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Bitcoin Price Analysis: The price of one Bitcoin is equal to 1,500 barrels of oil

  • Bitcoin pushes over 1% lower on Monday after another lacklustre session.
  • The price as broken below the wedge formation on the hourly chart.

BTC/USD 1-hour chart

Bitcoin has been pushing lower after breaking the wedge pattern marked in red on the hourly chart below. It seems that upside momentum has been capped recently despite the halving event coming up in May. 

Even though the price has moved lower it could be worse. People usually associate volatility with cryptocurrencies but today oil traders have seen crypto-like moves in one of the worlds most traded commodities. In fact today you could buy 1,500 barrels of oil for the value of 1 bitcoin!

Getting back to the BTC chart below the next target for the bears could be the wave low of 6,920. If that level breaks then the next target on the downside might be the sext support zone at 6,748.20. 

For the fortunes of the crypto major to change a break back in the pattern is needed and that would mean 7,100 would be retaken to the upside. The pair is far from that at the moment as the bearish signs are too dominant. 

Bitcoin Wedge Pattern Break

Additional levels

BTC/USD

Overview
Today last price7048.36
Today Daily Change-81.02
Today Daily Change %-1.14
Today daily open7129.38
 
Trends
Daily SMA206953.07
Daily SMA506914.37
Daily SMA1008085.35
Daily SMA2008002.32
 
Levels
Previous Daily High7275.36
Previous Daily Low7063.14
Previous Weekly High7216.69
Previous Weekly Low6466.49
Previous Monthly High9215.51
Previous Monthly Low3886.49
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%7144.21
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%7194.29
Daily Pivot Point S17036.56
Daily Pivot Point S26943.74
Daily Pivot Point S36824.34
Daily Pivot Point R17248.78
Daily Pivot Point R27368.17
Daily Pivot Point R37460.99

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Rajan Dhall, MSTA

Rajan Dhall is an experienced market analyst, who has been trading professionally since 2007 managing various funds producing exceptional returns.

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