Long Term Outlook (UP AS LONG AS 315 $ HOLDS):
Following the Bitfinex fiasco a few weeks ago, the market has been in a period of stagnation in terms of both
fundamentals and technicals. More broadly speaking, the financial markets are still in the “dog days of summer”
(aka, summer doldrums) which are characterized by low volume and low volatility, and which are caused
primarily by wealthy vacationers stepping away from the markets. More specific to bitcoin, the halving has
been properly digested so far, Seg Wit and other code improvements are slowly rolling out, and price is around
where the market seems to think fair value currently is. While we are expecting a least a few more weeks of
sideways consolidation, we remain of the mind that an upside resoltion is coming as we move into Autumn.
When we began working up the charts earlier we were surprised by how resilient and supportive
the weekly chart below looks. SCMR is still not painting any red candles and dynamic support
continues to build just below 400 $. It also appears as though the market is forming a bullish pennant
pattern with the recent low coming in on a bullish volume divergence. Speaking of that 465 $
low, notice that it was right in the OTE long zone, right at the top of the demand area, right on the
uptrend line, and right on historical resistance turned support. This 450 - 465 $ area is strong.
Conversely, Willy remains relatively overbought, RSI looks heavy, MACD has dropped below the zeroline, and the
9/18 EMA cross contiues to flatten. Additionally, despite pressing to the upside in a firm uptrend, the 200-week SMA
is still all the way down near dynamic support at 360 $, which is also the bottom of the downtrend pennant channel.
While we cannot technically rule out a test of the high 300’s $ at some point, we think it remains very unlikey and we
would be strong buyers of that move. The more likely path over the next few months in our opinion is a continuation
of the sideways consolidation between 450 - 700 $ prior to an upside resolution going into the end of the year.
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