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Is Bitcoin More Correlated to Stocks or Gold?

According to analyst Lyn Alden, bitcoin's correlation to stocks or gold depends on bitcoin’s own cycle.

Updated Sep 14, 2021, 10:07 a.m. Published Oct 11, 2020, 1:00 p.m.
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According to analyst Lyn Alden, the answer depends on bitcoin’s own cycle.

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Today on Long Reads Sunday, a reading of Lyn Alden’s piece for CoinDesk: “Bitcoin Correlations Depend on What Phase It Is In

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In it, Lyn argues that bitcoin’s correlation patterns are, in part, reliant on where bitcoin finds itself in its own cycles of expansion or consolidation.

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