Quote from: erikalui on March 14, 2015, 04:58:00 PM

When I started trading in Bitcoins, the rate was above $300 but through some discussions on this forum, I noticed the price had crossed $1000. When was it and on what factors does this price depend on? Does it work the same way the stock market and forex operate? Also, what was the highest price bitcoin ever attained and the lowest price as well?

Currently the price is $287 and am waiting it to again reach atleast $300.

The price is simply derived by supply and demand. At the very beginning, Bitcoins were worth literally nothing. Thats right, nothing. Why you ask, well, no one was buying them, so the only owners were miners, and Bitcoin didn't simply have any value.
Only later on with the first exchanges made between users a price was starting to take shape, then with the first actual exchange the price started to take it's course until what we have today.