The Bitcoin market continues to see a lot of noisy behavior, as the markets have been somewhat sideways over the last several months. The market continues to see more of a “buy on the dips” type of situation. This has been the case for some time, and with this, we are likely to continue to see this as the way forward.
The Bitcoin market has rallied rather significantly during the course of the trading week as we are looking toward the $70,000 level as an area that will be targeted and then perhaps breached. I would anticipate short-term pullbacks, but longer term it looks like we are building some type of bullish flag. Keep in mind that Bitcoin is now an ETF on Wall Street, so it’s a new toy and they will protect it.
But I also recognize that Bitcoin still has a lot of issues in the sense that we don’t really know how it’s going to be used, but all things being equal, since February we have gone sideways. We’ve seen a pretty significant pullback only to rally again, so it does from a technical analysis standpoint, if nothing else, look like a market that is winding up going much higher. If we can break above the $72,000 level, then we’ll test the $74,000 level.
Anything above that would be a fresh new high that could open up a move towards 100,000 over the longer term. I’m not a Bitcoin bug, so I don’t necessarily think that we get there easily, but that would be a potential target. In the meantime, short-term pullbacks look likely to see support at the $62,000 level and the $60,000 level as well. All things being equal, as long as risk appetite is fairly strong. Bitcoin should be okay.
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Being FXEmpire’s analyst since the early days of the website, Chris has over 20 years of experience across various markets and assets – currencies, indices, and commodities. He is a proprietary trader as well trading institutional accounts.