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: Bitcoin Consolidates Recent Gains

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.

The Bitcoin market has been so broken down that it would not surprise me at all to see a complete reversal over the longer term, because so many people will have been waiting for this opportunity. 

Bitcoin pulled back just a bit on Wednesday but found plenty of buyers underneath the turn things around. The $47,500 level looks to be an area of interest, especially now that we have had such a bullish run higher. The market breaking above the highs of the previous session could open up the possibility of a move towards the $50,000 level.

Any pullback at this point will more than likely find support at the previous resistance barrier, to be found at the $45,000 level. The 200-day EMA sits just below there, so I think there will be plenty of support in that general vicinity. Buyers will almost certainly come back in and push this market to the upside as the momentum has broken through so much in the way of resistance as of late. Because of this, the momentum has shifted to the upside and that will continue to attract a lot of attention. Remember, crypto is very heavily momentum-driven, and a lot of retail traders will be jumping on as well.

The area around the $50,000 level will almost certainly be very noisy, and a lot of people will be paying close attention. The $51,000 level being broken to the upside allows the market to go much higher, perhaps in more of a “buy-and-hold” type of scenario. On the other hand, if we were to break down below the 200-day EMA, we could re-enter the previous consolidation, but that seems less likely after the candlestick from the Tuesday session. Even if we do pull back into that area, as long as we stay above the $40,000 level I suspect that there will be plenty of people to get involved in this market. Those traders will be looking to follow right along to the upside and pick up “cheap Bitcoin.”

The Bitcoin market has been so broken down that it would not surprise me at all to see a complete reversal over the longer term, because so many people will have been waiting for this opportunity. Based upon the rectangle that we have just broken out of, it has a “measured move” to the $55,000 level. That being said, crypto markets tend to overshoot, so do not be surprised at all if we blow through there on some type of impulsive move.

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