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    Home » Crypto News » Bitcoin is Not Alone: S&P 500 and NASDAQ Records New All-Time Highs

    Bitcoin is Not Alone: S&P 500 and NASDAQ Records New All-Time Highs

    Author: Asif Imtiaz

    Last Updated Dec 10, 2019 @ 13:39

    On Tuesday, two of the major U.S. indices, S&P 500 and the NASDAQ closed yesterday’s trading at record highs. Meanwhile, the Bitcoin price has been surging for the last few weeks. The bullishness in U.S. equities and Bitcoin has prompted investors to believe that there might be a correlation between these two seemingly different asset classes.

    But in theory, Bitcoin is supposed to be like Gold, a safe haven commodity that should surge in value when investors are pessimistic about the economy. However, so far in 2019, there is a link between the U.S. economy and the value of cryptocurrencies.

    Is There Any Correlation Between Stock Volatility and Bitcoin?

    VIX-Bitcoin-correlation

    While common sense would dictate that if investors are feeling fear, they would invest in safe-haven assets like Bitcoin, the opposite happened in the first few months of 2019. Since the beginning of 2019, the CBOE VIX and Bitcoin price have seemingly developed a negative correlation.

    As we can see in the chart above, when VIX went down, the price of Bitcoin surged, establishing a strong negative correlation. In fact, the negative correlation seems to have been accelerating in recent weeks.

    Putting It All Together with Gold Price

    Corrletion-US-Stocks-Bitcoin

    Taking a look at the S&P 500, the NASDAQ 100, VIX, and Bitcoin in the same chart along with the price of Gold against the U.S. Dollar, it is evident that something interesting is happening with cryptocurrencies. Instead of having a positive correlation with the Gold, the Bitcoin price has diverged and joined the group of U.S. equities.

    While the price of Gold went down, the Bitcoin price went up by 35.93%. Meanwhile, the S&P 500 went up by 18.02% and the NASDAQ 100 went up by 24.27%.

    The Bottom Line

    Historically, economists and analysts interpreted the Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to be safe haven assets. In fact, just last week, Forbes went on to say that Bitcoin is the new gold. However, our thesis shows a clear negative correlation between Gold and Bitcoin in the first four months of 2019.

    If we take the negative correlation between the VIX and Bitcoin, it is even safer to say that investors are no longer considering Bitcoin as an alternative safe haven asset when the “fear gauge” goes up in the U.S. equities markets.

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    Asif worked as a prop trader for almost a decade, and later he managed trading operations for one of the largest foreign exchange strategy developers in Europe. Currently, he works as a trading consultant to several brokers and writes about various tech and financial topics. You can reach him at contact@asifimtiaz.com

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