We have a double bottom at 5800 and a $600 pump to instill confidence in traders and spark a new hope for the bulls. We have also just touched the upper channel of the down trend inside the pitchfork, but haven't broken out yet.

Now, let's review the possibilities:

1. It can be a flat abc upwards correction (3-3-5 structure) as part of the large down trend with target already hit, so a move down and breaking 5800 for good will follow with bear targets 5450 and 5200 (red ABC down)
It could also become a bear flag. You can try to short with a stop-loss cautiously from the down channel's boundary.
Supporting factors:
- we have already touched the down channel and can slide down any time
- sync with the futures on monday implies a move down to 6000, retest of 5900
- we have no trend reversal confirmation yet. It's just a pump, although a bigger one.
- the new uptrend comes right after the Fundstrat news saying that breaking 6300 could mean a potential reversal in the long term. Seems too fishy, a tactics to lure some bulls.
- USDT double spending vulnerability just reported
- We've just made a yearly ATL (implying months of bear trend ahead), this puny double bottom is artificial, pure manipulation to stop the price from falling.
- overbought RSI H1, close to overbought RSI on H4

2. It can also be a truncated c in a blue WXY that has formed a true double bottom to complete the current move down. A new pumped up 5 wave move can be seen as a wave 1 of the up trend with target 7000.
Supporting factors:
- prev futures have expired, they are in profit and free to possibly go long and pump, but it doesn't quite make sense to pump secretly on a weekend. They could do it openly during weekdays to show strength. Perhaps the strict anti-manipulation of CME forbids that (Trading is stopped when a certain % spike is reached), however they managed to do it anyway with prev $1200 pump.
- long oversold RSI on D1
- double bottom
- a bounce up from RSI bands trend on D1
- a bounce from the major purple supply line
- we didn't hit the pitchfork's mean line => reversal of the prev swing is likely
- Inverted H&S
- breach of prev high pivot 6300
- a rise in 4.7 bln daily volume
- IOT, ETH, LTC, BCH are supporting the move
- EMA 100 support, EMAs starting to curve up
- could be a Wyckoff spring - we have just broken the yearly ATL on almost zero selling volume, no major sell-off.
- we have seen another $400 pump before and it went down. So, this time it makes sense to pump further up, because most traders will see a flat and expect another dump just like before.
- anything can happen in a dying exhausted market with low liquidity. Given enough resources on a margin, they can pump up or drop the price all the way down.

To confirm the up trend we need a golden cross EMA 50 x 200 on H4 (that's far far away). We already have one on M15 and the one on H1 may also be coming soon. On the last pump we had a H1 and H4 golden crosses. The EMA 50 can become support for the wave 3. Golden cross on H1 can give 4-8 days of general up trend direction, on H4 - up to a month.
You can buy from EMA support or on a breakout of the down channel on a strong candle with a stop-loss, but this could be an even shorter term up trend with a bull trap ahead.

3. It can't be a leading wedge because they have 5-3-5-3-5 structure. Nor it is an ending wedge because of the double bottom and direction (they are 3-3-3-3-3 and pointing down in wave c to end the move)

4. It can't be waves (1-2)-1 of an up trend because (1) clearly has only 3 waves.

5. It can't be a triangle - we're past that

Good Luck!

Not a financial advice. Use at your own risk.
Comment:
So far, this doesn't look like a wave 3 of an up trend. Wave 2 is too wide and we're stalling too much and losing momentum. If we break EMA 200 and reach 7000 that would be a wave 3 = 100% of wave 1. To confirm an up trend we need to break prev high 6850 and get EMA 200 support. Anything below that is just an upwards correction. Also we are far from having a golden cross on the H1 futures chart although the EMAs are sloping upwards. We have an H1 golden cross only on IOT with ETH, BCH, LTC and EOS slowly approaching it.

Current 3-3-3 structure looks like a flat wxy upwards correction with abc of y being the last leg and going up to 6750 (161.8% of wave w) and a and c consisting of 5 waves each with wave 5 of wave c still due. After that we will likely move sideways and then drop to 6000 again and possibly continue the down trend.
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