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The Biggest Trading Opportunities of September You Shouldn’t Have Missed

The mysterious Bitcoin sell-off

The 5th of September was the most interesting day for Bitcoin last month. Without any obvious reasons the price plummeted. It was the largest single-day drop since March 29th. At 9:45 am GMT (5:45 am ET) bitcoin price dropped 3% in just 15 minutes, and 6% in an hour.

Traders who were able to predict this move or recognized early how unique the sellout was, could make a profitable transaction. All you needed is a good price and volume alert, and a fast and reliable trading app to take a chance.

The price swing was so spectacular it provoked 282% increase in 24hr BTC volatility.

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Bitcoin Daily Chart

This was a pure reaction trade opportunity, as the drops had very little fundamental signs. Crypto trading enthusiast experts debated the possible causes of such an extraordinary event. There are three theories for this:

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  1. Goldman Sachs rolled back the announcement about cryptocurrency trading desk plans, and the news may cause a massive sell-off.

  2. Silk Road Bitcoins were dumped on the market.

  3. Large sellers used a technical breakdown as an opportunity to speculate and crash price.

The Bitcoin collapse unsurprisingly affected the altcoins. Here’s what happened to Ethereum vs USD.

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Ethereum Daily Chart

Glorious days of Ripple

At the end of September, Ripple (XRP) had an interesting run. Just take a look at the candle bars on the 20th and the 21st of September. Ripple was a star currency during these days.

Unlike the 5th of September sell-off, this time, the cause was quite evident. Ripple Labs Inc., a company who owns approximately 60 percent of the XRP supply has announced some plans. The news was that “in the next month or so” Ripple Labs would start a new service xRapid allowing payment providers speed up money transfers into emerging markets.

The announcement wasn’t the strongest one, but the stagnation on the cryptocurrency markets made it resonate impressively well. It worked, the investors went crazy about Ripple for… for two days.

The hungry crypto bulls were waiting for a sigh to buy, even though a Ripple spokeswoman said on Thursday that there wasn’t any official commercial release timeline at this point. The XRP price went up almost 100 percent. At some point, Ripple grew over 140% in September. For a while, it even overtook Ethereum as the second biggest cryptocurrency.

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Ripple Daily Chart

The surge in price revealed the lack of belief on part of some key Ripple partners. “Wall Street Journal” reported on Monday the 24th that Ripple co-founder Jed McCaleb, an owner of billion dollars in XRP was selling them high. Ripple fell to 44 cents, and although Ethereum dropped by 13 percent as well, XRP went back on the third place in CoinMarketCap.com.

Anyway, it was a great show and a great opportunity for day traders to make some money.

End of September – big events

Some other news that has some potential of impacting cryptocurrency markets in October and the following months.

The Swiss are going to make crypto official?

A Swiss financial services company Seba Crypto AG raised money to become one of the world’s first regulated banks letting consumers easily swap dollars and euros into cryptocurrency.

Google is adjusting and partly lifting the ad ban on crypto

The Alphabet Inc. needed some time, and crypto markets needed some time to stabilize. Google allowed ads for regulated crypto exchanges in the US and Japan. Since the 1st of October, these companies reclaim the most powerful marketing tool, which should positively affect all cryptocurrencies.

$1 Billion EOS Investment Possible

Founder and chief executive officer of Block.one Brendan Blumer said his company is going to invest $1 billion in the expansion of EOS, which is the main competitor to Bitcoin and Ethereum blockchain systems. Block.one has some serious backup from very experienced and successful venture capitalists and hedge fund managers, Peter Thiel and Michael Novogratz.

October forecast

For cryptocurrencies day traders, it is always a good idea to write in the dates of some big blockchain technology conferences to your calendar.

From today, the 1st to the 2nd of October Swell conference organized by Ripple takes place in San Francisco. Bill Clinton will make an opening speech. There will be some important people present, so you can expect some important statements. Watch carefully presentations by Gene Sperling- National Economic Council Director and National Economic Advisor under Presidents Clinton and Obama, Brad Garlinghouse – the CEO of Ripple, Ed Metzger-Head of Innovation at Banco Santander, BitLicense architect Ben Lawsky, several other regulators, bankers, and Ripple employees.

From the 2nd to the 4th of October over 350 blockchain influencers will meet in Dublin, Ireland at the 3rd Blockchain for Finance Conference. Some very important banking decisionmakers will attend, among them: Mariana Gómez de la Villa – Global Program Manager Blockchain from ING, Jeremy Wilson – Vice Chairman at Barclays, Barry Childe- Head of Distributed Leger and Crypto Technology at HSBC, and Laurent Marochin i- Head of Innovation & Quality at Société Générale.

On October the 5th San Francisco Blockchain Week starts. Ethereum’s Vitalik Buterin, Joseph Poon form the Lightning Network, Dawn Song of Oasis will attend the convention.

You should also follow the Blockchain Security Conference in Las Vegas from 9th to 11th of October with Michael Perklin- CISO ShapeShift AG and Mikko Ohtamaa, CTO at TokenMarket among the speakers.

From the 16th to the 18th of October following the events on Blockchain Solutions World in Barcelona with Eion Connoly from ConsenSys and Jon Matonis from Bitcoin Foundation as keynote speakers.

A big event will take place in Los Angeles between the 22nd and 24th of October. Crypto Invest Summit is going to be about sustainable investing in blockchain technologies. There are going to be a long list of speakers with market-influencing potential: Steve Wozniak- Apple CoFounder, Tim Draper – Draper University, Dan Morehead- Founder and CEO Pantera Capital, Kavita Gupta – Founding Managing Partner at ConsenSys, David Weild IV-Former VC of NASDAQ and many, many others.

Finally, at the end of October in Prague follow the Network’s Devcon IV, the world’s largest convention of Ethereum developers. The community will gather to solve the challenges of the scaling of the Ethereum Network.

This article was originally posted on FX Empire

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