Bitcoin Price Bearish After Network Hiccups
The price of Bitcoin has been slowly dipping downwards since Wednesday, March 2nd and Monday’s spam attack fiasco. The price had previously wavered within the USD $430-440 range up until late Tuesday after the network problems. Now the price has fallen below the sub $400 level and is showing signs of volatility. On February 29th, 2016 the network had what some called a spam or fee attack which slowed trades down and left many unconfirmed transactions in the mempool. I personally waited three and a half days for a large sum of coin I sent over the blockchain for a small two-cent fee. This....
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Here's a look at what we are focusing on in the bitcoin price this evening. So that’s another day done, and once again it’s been a pretty busy one. We’ve tried to take advantage of some of the smaller price movements in the bitcoin price over the last few days, and to some extent, it’s worked. There have been a few hiccups, but by focusing on near term targets and avoiding our intrarange strategy, we’ve been able to get what we want out of the markets without having to put too much back in. Tonight, we’re looking to continue this trend. Things have been up and down, but we’re seeing some....
Not much happened today in the price action of litecoin. As we can see in the 1H chart, price has been drifting sideways since the cryptocurrency rallied from around 1.60 to about 1.82. While price is indeed still in this consolidation range, we can see a bearish bias. Litecoin (LTCUSD) 1H Chart April 1, 2015. 1) The 200-, 100-, and 50-hour simple moving averages (SMAs) are in bearish alignment and are sloping down. 2) Price is starting to hold below the cluster of these SMAs, which shows bearish bias. 3) The RSI has held below 60, and has tagged 30, showing development of bearish....