The data on the chain shows that retail investors are now neutral about the use of Bitcoin and it could even be moving in the direction of a positive trend.
Bitcoin Retail Volume No Longer Plummeting
CryptoQuant Quicktake by an Analyst postRetail investors’ demand may soon be growing. Here, the most relevant on-chain indicator is “Retail Investor Demand,” which measures, as its name suggests, the demand for the Bitcoin network that’s present among the smallest of entities.
Due to their small wallets these investors also tend to make smaller transactions. Retail Investor Demand uses the collective transaction volume Track the activities of this group by tracking the transfers of less than $10,000.
Here is the graph shared by the Quant that illustrates the trends in the 30 day percentage change for Bitocin Retail Investor demand over the past few years.
According to the graph shown above, Bitcoin Retail Investor Demand fell to a significantly negative level early in the year. That means that volume for small investors dropped a substantial percentage in a period of 30 days.
It has climbed back up since then, and today its value is almost 0%. This means its decline has ended. If the same trajectory continues, it’s possible that the indicator should break into the positive territory, which would imply growth in interest from the retail investors.
From the chart, it’s visible that the last time the Retail Investor Demand saw a break into the green zone was just before last year’s rally beyond $100,000. Back then, the volume from these investors had kept rising until hitting a peak of about +30%, which had interestingly nearly coincided with last year’s price top.
It may be no surprise that the asset’s consolidation followed when growth in the volume related to this group disappeared and a decline in activity took over.
Back to the future 2021 bull runRetail Investor Demand plummeted into negative territory, similar to what was seen earlier this year. This indicator reversed in a spectacular way, as it soared past 0% with a dramatic surge. It continued to rise until a noticeable green level. Retail investor’s turn around coincided the beginning of the second part of 2021’s rally.
The question is whether Bitcoin’s bullish trend will resume soon, as retail volumes are expected to increase.
BTC price
Bitcoin’s price has been trading at around $96,300 for the last day, continuing its consolidation trend.
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