Bitcoin/USD daily basis

Bitcoin USD – New highs since March crash

At the beginning of the reporting week, Bitcoin tested the zone around USD 8,600, after another failure at the USD 10,000 mark the previous week. The price found this week’s low in the area of the trend line of the upward trend since March. Bitcoin was already able to break away from the lows as of Wednesday, closing close to the daily high at USD 9,200. Continued buying pressure pushed the price above the USD 9,500 mark on Thursday and led to a further close near the daily high. In the last three trading days of the reporting week, Bitcoin moved within daily bandwidths of almost 400 USD around the 9’500 USD level. The pattern showed a trend of slightly higher lows.

Advancing to well-known resistances in micro and macro trends

A veritable countermovement established itself after the price slump of mid-March. This led up to the resistance zones around USD 10,000 (red). This was followed by an initial rejection, which brought the price back to the 200-day average (1), just over USD 8,000. In the meantime, two further attempts to climb to the area beyond the USD 10,000 level have failed. Ignoring the intraday outliers of 10 and 11 May, Bitcoin has been trading within the USD 8,500 – USD 10,000 zone for a good month. A triangular formation with lower highs and higher lows can be seen, which makes a breakout in one direction or the other and thus an increase in volatility more likely.

The resistance zone around USD 10,000 is interesting in several respects. For one thing, the 0.618 Fibonacci point (2) of the entire downward movement, which was heralded at the end of June 2019 just below USD 14,000, is located here. On the other hand, the zone around USD 10,000 simultaneously functions as a confirmation of the still bearish trend of lower highs since December 2017 (see next section).

In order to maintain the recent positive picture, the support zone created around the USD 8,800 mark should not be breached (green). The next support zone is the area just above 8’000 USD where the 200-day moving average (1) is located. The positive structure of the micro-trend is endangered by a renewed test of the zone 7’500 – 7’700 USD. The area around 7’000 USD can be used as a last support before the positive structure suffers lasting damage.

Macro: On the threshold of a trend reversal

Bitcoin has so far failed to set a higher high in the weekly interval, which would have broken the prevailing bearish trend since December 2017. In its last attempt since the beginning of the year, the upward trend in the relevant zone at around USD 10,500 failed to establish itself. The countermovement that began in mid-March after the sharp price correction brings the price once again to the trend line, which is the result of the lower highs since the end of 2017.

If the negative macro picture is to be broken, the tendency of lower highs since 2017 must be sustainably overcome. This should be legitimized with several weekly candles above the USD 10,000 mark in order to rule out false outbreaks such as those in July 2019. The current establishment in the new range should take place in the coming weeks above the USD 7300-7500 zone, as well as above the 21-week average (1), in order not to cloud the new positive picture again.

If a renewed rejection to below the USD 7,000 zone were to occur, support in the lower range of the macro trend is expected from the 200-week average (2) at USD 5,900, which has never been breached since its inception, and from the trend line (3) of the respective lows of the upward trend since March 2017.

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*Originally published in German at CVJ.ch