Cryptocurrency
Is this Bitcoin rally real?
Bitcoin has rallied extremely hard to start the year as risk on sentiment returned to begin the year with the price of the leading cryptocurrency at its highest level since August of 2022. Risk assets have been the play in early 2023 with hopes for a settling of interest rate hikes by major central banks. As the technology sector and other growt...
Is the current Ethereum momentum real?
Ethereum and its big brother Bitcoin, have seen one of their most momentous moves since their peaks in November 2021. Various sector wide catalysts worked to move the price down including the collapse of Celsius and FTX which caused shockwaves to the cryptocurrency community. Inflationary pressures also left growth assets reeling in losses, leaving...
Bitcoin showing early signs of another sell off?
Bitcoin had a tumultuous 2022 with the leading cryptocurrency seeing an aggressive sell off. Lead by catalyst such including the collapse of Celsius and exchange FTX, the price of the dropped 65% from 50,000 USD to $17,000. The collapse of the large players within the cryptocurrency sphere sent shockwaves as institutions and retailers pulled their ...
Bitcoin rockets after powerful spike
Bitcoin rockets powerful spike Bitcoin’s price has seemingly spiked out of nowhere in what has been in one of its strongest moves in days. With Bitcoin’s price suffering from sector volatility, it and most other cryptocurrencies has seen an aggressive sell off. This current rise in price is threatening to test the upper resistance po...
Will BlockFi be another FTX?
Not even one week after crypto exchange FTX officially filed for bankruptcy another Cryptocurrency entity has felt the wrath and submitted its own Chapter 11. The spread and contagion effect from FTX was always a concern and now cryptocurrency lender BlockFi has fallen. BlockFi had been struggling even prior to the FTX collapse. In fact, the com...
Short-term buying opportunity on Bitcoin
Bitcoin has recently tested the lows of its price range that it reached in the immediate aftermath of the FTX crisis. A long opportunity has been brought about after price bounced off these lows near $15,863. The hourly chart shows a potential good risk reward entry. The trigger for the entry is not just the fact that the price has bounced off the ...
FTX, a failure in Corporate Governance and effective risk management
The FTX bankruptcy case has been a fascinating study in the failure of corporate governance providing a warning to the Cryptocurrency industry that a lack of regulation will not excuse poor financial management and that these exchanges are not immune to failure. In the last week, the company engaged distressed company expert, John Ray III to tak...
Bitcoin ready for its next leg down?
Bitcoin has seen its price plummet after a volatile week largely due to the collapse of Cryptocurrency exchange, FTX. The price of the Bitcoin has fallen to levels not seen since November 2020. The price is now showing signs that it may be in a short-term consolidation before it may sell off again. The downward move may be amplified, especially if ...
Crypto Crashes as exchange, FTX, faces liquidity crisis.
Bitcoin has dropped dramatically over the last 24 hours to its lowest level for the year after fears were sparked that major player FTX faced a liquidity crisis. In the last two years cryptocurrency has become available to large institutions and funds which has increased the overall size of the market. However, at the same time it has made it vulne...
Is Bitcoin in a league of its own?
Bitcoin, the currency of tomorrow, a new age currency, has seen some severe ups and downs over the last few years. From reaching highs of nearly 70,000 dollars to dropping to lows of 17,000 the volatility and action around the cryptocurrency has been startling. Even compared to other traditional currencies the range and volatility of the price has ...
More downside for major cryptos?
Following the previous Bitcoin analysis (https://www.int.gomarkets.com/articles/economic-updates/bitcoin-usd-technical-analysis/), bitcoin continues to break below pattern after pattern, recently breaking out and re-testing a descending flag pattern on a 4h time frame as seen below: With the next major support sitting around $17,619, it won�...
Bitcoin teetering above key $20,000 level
Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have seen their prices decline rapidly in recent times as inflation has wreaked havoc across the market. The capitulation has seen Bitcoin lose almost 75% of its value since November 2021. The aggressive selling has seen the price fall to its lowest levels since November 2020. The theory that Bitcoin would be a...
Crypto’s week of horror ends in a new 18 month low
As the week comes to an end, many cryptocurrency investors grow increasingly nervous. This emotional sentiment has resulted in bitcoin’s new 18 month’s low price, since December 2020. It has also caused a well known crypto company, Celsius, to suspend client’s withdrawals. Bitcoin started the week at $27,000 USD which was a 10% decreas...
Bitcoin and Crypto Outlook
November 2021, cryptos are regularly making all-time highs amid a mania like euphoria that increased institutional uptake and a newly launched ETF that crypto traders believed would drive prices even higher towards some of the uber bulls loftier 2021 targets. Two months is a long time in the crypto world and they have lived up to their volatile r...
European and US markets hit all time highs, Bitcoin breaks out, the Dollar slides
Equity markets US stocks jumped overnight to reach record levels as stronger than expected print on retail sales and a sharp improvement in the number of new jobless claims cheered the investors. Source: Yahoo Finance US reporting season kicked off this week with impressive results so far from Finance heavyweights JP Morgan, Goldman, BOA and...
