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Cardano: ADA price eyes 30% rally with a potential 'triple bottom' setup

Cardano (ADA) may rally by nearly 30% in the coming days as it hints at forming a classic bullish reversal pattern.Sharp ADA rebound underwayDubbed “triple bottom,” the pattern typically occurs at the end of a downtrend and consists of three consecutive lows printed roughly atop the same level. Meaning, triple bottoms indicate sellers’ inability to break below a specific support level on three back-to-back attempts, which ultimately paves the way for buyers to take over.In a perfect scenario, the return of buyers to the market allows the instrument to retrace sharply towards a higher level, called “neckline,” that connects the highs of the previous two rebounds. The move follows up with another breakout, this time taking the price higher by as much as the distance between the pattern’s bottom and neckline.So far, the ADA price has been able to paint the triple bottom halfway, now rebounding after forming the third low, as shown in the chart below.ADA/USD four-hour price chart featuring triple bottom setup. Source: TradingViewThe point at which the ADA price reversed accompanied a rise in trading volume, suggesting that the rebound had enough backing from the buyers. Therefore, the Cardano token looks poised to at least pursue a run-up towards $1.40.Moreover, if the price further breaks above the neckline level decisively, it would likely continue to rally until it hits $1.63 — as per the triple bottom scenario.Accumulation areaThe potential triple bottom scenario emerged after ADA’s price plunged by more than 60% from its record high of $3.16 achieved on Sept. 2 earlier this year. It also surfaced as the Cardano token became one of the worst performers quarter-to-date, dropping nearly 45.50% compared to its top rival Ether’s (ETH) 15% gains.ADA’s multi-month selloff pushed its daily relative strength index (RSI), a momentum indicator, into oversold territory. In addition, Cardano token’s price drop also led it to what appears like a dependable “accumulation area,” as shown in the chart below. ADA/USD daily price chart featuring accumulation area and oversold RSI. Source: TradingViewBoth RSI and the accumulation area also point to a buying scenario in the ADA market, thus supporting the triple bottom scenario on the four-hour chart.Risks remain for ADA priceIt is important to notice that ADA dropped by more than 5.50% in the past 24 hours, much in sync with other top crypto assets in the space, with Bitcoin (BTC) sinking by over 3% and Ether by almost 5% in the same period.At the core of the crypto market’s uniformed decline was the Federal Reserve’s two-day policy meeting starting Tuesday. In the meetup, the U.S. central bank would likely decide to accelerate the tapering of its $120 billion a month asset purchasing program, one of the key catalysts behind the crypto and stock market rally since March 2020.Other parts of the Fed meeting would see the officials discussing the prospects of rate increases next year from its current near-zero levels. Cheaper lending had also played an important role in pushing the Bitcoin and altcoin market prices higher across 2020 and 2021, including ADA.Related: Bitcoin price dip may end Wednesday as Bitfinex bids hint at Fed ‘buy the news’ plansAs Fed officials initiate their policy meeting, the Cardano token would be testing $1.18 as its weekly support for a potential price rebound. The $1.18-level is the 0.618 Fib line of what appears to be an accurate Fibonacci retracement graph in predicting ADA’s support and resistance levels. ADA/USD weekly price chart. Source: TradingView.comShould ADA fail to rebound and close below $1.18, its next Fib support may come at 0.786 Fib line near $0.674, around 42% below. Nonetheless, ADA/USD may also test $1 as psychological support for an early upside retracement, similar to its multiple rebounds between February and July 2021.The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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Small Ethereum investors increase exposure as ETH loses $4K level

Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) has dropped by over 18% after establishing an all-time high around $4,867 on Nov. 10, now trading near $3,900. Nonetheless, the plunge has not deterred retail investors from buying the token in small quantities.According to data gathered by Glassnode — a blockchain analytics platform, the number of Ether addresses holding less than or equal to 0.01 ETH reached a record high level of 19.95 million on Dec. 4, the day ETH dropped to as low as $3,575 (data from Coinbase).Ethereum addresses with balances less than or equal to 0.01. Source: GlassnodeMeanwhile, the number of Ethereum wallets with balances of at least 0.1 ETH also kept climbing despite Ether’s correction from $4,867 to $3,575, eventually hitting a new all-time high of 6.37 million on Dec. 12. As a result, the number of Ether addresses with a non-zero balance also reached a new record high of nearly 70 million on Dec. 12. In contrast, addresses holding less than or equal to 1 ETH dropped alongside prices, indicating that they were less interested in buying Ether’s sessional dips.  Ethereum addresses with balances less than or equal to 1 ETH. Source: GlassnodeBounce ahead?The army of retail investors buying Ether in small quantities marches ahead as the ETH price drops toward a support confluence.Notably, Ether plunged Monday by over 5% to near $3,900 in a selloff inspired by similar corrections across the cryptocurrency space. Nonetheless, ETH price reached an area that has been lately attracting buyers.ETH/USD daily price chart featuring Support Confluence. Source: TradingViewThe first support came from the lower trendline of the descending channel pattern — the blacked range shown in the chart above. Meanwhile, the purpled 100-day simple moving average (100-day SMA) and the red pullback area — as it has been since Oct. 20 — raised Ether’s potential to retrace upward in the near term.While smaller retail investors seem to have been accumulating Ether, their larger counterparts look conflicted.Ethereum addresses with balances less than or equal to 1,000 ETH. Source: GlassnodeFor instance, Glassnode data shows a marginal recovery in the buying interest by the Ethereum wallets with balances of at least 1,000 ETH. Still, overall, their numbers have gone down from near 7,200 to below 6,350 in 2021.Exchanges’ Ether balancesMore upside cues come from Ether’s declining balances across all the crypto exchanges. The number of coins held by exchanges recovered from nearly 14 million ETH to 14.13 million ETH since Dec. 9 — which coincided with an almost 10.50% price drop — but its long-term trend remains skewed to the downside.Ethereum balance on all exchanges versus ETH price. Source: GlassnodeA lower ETH balance across exchanges hints at traders’ intention to hold their coins or stake them in the pools of decentralized finance (DeFi) projects to earn yields instead of trading them for other assets.Related: Data shows pro traders are currently more bullish on Ethereum than BitcoinDeFi’s total value locked (TVL) sits at a new all-time high above $250 billion, according to data provided by Defi Llama, out of which Ethereum’s TVL came out to be over $180 billion.Total capital locked across the Ethereum ecosystem. Source: Defi Llama”However, Ethereum’s dominance over DeFi activity has taken a big hit in H2 2021,” reminded Delphi Digital, a crypto-focused investment firm, adding that: “As the multi-chain narrative plays out, capital has moved to ecosystems like Solana, Terra and Avalanche.”High gas fees have been the main reason behind investors seeking potential “Ethereum killers.”For instance, a decentralized exchange swap costs $70 on Ethereum but $1 on Terra and Solana, although some analysts anticipate that Ethereum’s full transition from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake next year would solve the high gas problem.”Ethereum’s price will rise at a much faster rate than Bitcoin, due to the move to proof-of-stake,” noted Tom Higgins, CEO at asset management platform Gold-i.The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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3 reasons why Ethereum price can drop below $3K by the end of 2021

Ethereum’s native token Ether (ETH) reached an all-time high around $4,867 earlier in November, only to plunge by nearly 20% a month later on rising profit-taking sentiment. And now, as the ETH price holds $4,000 as a key support level, risks of further selloffs are emerging in the form of multiple technical and fundamental indicators.ETH price rising wedgeFirst, Ether appears to have been breaking out of “rising wedge,” a bearish reversal pattern that emerges when the price trends upward inside a range defined by two ascending — but converging — trendlines.Simply put, as the Ether price nears the Wedge’s apex point, it risks breaking below the pattern’s lower trendline, a move that many technical chartists see as a cue for more losses ahead. In doing so, their profit target appears at a length equal to the maximum wedge height when measured from the breakout point.ETH/USD weekly price chart featuring Rising Wedge. Source: TradingViewAs a result, Ether’s rising wedge downside target comes out to be near $2,800, also near its 50-week exponential moving average (50-week EMA). Bearish divergenceThe bearish outlook in the Ether market appears despite its ability to bear the massive selling pressures felt elsewhere in the cryptocurrency market in recent weeks.For instance, Bitcoin (BTC), the leading crypto by market cap, fell by 30% almost a month after establishing its record high of $69,000 in early November, much higher than Ether’s decline in the same period. That prompted many analysts to call Ether a “hedge” against the Bitcoin price decline — also as ETH/BTC rallied to its best levels in more than three years.But it does not take away the fact that Ether’s recent price rally has coincided with a decline in its weekly relative strength index (RSI), signaling a growing divergence between price and momentum.ETH/USD weekly price chart featuring divergence between price and RSI. Source: TradingViewAdditionally, the recent ETH price pullback also had the RSI oscillator fall below 70, a classic sell indicator.Fed “dot plot”More downside cues for Ether come ahead of the Federal Reserve two-day policy meeting starting on Dec, 14 when the U.S. central bank will discuss how quickly it may need to taper its $120 billion a month asset purchasing program to gain enough flexibility for potential rate hikes next year.Just last month, the Fed announced that it would scale back its bond-buying at the pace of $15 billion per month, suggesting that the stimulus would eventually cease by June 2022. Nonetheless, a string of recent market reports showing a tightening jobs market and persistently mounting inflationary pressures prompted the Fed officials to end tapering “perhaps a few months sooner.”20 CenBanks hold meetings next week as inflation keeps rising w/final decisions for 2021 due at Fed, ECB, BoJ, BoE which together responsible for half of world econ. CenBank balance sheets have risen in lockstep to ATHs, but now there could be divergence. https://t.co/GgOLGCNbjR pic.twitter.com/mrrhwUVcet— Holger Zschaepitz (@Schuldensuehner) December 12, 2021Market anticipations also adjusted, with a Financial Times survey of 48 economists anticipating the stimulus to end by March 2022 and most respondents favoring a rate hike in the second quarter.The period of loose monetary policies after March 2020 has been instrumental in pushing the ETH price high by over 3,330%. Therefore, the increasing likelihood of tapering can certainly put the brakes on the current rally, if not the bull market as a whole, according to some ana.From there I expect a very aggressive approach from the Fed because they’ll recognize we are in a bubble and something extreme needs to be done.Then we get our multi-year bear market.— K A L E O (@CryptoKaleo) December 10, 2021

Markets anticipate the Fed will update its policy statement and summary of economic projections (SEP) this week. In doing so, more central bank officials would adjust the “dot plot” to favor an earlier-than-anticipated rate hike against rising inflation.The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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Trader who called 2017 Bitcoin price crash raises concerns over 'double top'

Bitcoin (BTC) could be forming a so-called “double top” pattern after falling by over 30% from its record high of $69,000, suggests Peter Brandt, a veteran trader known for correctly calling the crypto market top in December 2017. The bubble has been popped. Bull market in $BTC over for some time. For analog look at Gold chart from 2011 on wards pic.twitter.com/AUSiGH0eCg— Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) December 22, 2017The Factor LLC CEO recalled Bitcoin’s inability to extend its price rally above its previous all-time high near $65,000 after a second try. Meanwhile, he illustrated an immediate support level for the BTC price at a so-called neckline near $30,000 while alerting about further declines below this key level.BTC/USD weekly price chart featuring double top pattern. Source: TradingView, Peter BrandtIs a 50% Bitcoin price crash realistic?In detail, traditional chartists perceive the formation of two consecutive tops, each leading to a strong price retracement to the downside, as a sign of bearish reversal. The downside target in a double top scenario comes to be approximately as deep as the height of the pattern’s formation.But the double top downside target is somewhat unrealistic here because confirmation of the pattern would suggest a nearly $35,000 decline in Bitcoin price. Meaning, BTC price would be a risk of crashing below $0 in a perfect world, a scenario which is highly unlikely.Nonetheless, should the price breaks bearish below the neckline of $30,000, Bitcoin’s ultimate downside target may turn out to be the 200-week exponential moving average (200-week EMA; the orange wave in the chart below), currently about 50% below the current price levels, near $23,500.BTC/USD daily price chart featuring 200-week EMA support. Source: TradingViewThe 200-week EMA has been instrumental in calling out the bottoms in a bear market, as shown by the upward-pointing arrows in the chart above. However, Brandt reminded:”A chart pattern is NOT NOT NOT a chart pattern until it is completed and confirmed. Until that time it is only of passing interest to me.”Just another BTC price dip?Ignoring the potential bearish outlooks, Bitpanda’s Chief Product Officer Lukas Enzersdorfer-Konrad asserted that Bitcoin’s price decline from $69,000 to $42,000 is similar to its May 2021 price crash, wherein it plunged by over 50%, only to pare all those losses and hit a new record high later.”Similarly to the recent drop, overleveraged positions increased volatility and wiped away most of the long positions,” Enzersdorfer-Konrad told Cointelegraph in a statement via email as he referred to the $2.5 billion worth of liquidation on Dec. 4 in a matter of hours, which caused around 20% intraday correction in most liquid crypto assets. The analyst added:”The Bitcoin market needs some time to recover in these situations, and intraday charts are still volatile, but it is still bullish on the higher time frame.”Related: Bitcoin tumbles below $47K wiping out October gains — Bear market begins?From a bullish technicals standpoint, one popular independent market analyst known by the pseudonym “Wolf,” presented Bitcoin as an oversold asset based on its relative strength index (RSI) readings on a daily-timeframe chart.BTC/USD daily price chart featuring RSI bounce. Source: TradingView, @IamCryptoWolfWolf anticipated the BTC price to test $51,780 as its next resistance level, with an extended upside target at near $60,000.The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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Terra becomes top-10 crypto: Classic 'bull pennant' setup paint $100 LUNA price target

Terra (LUNA) faces the prospects of hitting $100 in the coming weeks as it paints a classic bull pennant structure.In detail, Bull Pennants appear as the price trends inside a Triangle pattern after a strong move upside. Many analysts see it as a sign of bullish continuation, i.e., they think the instrument would eventually break above the Triangle’s upper trendline to resume its price rally higher.Additionally, the profit target of a Bull Pennant structure typically comes to be equal to the length equal to the size of the previous price rally, called Flagpole, when measured from the breakout point. As it appears, LUNA has been forming a similar pattern on its lower-timeframe chart.LUNA/USDT four-hour chart featuring Bull Pennant setup. Source: TradingViewConsidering the breakout happens at the point where the Bull Pennant trendlines converge — the apex — the ideal profit target comes out to be over $22, the Flagpole height. That puts LUNA on the road to almost $100.Supportive bullish catalystsThe bullish technical setup in the Terra market appeared as LUNA rallied nearly 65% in less than three weeks to become the tenth-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization.The digital asset jumped past Dogecoin (DOGE) and Avalanche (AVAX) to value over $28.60 billion, almost 1.18% of the current total cryptocurrency market valuation of $2.30 trillion. Meanwhile, LUNA’s token price climbed from $43.50 to over $77 on Dec. 5, a new all-time high.LUNA circulating market capitalization. Source: MessariTraders took cues from Chiron Partners, a Hong Kong-based venture capitalist firm, that announced Wednesday that it had raised $50 million for a dedicated fund, dubbed Chiron Terra Fund I, to build decentralized finance (DeFi) and metaverse-linked nonfungible token (NFT) projects atop the Terra blockchain.Jake Cormack, chief operating officer at Chiron Partners, credited Terra’s growth potential behind their decision to choose them as their official public ledger, particularly after the blockchain’s recent Columbus-5 upgrade, which promises to enable higher scalability and greater cross-chain interoperability.Deflation FOMOIn detail, the Terra ecosystem consists of a family of stablecoins pegged to a growing list of fiat currencies and a mining token, LUNA. LUNA serves as a governance token, volatility absorption tool, and rewards catcher through “seigniorage” and transaction volumes. The volatility absorption feature, in particular, proves to be the most bullish case for LUNA. Notably, the Terra ecosystem maintains its stablecoins fiat-peg by burning LUNA tokens. In other words, if the price of Terra’s native stablecoin TerraUSD (UST) goes above $1, the protocol burns LUNA to mint more UST, thus bringing its value back to $1.Conversely, if the UST value goes below $1, the protocol swaps the stablecoin for LUNA to prop up its prices. With the Columbus-5 upgrade and Chiron’s $50-million fund promising to bring more projects to the Terra ecosystem, anticipations of more deflationary pressure on LUNA have been rising.$LUNA price hit a new high shortly after Terra’s Columbus-5 upgrade increased deflationary pressure on the token and integrated Terra with the Cosmos $ATOM ecosystem. https://t.co/vYimuTqo5r pic.twitter.com/59xJdZ2FiB— Cointelegraph Markets (@CointelegraphMT) October 6, 2021As Cointelegraph reported, UST stablecoin adoption is growing with its net supply hitting a new record high of $8.221 billion on Wednesday. On the other hand, according to TerraAnalytics, the Terra protocol has burned more than 104 million LUNA tokens ever since the Columbus-5 upgrade went live at the end of September. Talis’s $2.3M NFT marketplaceBullish cues for LUNA before the Chiron announcement came in the form of Talis. The startup raised $2.3 million in funding led by ParaFi Capital and Arrington Capital to build an NFT marketplace on the Terra blockchain.LUNA/USDT versus BTC/USD daily price chart. Source: TradingViewTwo days after the announcement, LUNA rose nearly 13% to reach its new all-time high despite a major correction in Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and most other cryptocurrencies. The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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