Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 19/8/2015 - The Death of Bull
All hell has broken loose in the Bitcoin market! The price of Bitcoin crashed more than 13 percent intraday after bears crushed the bulls following the Bitcoin XT controversy. As of now, short covering has helped lift the price up to $235.66, still off more than 7 percent. With this, all the hard work done by the bulls since June has been undone. In the previous Bitcoin price technical analysis, The Pressure is Simply Too Much, I had clearly stated that if the selling pressure were to increase even slightly, it would lead to a breakdown kind of situation in the cryptocurrency. My short....
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All across crypto, fear is in the air. Not only is the market shaken from the recent downtrend, but there’s an extra layer of doom and gloom due to an impending “death cross” in Bitcoin. Learn all about the ominous sounding crossover of two commonly watched moving averages, what the signal could mean, and how Bitcoin price has reacted in the past. The "death cross" is nigh | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com Does The Bitcoin Death Cross Mean Doom And Gloom For Crypto? Bitcoin price on daily BTCUSD charts is only days away from completing a “death cross.”....
Bitcoin rises more than 2 percent to $430.21, nearing our year-end target of $440. In the previous price technical analysis A No Trade Market, we mentioned that an increasing MFI often causes price appreciation, and we are witnessing just that. The question now is: Would bitcoin be able to extend the gains or will it retrace its steps? Let us try to predict this with the help of technical analysis conducted on the 240-minute BTC-USD price chart. Bitcoin is well poised to increase its duration inside the $400-440 range, at least for the next couple of sessions. There is a high probability....