Bitcoin (BTC) is in a fighting mood this week as the weekly close buoys bulls' cause and wipes out several weeks of downside — can it continue higher?
After challenging $42,000 over the weekend, there was a cautious sense of optimism as higher levels remained in play. Sunday saw a fresh push, with overnight progress attacking $43,000 before fresh consolidation.
With Monday's Wall Street open primed to deliver more of the turbulence in big tech stocks seen late last week, the environment for crypto traders is an interesting one in February.
With its notable positive correlation, Bitcoin is thus sensitive to moves up and down — but equities refuse to move unanimously in the same direction.
Looking for guidance, hodlers will still remember January's lows, and these are also fresh in the mind of analysts who have not discounted the possibility of returning to $30,000.
With something of a week of reckoning for its latest gains ahead, Cointelegraph takes a look at the Bitcoin market and five forces at play that could help shape where BTC price action heads next.
The weekend was no match for Bitcoin's newfound bullishness despite its typically lower volume providing fertile ground for both "fakeouts" and "fakedowns."
$40,000 held as support, and analysts were keen to see $41,000 established as a longer-term basis going forward.
"Here's how I see things. As long as $BTC holds 39k (as prev stated) then yearly open up next," trader and analyst Pentoshi summarized Sunday.
The yearly open for 2022 stands at around $46,200, a price level that's getting closer after BTC/USD broke through its weekend resistance zone to hit local highs of $43,070 on Bitstamp.
Fellow analyst and trader Credible Crypto believes that the latest action could provide
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