Severe Downside Risks for Bitcoin on Bearish ‘Death Cross’ Appearance

Bitcoin is on the verge of painting a Death Cross. The technical chart pattern–which forms after an asset’s short-term moving average closes below its long-term moving average–holds credibility for predicting bearish markets. In the stock market crash of 2008, for instance, many investors credited Death Cross for limiting their losses. The same scenario is now brewing on the Bitcoin daily chart, wherein the cryptocurrency’s 50-day moving average (50-DMA) is itching to drop below its 100-day […]

Even as the bitcoin price jumps against favorable macro fundamentals, a chartist sees the cryptocurrency moving downwards in the coming sessions. The pseudonymous analyst pitched a highly bearish scenario for BTC/USD on Monday. He envisioned that the pair’s 50-day moving average would close below its 100-day moving average, leading to the formation of a so-called “Bear Cross” – also known as ‘Death Cross’ among financial pundits. Traders typically perceive Death Crosses as a sign of […]

Bitcoin’s “death cross” is back in the group chat. And yes, the emails too. Matthew Sigel, head of digital assets research at VanEck, said he’s been “getting questions from clients” about the latest death cross print — the 50-day moving average slipping under the 200-day — and answered with the kind of data dump that tends to calm people down. “Lagging indicator,” Sigel wrote on X, alongside a table of every Bitcoin death cross going back to 2011. The summary stats are clean: the 6-month median return after a death cross is +30%, the 12-month median is +89%, and the “positive hit rate” is....

Bitcoin traders are sitting on their hands after spotting a death cross on the daily chart but could this be a buy signal for contrarian investors? Bitcoin’s (BTC) succession of sharp corrections from its all-time high at $64,900 has turned investor sentiment negative, at least for the short-term. While some analysts believe the bottom may have been hit, others are warning of a further fall due to the “Death Cross” pattern that, at the time of writing, is on the verge of completion. For new traders, the name death cross itself brings a lot of negativity and a feeling of impending doom.....

More bearish cues for SOL comes from a bull flag setup that's now breaking to the downside. A rebound move witnessed in the Solana (SOL) market this weekend exhausted midway as its price dropped below the $90 level from a high of $96 on Feb. 21. In doing so, SOL price technicals are now risking a classic bearish reversal setup.Solana price risks dropping to $60Dubbed head-and-shoulders (H&S), the technical pattern emerges when the price forms three peaks in a row atop a common support level (called a neckline). As it typically turns out, the pattern's middle peak, called a "head," comes....