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Market Moves: Indicator Suggests Bitcoin is Overdue For a Big Price Move
Technician's Take: Bitcoin Drifts Lower; Support Around $54K-$55K

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Indicator Suggests Bitcoin is Overdue For a Big Price Move

A popular price-chart indicator known as the Bollinger bandwidth suggests the bitcoin could soon chart a big move – up or down.

The leading cryptocurrency has spent a better part of the last three weeks trading in the range of $50,000 to $60,000. The consolidation has worsened of late, with bitcoin bulls unwilling to lead the price action above $60,000 and bears struggling to force a break below $55,000.

Due to the persistent lack of clear directional bias, the Bollinger bandwidth, a price volatility gauge, has declined to a four-month low of 0.15. Bitcoin (BTC) witnessed big moves during the 2017 bull run each time the bandwidth fell to 0.15.

The indicator is calculated by dividing the spread between the Bollinger bands by the 20-day average of the cryptocurrency’s price. Bollinger bands are volatility lines placed two standard deviations above and below the 20-day average of price.

Bitcoin's daily chart, 2017 (Source: TradingView)

The metric dropped to around 0.15 in February, April, and late October 2017, just before price rallies. A similar reading in March, July, and September paved the way for market corrections.

The data tells us that the impending volatility explosion is agnostic to price direction – the big move can happen on either side.

Bitcoin's daily chart, 2020-2021 (Source: TradingView)

Bitcoin’s ongoing range play looks quite similar to the early December consolidation below $20,000, which ended with breakout following the Bollinger bandwidth fell to 0.15.

While the seasonality for April is biased bullish, some analysts say the market looks overstretched. “Everyone who’s been in crypto for a while can recognize that things have been getting absolutely ridiculous on every level,” trader and analyst Alex Kruger tweeted on Wednesday.

Therefore, the impending big move could be bearish in nature.

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Bitcoin Drifts Lower; Support Around $54K-$55K

Bitcoin (BTC) is trading lower as oversold moves on the hourly chart have been limited to the 50-period volume weighted moving average. Buyers have continued to take profit after another failed attempt to move beyond $60,000 on April 1.

Hourly BTC chart shows support and resistance zones and the relative strength index (Source: TradingView)

BTC remains rangebound with lower support between $54,0000 and $55,000. Currently around $56,700.
Buyers will need to defend support to maintain the uptrend on the daily chart, which continues to show slowing upside momentum.
Technical signals are broadly neutral over the short-term and will require a decisive breakout above $60,000 or below $50,000 to derive price targets. For now, buyers and sellers are in a stalemate, responding well to intraday support and resistance levels.
On the hourly chart, BTC has retraced about 50% of its rally from March 25 and is down about 5% month-to-date.

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Bitcoin Drifts Lower; Support Around $54K-$55K

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