Start Trading Now Get Started
Affiliate Disclosure
Affiliate Disclosure DailyForex.com adheres to strict guidelines to preserve editorial integrity to help you make decisions with confidence. Some of the reviews and content we feature on this site are supported by affiliate partnerships from which this website may receive money. This may impact how, where and which companies / services we review and write about. Our team of experts work to continually re-evaluate the reviews and information we provide on all the top Forex / CFD brokerages featured here. Our research focuses heavily on the broker’s custody of client deposits and the breadth of its client offering. Safety is evaluated by quality and length of the broker's track record, plus the scope of regulatory standing. Major factors in determining the quality of a broker’s offer include the cost of trading, the range of instruments available to trade, and general ease of use regarding execution and market information.

BTC/USD Forecast: Showing Signs of Stabilization

By Christopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis has been trading Forex and has over 20 years experience in financial markets. Chris has been a regular contributor to Daily Forex since the early days of the site. He writes about Forex for several online publications, including FX Empire, Investing.com, and his own site, aptly named The Trader Guy. Chris favours technical analysis methods to identify his trades and likes to trade equity indices and commodities as well as Forex. He favours a longer-term trading style, and his trades often last for days or weeks.

If you are bullish of crypto like I am, you need to be very patient.

The Bitcoin market pulled back just a bit on Monday, only to find buyers underneath to pick the coin up. At this moment, we are breaking above the $38,000 level. If we can break above the shooting star from the past week, it is very likely that we could go towards the $40,000 level, which is a large, round, psychologically significant figure, and an area that previously had been massive support. Whether or not “market memory” comes back into the picture and offers resistance is yet to be seen, but that is typically what will happen in this scenario.

Keep in mind that crypto has been hammered and is considered to be a “risk asset”, so we need to see some type of stability first in order to put a lot of money to work. Breaking above that shooting star from last week certainly could send buyers into the market, but it is really not until we clear the $42,000 level that I think this market will take off. At that point, we could make a serious push towards $45,000, and breaking above that makes it more of a “buy-and-hold” type of situation.

Keep in mind that a bottoming process is just that: a process. In other words, if you are bullish of crypto like I am, you need to be very patient. You do not jump “all in” with a huge position, because you understand that there will be the occasional pullback. This will be especially true during the bottoming process, but eventually you will see momentum jump in. This is when retail starts to come in and push the market higher, thereby causing a bit of a run to the market. With this, that is when you can gain from accumulation. However, there is nothing to stop this market from dropping right back to 35,000. This is why you accumulate slowly.

If we do break down below the massive hammer from last week, then it is possible that we could go looking towards the $30,000 level, where I would anticipate a lot of support as well. Breaking down below that then opens up a bit of a “crypto winter”, but it does not appear that we are quite ready to freak out like that. If we do, I will certainly be accumulating later on down near the bottom.

BTC/USD

Christopher Lewis
About Christopher Lewis
Christopher Lewis has been trading Forex and has over 20 years experience in financial markets. Chris has been a regular contributor to Daily Forex since the early days of the site. He writes about Forex for several online publications, including FX Empire, Investing.com, and his own site, aptly named The Trader Guy. Chris favours technical analysis methods to identify his trades and likes to trade equity indices and commodities as well as Forex. He favours a longer-term trading style, and his trades often last for days or weeks.
 

Most Visited Forex Broker Reviews