It's so easy to get caught in the daily drama surrounding the crypto space and lose sight of the big picture. Depending on the trends you get either FUD or FOMO, and the emotional swing is so powerful that your expectations are going nuts. If it's bullish, you get so much FOMO and start planning your next year vacation at $40 / STEEM. If it's bearish, you get so much FUD, that you start thinking about selling your STEEM before it reaches 1 cent per token.
Either way, our responses are highly irrational. As a short intermezzo, we are highly irrational in pretty much everything we do, it's just that crypto makes it way more obvious than in other areas (partly because it's very new, as a phenomenon, and partly because it tickles the "instant gratification" part of our psyche).
So, every time the markets are swinging close to a previously low or high, I turn back to data. Today I'm going to talk about how much STEEM changed from the last year ATL (All Time Low). I'm choosing this metric - and not an ATH (All Time High) - because we're still struggling with the last stages of a bear market, and STEEM seems to be touching its bottom. But is it really touching the bottom?
Let's see.
According to Coinmarketcap, STEEM ATL in 2017 was on March 13th. That day it was trading for exactly 6,000 satoshis and a meager $0.07. Exactly, 7 cents.
In that same day, Bitcoin was trading for $1,219 USD.
So, let's recap:
13 Mar 2017 Year ATL
- STEEM | 6,000 satoshis | 0.07 USD
- Bitcoin | 1,219 USD
Today, STEEM is trading at 11,031 satoshis and 0.71 USD.
And Bitcoin is 6,503 USD.
Let's recap this one too.
15 Sept 2018, Current Level
- STEEM | 11,031 satoshis | 0.71 USD
- Bitcoin | 6,503 USD
So, how did STEEM evolved from last year ATL until today? Well, taking into account Bitcoin evolution too, here are my numbers
STEEM appreciated 83.85% in Bitcoin 914%% in USD
Bitcoin appreciated 433% in USD
In other words, we're still almost double in Bitcoin and almost 10x more in fiat!
To put this in perspective, if you bought 1000 STEEM on March 13th 2017, you will still be very much profitable in Bitcoin (almost doubled your investment) and almost 10x profitable in USD.
1000 STEEM in March 2017 would have been $70, whereas 1000 STEEM today is $710.
Pause for a while and think at this.
Ok, now let's get back.
Next time you see the price of an asset bottoming, take a step back and look for the last ATL. How is the asset performing compared with that value? How long ago that ATL happened? How is the main trading pair (in this case, Bitcoin) doing? All these should give you answers way more valuable than what you can get on the media.
Of course, we should do the same exercise when we hit an ATH, but for that we just need a little more patience.
Steem on!
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