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In December 2019 AMFEIX fund generated a total return of 5.14% (after fees), during the
same period, the Standard and Poor’s 500 index (S&P 500) generated return of 2.75%
therefore the difference between both investments is of about 2.39%. For this month
Bitcoin had done a negative performance of 4.50% return.
AMFEIX PERFORMANCE vs S&P500 and Bitcoin
1 0.00% -1.97%
2 0.10% -0.86% -1.34%
3 0.00% -0.66% -0.19%
4 0.20% 0.63% -1.33%
5 0.63% 0.15% 2.79%
6 0.10% 0.91% 1.99%
7 0.00% -0.59%
8 0.00% 0.28%
9 0.27% -0.32% -2.45%
10 0.12% -0.11% -1.69%
11 0.00% 0.29% -0.33%
12 0.06% 0.86% -0.09%
13 0.00% 0.01% 0.82%
14 0.19% -2.50%
15 0.06% 0.73%
16 0.64% 0.71% -3.16%
17 0.67% 0.03% -3.75%
18 0.59% -0.04% 9.84%
19 0.81% 0.45% -1.93%
20 0.00% 0.49% 0.43%
21 0.00% -0.65%
22 0.24% 5.10%
23 0.32% 0.09% -2.45%
24 0.00% -0.02% -0.96%
25 0.00% -0.78%
26 0.00% 0.51% 0.17%
27 0.00% 0.00% 0.75%
28 0.11% 0.65%
29 0.15% 1.14%
30 -0.12% -0.39% -1.92%
31 0.00% 0.00%
Total 5.14% 2.75% -4.50%
*Days where there is not return on S&P500 correspond to days where there is no market activity (i.e weekends
or festivities). Nevertheless, AMFEIX operates everyday as the cryptocurrency market is always active.
AMFEIX Net Return in Different Currencies
Currency Net change December 2019
Bitcoin (BTC) 5.14%
USD ($) 0.64%
*USD net returns are given by the following function: [USD ($) = Fund net return + BTC net price change]
The fund successfully continued to perform ahead of traditional investments without any
major change from previous periods.
Cumulative Returns
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The cumulative returns graph represents the overall return (%) in BTC during the month of
December 2019, the trend shows exponential increasing returns from the beginning of the
month.
Forecast
The forecasted returns for future periods can be found in table 3 below. The statistics
performed for the next period, January 2020, have been made taking into consideration
historical data and three possible scenarios with a 95% confidence interval.
Table 3
Expected Values of Returns for AMFEIX
*Standard Deviation considering three scenarios [Pessimistic, Most likely, Optimistic]. This forecast takes into consideration historical
data of the fund, nevertheless past performance does not ensure future performance therefore statistic should not be taken as financial
advice.
As seen in the table 4, the standard deviation of the different outcomes is large, this has
to do with the operational strategy used by the fund to generate returns. In traditional
investments, the standard deviation (std) is usually lower, but given that AMFEIX's returns
come from day trading, the represented scenarios report very distant values and cover all
possible outcomes.
Market Update
The number of new funds launched is less than half the amount started in 2018. The
retrenchment comes amid another volatile year for cryptocurrencies, with Bitcoin and its
peers once again posting the kind of swings that make institutional investors
uncomfortable. High profile advocates, such as Fidelity Investments (an American
multinational financial services, based in Boston, who counts for 2.46 trillion USD assets
under management) and the New York Stock Exchange’s parent company plow ahead
with initiatives seeking to make it easier to own digital assets, their potential customer
base seems to be disappearing at a quick clip.
BLOOMBERG.COM
Trading volumes on Bitcoin futures on exchanges like Chicago Mercantile Exchange and
Bakkt, which began offering futures that settled in Bitcoin in September, have increased,
but are still relatively low. CME’s daily volume this year averaged about 32,500 Bitcoins,
or $236.8 million at current prices, with more than 3,500 individual accounts trading, the
company said in November. The trend for December disagrees the observations seen
over the previous months and forecasts optimist predictions about the future of
Bitcoins presence over the market.
That’s just a drop in the bucket compared with the volume on less-regulated trading
platforms outside the U.S. Aggregate Bitcoin futures volume. Institutions’ investments
into cryptocurrencies are likely to increase over the next five years, according to a
Fidelity survey earlier this year.
BLOOMBERG.COM
Regarding monthly BTC performance, a stable trend draws for digital money throughout
December: the price averages around $7200. However, BTC record a significant fall in
its capitalization and price. On December 17, exposure of the asset was recorded at
6,602.19 USD regaining its average performance on December 19 at 7,276.80 USD. A
month characterized by bitcoin’s stability with only two significant changes. A low from the
16th to the 18th of December and a high from the 23rd to the 25th.
COINMARKETCAP.COM
Looking in more detail at the performance recorded on December 17th we can claim that
Bitcoin price is currently in the process of strong reversal, which has seen the digital asset
quickly recover 8.16% to trade slightly above $7,200.
On Dec. 17 the digital asset broke below the $6,800 support level and swiftly commenced
a tumble to the $6,450 support where it bounced of the lower support of the long-term
descending channel. Many analysts cautioned that if bulls failed to buy into the dip, a
price drop below the $6,400 increased the possibility of a revisit to $5,500 to $5,350.
Fortunately for bulls, the price bounced off the critical trendline and the digital asset could
now be in the path to flipping the $7,300 resistance back to support. We pinpointed the
importance of Bitcoin price remaining above this support and today’s 31st December,
strong upside move is sure to have relieved worried investors, at least for the time being.
Interestingly, the rebound to $7,235 also filled the CME gap from Dec. 14-15, a
phenomenon that has become increasingly common for BTC/USD this year.
By now, AMFEIX is working out a realistic projection for Bitcoin over the next few years.
The projections of 2020 BTC performance is able to change the course of the digital
asset story.
Trade History
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