Big Round Number Bounce
Bitcoin bounces 9% off the big round number $30k
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BTC Outlook
If you missed it when it was published, today is a good day to go read or reread our article about The Rule of Big Round Numbers.
Bitcoin is hunting for its Big Round Number. The 2016-2000 Halvening cycle found Bitcoin’s price fixated on $9000. Of course, remember that the low of the cycle was ~$3000!
The last 6 weeks Bitcoin has been selling off and last night, around midnight in NYC, the Bitcoin price went under $30,000 twice. We were hanging out in the Foot Guns’ discord and I caught a few high leverage longs off the bounce because I noticed Bitcoin’s price was being rejected from $30k like a hot potato. This makes sense based on our rule of Big Round Numbers so I started buying highly levered small position and closing them out 15 minutes later for nice returns. Sometimes it’s about time in the markets, but under highly volatile price action timing and limited time in the markets is king. If you were up last night wondering what was going the Foot Guns’ discord was active following this price action and what was happening with UST/LUNA.
Anyways, I don’t think it’s going to be that easy. Expect $30k to be retested after some relief rally. The stock market has just opened at the time of writing this and sellers are coming back in.
Possible Course of Action
Long under $30k expecting to fill the CME gap at $36k
Do nothing and wait for further consolidation
The Bulls’ Defense:
Bounce of $30000 big round number
The Bears’ Prosecution:
Global macro uncertainty
Bear flag broken down
ETH Outlook
We’ll take a break from tracking the ETH/NASDAQ correlation to following the ETH/BTC pair. It looked like our prediction was coming true that ETH would fall out of this bull flag if BTC started selling off, but now look what is happening. Once BTC bounced off $30k the ETH/BTC ratio started breaking out. Many more dip buyers came in to pick up ETH than BTC. Boomer and I still stick to our theory that this is because CME futures exists for ETH and Chipotle dad’s everywhere see ETH having a cheaper price relative to BTC. I think CME traders are guilty of this was well.
Mind you even if this bull flag break outs, then only a 3.5% relative gain is expected in the ETH/BTC pair. If BTC goes to $25k ETH will be trading below $2000 and you probably won’t be super excited about your 3.5% relative gain!
Possible Course of Action
Caution here as ETH is highly correlated with the tech stock sell off
Wait for further consolidation and confirmation of a higher low
If you want to be long BTC, you can be long ETH for that extra 3.5% return!
The Bulls’ Defense:
EIP-1559 has burned $5,549,598,798 (2,294,190 ETH) so far. Supply constraints should continue to have a positive impact on price.
The Bears’ Prosecution:
Global macro uncertainty
Nasdaq correlation and sell off
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