I was just reading an article yesterday that talked about institutional investors and the projection that there would be even more institutions "getting into the game" next year (2022)... While I agree that we can't just look at institutional buys to determine if the market is going to be bullish/bearish, I still think it's a good sign that more and more institutions are adding money to the crypto markets. Personally, I've thought of these institutional buys and longer term holds. These companies aren't buying all that bitcoin and then just sitting back and day trading with it. They're buying and stashing because they're confident we'll see BTC get to $100k eventually. The institutional buys are a good thing for crypto overall because it's adding big money to market caps, but I certainly wouldn't use them as a buy or sell signal. Part of why I believe we saw a dip in December is because some of these institutions were unloading some of their BTC before having to close their books for the year.

If you're talking about the price of Bitcoin, then you're correct, investors should not be certain that with the presence of every new institutional investor there is going to be an appreciation in the price of Bitcoin, it can happen in your favor a couple of times, but it's not a guarantee, just like the entire network itself, but mind you that since there are no assurances in the network, this strategy may not be too bad for short term traders, so long as they do not invest more than they can lose. Having said that, I take the Influx of institutional investors as a sign of growth and development for the network (not the immediate price), it actually means more people and establishments believe in the network, and it is the very step that'll gradually take us to mass adoption.

In the first place, if one is to make the most out of massive institutional purchases of Bitcoin, they shouldn't even be buying, that is, if they think these purchases would mean rise in price. After all, by the time the news come out, the purchase had already been made. If it has an effect to the price, it must have already been factored in by the time the news came out.

Of course, hype is always temporary. You cannot hype a thing forever. So it cannot be made as a basis for long-term investment. The crypto market has abundant proofs of how short-lived hype is.

However, these institutional purchases aren't without value. These may not be short-term signals at all but these are signs that the future could be brighter. If the majority of the largest business institutions in the world would begin to purchase Bitcoin, it does not only signal for an increase in the price, it also means a much wider adoption is underway.

Their main motive is to make profits in the short run as you could easily see how much they have gained over the time holding bitcoin compared to their regular profits over all these years.I would rather say it's positive approach towards bitcoin if we say this trend implicitly do not mean bull run but a slight price push is noticed as the demand increased by some numbers and the institution are concentrating huge supply with them like MicroStrategy holds above 120k btc at this time and Saylor personally also holds some of them.But the main part is we should be doing our own investment also to generate profits otherwise looking at them will not help us.