Bitcoin Daily Market Report February 17t ...

Bitcoin Daily Market Report February 17th

Feb 17, 2022

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You will find the content below in this order:
1. Definitions
2. The Good
3. The Bad
4. CME Gaps
5. Key Levels
6. Final Thoughts

DEFINITIONS

Liquidity zones are high volume levels that offer support and resistance

Hidden bearish divergence: creating a lower high in price, with a higher high on the oscillators. This signals a possible trend continuation down.

Bearish divergence: higher high in price, lower high on the oscillators. This signals a possible trend reversal down.

Hidden bullish divergence: creating a higher low in price, with a lower low on the oscillators. This signals a possible trend continuation up.

Bullish divergence: creating a lower low in price, with a higher low on the oscillators. This signals a possible trend reversal up.

SR flip: turning old resistance into support, and vice-versa.

Fractal: recurring geometric pattern.

THE GOOD

Daily Timeframe

EMA Ribbon

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Bitcoin is trying to find support from the EMA ribbon on this timeframe.

Implication: Ideally, this serves as support.

What is an EMA ribbon? A 'ribbon' of EMAs that together indicate bearish and bullish momentum in the market. When an asset is trading is above the ribbon, it's considered bullish. Vice-versa.

Simple Moving Averages (SMA): 20 and 50

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Bitcoin is trying to hold these two SMAs as support.

Implication(s): Momentum may be shifting on a macro level if these can be held as support.

Exponential Moving Averages (EMA): 8, 21 and 50

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Bitcoin is trying to hold these EMAs as support.

Implication(s): Momentum may be shifting on a macro level if these levels can be held as support.

Network Value to Transaction (NVT)

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*This indicator describes the relationship between market cap and transfer volumes.

Bitcoin is trying to hold the NVT Signal Line as support.

Directional Movement Index (DMI)

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*This is another momentum indicator.

Generally speaking, when the blue line (bullish) crosses below the orange line (bearish), it signals a potential shift in momentum to the bears. Given that the orange line still trends above the blue line, Bitcoin's momentum remains negative. 

We may be seeing a bearish cross between these two signal lines. If that does happen, it implies that momentum is back to being more bearish than bullish on a macro level.

4H Timeframe

Key Liquidity Zone(s)

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Zone 2: This LQZ sits at 36.7k-37k, which Bitcoin continues to trade above.

Implication(s): Ideally, this serves as a level of support moving forward.

Simple Moving Averages (SMA): 200

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Bitcoin is trying to find support from the 200 SMA.

Implication(s): Ideally, this serves as a level of support.

Divergence(s)

Potential Hidden Bullish Divergence

image Bitcoin has a higher low in price, with a lower low on the RSI. This is a hidden bullish divergence, which signals a possible trend continuation up.

Invalidation: Lower low in price and in the RSI.

THE BAD

Daily Timeframe

Bearish Market Structure

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Bitcoin continues to print lower highs and lower lows, thus, maintaining its bearish market structure. Until we start to see new higher highs and higher lows form, we can expect this macro trend to continue.

Logarithmic Curve

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Currently Bitcoin is attempting to break the 0.236 Fibonacci Level. If successful, the next level to breakthrough is the 0.382 Fibonacci Level.

Once Bitcoin fell below the median line, it became bearish. We can treat this curve as we do with ranges – the upper half = bullish, the bottom half = bearish.

Key Liquidity Zone (LQZ)

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Zone 1: The first LQZ sits at 46.5k - 47.8k, which Bitcoin has unfortunately fallen below. We may see it serve as resistance moving forward.

Zone 2: Bitcoin has lost this LQZ which sits at 41.9k-43.2k.

Implication(s): They may serve as levels of resistance if Bitcoin manages to continue its ascent.

Exponential Moving Average (EMA): 200

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Bitcoin continues to trade below the 200 EMA.

Implications: This may serve as resistance moving forward. 

Simple Moving Average (SMA): 100 and 200

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Bitcoin continues to trade below these SMAs. We have seen a Death Cross between the 50/200-day SMAs. This is a traditional marker for whether or not an asset is in a bear market or not. When the 50 SMA trends above the 200 SMA, the asset is bullish. When the 50 SMA trends below the 200 SMA, the asset is bearish.

We have seen a another Death Cross between the 100/200-day SMAs.

Implications: They may serve as a level of resistance moving forward. 

Divergences

Hidden Bearish Divergence

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Bitcoin has a lower high in price, with a higher high in the RSI. This is a hidden bearish divergence, which signals a possible trend continuation down. 

Invalidation: Higher high in price with a higher high in the RS.

4H Timeframe

Key Liquidity Zone(s)

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Zone 1: Bitcoin has fallen below the LQZ sitting at 41.9k-42.2k. 

Implication(s): This may serve as a level of resistance moving forward.

EMA Ribbon

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Bitcoin has failed to hold the EMA ribbon as support in this timeframe.

Implication: This may serve as a level of resistance moving forward.

What is an EMA ribbon? A 'ribbon' of EMAs that together indicate bearish and bullish momentum in the market. When an asset is trading is above the ribbon, it's considered bullish. Vice-versa.

Simple Moving Averages (SMA): 20 and 50

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Bitcoin has lost the 20 and 50 SMAs as support.

Implication(s): They may serve as levels of resistance moving forward.

1H Timeframe

EMA Ribbon

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Bitcoin has failed to hold the EMA ribbon as support in this timeframe.

Implication: This may serve as a level of resistance moving forward.

What is an EMA ribbon? A 'ribbon' of EMAs that together indicate bearish and bullish momentum in the market. When an asset is trading is above the ribbon, it's considered bullish. Vice-versa.

CME GAPS

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The gap below us at 32,480 has nearly been completely filled!

GAP: 53,675 – As mentioned when the gap first formed, this is a "breakaway gap". These are gaps that form when there's a dramatic shift in market structure. Typically these gaps take much longer to fill than the normal gaps. This is comparable to the gap at 32,480.

GAP: 40,640 FILLED

Key Levels

Daily Timeframe

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  1. 29790

  2. 33380

  3. 35070

  4. 35910

  5. 36905

  6. 38205

  7. 38855

  8. 39245

  9. 40735

  10. 41565

  11. 42205

  12. 43900

  13. 44865

  14. 46255

  15. 46700

  16. 47140

  17. 47720

  18. 48290

  19. 49490

  20. 50840

  21. 50590

  22. 51295

  23. 51755

  24. 52665

  25. 53950

  26. 54340

  27. 54720

  28. 55315

  29. 56245

  30. 56900

  31. 57775

  32. 58050

  33. 58415

  34. 58865

  35. Fibonacci Levels

4H Timeframe

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  1. 28805

  2. 29280

  3. 30150

  4. 31000

  5. 32800

  6. 33490

  7. 34785

  8. 35970

  9. 36000

  10. 37330

  11. 38313

  12. 39600

  13. 39970

  14. 40755

  15. 41645

  16. 42845

  17. 44215

  18. 45310

  19. 46745

  20. 48145

  21. 48845

  22. 49755

  23. 50380

  24. 51000

  25. 51885

  26. 52190

  27. Fibonacci levels

1-hour Timeframe

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  1. 33510

  2. 36235

  3. 36760

  4. 37420

  5. 37975

  6. 38250

  7. 38720

  8. 38920

  9. 39265

  10. 40880

  11. 41915

  12. 42170

  13. 42235

  14. 42656

  15. 43000

  16. 43780

  17. 45490

  18. Fibonacci levels

FINAL THOUGHTS

RECAP FROM THIS MORNING

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After reaching the high of our range, Bitcoin has now fallen down to the low of the range. Currently, we are seeing attempts at creating new bullish divergences.

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If the bullish divergences do solidify, and we see a move to the upside, we may see either an SFP or a move up to this Golden Pocket where there is likely to be resistance.

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And if the bulls are unsuccessful with holding 42k as support, these Golden Pockets remain the same.

All in all, Bitcoin still does remain in a bearish position on a macro level for a multitude of reasons. And with us now trading at the low of the range, it has become more likely that we continue down. I am looking for a continued move to the downside to fill the CME Gap. 

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TONIGHT

The Good

  1. Trading above the 1D EMA Ribbons

  2. Trading above the 20/50-day SMA

  3. Trading above the 8/21/50-day EMAs

  4. 4H/1W Hidden Bullish Divergence

  5. Trading above the 200 4H SMA

  6. Trading above the 4H LQZ 1

  7. Bullish NVT

  8. Bullish DMI

  9. CME Gap at 53,665

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The Bad

  1. Lost the 1W EMA Ribbon

  2. Lost the Bull Market Support Band

  3. Lost the 20/50-week SMAs

  4. 1D Hidden Bearish Divergence

  5. 1W Bearish Divergence

  6. 1M Bearish Divergence

  7. Bearish Market Structure (1D timeframe)

  8. Trading below the 100/200-day SMAs

  9. Trading below the 200-day EMA

  10. Trading below the 20/50 4H SMAs

  11. Trading below the Daily LQZ 1/2

  12. Trading below the 1H/4H EMA Ribbons

  13. Resistance from the Bitcoin Logarithmic Curve Median Line

  14. 20/50-day SMA Death Cross

  15. 20/100-day SMA Death Cross

  16. 50/100-day SMA Death Cross

  17. 20/200-day SMA Death Cross

  18. 50/200-day EMA Death Cross

  19. 50/200-day SMA Death Cross

  20. 100/200-day SMA Death Cross

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    TONIGHT

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As we've been going over the last little while, I was expecting the CME Gap at 40,640 to fill. Moments ago, we saw just that happen. And currently, we are finding support from our first Golden Pocket that we've all kept our eyes on.

Do I think it will hold? Let's have a closer look.

1D MACD Histogram

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Alongside our hidden bearish divergence, the MACD histogram is about to turn negative. What this implies is that momentum is shifting from more bullish to bearish. Typically, we see a continued move to the downside or sideways consolidation.

1H/4H Timeframes

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There is a lack of strong bullish divergences on these two timeframes. We have a 4H hidden bullish divergence, yes, but considering far apart the troughs are, it isn't all that strong. And when we look down to the 1H timeframe, there are no bullish divergences – yet.

With all of this in mind, I do think we will see lower levels. Now that we've touched down at 40k, these are the next Golden Pockets that will likely serve as levels of support. Those are points at which I will be looking to either close my short positions, or at least TP. And they are also points at which I will be looking to open long positions.

All in all, Bitcoin still does remain in a bearish position on a macro level for a multitude of reasons.

Thank you for your continued support, and I hope you have a great rest of your week!

Cheers!

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