Bitcoin cost gets near critical 200-week moving average as Ethereum touches $1.5K

Bitcoin (BTC) hovered at $22,000 in the This summer 18 Wall Street open as analysts cautioned that bulls wouldn’t break resistance all at once.

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

Can Bitcoin regain bear market support?

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD coming back to consolidate after hitting highs of $22,500 on Bitstamp.

That much cla symbolized the beginning of sell-side positions on exchanges clustered round the 200-week moving average (WMA), a vital area which commentators contended could be difficult to crack.

“Not expecting continuation on Bitcoin, at this time, as we are facing 200-Week MA &amp range resistance,” Cointelegraph contributor Michaël van de Poppe told Twitter supporters in the latest update.

Fellow trader and analyst Rekt Capital, as others, seemed to be skeptical about the opportunity of Bitcoin to carry on upward momentum immediately.

Van de Poppe nevertheless added that the breather for that market could be lucrative at current levels. He concluded:

“Slight consolidation would trigger continuation and break above $22.6K would activate massive longs towards $28K. Good occasions.”

Both Bitcoin and altcoins made probably the most of relief on equities markets at the time, with Asia and also the U . s . States making modest gains because the U.S. dollar retreated.

The S&ampP 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index were up .7% and 1%, correspondingly, during the time of writing, 1 hour following the opening bell.

“Prime here we are at Bitcoin,” on-chain analytics resource Whalemap meanwhile forecast, supplying a more positive take according to major buyer interest below place cost.

Data from fellow monitoring resource Material Indicators demonstrated similar support building around the Binance order book.

BTC/USD order book data (Binance). Source: Material Indicators

Ethereum preserves performance

On altcoins, the show had been stolen by Ether (ETH), which lingered near $1,500 after sealing its greatest levels in more than a month, with huge gains against BTC incorporated.

Related: BTC miners ‘finally capitulating’ — 5 items to know in Bitcoin now

ETH/USD 1-day candle chart (Binance). Source: TradingView

Beating even Bitcoin’s progress, ETH/USD was the darling of traders at the time, firmly upending the formerly dire cost action in position from May onwards at the beginning of the Terra (LUNA) — now known as Terra Classic (LUNC) — debacle.

Approaching resistance lay by means of Ethereum’s all-time high in the previous Bitcoin halving cycle at $1,530, so it touched at the begining of 2018.

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