The fact that the price of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies declined massively during 2018 doesn’t seem to have scared the investors away. Despite a price drop of more than 80 percent for bitcoin, investors now seem to have found their way back to the cryptocurrency.
Since the first of January this year, the price of bitcoin has gained a whopping 37 percent, which can be compared to the American stock index S&P 500, which only gained about 17 percent. 17 percent is, of course, huge, but it doesn’t even come close to the gains of bitcoin.
The same goes for other assets and indexes as gold (+0,5 percent) and Nasdaq 100 (+21,0 percent) as well.
The increases were compiled by Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) on Twitter, and you can read the full list below.
2019 Returns…
Oil $USO: +38%
Bitcoin $BTC: +35%
Nasdaq 100 $QQQ: +21%
REITs $VNQ: +19%
MLPs $AMLP: +18%
Small Caps $IWM: +18%
S&P 500 $SPY: +17%
EM $EEM: +14%
EAFE $EFA: +13%
Commodities $DBC: +13%
High Yield $HYG: +9%
Investment Grade $LQD: +6%
Bonds $AGG: +2%
Gold $GLD: +0.5%— Charlie Bilello (@charliebilello) 13 april 2019
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