[ad_1] Bitcoin (BTC) bended to new macro pressures on March 4 after bulls failed to hold $42,000 for long. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView Europe stocks sink on Friday open Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD reaching lows of $40,800 on Bitstamp Friday after a major options expiry event. Overnight performance, initially showing a recovery, had been stymied by worries over a nuclear power plant fire in Ukraine. Stocks futures fell on the news, the severity of which was subsequently questioned. In Germany, the DAX index…
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Bitcoin Derivative Market Bulls Have Vanished
[ad_1] The bitcoin perpetual swap, the most liquid and traded futures instrument, is a contract that allows traders to speculate on the bitcoin price with leverage. While there is always an equal amount of long and shorts, the positioning of those contracts relative to the spot bitcoin price shows the bullish/bearish bias in the derivatives market. When the contract price of a perpetual futures contract (a futures contract that never expires) is above the spot market bitcoin price, the perpetual futures funding rate will be positive, meaning longs pay shorts…
Read MoreEthereum bulls aim to flip $2.8K to support before calling a trend reversal
[ad_1] The dire predictions calling for the onset of an extended bear market may have been premature as prices appear to be in recovery mode on Jan. 26 following a signal from the U.S. Federal Reserve that interest rates will remain near 0% for the time being. After the Fed announcement from, prices across the cryptocurrency market began to rise with Bitcoin (BTC) up 4.11% and making a strong push for $39,000. This sparked a wave of momentum that helped to lift a majority of tokens in the market, but…
Read MoreEthereum price hits $3,800, boosting bulls’ control in Friday’s ETH options expiry
[ad_1] Ether (ETH) entered a slightly bullish channel earlier this month, and currently the price is marching toward the $3,800 level. Despite the recent turbulence, Ether bulls are set to bag a $53 million profit on this Friday’s weekly options expiry. Investors also appear to be disinterested in Ether’s recent underperformance versus Bitcoin (BTC), and to date, the altcoin’s gains stand at 265%. If Ether manages to stay above $3,600 on Friday, 99% of the $180 million put (sell) options will become worthless. Ether price at Bitstamp in USD. Source:…
Read MoreBTC price hits $56K as bulls return and talk focuses on Bitcoin ETF approval
[ad_1] Bitcoin (BTC) returned to beat the week’s four-month highs on Oct. 8, climbing $2,000 in two hours. BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView BTC’s price beats Wednesday’s high Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting just over $56,150 on Bitstamp in a fresh show of bullish momentum. Wednesday’s dramatic uptick had topped out at $55,800, this remaining the level to beat as the pair then spent Thursday consolidating. I think we have another $BTC pump coming right away. A brutal one, if I must say. —…
Read MoreBitcoin bulls make a run on $45K after Twitter debuts crypto tipping
[ad_1] Bullish optimism is on the rise across the cryptocurrency market on Sept. 23 as prices continue to recover from this week’s volatility which was the result of regulatory pressure on the crypto sector, the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on the Fed’s interest rate hikes and monetary policy, along with fears that the Evergrande situation would ripple out to impact global financial markets. Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows that after trading in a range between $43,000 and $44,300 during the early trading hours on Sept. 23,…
Read MoreBulls largely absent as Bitcoin price slips to the bottom of its range near $32K
[ad_1] Within the past few hours, a fresh wave of selling pushed Bitcoin (BTC) price close to the $32,000 support level as the low trading volume and general disinterest from traders saw the price revisit the lower section of its current range. BTC/USDT 4-hour chart. Source: TradingView The price of Ether (ETH) also fell under pressure alongside Bitcoin as the building momentum ahead of the network’s upcoming London Hard Fork failed to support a price above $2,000, resulting in a daily low of $1,918. Bitcoin’s compression range tightens Some insights…
Read MoreAltcoins rally as bulls pile into large-cap tokens and layer-1 projects
[ad_1] The cryptocurrency market provides investors with another day of ‘altseason’ as the majority of altcoins in the top 100 on CoinMarketCap rallied today. Several large-cap tokens reached multi-year highs and this all took place as Bitcoin (BTC) price struggles to hold any of the news-event-driven gains that it has accrued throughout the week. One of the most notable performances has been put on by Ethereum Classic (ETC), the “unaltered” Ethereum (ETH) fork that has been gaining traction over the past week as its dedication to a proof-of-work consensus mechanism…
Read MoreBitcoin bulls are confident even as a key BTC price metric hits a new low
[ad_1] Newer traders might be unaware of this, but investors can also borrow BTC to margin trade a short position, thus betting on the price downside. This is why some analysts monitor the BTC, and USDT total lending amounts to gain insight into whether investors are leaning bullish or bearish. Interestingly, data shows that even as Bitcoin price aims for a new all-time high, the BTC to USDT borrow ratio reached its lowest level since Nov. 20 at OKEx. While this figure still favors bulls, it raises questions about what…
Read More$161M Ethereum options expiry tilts toward bulls as ETH flips $2K to support
[ad_1] With no short-term solution in sight for the surging network fees, some investors are afraid that Ether (ETH) price could face a correction. The EIP-1559 proposal is set to be bundled with the impending London upgrade, and this will change the gas fee structure, but traders are left to deal with high fees until then. The flexible block size proposal aims for a more predictable fee pricing model, but this upgrade is scheduled for July, meaning, in the short term, Ether could be subject to price pressure. Adding to…
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