Bitcoin (BTC) has fallen to never seen before oversold levels on several weekly metrics. The short-term readings suggest that a bounce is expected.
BTC has been falling since reaching an all-time high of $68,958 in Nov. The downward movement so far led to a low of $17,605 on June 18.
An important development is that the price has reached a weekly close below its 200-week moving average (MA). While this has previously occurred in March 2020 (green circle), the price has never stayed below the MA for a considerable period of time.
Historically, BTC bounced at this MA before beginning a sharp upward movement. Therefore, touches of this MA have usually coincided with market bottoms. The MA is currently at $22,700 and could act as resistance.
The daily RSI provides a more bullish outlook. Firstly, the RSI reached a low of 20, which is the lowest value since March 2020. So, this is in line with the relationship of the price to the 200-week MA, which suggests that a bottom is close or has been reached.
Secondly, from June 18 to 19, BTC created a bullish engulfing candlestick that had a long lower wick. When combined with the oversold RSI, it is a sign of a potential bottom.
The six-hour chart supports this possibility, since it shows a very pronounced bullish divergence. Also, since the RSI has moved above the high between the divergences (red icon), it has effectively created a failed swing bottom.
If the upward movement continues, the closest resistance would be at $23,000. This is the 0.382 Fib retracement resistance level and a horizontal resistance area.
There are several possibilities for the wave count.
The most bullish one suggests that BTC is nearing the bottom of wave four (white), of a five wave upward movement that began in March 2020.
A drop below the wave one high at $13,880 (red line) would invalidate this particular count.
The neutral count suggests that the price is still in wave four of the same five-wave upward movement. The difference between this and the bullish count is the top of wave three, which is later in the neutral count.
As a result of this difference, another downward movement would be expected prior to a significant bounce.
Similar to the previous count, a decrease below $13,888 would invalidate this count.
The bearish count indicates that the entire five-wave formation has already come to an end. In this possibility, the price has begun a new five-wave downward movement (red), which will take it between $10,500 and $14,500, the 0.5-0.618 Fib retracement support levels.
The irregularity in this BTC count is the massive difference in time and magnitude between waves two and four.
Unlike the long-term counts, the short-term ones are similar in each possibility.
The price is in wave five of a short-term five-wave downward movement (black). The sub-wave count is given in yellow, also indicating that the price is in sub-wave five.
The only potential difference is if there is another small drop prior to the bottom or if the bottom has already been reached.
Source: beincrypto.com
Coin | Change(%) | Price | Volume (24h) |
---|---|---|---|
Bitcoin (BTC) | 3.71 | $72,084.86 | $45.5B |
Ethereum (ETH) | 3.43 | $4,038.91 | $20.8B |
XRP (XRP) | 18.52 | $0.727106 | $4.4B |
Solana (SOL) | 1.58 | $147.242060 | $3.8B |
Binance Coin (BNB) | -2.22 | $519.52 | $3.0B |
USD Coin (USDC) | 0.03 | $0.999697 | $2.4B |
Dogecoin (DOGE) | 0.96 | $0.174374 | $2.1B |
Shiba Inu (SHIB) | -2.92 | $0.000033 | $1.7B |
Floki Inu (FLOKI) | -7.67 | $0.000267 | $1.3B |
Avalanche (AVAX) | 13.16 | $47.596296 | $1.2B |