Over the past few weeks, Bitcoin (BTC) has been consolidating in the range around $7,000, seemingly stuck in between a rock and a hard place. Indeed, the cryptocurrency has many times bounced in the mid-$6,000s, where there is macro support, and has been rejected multiple times in the resistance band around the high-$7,000s.
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According to an eerily accurate fractal pointed out by a cryptocurrency trader, Bitcoin will need to break higher soon, or else a strong drop towards the $3,000 range may soon take place.
Bitcoin Fractal: BTC Prime to Fall to $3,000
Cryptocurrency trader Mr. Chief recently posted the below tweet, noting that Bitcoin’s price action since the start of 2019 is eerily reminiscent of the chart of the stock of AMD from 1991-1992. Both charts, he pointed out, saw a strong rally higher, a parabolic peak, a consolidation defined by a descending triangle, a fake breakout above the hypotenuse, and an inverse head and shoulders — a classical bottoming pattern.
In the case of AMD, its price broke below the inverse head and shoulders pattern, plunging by 50% in the weeks that followed.
The fate of Bitcoin’s inverse head and shoulders pattern is currently undecided. But if it follows AMD, the price of the cryptocurrency will collapse towards $3,000 in a rapid amount of time, likely creating an extended bear market phase that will ruin bulls.
$BTC Thoughts
Low time frames look decent for a bounce. Personally, I really want to see a follow through on this IH&S in the very near future. If not, I think momentum could run dry very quickly
Be careful folks. Still at resistance. Don't get too cocky about this move…yet pic.twitter.com/8Wa4r6xcxK
— MrChief (@HaloCrypto) January 3, 2020
The fractal’s directionality lines up with the on-chain data which suggests that Bitcoin investors have yet to complete a historical trend seen in any full-fledged bear market.
Per previous reports from NewsBTC, the SOPR (Spent Output Profit Ratio) indicator — an indication of the average Bitcoin holder’s profitability — suggests Bitcoin has not yet seen a capitulation event for the current cycle, implying that the crypto market could see one strong dip before a return to a bullish phase.
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The Bull Case
Bears may be in control of the narrative due to Bitcoin’s performance over the past few months, but a growing sentiment is that BTC upward breakout is imminent.
Su Zhu, the chief executive officer of forex and crypto fund Three Arrows Capital, recently remarked on Twitter that he believes Bitcoin’s price outlooking heading into 2020 is looking rather bullish. The prominent commentator specifically cited his analysis of the BTC/USDT trading pairs and their premiums to BTC/USD markets and the overall price action, which shows there are “clear signs of accumulation and money flow back into risk.”
https://twitter.com/zhusu/status/1210797269194166272
And also, analysts like Velvet and Financial Survivalism have suggested BTC is currently in a textbook Wyckoff Accumulation pattern. Per the pattern, Bitcoin is in its final shakeout lower, evidenced by the drop to the $6,800s.
So should this textbook technical analysis pattern play out exactly as the studies of Richard Wyckoff, a noted technician, says, BTC is likely to break $9,000 and maybe $10,000 by the end of January.
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