Bitcoin price faces key moving average showdown 3 weeks after breakout

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Bitcoin (BTC) saw nary alleviation astatine the Feb. 10 Wall Street unfastened arsenic United States equities dipped further.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle illustration (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

"All eyes" connected 200-day moving averages

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD arsenic it tracked sideways pursuing a volatile 24 hours’ trading.

Existing marketplace weakness was compounded by an announcement from U.S. regulators concerning Ethereum (ETH) staking, with large crypto speech Kraken forced to suspend its staking operations and wage a $30 cardinal fine.

Bitcoin fell to three-week lows arsenic a result, with traders eyeing imaginable retests of $20,000 and adjacent $19,000 to come.

On the day, stocks offered small by mode of comfortableness to hazard plus traders, with the S&P 500 opening down to transverse a important enactment successful the soil near implicit from precocious past year.

S&P 500 $SPX gaps beneath 4,080 (high regular adjacent Dec.'22): pic.twitter.com/C2CpD7YpmP

— Caleb Franzen (@CalebFranzen) February 10, 2023

U.S. dollar spot besides bided its time, with a hopeful instrumentality from Investment probe assets Game of Trades eyeing absorption which it whitethorn neglect to overcome.

“USD has been rejected from its macro uptrend enactment that's present turned to resistance. Confirmation is cardinal though,” it summarized connected Twitter.

U.S. dollar scale (DXY) annotated chart. Source: Game of Trades/ Twitter

Scott Melker, known arsenic “The Wolf Of All Streets,” meantime saw origin for optimism connected 4-hour timeframes erstwhile it came to Bitcoin. A comeback could inactive materialize if it were accompanied by a rebound successful comparative spot scale (RSI) values.

"This looks ripe for a bounce. RSI oversold with imaginable bullish divergence," helium told Twitter followers successful a caller update.

"Need to hold until the adjacent candle adjacent and spot if we get an 'elbow up' connected RSI. Testing 200 MA for archetypal clip since Jan 6th. $21,646 is besides cardinal support, precisely wherever terms bounced."

An accompanying illustration showed spot terms proximity to the 200-day moving mean (MA) mentioned. This remains a cardinal inclination enactment which Bitcoin lone precocious reclaimed aft trading beneath it since precocious 2021.

BTC/USD annotated chart. Source: Scott Melker/ Twitter

"All eyes connected Bitcoin's 200-day moving mean cloud," Caleb Franzen, senior marketplace expert astatine Cubic Analytics, continued connected the topic.

BTC/USD 1-day candle illustration (Bitstamp) with 200MA. Source: TradingView

Analyst predicts 2021-style vigor terms surge

Casting a longer-term view, Alasdair Macleod, caput of probe astatine precious metallic concern institution Goldmoney, had a further daze successful store.

Related: Arthur Hayes bets connected Bitcoin, altcoin surge successful H1 2023 arsenic helium buys BTC

In his latest research piece released connected the day, Macleod warned that macroeconomic conditions were apt to repetition behaviour from a twelvemonth earlier, astatine the commencement of the Russia-Ukraine conflict.

This specifically would impact a rerun of the commodity and vigor terms increases inactive being felt by consumers — but besides a bull tally for gold.

“At this clip past year, golden began a accelerated emergence to $2070 and lipid traded up from $85 to $120 erstwhile Russia attacked,” helium wrote.

“It is astonishing that markets are ignoring the precise wide signals that the conditions which led to commodity and vigor prices soaring past February are successful spot to hap again.”
XAU/USD vs. BTC/USD chart. Source: TradingView

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