Bullish
Describes an expectation that a price will rise, or a trader positioned to profit from gains.
To be bullish is to expect prices to go up. A trader who is bullish on Ethereum thinks it will appreciate and tends to buy or hold. The word stretches to cover anything optimistic: a bullish chart, a bullish forecast.
Sentiment matters because crypto runs heavily on belief. When enough participants turn bullish at once, buying pressure can become self-fulfilling for a while. The risk is crowding. When everyone is already bullish and fully invested, there's little fresh money left to push prices higher.
Related terms
Describes an expectation that a price will fall, or a position set up to gain when it does.
Bull MarketA sustained period of rising prices, when buyers dominate and optimism pushes valuations higher across the market.
FOMO (Fear of Missing Out)The urge to buy an asset because its price is climbing fast and you dread missing the gains.
VolatilityA measure of how sharply and how often a price swings, in either direction, over time.