Bitcoin Price Technical Analysis for 8/10/2015 - The Long Strategy
Trading with a slightly negative bias, Bitcoin has slipped to $244.28, down 0.94 percent yesterday. Even though the uptrend is intact, Bitcoin has failed to sustain above a key technical level which has led to severe deteriorations in the technical indicators. Let us discuss each of the factors in the technical analysis of the daily BTC-USD price chart below. Bitcoin Chart Structure - As has been marked in the chart above, the upward channel in which Bitcoin has been trading since the last week of September clearly holds. However, as discussed earlier, Bitcoin has failed to sustain above....
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