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    Daily market commentary from 17.08.2020

    By Patrick Heusser on 17. August 2020 Market Review

    An overview of what is happening in the crypto markets, summarised daily by Crypto Finance AG Senior Trader Patrick Heusser in the market commentary.

    Market commentary

    Good Morning!

    BTC$ Update

    I am back from my holidays and have taken a fresh look at the heatmaps of the major coins. The most interesting one (and also the most crucial to me) is Bitcoin BTC$ - along with the 12k level everyone is talking about.

    The heatmap confirms that there is a reasonable amount of resistance building up on Coinbase (please see image). You can see that there is a more lightly coloured section just around the 12k level. It represents a decent number of physical BTC sell orders (roughly 400 BTC) all around the 12-12.3k level. They also seem to be steady orders. This is visible due to the forward looking function on the heatmap (it tries to project the orders that do not seem to be moving around, i.e. they are "stale").

    Market commentary

    I have not said this for a while now, but I believe that if we go through 12-12.2k level, we could see some fireworks.

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    About the author

    Patrick Heusser

      Patrick Heusser is Head of Trading at Crypto Broker AG. Prior to joining the company, Patrick worked as an Interest Rate Trader at UBS and held various positions in the IRCC (interest rate, commodity and foreign exchange trading) in London, New York, Singapore and Zurich. Patrick is an expert in trading and risk management. He also gained experience in other areas, such as building start-up companies. Patrick has a degree in banking from a business school. He has also taken various courses in technical chart analysis.

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