Market Overview: Bitcoin
Bitcoin price action is at a crossroads, with both weekly and daily charts revealing intriguing patterns that hint at potential volatility ahead.
The weekly chart showcases a market in a period of consolidation, following a strong bullish trend. A bull flag pattern has emerged, suggesting a potential continuation of the uptrend. However, bears see a potential final flag.
Zooming into the daily timeframe, a breakout mode pattern has now formed at the top of the range, introducing a wildcard into the market. This pattern could trigger a significant move in either direction, leaving traders on the edge of their seats.
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The Weekly chart of Bitcoin
The Bitcoin weekly chart reveals a market in a period of consolidation, that followed a strong bullish trend characterized by consistent higher highs and higher lows. This bull trend has left several gaps in the price action, suggesting the presence of trapped bears and potential bear liquidations during the late-stage acceleration of the bull trend.
The current sideways movement, spanning over ten bars, has formed a bull flag pattern, a potential continuation pattern for the previous uptrend. The price action within this range is dominated by doji candlesticks and large tails, indicating a balance between buying and selling pressure as limit orders are placed and filled.
Bulls interpret the bull flag as a sign of impending upward momentum, supported by the recent surge from a double bottom and wedge bottom at the 20-week EMA. Their risk is big, which can be reduced by using a stop-loss placed below the May 1st low, which is a minor low compared to the major higher low around $40,000.
Bears, on the other hand, view the bull flag as a potential final flag before a reversal. They see the balanced limit order behavior as an opportunity to enter short positions high, with an attractive risk-reward ratio, targeting the major higher low at $40,000. This scenario it is not likely, but a failed bull breakout may precede such a move.
Currently, the market offers no clear indication of the next directional move. The sideways movement could resolve in either direction, with bulls aiming for a continuation of the uptrend and bears anticipating a reversal towards the $40,000 big round number.
The Daily chart of Bitcoin
The Bitcoin daily chart confirms the ongoing trading range we have been observing in previous reports. This range, characterized by its width, has translated into heightened volatility with four distinct trends already unfolding within it: two downward and two upward movements. While the range could persist for an extended period, a potential shift in behavior may occur after the fifth or sixth directional change.
Intriguingly, a breakout mode pattern has emerged at the top of the range, a development we had previously anticipated. This pattern, which can be called a cup and handle. The breakout mode pattern has a 50% probability of success for either bulls or bears. However, the pattern’s location at the top third of the range slightly favors the bears.
Bulls want a breakout to the upside, followed by strong follow-through, especially if the initial breakout lacks significant momentum. Conversely, bears face a more challenging task in selling a bear breakout, as it would bring the price back to the trading range apex, a bad zone to trade. Bears would prefer to sell a failed bull breakout setup.
A successful bull breakout could propel the price above $80000, while a bear breakout could lead to a retest of the range lows.
Overall, the daily chart highlights the ongoing struggle between bulls and bears within the established trading range. The breakout mode pattern at the range top adds expectation among traders.
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