Bitcoin Correction Continues

As we postulated in our last discussion, Bitcoin was due for another wave down, and indeed has begun on that path since.  We typically look at the daily chart here, since this column only publishes once a day, but this time let’s look at the 8-hour chart:

This chart is amazing.  Or at least I am amazed by it. Almost every support and resistance the asset encountered since Mid-October is visible here. Note the blue arrows highlighting just a few of the places where arcs, angles and top of squares provided S/R.

The yellow highlighted area shows where the price turned exactly at the end of the 1^st square, and the green highlights where market turned at the 3^rd arc.

As I am typing, the recent fall found temporary support at the 2^nd arc.  The question is, will it hold? Or will price fall through it?  Of course we can never know for sure, but we can make educated guesses.  Let’s look at a bear setup from the high:

Again, it is incredible how the first (blue) arc, the 4×1 Gann angle and the 1^st arc pair have contained support and resistance.  The most recent bar is contained entirely by the arc as support by the lower and resistance by the upper arcs of the pair.  So we must ask again: Is support going to hold?

Before we look at the daily chart, I will tell you that my suspicion is that support will not hold and that we are going to see price go lower.  Why do I say that?

Some of you may already see the answer, which I have highlighted in green.  Price penetrated the arc pair fully (and did so again in the next-to-last candle).  This suggests to me that the arc which is currently supporting the present candle is not very strong.  It folded twice already.  My guess is it will get tested again, and will fail again.  So, the next target is the 2^nd arc pair.

The end of a square is often a turning point, so if we guess that price might turn thereat the 2^nd arc pair, we would get a low very close to the low highlighted in green.  That would be VERY reasonable place, imho, to enter a long position, with a tight stop.

Elliot Wave traders will recognize that this would look very much like a (possibly) completed A-B-C correction.

Let’s take a look at the daily chart, which we looked at on Friday:

As was discussed on Friday, the 3^rd arc pair stopped the advance, and continues to do so (see Friday’s column for more information about this picture).  Given it is now pretty clear that this is a relatively significant correction underway, I have overlaid a bear setup to get an educated opinion of where the correction might end.  Note that the 1^st arc (blue) has not been tested yet, but it will be tested, presumably, at just about the same place as the support we saw on the 8-hour chart above, at ~ $675.

Will this support hold?  It is clearly way too soon to say, although my hunch is that it will.  Time will tell.

I am sure Elliott Wave traders can see the 5 wave structure of the last advance to the high.  It’s a lovely thing to see when you are trying to gauge which way the market wants to go.  In this case, imho, it wants to go up, but has to finish this correction first.

Happy trading!

Remember:  The author is a trader who is subject to all manner of error in judgement.  Do your own research, and be prepared to take full responsibility for your own trades.