{"id":1460618,"date":"2024-03-04T12:20:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1460618"},"modified":"2024-03-04T12:20:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T17:20:00","slug":"there-are-always-the-exact-same-number-of-buyers-and-sellers-what-matters-is-which-side-is-more-motivated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/there-are-always-the-exact-same-number-of-buyers-and-sellers-what-matters-is-which-side-is-more-motivated\/1460618\/","title":{"rendered":"There Are Always The Exact Same Number Of Buyers And Sellers: What Matters Is Which Side Is More Motivated"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">There Are Always The Exact Same Number Of Buyers And Sellers: What Matters Is Which Side Is More Motivated<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p><em>By Eric Peters, CIO of One River asset management<\/em><\/p>\n<p>My first trade ever was in the corn pit. 1989. Don\u2019t remember if I bought or sold, but I lost money on the trade.<\/p>\n<p>Losing on trade #1 was supposed to be good luck, and that\u2019s probably right. If you learn to take a loss right out of the gate, you\u2019ve at least got a shot.<\/p>\n<p>Lots of people say markets go up because there are more buyers than sellers, and vice versa, but that\u2019s not right. <strong>There are always the exact same number of buyers and sellers in the pit. What matters is whether one side is more motivated than the other.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/trading%20floor%203.jpg?itok=Zu41Dw4R\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The best trades are ones where you can see that there are a large group of aggressive sellers who will soon realize they not only need to buy back their short positions but will then want to get aggressively long. Or the inverse. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And if you spend your career looking only for such setups, you\u2019ll be in the company of the very best investors in the world.<\/p>\n<p>So, when people ask for crypto price projections, which is what most tend to want, I instead go back to my early pit-trader framework. It\u2019s what I know best and is more valuable than the multitude of valuation metrics that humans invent to give themselves comfort in a system that is inherently unstable, prone to avalanche (melt ups too).<\/p>\n<p>So here goes: The SEC approval of the bitcoin ETFs gave a massive group of buyers the ability to easily invest in bitcoin. The addition of bitcoin to a range of model portfolios at the large investment houses meant that there is a motivated buyer, and because there is no way to accelerate the pace of new bitcoin supply, the price must rise until a seller is willing to part with his position.<\/p>\n<p>Rising prices ignite imaginations, and such buying can quickly become reflexive, self-reinforcing. And no doubt, there will be plenty of two-way volatility ahead, but the biggest institutions have barely even started to build their long positions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>      <span class=\"field field--name-uid field--type-entity-reference field--label-hidden\"><a title=\"View user profile.\" href=\"https:\/\/cms.zerohedge.com\/users\/tyler-durden\" class=\"username\">Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"field field--name-created field--type-created field--label-hidden\">Mon, 03\/04\/2024 &#8211; 07:20<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/crypto\/there-are-always-exact-same-number-buyers-and-sellers-what-matters-which-side-more-motivated\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/crypto\/there-are-always-exact-same-number-buyers-and-sellers-what-matters-which-side-more-motivated<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There Are Always The Exact Same Number Of Buyers And Sellers: What Matters Is Which Side Is More Motivated By Eric Peters, CIO of One&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1460618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbimBl-67Ym","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1460618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1460618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1460618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}