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Bitcoin (BTC) Technical Analysis: Bulls Defend $5,000 Support, How Long Can it Hold?

Published 04/12/2019, 09:58 AM
Updated 04/12/2019, 11:01 AM
© Reuters.   Bitcoin (BTC) Technical Analysis: Bulls Defend $5,000 Support, How Long Can it Hold?
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The crypto market is recovering from another bearish episode this morning after $12 Billion disappeared from the global market capital yesterday, and Bitcoin’s price suffered a -7.30% decline.

Bearish traders continued their assault into the early of this morning, driving BTC through its psychological $5,000 support around 02:00 (UTC +1) before meeting bullish resistance at the $4,950 level. Here, sellers quickly capitulated after bullish traders began to return behind the #1 cryptocurrency.

Since then, it appears that buyers have regained control over the asset temporarily and are now attempting to take back the $5,100 level above.

At the time of writing, Bitcoin is currently holding on to a marginal 0.30% gain against the US dollar but is the asset out of the woods yet?

Bitcoin (BTC) Price Analysis


On the 1W BTC/USD chart we can see that the price action is currently sitting in between its main support and main resistance areas.

(Main Support Area: $4,600 and $4,960)

(Main Resistance Area: $5,450 and $6,150)

Despite the recent correction, a number of 1W indicators are showing that...

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