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…Is this a “buy the dip” situation as some believe, or is the final top in? That is the question we will now attempt to answer.
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There are hordes of young and not so young fools out there who are now “champing at the bit”, wanting to buy Bitcoin. They watched enviously as it rose into the Stratosphere [$19,795.61 last Thursday], and now after its smack down [to a low of $12,570.24 early on Christmas Day], they can seize their chance to buy at a heavy discount from the peak price, thinking they have gotten hold of a bargain – ignoring the fact that this “heavy discount” is from a massively overinflated price. After all, “buy the dip” has worked like clockwork now for years, right? – and this is another dip, is it not? WRONG!! – this is not a dip, it is the initial plunge of a bear market in something that got insanely overbought and has now burned out. [Read: Bitcoin: Total Wipeout Alert]
6-month Chart
On the shorter-term 6-month chart below we can see why the “buy the dip” crowd, who started to appear in the late trade on Friday, might succeed in generating a bounce here [currently up to $16,093 – Go here for the latest price], which could be quite sizeable, because the Bitcoin price has arrived back at support in the vicinity of its late November highs, and above its rising 50-day moving average. They can quite rightly claim that moving averages are in bullish alignment and the earlier horrendously overbought condition has eased, and they will certainly get all the encouragement they could possibly hope for from their vociferous cheerleaders, who have a vested interest in talking this market up, but what they may be less aware of, or willfully ignoring, is what we will now look at on the 3-year chart.
The latest 3-year chart below shows that Bitcoin has just blown out following a terminal vertical melt-up that marked the final stage of a parabolic blow-off. Just how extreme it got is made plain by the fact that an attempt to draw a parabolic uptrend on this chart proved to be non-productive, because the price got so far ahead of the parabola as to render it obsolete. This chart also shows a gap of stupefying magnitude between the Bitcoin price at its peak and its moving averages, and an unsustainably steep rate of climb of the 50-day moving average. Those market commentators who were talking Bitcoin up to $40,000 or even $100,000 – and some were well-known and respected – should be ashamed of themselves. [Read:Bitcoin Price Of $32,500 Possible By January 1, 2018! Here’s Why; Bitcoin Could Reach $40,000 By the End of 2018 & Ethereum Could Go To $1,500!]
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