Seasoned Bitcoin market participants are anything but willing to take profit, even with the BTC price up 40% in January. Market Update Own this piece of history Collect this article as an NFT Bitcoin (BTC) refused to surrender gains at the Jan. 23 Wall Street open as United States equities opened higher. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Dollar sags as risk assets reject retracement Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD continuing to circle $22,800 at the time of writing. The pair had managed to conserve its trading range over the weekend, with a local low of $22,315 allowing bulls to avoid a major setback. The mood remained buoyant among risk assets on the day, with the S&P 500 up 1.3% and Nasdaq Composite Index trading 2% higher....
Bitcoin (BTC) is in for a new “big rally” as market strength copies conditions from after the 2018 bear market. According to the latest analysis, BTC/USD will continue to head higher “after some consolidation” thanks to key signals from its relative strength index (RSI). Bitcoin prints never-before-seen bullish divergence With the BTC price gains still coming, Bitcoin bulls are feeling increasingly confident despite widespread mistrust of the longevity of the current rally. For popular trader Crypto Wolf, a key phenomenon now underway sets Bitcoin’s latest recovery apart from all others. RSI, he noted on Jan. 18, had printed a long-awaited bullish divergence on weekly timeframes — something which has never happened before. “BTC printed a rare weekly RSI bullish divergence. Never happened i...
Bitcoin (BTC) took a swing at $23,000 into Jan. 21 as Asia buyers drove fresh market strength. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bid liquidity causes suspicion Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD battling bears to reach $22,790 on Bitstamp overnight — its highest since August. With new multi-month peaks coming in quick succession despite fears of a major correction, Bitcoin continued to surprise as traders cleared the way for more upside. As noted by intraday trader Skew, Asia was leading the way into the weekend, with sellside pressure from market makers being absorbed on exchanges. “Another rally driven by asia bid. TWAP buyers absorbing the sell pressure from MMs. Large spot bid lifting offers & ask wall pulled prior to anothe...
Bitcoin (BTC) rose toward new multi-month highs on Jan. 20 as analysis predicted a new trading range above $18,000. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin price range “well defined” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD testing but preserving support at $21,000. The pair edged higher at the Wall Street open, in line with United States equities as the third trading week of an explosive January drew to an end. Despite misgivings over the rally’s fundamental strength, Bitcoin continued to avoid significant corrections, with exchange order book analysis revealing $23,000 as the next big resistance zone to crack. “I view the lack of BTC liquidity below $18k and above $23k as a lack of sentiment for those levels at this time,”...
Bitcoin (BTC) spiked higher around the Jan. 17 Wall Street open as nervous analysts waited for further cues. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Opinions diverge over Bitcoin’s fate Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD briefly touching $21,594 on Bitstamp, marking its highest since Sep. 13. As bullish impulses continued to hit the chart, reactions stayed conservative amid an atmosphere of suspicion over the true source of Bitcoin’s return to form. One such cautious take came from Michaël van de Poppe, founder and CEO of trading firm Eight, who eyed behavior around a key exponential moving average (EMA) across crypto. “Food for thought; Total market capitalization and the altcoin market capitalization are both at the 200-day EMA...
Bitcoin (BTC) is trading at its highest levels in over two months, but the phrase on every trader’s lips is “bull trap.” After delivering 25% returns in a single week, BTC/USD remains under suspicion among Bitcoin bear market survivors. Bitcoin bull trap fails to convince It has been called the “biggest bull trap” ever seen, and despite holding above $20,000, BTC price action is fooling no one. This week, with Wall Street closed until Jan. 17, out-of-hours trading continues to support higher levels, but faith in these staying around for long is hard to find. For those who observed drop after drop throughout 2022, culminating in the FTX scandal, it appears simply too good to be true that Bitcoin will now flip bullish. That is the current result of Cointelegraph’s dedicated Twitter sur...
Bitcoin (BTC) continued a stunning comeback on Jan. 14 as $21,000 appeared for the first time since early November. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Bitcoin cracks key trend line for first time since $69K Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it hit highs of $21,247 on Bitstamp overnight. The pair had faced major suspicion after it began to make up some serious lost ground through the week, with analysts warning that a retracement could occur at any time. Nonetheless, only brief periods of consolidation accompanied Bitcoin’s ascent, with weekly gains sitting at nearly 25%. In doing so, BTC/USD took out its realized price at $19,700, old all-time high from 2017, $20,000 and the 200-day moving average. The latter saw its...
Bitcoin (BTC) stayed near $19,000 at the Jan. 13 Wall Street open as traders hoped a week of swift gains would stick. BTC/USD 1-day candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC price “breakout or fakeout remains to be seen” Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD crisscrossing the $19,000 mark as United States equities began trading. The pair rapidly took out sell-side liquidity overnight, gapping higher to what on-chain analytics resource Material Indicators forecast could be a retest of the $20,000 mark. “Seems like BTC is setting up for a retest of resistance at the 2017 Top,” it wrote in part of a Twitter discussion on Jan. 12, the day prior. “Whether we see a bonafide breakout or fakeout remains to be seen. Time for patience and discipline.” An accompany...
Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week on a promising footing with BTC price action near one-month highs — can it last? In a new year’s boost to bulls, BTC/USD is currently surfing levels not seen since mid-December, with the weekly close providing cause for optimism. The move precedes a conspicuous macroeconomic week for crypto markets, with the December 2022 Consumer Price Index (CPI) print due from the United States. Jerome Powell, Chair of the Federal Reserve, will also deliver a speech on the economy, with inflation on everyone’s radar. Inside the crypto sphere, FTX contagion continues, with Digital Currency Group (DCG) at odds with institutional clients over its handling of solvency problems at subsidiary Genesis Trading. At the same time, under the hood, Bitcoin still shows signs of recove...
Bitcoin (BTC) traded nearer $17,000 on Jan. 7 after the end of the year’s first trading week delivered a spike higher. BTC/USD 1-day candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView All eyes on CPI Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it briefly passed the $17,000 mark the day prior. The pair had seen flash volatility on the back of fresh economic data from the United States, this nonetheless fading to leave the key level “unflipped” as resistance. Nonetheless, the brief uptick delivered Bitcoin’s highest price point since Dec. 20, 2022. Reacting, market participants continued to look to next week’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) print as a key potential catalyst for risk assets. “Unemployment will rally in the coming months. Yields will fall of a cliff if CPI is...
Bitcoin (BTC) is now further below a key moving average than it was at the pit of the March 2020 COVID-19 crash. In a tweet on Jan. 4, popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital revealed just how remarkable the current Bitcoin bear market really is. BTC price 200-week moving average out of reach Not only has Bitcoin now spent more time below its 200-week moving average (WMA) than ever before, it is now further beneath it than at any time in history. Looking at the weekly BTC/USD chart, Rekt Capital confirmed that as of Jan. 4, BTC/USD traded around 37% below the 200 WMA. This, he noted, was “Deeper than the -31% retracement in March 2020.” The numbers provide interesting reading in a bear market which has yet to see BTC price retracements from all-time highs rival previous bottoms in percenta...
Bitcoin (BTC) inched closer to $17,000 on Jan. 3 as the first Wall Street open of the year loomed. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Consensus builds for fresh attack on $17,000 Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching highs of $16,766 on Bitstamp — its best performance since Dec. 27. Analysts and traders were keenly awaiting the start of Wall Street trading after European stocks posted gains the day prior and United States futures followed suit. As Cointelegraph reported, both equities and gold had looked considerably more appetizing than Bitcoin since the FTX meltdown in November. “If BTC is finally ready to join the party, I could see it run to 17.3K~ as drawn below,” popular trader Crypto Chase wrote in part of an analysis on...