A red week went through the crypto market and we could actually see weak hands behind the charts. The volatility of the market can not be fully anticipated or understood, but if we look for reasons for this trend, we can mainly point to hacking going around and the tightening of regulation. The general atmosphere in the markets is a bit reminiscent of 2014, but unlike the relatively moderate declines this time everything happens very quickly and the peaks we saw at the beginning of the year are beginning to disappear on the horizon.
It appears that the correction trend in the market continues alongside encouraging developments such as the ETF’s approved in the US and statements made by many senior executives regarding the market, but we are not sure that we have reached the end of the declines and that we have two whole years until the next block halving event. Nevertheless, Geopolitical developments and other unsuspected events influence the trend line and something can always happen to turn the wheel around.
Alternative coins are also on a downward trend and are mainly affected by the declines against the dollar after the market entered a state of crypto-fear following recent declines. Although, there were some weekly highlights including BIBX BNB and TOKEN, and it seems investors are interested in hedging with exchange tokens. Overall, it can be said that the markets (and the beatings) cool off the investors’ bullish forecasts of who definitely feel the ‘red’ market.
At the time of writing, the market value is $274 billion, with around $80 billion which has vanished from last week. Bitcoin’s dominance against the alternative coins increased by 3% in favor of Bitcoin and stands at 40% at the time of writing the update.
The article was first published on Jun 13, 2018
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The declines continue and the support areas from April are being examined while checking the floor marked with a yellow graph around $6,100 – $6,500. At this extent, the support in these areas will not hold the exchange rate and is expected to continue its free fall to the support areas around $5,000 resistance. In these ranges its strong around $7,400.
Against the dollar we see a declining trend as its trading around $479 while approaching the support areas from April around $400. Resistance in this range at $550.
Against Bitcoin, with a moderate downward trend, the support is around 0.07 BTC and has for the time being built resistance around 0.08 BTC.
Against the dollar, it declines like most of the market with its trading around $840. That makes it not far from the support range at $830. The next step is at $750 with resistance at $1,000.
Against Bitcoin, the price touched support around 0.13 BTC and tested resistance support at 0.14 BTC.
In the past few days, the arena has added the currency to what attracted interest after a relatively dormant period.
Against the dollar, after an ongoing correction, it seems to support long term holds around $10 – $12. It traded around $13.6 with resistance at $ 16.
Against Bitcoin, it traded around 0.0021 BTC with support at 0.0019 BTC while the resistance range is at 0.0025 BTC.
In front of Atrium, the gate reached the floor which we saw in February and looked like the beginning of a big volume trend reversal. The news from QINBASE was that it was trading around 0.028 ETH with support at 0.002 ETH and resistance at -0.03 ETH.
Against the dollar, it traded around $2, support in these areas have rallied at $2.5.
Against Bitcoin, it traded around 0.00031 BTC with support around 0.00029 BTC. Right near the support areas like we saw in April, with resistance at 0.00035 BTC after a failed breakout attempt at the end of May.
Against Etherium, it traded around 0.0041 ETH with support in this range around 0.0038 ETH and resistance at 0.0047 ETH.
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