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Litecoin price analysis: Short term rising wedge, long term falling wedge

  • Rising wedge breakout on the verge on the short term chart.
  • Falling wedge breakout occurs, pending confirmation on the long term.

Litecoin the cryptocurrency, has a typcial thing to tackle at this moment wherein it has a rising wedge bearish pattern on the short term chart while on the long term there is a falling wedge bullish breakout that has already happened, pending confirmations.

LTC/USD is up one cent of a percent at $53.32 and in less than one percent range in lower volume, lower volatility weekend trading. On the 30-minute chart, there is a rising wedge bearish breakdown which would be confirmed once it breaks down below $53.10, targetting $51 at the least.

On the other hand there is a bullish falling wedge breakout that has occured on the daily chart, which still has a confirmation pending, which needs LTC to cross past $65-$70 range, once done this would result in prices rallying all the way towards $200.

LTC/USD 30-minute chart:

LTC/USD daily chart:


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