Bitcoin ‘could easily see $30K’ with stocks due to 30% drawdown in 2022 — Analyst
Bitcoin (BTC) opened the Wall Street trading session with a spike to over $41,500 on March 21 as last week’s late gains endured.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD advancing $500 into the Wall Street open to see a strong start after its best weekly close in four weeks, but progress was short-lived.
Amid a buoyant stock market, the largest cryptocurrency showed mixed signs on the lowest timeframes as traders waited to see how long the current trajectory could sustain.
For popular trader Crypto Ed, the area around $41,500 was essential as a potential pivot point — a bounce and continuation could occur, providing an opportunity for longs, but a rout would mean a trip below $40,000 support.
In his latest YouTube update, he identified $37,000 as a potential bearish target.
Analyzing the four-hour chart, meanwhile, trader Pierre called the $40,800–$41,200 zone a “must hold.”
“LTF pivot today imo (break it, teleport to 42.0-42.5k),” he concluded in the latest entry in a dedicated Twitter thread about spot price action.
Addressing the wider macro picture, meanwhile, Mike McGlone, senior commodity strategist at Bloomberg Intelligence, had some concerning news for those hoping that the stock market revival would last much longer.
“So, we have the most extended stock market in 20 years relatively... most expensive stock market in terms of GDP in the history of mankind, most expensive stock market versus real estate and versus global equities ever... and part of that is that’s been driving inflation and the Fed has to push back that inflation,” he told the Wolf of All Streets Podcast Monday.
As such, bets were in place already for a significant equities correction, with Bitcoin’s positive correlation making
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