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Litecoin Technical Analysis: LTC/USD can't escape the deadly technical structure

Litecoin price on Friday seen holding gains of over 2% in the latter part of the session.
LTC/USD remains stuck within stubborn 3-week trading range, not enough commitment.
The daily chart view could be eyed as a bearish flag formation.

Ken Chigbo Independent Analyst

LTC/USD 15-minute chart

LTC/USD slips out from an ascending channel formation, after price hit near-term resistance.

Spot rate: 32.27

Relative change: +2.35%

High: 32.71

Low: 30.83

Trend: Bearish

Support 1: 30.97, daily pivot point support.

Support 2: 30.41, daily pivot point support.

Support 3: 29.64, daily pivot point support.

Resistance 1: 32.29, daily pivot point resistance.

Resistance 2: 33.06, daily pivot point resistance.

Resistance 3: 33.62, daily pivot point resistance.

LTC/USD 60-minute chart

Price ran into sellers heading into the $33 price area, a known supply zone.

LTC/USD daily chart

Bears can be seen gunning towards that big key area of demand, near-term initially this can be seen $0.3000-0.2800.

Author

Ken Chigbo

Independent Analyst

Ken has over 8 years exposure to the financial markets. He started his career as an analyst, covering a variety of asset classes; forex, fixed income, commodities and equities.

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