The Impact of Market Sentiment on Cryptocurrency Investment
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Market sentiment refers to the overall feeling of investors and traders have about the state of the market or the price action of a particular asset. The descriptive study focused on the impact of market sentiment on cryptocurrency investment. Specifically, this study answered the following questions using the data collected in an online survey with 2014 respondents: (1) What is the current status of the market sentiment on cryptocurrency investment? (2) What are the common problems encountered by investors in the cryptocurrency market? (3) Is there a significant relationship between the current status of market sentiment on cryptocurrency investment and common problems encountered by investors? And; (4) What countermeasures can be proposed to the impact of market sentiment on cryptocurrency investment? Most of the respondents tended agreed about the current status of the market sentiment on cryptocurrency investment. Their responses tended to generally reflect their optimistic or "bullish" sentiment toward the market, that cryptocurrency holders are knowledgeable about the benefits of positive market outlook, and the market accurately predicted the volatility of cryptocurrency. The respondents were aware of the problems already reported in the literature, including cryptocurrency investment has become an avenue for illegal operations, the emergence of crypto scams, and the complexities of investing in cryptocurrencies. There was no significant correlation between market sentiment and problem encountered by investors. The respondents proposed some countermeasures to ameliorate some of the problems and challenges. The conclusions were confounded by Simpson's paradox. Further research is research to determine if the relationships between the current status of market sentiment on cryptocurrency investment vs. the common problems encountered by investors vary with respect to different mutually exclusive groups of investors.
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