Chris_Inks

BTCUSD 1H/1D charts (4/10/2019)

Long
BITSTAMP:BTCUSD   Bitcoin
Good morning, traders. If you have been with us in Discord, then you know that we have seen price play out as expected on the 1H TF when I drew the triangle. Early this morning we saw a break out and recent retest. Price is now attempting to head higher but it needs to exit the ~$5260 level convincingly. If your argument is that the daily is oversold so we MUST go down now, understand that bullish Bitcoin markets often spend quite a while oversold before retracing. Additionally, we are in a situation where the liquidity is much less than normal due to accumulation, so any extra bit of demand has a greater effect on price than it normally would.

As mentioned, price broke through the triangle resistance and this should create a target of $5465 based on the height of the triangle. A higher target of $5686, just above the 1H R1 pivot is based on the height of the flagpole leading up to that pennant/symmetrical triangle. And of course that would take price through the larger ascending triangle's resistance thereby creating a target of $6034 based on the height of that triangle. We also have a target of $5960 based on the height of the large ascending channel that began at the December low and which price broke bullishly through on April 1st. This cluster of pattern-based targets around $5960-$6034 lead me to believe that wave 3 will likely end in that area. Wave 4 would then be expected to pullback toward the 38.2% retracement level which aligns with the top of that ascending channel, and of course wave 5 would head up toward $6700 at least and potentially even $7780. The question becomes, if we see price target that higher level, how far will it retrace?

For now I will leave the lower target drawn on the daily chart but, at that higher point, the 38.2% retracement becomes the $6000 level and we would expect that level to hold as support. So do we then see a shallow larger wave 2 retracement only to that point and then a deeper wave 4 later? The structure would support that as the wave 4 could then retrace to 61.8% which would be a retest of $6000 one more time. Interestingly, that would give us a 5th wave target of around $14000-$15000 which aligns with the large corrective cycle descending wedge target. Of course this is all highly speculative at this point since we don't have this first set of 5 waves locked in yet, but it does paint a lucrative picture based on the the chart's structure. Again, before you dismiss it as not possible, remember what I said above about accumulation and liquidity. I will take a more in-depth look at all of this in a bit during this morning's Bitcoin video update on that other social media site.

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