Bitcoin Ends Q1 Closely Following S&P 500
Data from TradingView shows a correlation between bitcoin and the S&P 500 as bitcoin drops below $45,000.
Apr 1, 2022 at 7:49 a.m. UTCUpdated May 11, 2023 at 5:23 p.m. UTC
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Bitcoin vs. S&P 500 TradingView)
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As the S&P 500 closed out the first quarter down 5.5%, bitcoin (BTC) closely followed, with the world’s largest digital asset tied to the S&P 500 as closely as ever.
- Bitcoin closed the quarter down 2%, tightening the correlation with the S&P to nearly 0.9 (1 is perfect correlation, -1 is perfectly inverted).
- While bitcoin touched $48,000 earlier in the week, it has since dropped below $45,000.
- The correlation between the index and bitcoin appears to be cyclical; bitcoin’s losses will outpace the stock market’s given the 24/7 nature of the asset.
- Likewise, its fast rebound will also outpace the S&P.
- Traders are concerned about the prolonged nature of the Russia-Ukraine war, and threats from the Kremlin to cut off Europe’s supply of natural gas unless the contracts are denominated in rubles.
- As CoinDesk previously reported, although bitcoin had one of its worst-ever starts to a year, it ended up gaining around 9% throughout March occasionally outperforming U.S. stocks.
- However, many layer-1 tokens like Solana, Terra, AVAX and Cardano were able to outperform bitcoin with double-digit gains on mainstream curiosity about the launch of Ethereum 2.0 according to analysts who spoke with CoinDesk.
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