Quote from: Harry Hood on March 15, 2015, 12:57:55 AM

Quote from: SargeR33 on March 14, 2015, 07:09:25 AM

I bought some BTC at the nice low point it was on. Its weird how it fluctuates so randomly when there are no real reasons in sight. I was trading some stocks the other day and had some first hand info of a penny share signing a new contract with a new company. I bought some shares at .05 a piece, the signing was made public on all exchanges and there was a 48% jump when the market closed.

The price fluctuations may seem random because there's no great or awful news out but really the price fluctuations are far from random and have very real reasons. The reasons are just more simple than you expect. It's all linked to supply and demand. If there are more people that want to buy bitcoin than want to sell it today they price will go up. If there are more people that want to sell than buy today the price will go down. The price will travel to an equilibrium between buyers and sellers. In fact, this is the only reason that drives price. Now positive or negative news can influence price, but not unless the news is significant enough to cause more buyers than sellers (or vice versa).

Here's some more information on the topic: http://futures.tradingcharts.com/learning/supply_and_demand.html

Supply and demand is sharp and real way to read price, but the current price is very different from the perceived price. Namely, a lot of investors think Bitcoin will be a success, but they aren't gotten all in yet just to keep buying cheap coins.