At the time of writing, Bitcoin (BTC) is trading just above $10,200 after losing 25% of its total value since last week.
Although last week I said I expected Bitcoin to consolidate a bit more above $11,400, it seems the market pulled a fast one and BTC went further down to the $10,000 region.
Will Bitcoin push higher during the week? Or will we see more major retracements back to the $9,000 region and below?
As you can see from the chart, BTC has dropped down to its 20-day EMA, where price has bounced slightly. Still, it is quite close to its early July lows.
What I expect to happen is for price to bounce between $9,000 and $10,000 before making its way upwards again, towards the $12,000 and $13,000 levels and above.
Volume also seems to be increasing as well. Over the past two weeks, volume has gone from $20 billion to $27 billion. Also, Bitcoin’s market dominance is already above 65%, going towards 70%.
Putting all this information together, we’re now clearly on the right path to reach $15,000 – or maybe even $20,000 – by the end of 2019.
Hopefully this latest downturn is just a bump in the road and the market will pick up its positive momentum again soon.
Pay attention to retracements back down towards the 200-day EMA to make new entries.
Safe trades!
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About Bitcoin
In August 2008, the domain name bitcoin.org was registered. On 31st October 2008, a paper was published called “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System”. This was authored by Satoshi Nakamoto, the inventor of Bitcoin. To date, no one knows who this person, or people, are.
The paper outlined a method of using a P2P network for electronic transactions without “relying on trust”. On 3rd January 2009, the Bitcoin network came into existence. Nakamoto mined block number “0” (or the “genesis block”), which had a reward of 50 Bitcoins.
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