Bitcoin Weekly Momentum Indicator Flips Bearish For First Time Since 2020

Bitcoin value is again within the mid-$50,000 vary, after a number of rejections from resistance at above $60,000 per coin. A go to to assist ranges to check demand a lot decrease may quickly develop into a actuality now {that a} technical indicator measuring momentum has flipped bearish for the primary time since 2020.

Right here’s what this might imply for the main cryptocurrency by market cap’s present bull run.

Bitcoin Momentum Turns Bearish For First Time Since Late 2020

When Bitcoin broke above $13,000 and set the next excessive for the primary time past the 2019 peak, momentum carried the cryptocurrency tens of hundreds of {dollars} increased. On the present peak, every BTC was promoting for a excessive of just under $62,000 however after repeated failed makes an attempt to rally increased, that bullish momentum is starting to fizzle out.

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The Moving Average Convergence Divergence indicator, whereas thought of a lagging indicator, has begun to show down on weekly timeframes for the primary time because the huge bullish breakout again in October 2020.

Bitcoin has crossed bearish on the weekly LMACD for the primary time because the bullish breakout in October 2020 | Supply: BTCUSD on TradingView.com

Each a bearish crossover of the 2 shifting averages and the histogram flipping crimson means that momentum has begun to show downward, and a correction is probably going.

The sign is barely legitimate if the weekly candle closes beneath round $54,500, during which the bearish crossover shall be confirmed.

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Bulls, nevertheless, nonetheless have a number of days left to uncross the presently bearish sign. In the event that they don’t, bears may take over for weeks to return. Previous bearish crossovers on weekly timeframes have marked mid-to-long time period tops within the cryptocurrency market, together with each the 2013 and 2017 bull market peaks.

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Nevertheless, there was additionally such a crossover on the 2019 peak, which clearly wasn’t a long-term high resulting in an prolonged bear market. That leaves the potential there for a number of twists and turns within the coming months, much like the 2017 bull run.

Previous cases of flipping crimson on the weekly LMACD at such ranges has resulted in a bear market | Supply: BTCUSD on TradingView.com

The logarithmic MACD brushing up towards a trendline the place previous cycles topped, nevertheless, doesn’t look promising for Bitcoin bulls.

One other state of affairs that can’t be dominated out, is Bitcoin breaking by the trendline, inflicting momentum to additional soar to the upside. Such a state of affairs may present the momentum essential to take the main cryptocurrency by market cap to costs of $100,000 and extra per coin, which analyst throughout the finance trade are projecting.

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