Bitcoin price has exploded out of its recent trading range near lows around $6,500 and has already rallied over $8,300 in a move that caught bearish crypto traders who were expecting more downside in the leading cryptocurrency by market cap off-guard.
However, before bulls should start celebrating that the downtrend is over, there’s an extremely bearish case to consider: Bitcoin is now more oversold than it was during its historic October 2019 rally, which was driven by news that China would be supporting blockchain technology.
Bitcoin Indicators Reach Oversold Levels, More So Than October’s China Pump
It was just before Halloween in late October, and Bitcoin price had just broken through its lows at $7,500 to $7,200, before the crypto asset skyrocketed to as high as $10,600, setting a record for the third-largest single-day gain in the young financial asset’s short history.
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Despite the powerful move in late October following news that Chinese President Xi Jinping urged its country to support the blockchain technology that Bitcoin was built on, the Relative Strength Index on daily timeframes didn’t reach as oversold of levels as it has reached during today’s rally. Stoch, and Stoch RSI are also signaling higher oversold levels currently than the previous, monumental rally.
When the RSI and these other indicators typically reach oversold conditions, it suggests that a reversal could be near.
Daily RSI wasn’t that high even after a 3000$ pump in October. Not to mention oscillators and 6 green daily candles in a row (and 8 red on TD sequential, by the way).
Just saying. $BTC $BTCUSD #bitcoin pic.twitter.com/8oAioMEJlq— CryptoHamster (@CryptoHamsterIO) January 8, 2020
Bitcoin price broke above $8,200 today, rallying further until it reached strong overhead resistance at $8,400 – a level the cryptocurrency is currently struggling with.
Those struggles could turn into a reversal if the bearish take on the RSI plays out. If Bitcoin reverses here, today’s rally could end up being nothing more than yet another bearish retest of former support turned resistance, before Bitcoin price falls to the next trading range lower – a pattern that has been occurring throughout the downtrend.
However, if Bitcoin price can get above $9,000, then the crypto asset will have broken out of the channel it has been trading within ever since the downtrend began in late June.
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When the current bearish trend finally turns around, Bitcoin has plenty of bullish things to look forward to throughout 2020, including the asset’s hard-coded halving – an event that sees the reduction of the BTC reward miners receive and is said to have a dramatic effect on price, notably a significant increase.