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This Bitcoin price fractal from 2018 could trap bulls, sink BTC price to $25K — analyst

The eerie shape risks driving Bitcoin’s value to $25,000 despite its sharp recovery within the previous weeks.

Market Analysis

A recent value recovery in the Bitcoin (BTC) market risks being erased due to an eerie shape from 2018. The Bitcoin value cycle similarities were first noticed by CryptoBullet, an associate degree freelance analyst. The shape shows Bitcoin recreating the associate degree inverse head-and-shoulders (IH&S) pattern that preceded its value decline toward $3,100 later in December 2018. As a result, anticipations that BTC’s value could endure similar declines in 2022 would possibly grow. 

That is primarily owing to the strikingly similar value trends between the price downtrends in 2018 and 2021–2022. For example, Bitcoin fashioned 2 higher highs in April and will end 2018 around $10,000 before plunging below $6,000 in the Gregorian calendar month while constructing the IH & S pattern.

Interestingly, in the Gregorian calendar months of 2021 and 2022, Bitcoin underwent a regular value flight, forming 2 higher highs—soon approaching $65,000 in April and $69,000 in the Gregorian calendar month. Later, the value corrected to below $33,000 in early February, forming another IH&S pattern.

With IH & S being an optimistic reversal pattern, BTC currently awaits an escape move towards or on top of $50,000. An analogous technical setup shared by analyst Lark Davis comes with Bitcoin on top of $60,000. 2018 BTC value shape risks housing bulls’ climb to $50,000 or perhaps $60,000. This might not absolve Bitcoin from its prevailing pessimistic bias. As explained in the chart below, if the 2018 shape repeats itself religiously in 2022, BTC’s chance of falling toward $25,000 seems higher.

Notably, the 2018 value action saw Bitcoin break the upper side of its IH&S formation, reaching nearly $10,000. In doing so BTC’s value in brief, rescued its 50-week exponential moving average (50-week EMA; the red wave) as support, solely to interrupt it later. As it did the value decreased further towards the 200-week EMA (the blue wave) close to $3,000, wherever it made its copper-bottomed call in December 2018.

Applying constant shape to the continued value action, Bitcoin would possibly find itself closing on top of its 50-week EMA, eventually striking levels within the $50,000-$60,000 range. Nevertheless, it’ll travel below the red wave and extend its decline towards the 200-week EMA, which sits close to $25,000.

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