The End of Bitcoin Woes? BTCUSD Analysis October 11, 2022

On this episode of NewsBTC’s daily technical analysis videos, we look at a attainable bottoming state of affairs in Bitcoin value primarily based on a possible expanded flat correction and an ending diagonal.

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VIDEO: Bitcoin Worth Evaluation (BTCUSD): October 11, 2022

Bears and bulls are battling it out as soon as once more, all sides making an attempt to take management over each day momentum. Biking by indicators just like the Bollinger Bands and the Ichimoku present that Bitcoin isn’t trying very nice in the intervening time. Solely the Parabolic SAR is presently displaying any sort of indicator help beneath each day value motion.

Why Bitcoin Might Spend A lot Extra Time Shifting Sideways

The LMACD exhibits that bulls nonetheless have the higher hand on the 3-day timeframe, and the final weekly candle closed with a confirmed bullish crossover on the identical device. The LMACD turning inexperienced from this degree has put within the backside throughout previous bear markets.

However on month-to-month timeframes, bears have turned the histogram crimson after opening pink. Pink is an indication that bearish momentum is weakening. Until Bitcoin phases an especially quick reversal like 2018, there might be many extra months of sideways forward.

Evaluating previous bear market bottoms we will see that it took one other 9 months after turning pink to flip inexperienced through the 2015 bear market, whereas it solely took half that point through the 2018 bear market. With Bitcoin month-to-month momentum not even confirmed pink but, the highest cryptocurrency might have anyplace between 120 days and 275 days to go earlier than issues start to show round. Ouch.

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The Finish of The Expanded Flat Correction Is Close to

By way of a backside, it might be close to. Bitcoin seems to be ending the final leg of an expanded flat correction. An expanded flat is an ABC correction with the next excessive through the B wave, and a decrease low on the C wave.

Expanded flats kind in a 3-3-5 sample, with two zig-zags and an impulse wave down. The C wave serves because the impulse wave with 5 sub-waves. Expanded flats sometimes terminate within the C wave on the 1.618 Fibonacci extension of the A wave. Taking the Fibonacci retracement device set for the golden ratio extension, and the ultimate wave 5 might be ending on the actual goal.

Expanded flats generally terminate with an ending diagonal within the fifth wave of the construction. An ending diagonal has 5 sub-waves itself, and appears like a falling wedge – a sample that might be presently forming in Bitcoin should you activate the road chart and take away wicks. With wicks eliminated, Bitcoin has made a brand new low beneath the wave 3 low, and might be within the midst of an ending diagonal earlier than reversing.

The equipped diagrams present how the wave counts match up effectively sufficient, however is lacking the ultimate blow to bulls earlier than the underside is lastly in. Don’t consider in such a factor as an ending diagonal? Take a look at how the identical factor ended the bull market in 2021.

The place In The Total Crypto Cycle Are We?

Lastly, the final piece of the diagram we’re evaluating, is the position of the expanded flat correction. Expanded flats seem both at a wave 2 or wave 4 throughout a bigger impulse wave cycle. Which means that both wave 5 remains to be left, or presumably waves 3, 4, and 5 stay.

In a single state of affairs, Bitcoin bottomed in 2018, and the 2019 peak was wave 1, adopted by wave 2 on Black Thursday. Then, wave 3 started in 2020 into 2021, and we’ve spent all of 2022 in wave 4 to this point.

The alternate state of affairs makes the 2021 rally wave 1 of 5, and this present correction wave 2. The one method that is attainable is that if all the 2018 bear market was half of a bigger Elliott Wave triangle sample. A triangle will be drawn, however it doesn’t fairly match the foundations of Elliott Wave Theory.