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Since early January, Polkadot has performed bullishly on the price charts. This was a trend seen across the altcoin market, so DOT was no exception. Like the rest of the market, Polkadot has also run into strong bearish pressure over the past few days.
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The strong rally from $6 earlier this month saw most of the gains retraced over the past week. The psychological round number at $6 coincided with a bullish order block on the daily timeframe, highlighted in cyan.
It was likely that Polkadot would drop beneath $6.5 in the coming days and possibly as low as $6.
Source: DOT/USDT on TradingView
The daily chart showed that although bearish pressure has been significant in the past week, bulls can look to bid at the $6 area. The mid-February rally from $6 had been strong and breached $7 with ease, and reached $7.9 on 19 February.
Since then, the prices have slumped to trade at $6.57 at press time. This amounted to losses of 16.6% within the space of a week. Analysis of lower timeframe charts such as the 4-hour showed the bears were firmly in the driving seat.
The price had left an H4 imbalance in the $6.9-7.15 zone. Although there was a bounce from $6.9 on 22 February, it was not enough to break past $7.36. Now, DOT sat atop another support at $6.48, with $6.3 and $6 as further support levels to the south.
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The Awesome Oscillator was above the zero line but made red bars on the histogram to show the bulls were weakening in the past week. The CMF was at +0.08, which showed significant
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