Bitcoin USD daily basis
Bitcoin USD Chart Analysis - Profit Taking After New All-Time High
In the reporting week, Bitcoin continued its price correction after reaching a new all-time high 10 days ago. Already on Monday, the first support of the previous week in the area of 56,000 USD was tested again. On Tuesday and Wednesday, this support area was defended with daily closing prices just above the 57,000 mark. Accordingly, a price increase followed on Thursday, which brought within the day at 59'473 USD close to the new resistance zone 60,000 USD. At the end of the day, the price entered Friday's trading slightly lower at 59,010 USD. The series of higher lows or daily highs, which formed since the new all-time high for 16 days, the bears took advantage on Friday, resulting in a sharp drop of 9% and bringing the price back to 53,892 USD. This new level just above key support zones was held over the weekend and ultimately led to a weekly close in the USD 57,000 area.
Price decline into the area of the 50-day moving average
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After the price drop in mid-March 2020, a veritable countermovement established itself. This led to the resistance zones above USD 10,000. After an initial rejection and a consolidation phase lasting almost two months, a breakout through the fundamental resistance zone followed on July 27, which had been established since August 2019 and had already caused Bitcoin to fail several times to date.
The resistance zone around USD 10,000 was interesting in several respects. On the one hand, the 0.618 Fibonacci point of the entire downward movement, which was initiated at the end of June 2019 just below 14,000 USD, is located here. On the other hand, the zone around USD 10,000 simultaneously acted as a confirmation of the still bearish trend from lower highs since December 2017 (see the macro view on a weekly basis). Bitcoin was able to establish itself above the newly created support in the USD 10,000 area since the end of July 2020 and provided the first confirmation of a trend reversal with the break of the resistance zone around USD 12,200 towards the end of October 2020. In the following weeks, the positive trend accentuated and led Bitcoin through the 14,000 resistance in early November 2020 and close to the then all-time highs around 20,000 USD for the first time in early December, which remained untouched for 158 weeks since the bull market in 2017.
Since the breakout through the important 14,000 resistance at the beginning of November, it has been blowing by blow. The breakout through the old all-time high at USD 20,000 saw a strong accentuation of the uptrend, which saw the bitcoin price mark it's new all-time high just below USD 65,000 on April 14. However, the rapid upward movement was abruptly stopped in mid-May and led back to the 30,000 USD areas. Subsequently, the price consolidated in the USD 30,000 - 40,000 corridor for three months until breaking out of the upper range of the corridor at the end of July. The subsequent countermovement led to the historical resistance in the area of 52,000 USD. After an initial failure, Bitcoin was able to overcome the resistance zone on October 6 and most recently recorded highs above the old all-time high from mid-April for the first time.
Daily Interval Outlook
A roundig bottom scenario in the area of the 0.618 Fibonacci point, which is calculated between the start of the rapid uptrend and the old all-time high of mid-April, has manifested itself in a strong upward movement. This eventually led above the all-time high of mid-April. Since the bottoming in the 0.618 Fibonacci area, such a scenario moved more and more into the realm of potential possibilities. This situation was recently strengthened by the retest of the 40,000 zone at the end of September and the subsequent impressive countermovement. At the latest after overcoming the 52,000 resistance level, it was obvious that the market was serious about its mission to reach an all-time high.
The creation of a new all-time high at USD 69,000 led to profit-taking in the last two weeks. Such technical patterns are often observed in all-time high constellations and suggest that mainly breakout buyers are forced to place stop-loss orders at a certain level. However, the bullish structure, strengthened by the 189-day recapture of the old all-time high in the USD 65,000 area, is unbroken and the ingredients are right for a medium-term continued price discovery above the new all-time high. The current correction leads to the weighty support zone 50,000 - 52,000 USD. Support is located here, created by historical price action in the first half of the year, as well as by the trend line created along with the lows since the late July uptrend. This support area should be seen as an important indicator of the current uptrend.
New price discovery phase initiated
Weekly Interval Review
Bitcoin was able to set a higher high above USD 10,000 for the first time in the weekly interval in 2020, which broke the prevailing bearish trend since December 2017. This broke the series of lower highs that lasted for 135 weeks (1).
Since this first overcoming of the bearish trend, the signs for a valid trend reversal became stronger. With the push through important resistance zones and a continuous development above the 21-week average (2), the probabilities for a renewed reaching of the all-time high created in 2017/18 increased visibly. This was accomplished in mid-December 2020. This was followed by a strongly accentuated price discovery above this historical mark, which produced a new all-time high of USD 65,000 in mid-April. A consolidation initiated since then ended in a veritable price slide that took Bitcoin back to the USD 30,000 mark in just two weeks. A subsequent breakout from the 10-week consolidation area of 30,000 - 40,000 USD and a subsequent successful retest of the upper range at 40,000 USD brings Bitcoin in an impressive countermovement last above the all-time high created in April.
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With the price movements in the past year, a good foundation was created to sustainably climb new spheres beyond the all-time highs reached in 2017. The break of the USD 20,000 mark impressively demonstrated the power of the upward movement that had been establishing itself since October. The rapid price increase was abruptly interrupted in mid-April with a price drop that even brought Bitcoin below the 21-week average (2) that has defined reliable bull or bear market phases in the past.
Bitcoin was able to overcome the subsequent correction phase in the USD 30,000 - 40,000 zone after 3 months. This consolidation also took place in the interesting 0.618 Fibonacci area, which has been calculated since the start of the bull market and the all-time high of April. The breakout from the upper price band of the three-month corridor was another sign that the bulls had not yet given up the sceptre. The onset of the countermovement, which led back to the 52,000 resistance, negated a forming shoulder-head-shoulder formation and once again underscored the claim for a continued bull phase.
The justification for a price discovery beyond the all-time high of mid-April was consolidated by the price movements of the last weeks. A "retest" of the 40,000 zones, which from then on served as support and where the 21-week average sometimes also runs, was successfully completed at the end of September. The bullish momentum was crowned in recent weeks with the break of the 52,000 resistance zone. Price movements above this mark still point to continued price discovery in higher spheres. As a further indication of the general state of the market, the weekly RSI index remains to be observed (3), which so far shows a negative divergence to the price trend. Accordingly, the price should find support in the area of USD 50,000 above the 21-week average, so that the cards for a continued price discovery remain good.
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