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f-73
Aug 23, 2018 5:52 PM

Bearish pennant on BB squeeze ... Short

Bitcoin / U.S. dollarBitstamp

Description

Careful here.

Unless that big (red) pennant gets negated things will turn bad.
Watch out for a break down.

Comment

It's moving.



Volume needed for pattern confirmation.

Comment

Volume and spike down to 6350$.
Pattern confirmed, that's a start.

Comment

I'm not a fan of H&S as a continuation pattern.
Yet i wouldn't ignore the warnings shown below.



Look at H&S + resistance falling from highs ( red ) + rising wedge.
Current pennant is just a minor pattern within the chart, in a quite delicate position.

Better safe than sorry, they say ...

Comment

Fell short of bearish flag target.

Yet the move up lacks volume so far.
Nervous price moves such as this are common on the days preceeding future expiration ( on Aug 31 ).

Anyway overall structure is still bearish.

Even choosing to ignore the rising wedge the big picture on 1D shows a big bearish flag possibily hinting the right shoulder of a H&S.



I'd suggest to keep an eye on today close, as price is close top the upper bound of the BB.

Bulls would score a REAL point only by breaking both the upper BB, the resistance ( red ) and finally negating the flag ( purple ).

In my opinion that's unlikely.
For the time being i'd rather prepare for a correction.

This said market is king, in any case i will adapt my strategy accordingly.
Comments
john_galassi
I don't know about you fellow, but to me it's really not easy to guess where all this strenght comes from (building up above $7000 at the moment of writing)..
john_galassi
@john_galassi, fellowS
StephMoen
Nice
StephMoen
Yes good idea I am agree with you , what do you think about the reverse point ?
f-73
@StephMoen, *IF* confirmed i'd say TP1 6250$ ( minmum "statistical" target ), TP2 6050$ ( purely theoretical ).
Stoch RSI / 4H is oversold though, so not an easy call in the very short timeframe.
Let's see and seek confirmation into volume, eventually.
StephMoen
@ft-73, thanks, I think same, before 6250 we should get back stronger
f-73
@StephMoen, hard to tell for now.
Anyway we have almost a BB squeeze even on 1D and Stoch RSI is overbought there.

Better to use quite *a lot of caution* in the next few days, it seems volatility is coming.
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