By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern  Countries like Venezuela, Zimbabwe, and Iran citizens have begun to feel these pressures through rampant inflation in their local currencies as their governments fair poorly in their own geopolitics. As more countries, monetary policies begin to affect everyday citizens, more people are looking for alternatives […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern  If you’ve been watching the news this week, you are probably nervously aware of the events that took place between the US and Iran after the assassination of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. If you would like to read more about US and Iranian tensions, here […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern As investors have noticed, coins in the crypto market have been bleeding throughout the sector. The crypto market cap has decreased $10 billion over the last week to its current market cap of $180 billion. Some speculators have attributed this to a multitude of reasons, […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Stock to flow is a common indicator for commodity trading where the amount of supply currently in circulation is being divided by the amount produced in the next given year. The commodity with the highest stock to flow ratio currently is gold with a value […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Social trends are becoming increasingly useful in the crypto space as they are a good indicator as to what other traders are focused on and any upcoming coins that might otherwise be missed. The problem is we are usually coming on to these trends too […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern While Bitcoin is currently fighting to break upwards past 7300 USD/BTC, some major events are happening in the east regarding blockchain utilization. The People’s Bank of China (PBoC) recently went through the process of tokenizing 2.8 billion dollars worth of bonds for small business loans […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern In October, I wrote an article introducing the idea that there was an inverse correlation between stock market climate and cryptocurrency price performance. Recently the stock market has experienced one of the most relieving pieces of news that it’s had all year. Trade discussions with […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern While traders have their focus drawn on the price, it’s important to realize that adoption is the real key to future positive investments. Some countries are making that process easier than others but some of the most unsung heroes of the movement are spread throughout […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern As XRP had an amazing winter this time last year, the third most invested token on the market has taken some serious pitfalls since. In November of 2018 XRP was trading at approximately .5 XRP/USD and has since dropped to less than half of that […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Tezos has just entered the USD exchange market by being the new staking token on Coinbase. While Coinbase first added its staking wallet back in March of this year, the exchange had trouble implementing it into their apps and had to delay the process until […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Stellar Lumens (XLM) just received a 20% increase in price following a supply burn of  52.3% or removal of 55 billion stellar lumens from the tradeable market. The Stellar Development Foundation decided that cutting their supply would help them achieve their goals of mass adoption […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern  China’s leader Xi Jinping recently made announcements about his support of blockchain technologies being implemented into financial services and markets. With 1.38 billion people and rising, support for blockchain by the Chinese government has been a long-awaited event in the crypto community as an opportunity […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern As we experience a recent downward trend for the crypto market, it’s essential to keep positive so we can take advantage of the discount on some of the most popular coins. To help fuel this sentiment, I have decided to conduct some analysis of what […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern One of the biggest dates in crypto is coming up in less than seven months, the Bitcoin halving. For those reading that don’t know what that necessarily means, Bitcoin essentially distributes supply like a heartbeat. At the moment, ₿12.5 are distributed to the market place […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Bitcoin and Ethereum have been the leading cryptocurrencies since the early stages of the emergence of the concept. Due to their notoriety between the two coins as the face of the industry, their prices have predictably fluctuated in tandem with each other. As the coins […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Recently we’ve been able to see a trend involving the inverse relationship between crypto investment and stock prices. Recently the DOW Jones Industrial Index took an 840 point (-3.14%) drop over the course of two trading days. During that same period, crypto prices either remained […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern If you’ve been paying attention to the crypto markets for the past couple of days then you’ve been seeing nothing but red. While these fluctuations in price are somewhat regular, it’s important to note the trend that occurs around Bitcoin’s price changes.With the slow launch […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Bitcoin’s average monthly volume has reached a surprising low in the past month as its daily volume has sunk to two-year lows. As you can see by the graphs in Exhibits 1 and 2, Bitcoin volume has been on a decline this past month involving […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Low Volatility According to calculations by Blockforce capital, Bitcoin’s price volatility has recently reached a 4 month low of 53.3%. For clarification on the calculation, volatility is being measured by multiplying the asset’s standard deviation, in this case, Bitcoin’s standard deviation, by the number of […]

By Nicolas Abington | Crescent City Capital Market Analyst Intern Low Volatility According to calculations by Blockforce capital, Bitcoin’s price volatility has recently reached a 4 month low of 53.3%. For clarification on the calculation, volatility is being measured by multiplying the asset’s standard deviation, in this case, Bitcoin’s standard deviation, by the number of […]