Bitcoin hits new 6-week high as Ethereum liquidates $240M more shorts

Bitcoin (BTC) tried to retake $21,000 on March. 29 as weekend buying and selling started on the strong footing.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

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Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView adopted BTC/USD because it rebounded overnight to local highs of $21,078 on Bitstamp — enough to clinch new six-week highs.

The happy couple saw a consolidatory phase ensue after its first trip towards the $21,000 mark, the very first time it’d traded above $21,000 since Sep. 13.

The following retracement was modest in character, Bitcoin not really testing $20,000 before reversing greater once again.

The finish from the Wall Street buying and selling week saw BTC cost action follow U . s . States equities, the S&ampP 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index finishing March. 28 up 2.5% and a pair of.9%, correspondingly.

In the newest Twitter, popular trader and analyst Il Capo of Crypto maintained a current theory over how short-term cost action would unfold.

“Same same,” he summarized alongside a chart showing potential upside and downside target levels.

BTC/USD annotated chart. Source: Il Capo of Crypto/ Twitter

A cautionary macro note originated from fellow trader John Wick, who cautioned the U . s . States dollar could make coming back to pressure risk assets.

“Now we watch to find out if we obtain a eco-friendly Us dot breaking over the Track line there,” he commented on the chart from the U.S. dollar index (DXY):

“If so that’s a poor combo leading into Given announcement November second.”

U.S. dollar index (DXY) annotated chart. Source: John Wick/ Twitter

Wick was talking about next week’s Fed announcement on rate of interest hikes, these broadly likely to match September’s .75% increase.

ETH liquidations continue to come

Apparently still skeptical of bulls’ abilities to create further gains, trader liquidations were once more mounting at the time.

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Data from monitoring resource Coinglass demonstrated shorts getting burned through the go back to $21,000, using the tally for March. 29 totaling $95 million during the time of writing.

By comparison, your day prior saw just $14 million of liquidated shorts, while March. 25 and 26 combined delivered $661 million.

BTC liquidations chart. Source: Coinglass

“Retail all will the same factor and wonders why it never calculates,” buying and selling account IncomeSharks authored on Twitter, citing a Cointelegraph article on liquidations impacting Ether (ETH) shorts:

“Record shorts at the end, record liqudiations at the end. Stick to the herd and obtain slaughtered.”

ETH short liquidations on March. 29 were already at $240 million during the time of writing and looked set to eclipse previous days’ totals.

ETH liquidations chart. Source: Coinglass

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