‘Get ready’ for BTC volatility — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
Up or down, it is high time that Bitcoin made a significant move, market participants agree. Bitcoin (BTC) starts a new week keeping everyone guessing as a tiny trading range stays in play.A non-volatile weekend continues a familiar status quo for BTC/USD, which remains just above $19,000.Despite calls for a rally and a run to lower macro lows next, the pair has yet to make a decision on a trajectory — or even signal that a breakout or breakdown is imminent.After a brief spell of excitement seen on the back of last week’s United States economic data, Bitcoin is thus back at square one —....
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Here's a look at what we are focusing on in the bitcoin price this evening. In this morning’s analysis, we noted that things have been relatively flat so far this week (as they were over the weekend) and that – as a result – we were looking for some volatility during today’s session to get things moving for the week. Like we said before, it’s not really a problem if things are flat, but it makes for pretty dull strategy execution (and in turn, pretty dull reading for those who pay regular attention to this analysis). Well, the European session has now drawn to a close, and we got exactly....
Here’s what we are looking at on today’s fifteen minute charts, with an outline of the positions we are targeting if we get any volatility. It’s been a bit of an odd start to the week for the bitcoin price and our intraday strategy. Things seem very subdued, and we haven’t really had any major volatility – a couple of false breakouts aside – on which to get into the market. Sideways action between a pretty tight, four or five dollar range has dominated proceedings, and we’ve been forced to resort to scalp opportunities for our profits. In yesterday afternoon’s analysis, we highlighted....
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