Looming ‘death cross’ may put Bitcoin bull run in danger ahead of Fed meeting
Analysts anticipate Bitcoin to continue its recovery rally above $40,000 on increasing anti-inflation bets. But a looming death cross could spoil the upside outlook. Bitcoin (BTC) wobbled around $40,000 as investors waited for the Federal Reserve to release its new set of economic projections on Wednesday.The market's focus shifted on two important questions: will the United States’ central bank officials signal their intentions to raise interest rates in 2023, instead of 2024? And how much inflation they think would rise in the remainder of 2021 and the next year?Taper tantrumIn March,....
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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 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 […]
Sellers pressed Bitcoin price back below $40,000, while analysts believe BTC will remain rangebound until the $42,000 level is breached. The cryptocurrency market is in the midst of another lackluster day as Bitcoin (BTC) price dipped below $40,000 ahead of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting where officials intend to discuss whether interest rates should be raised or kept near zero. While many investors anticipate that BTC will soon resume its bull run and rally above $40,000, technical analysts are sounding the alarm about a looming death-cross that could send Bitcoin price....