03:14 couple links to x uh there was a guy
    03:16 explaining why um assets that are going
    03:20 up as fast as Bitcoin uh has been going
    03:22 up are always volatile uh they are it’s
    03:25 the nature of it is you can’t have an
    03:28 asset that has a CA gr a compound annual
    03:31 growth rate averaging 140% it is
    03:34 impossible to have an asset that is
    03:35 growing an average of 140% per year
    03:39 without extremely high volatility the
    03:40 two always go together you never have an
    03:43 extremely high growth asset that is also
    03:46 not also very very uh High volatility so
    03:50 uh Bitcoin is volatile it will continue
    03:51 to be volatile as I posted a few minutes
    03:54 ago all you have to do is zoom out and
    03:56 you can get some perspective that you
    03:58 know it’s hilarious that when you look
    03:60 at a a 10% price correction in 24 hours
    04:04 when you zoom out you realize oh that’s
    04:05 like a tiny little blip on the radar as
    04:08 compared to the massive uh price
    04:10 appreciation over the last uh you know
    04:12 12 to 18 months so anyway my prediction
    04:15 certainly here is that things keep going
    04:16 up I think at least for the next
    04:19 probably 18 months at any given time
    04:21 there will be an an a 80 to 90%
    04:24 probability that things are just keep
    04:26 going up and always a 10 to 20%
    04:29 probability that things take a you know
    04:31 some significant interm price dip so uh
    04:34 that continues to be the case and for
    04:36 those that have been in Bitcoin a long
    04:38 time something like a 10% price
    04:40 correction which obviously is $7,000 on
    04:43 $70,000 um that looks like small
    04:45 potatoes to those of us who have been
    04:47 through a couple bare markets where the
    04:49 price Corrections were much much larger
    04:51 than that and even historically even in
    04:53 Bull markets which mean up up markets uh
    04:56 there’s even been price Corrections
    04:58 historically as big as 20 and 30%
    05:00 so if 10% over the last 72 hours makes
    05:03 your stomach churn just realize you know
    05:05 that is not only is that normal but
    05:08 historically the price Corrections have
    05:09 been significantly larger than that on
    05:11 the way up because it’s uh bitcoin’s uh
    05:15 volatility has been much higher in the
    05:17 past than it is now but it’s still a
    05:18 high volatility high growth asset so few
    05:21 updates on that I still get questions
    05:22 from people all the time of is now still
    05:24 a good time to buy Bitcoin I still
    05:26 believe a couple things one that the
    05:28 probability that the you know there’s
    05:30 more upside in the near term let’s say
    05:32 even in the next days or weeks is always
    05:35 you know probably 80 to 90% the
    05:37 probability that you’re going to
    05:38 magically get a lower price by waiting
    05:40 is always probably 10 or 20% and the
    05:44 problem of course with waiting for a
    05:45 price dip is you don’t know what a price
    05:47 dip is for for example in the last 72
    05:50 hours I’m sure at 74,000 a coin people
    05:53 were thinking I’ll rate for a price dip
    05:55 then it drips to 73 and they’re like oh
    05:57 it’s going down I wonder if it’ll go
    05:58 down some more well then it you know
    06:00 dips to 72 71 70 and they’re like wow if
    06:03 it’s going you know dip this much I’ll
    06:05 bet it’s going to dip a ton more and
    06:07 then it dips more and they’re like oh no
    06:08 maybe something’s wrong with Bitcoin and
    06:10 so they ended up not buying and then or
    06:12 they end up buying and you know as soon
    06:14 as it gets to a full 10% or full 15%
    06:16 price correction then I’m going to buy
    06:18 and inevitably they never buy so um in
    06:21 the future neither you nor anyone else
    06:24 will care what you almost did and the
    06:27 Bitcoin you almost bought and how close
    06:29 you almost got to buying Bitcoin at
    06:32 today’s prices all that will matter is
    06:34 whether you actually pulled the trigger
    06:36 or did not pull the trigger and if you
    06:38 didn’t pull the trigger well then you
    06:39 don’t benefit um you know you’re not
    06:42 along for the ride so anyway I continue
    06:44 to tell everybody who asks yes I think
    06:46 now is a fantastic time to buy Bitcoin I
    06:48 don’t see anything that will change that
    06:51 and at any given time anytime somebody
    06:52 says well should I wait a day or should
    06:54 I watch it for a day or two or should I
    06:57 you know maybe we waake wait a week or
    06:58 two and see what happens I’m like you
    07:00 can but there’s an 80 to 90% chance
    07:03 you’re going to miss out on significant
    07:05 upside and there’s a 10 to 20% chance
    07:08 you might buy it cheaper and you’re
    07:10 probably not going to buy it cheaper
    07:11 because if it does get cheaper you’re
    07:13 probably going to freak out and think
    07:14 maybe something’s wrong and you’re going
    07:16 to not buy it when it’s cheaper anyway
    07:18 because you’re going to be sitting there
    07:19 waiting for it to get cheaper than cheap
    07:21 so everybody who thinks they’re going to
    07:22 buy Bitcoin when it’s cheaper inevitably
    07:24 when it does get cheaper they think they
    07:26 need to wait till it’s even cheaper and
    07:28 then when it starts going back up then
    07:30 they feel like they missed the cheapest
    07:32 of the cheap and then they don’t want to
    07:33 buy it because they want to wait for
    07:34 another price dip and it just they just
    07:36 never buy these people just never buy um
    07:39 so anyway that’s a few highlights um
    07:41 with regard to bitcoin there was one
    07:43 other thing I was going to cover that I
    07:46 am not immediately remembering um but if
    07:48 I do remember it I’ll go live again but
    07:51 that is uh a few thoughts from tonight
    07:53 on bitcoin uh price Corrections
    07:56 highlights and um and a few other things
    07:59 so happy answer any questions anyone has
    08:01 happy to send anyone bit uh free Bitcoin
    08:03 if they’re in the mood to uh to start on
    08:05 the Bitcoin journey and happy to answer
    08:07 any questions in the comments or
    08:09 anything else uh anyone has so I’m
    08:11 always here to serve extremely bullish
    08:13 on bitcoin I think it’s the future
    08:15 monetary system of the world I really
    08:17 don’t think I really don’t see anything
    08:18 that would change that and um anyway and
    08:21 I think it’s just uh it’s a whole lot of
    08:23 up from here even though there will be
    08:25 price Corrections along the way so just
    08:27 halfway I here to serve if there’s
    08:29 anything I can do thanks

**Originally recorded on 3/15/24**

  • New all-time high and an $8k/coin price drop in the last week
  • Bitcoin is not an asset that should be traded. It should be bought and held, or spent with a Coinbase Debit Card at most.
  • Trading with leverage is contributing to big swings. Do not try to trade it, Bitcoin humbles everyone.
  • You can’t have an asset with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) average of 140% without extreme volatility.
  • Bitcoin will continue to be volatile. All you have to do is zoom out to get some perspective.
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