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Merits 7 from 4 users
price floor function
by
kellrobinson
on 04/11/2021, 18:28:20 UTC
⭐ Merited by JayJuanGee (3) ,RejectedBanana (2) ,dragonvslinux (1) ,d_eddie (1)

Take a quadratic regression of time as a function of bitcoin’s daily closing price since July 7, 2010 (Mt Gox and Bitstamp concatenated):



Solve the quadratic and invert the axes, putting yourself back in the time domain:



Divide by 2.5; call this bitcoin’s historic price floor:



Manipulate the price floor to fit the halving cycles by superposing a cyclical function on the monotonic trend:



The yellow trace extrapolates an ad hoc curve-fitting of the halving cycles. The curve can be squeezed into different shapes by changing its parameters.