Short Term Update: MtGox 2h chart

This is a short term view of the last 2 weeks (the distance between two vertical dotted lines is 24 hours), the fibonacci retracement of ~62% at 13.3$ is working, after a brief test few hours ago the BTC/USD bounced to 13.7$, it is important to stay above it and i think the short term trend will reverse today with a new sequence of higher highs and lows. I’ll evalute to close the trade under the 13.3$ support but i remain confident that it will hold.

Short Term Update: MtGox 2h chart

This is a short term view of the last 7 days (the distance between two vertical dotted lines is 24 hours), after the first up swing the market retraced down to the fibonacci retracement of ~62% at 13.3$ and it’s rebouncing from there approaching to what i call the death zone represented by the 7/8 of the distance measured from the low point to the high point of the reference swing. In this case it would be the area around 14.4$.
I call it the Death Zone because this is where many promising new swings die an early death without going above the reference top.
I’m not going to buy here because of the negative overall scenario, but for who want to give a try i recommend to apply a tight stop loss if the fibonacci retracement fails to provide support.

Long Term Update: MtGox

Cycle, Primary, Intermediate and Minor wave degrees are all pointing down, it is still a sell or stay out of the market advice and nothing’s changed much since my first elliott wave outlook . The recent drop under 13$ is a confirmation of this bearish situation.

As i said, now four consecutive wave degrees show a clear NEGATIVE trend, the conservative target of 11.50$ has not yet been reached but as more and more wave degrees shown a negative trend the probability of a meltdown increases considerably, even down to the secondary target at about 10$.
For the Elliott Wave theory, this is a very long term signal since it starts with the Cycle wave degree followed by the Primary and Intermediate wave degrees. The typical wave degree for the medium-long term investor is the intermediate one, which is currently pushing the price down to 11.50$. 

I’ll be a buyer when all this bearishness will evaporate after an important bottom probably under 11$ and with a confirmation from the moving average i use and the oscillator (still oversold).

Long Term Update: MtGox

Despite the fact that btc/usd has broken my long term downtrend line the overall picture remains weak. We could have seen the first shy attempt of a major trend reversal but it’s not enough, for who has experience of elliott wave analisys we have all the major waves inherent to a long term investment horizon pointing down (primary, intermediate and minor wave degrees).  The indications i’m giving in this update apply to longer term investors for a price moves of possibly 30% or more, since Primary, Intermediate and Minor Wave degrees are all DOWN. The most certain price target is the target of the Minor wave degree, which is in wave 3, at 14.2$, normally also the target of the next higher wave degree could be reached at 13.6$, which is in wave 2.

Instead, looking for a possible target for the Primary time frame , we are in a wave 3 and the first target is at 11.80$.

It’s a good sign that all these targets are above the long term static support placed at 9$.

Short Term Update: MtGox

LONG | from an average price of 15.18$/btc with 1 unit (100 btc)

The BTC/USD is now following a discending triangle with the base at 14.50$, the line in the sand. I think that my short term trade is compromised, the odds are for a breakdown once the discending triangle is closed. The first warning was the sell signal from the oscillator at 15.30$ or so. Let’s see how it develop, in the worst case i’ll take a loss of 80$.

Long Term Update: MtGox

The BTC/USD bounced nicely from recent low at 11$, it is breaking the long discending trendline i’ve drawn. Personally i wouldn’t open a long term trade only on a temporary break out of a descending trendline; despite the good volume seen during the current bounce i’ll prefer to wait before abandoning my first scenario of an important test of the 9$ long term support;  in any case if i see strength above 16.75$ i’ll evaluate a buy on a break out of a strong level i compute as usual.

Long Term Update: MtGox

The USD/BTC  is falling, following a descending trendline that is connecting all the way down the last two weeks sequence of lower highs. So far the 13$ level is providing support but i dont think it will hold the price for too long, as long term support i like the 9$ level that was an important previous resistance now of course support.

That descending trendline will meet the 9$ level around next 20 July, so at that date or before the usd/btc is going to test this fundamental level. I think that only a major shock will allow the development of an important low where to begin again a new season of rising prices and it will not touch the 9$ support for then simply bouncing from it, i expect a rise in volatility and strong volume around it that might allow to buy during a strong and fast dip under 9$. Usually a buying opportunities in a bull market generally arise when the market drops below its 50 day moving average (13$) but remains above its 200 day moving average (4$ ). I think just such an opportunity might lies ahead with this upcoming test of the 9$ level.

Short Term Update: MtGox 30 min chart

In the last 48 hours the usd/btc broke the symmetrical triangle i pointed out in the previous post. It bounced at my forecasted resistance of 15.80$, later the usd/btc has managed to form a descending triangle and break out of it finding again support of my last range estimate around 15.20$.

At this point we are seeing a small ascending triangle developing, in the next couple of hours it will close it and again it will be a test to see if it can reverse to the upside above 15.80$ or it will continue to go down.

 

Short Term Update

This is a four hour chart of last two weeks, i’ve drawn the same symmetrical triangle  shown in my previous post, recently the usd/btc dropped a bit after a nice sell of 20,000 bitcoins. The lower boundary estimate of my daily range forecast (available on my twitter channel) worked and the price didnt get through 15.60$ support.

For the next 24 hours i’ve the zone at 15-15.20$ as support, but i dont think it is going to do another lower low if the volatility remains as low as the last three days.

The situation at tradehill exchange is not much different, with falling volume activity after the mtgox reopening and price tied to what happens at mtgox.

Last time i closed a short term trade was at 28.80$ and the long term trade at about 16$, not much happened since then and we need a new ignition of fresh capital from new investors to reverse the current stagnant phase.