Bitcoin finds Resistance, Altcoins find Buyers
|In the past 24 hours, Bitcoin (+0.6%) continued moving dragged by sellers while it fights to move to its next level. That is, while other currencies, including BTC's direct siblings LTC (+3.83%), BCH( +5.52%) and BSV(+5.14%) moved up. ALGO (+19.6%) is the best performer, followed by VET(+14.9%) and BEAM (+15%). Among the top caps, the EOS (+6.4%) and Nano (+13%) were the highest gainers. In the Ethereum token sector, Lambda (LAMB) (+19.4%), Dentacoin (DCN) (+19.2%), and Maxime Coin (MXM) (+26.75%) were the movers of the journey.
The current market cap is $252.4 billion, slightly up from yesterday's value of $250.73 billion, while the volume traded in the last 24 hours grew to $38 billion (+5.75%). Finally, Bitcoin dominance descended slightly to 66.73%.
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Technical Analysis - Bitcoin
Bitcoin continues its slow ascent to $9,400 and beyond dragged by seller profiting from upward candlesticks. The price currently has crossed the $9400 resistance level and is above its +1SD Bollinger band and also above its 50 and 200-period SMA. That shows a positive bias. If the last candlestick closes above $9,400, the next level to break will be 9600.
| Supports | Pivot | Resistances |
| 9050 | 9,360 | 9600 |
| 8800 | 9800 | |
| 8800 | 10000 |
Ripple
Ripple is gaining bullish momentum. The price has crossed up and tested the $0.299 mark and now moves to cross the 0.3065 resistance, but the price is already above $0.3 moving above the +1SD Bollinger line, while its MACD also shows a bullish phase. Finally, we see that the three averages are appropriately aligned and pointing in the upward direction. All these indications point to a positive bias. The current levels to observe are $0.299 and $0.3065.
| Supports | Pivot | Resistances |
| 0.299 | 0.295 | 0.3065 |
| 0.288 | 0.31 | |
| 0.2815 | 0.32 |
Ethereum
Ethereum is gaining bullish momentum, and the price is close to resistance levels while also close to overbought, as its price is touching the +2SD Bollinger line (amber). All indicators point to a positive bias, including MACD, and all SMAs aligned and pointing north.
The levels to watch are $193.5 and $196 to the upside and $188 to the downside.
| Supports | Pivot | Resistances |
| 178 | 184 | 193.5 |
| 175 | 196 | |
| 168 | 200 |
Litecoin
Litecoin is moving quite bullish for some time. The price broke to the upside on Nov. 4th, and the Bollinger bands began expanding and pointing upwards, a sign of a bullish leg. The price keeps moving near the +1Bollinger line, so it is not oversold and, so, further price increases won't surprise much. The next significant resistance level is $67, while the current levels to observe are $64 and $62 to the downside.
| Supports | Pivot | Resistances |
| 62 | 63 | 64.7 |
| 60 | 66 | |
| 58 | 8 |
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