Ethereum has the potential to extend its ongoing upside move towards or above $1,500. The second-largest cryptocurrency broke above a consolidation price channel on Wednesday, breaking its upper trendline on surging volumes. So it appears, the channel is an Ascending Triangle that traders perceive as a bullish continuation indicator. An Ascending Triangle structure develops when…
Bitcoin prices slipped lower Tuesday but maintained a strong foothold near critical support levels in the $30,000-31,000 range as traders awaited the outcome of Georgia’s runoff elections. The flagship cryptocurrency slipped 0.75 percent ahead of the New York opening bell, wobbling between two extreme levels wherein $32,890 was intraday high, and $29,891 was intraday low.…
Stellar’s native token XLM surged by approx 40 percent in just three days of trading, becoming one of the best top-cap cryptocurrencies based on week-to-date returns. The XLM/USD exchange rate reached $0.178 on Tuesday, its best level in three weeks, after showing signs of decoupling from XRP, a rival cryptocurrency issued by San Francisco-based Ripple…
Ethereum dropped heavily during the thinly-traded early European session Monday, breaking below $1,000 from its three-month high of $1,168.99. The second-largest cryptocurrency briefly tumbled to $886 due to profit-taking among daytraders. Meanwhile, its downside correction caused long liquidations worth nearly $330 million across all the crypto derivatives exchanges. That may have prompted overleveraged traders to…
Bitcoin derivatives traders who opened bullish positions as the cryptocurrency reached its record high, near $34,500, are now staring at massive losses. Data provided by ByBt.com shows that the BTC/USD market liquidated long contracts worth $1.17 billion as of 2130 EST Sunday. The stop-losses triggered as the Bitcoin price slumped back below $30,000 amid a…
Bitcoin faces the prospects of undergoing a massive downside correction as on-chain data shows a plunge in its over-the-counter deals. According to data fetched by CryptoQuant, the total amount of Bitcoin tokens flowing out of Coinbase Pro’s addresses to their newly-created custodial cold wallets has decreased ever since BTC/USD crossed above $23,000. Coinbase Pro Bitcoin…
Bitcoin secured yet another record high level on Wednesday, helped by news of Anthony Scaramucci’s SkyBridge Capital investment’s investment into the cryptocurrency space. The benchmark cryptocurrency topped at $28,580 during the Asian morning session after reports revealed that the investment management firm had purchased $182 million worth of Bitcoin. The news soon followed a dramatic…
Bitcoin prices eased on Tuesday as traders with short-term risk appetite locked their profits. The benchmark cryptocurrency slipped by up to 4.56 percent to an intraday low of $25,833. Nevertheless, attempts to extend the bearish momentum faltered due to a comparatively stronger buying pressure near the $25,000-area. Since Christmas, the level held as concrete support…
Ethereum prices rose Monday as its on-chain fundamentals confirmed supply constraints across all the leading exchanges against rising demand. The Ethereum-to-dollar exchange rate climbed by up to 8.72 percent to $740, a level it last tested in May 2018. Intraday-wise, the pair’s upside move came in the wake of a correcting Bitcoin, which, on Sunday,…
It is safe to assume that Bitcoin’s parabolic rally in 2020 has everything to do with the underperformance of its arch-nemesis, the US dollar. The charts tell the entire story. In March 2020, a 60 percent crash in the Bitcoin market coincided with an 8.80 percent jump in the US dollar index, a barometer to…