Short Term Update

Since my last update this market has bounced twice towards my short term volume average, this happened after the Paypal news about adding bitcoin support. The price zone from $455 to $465 is still working as support, any break below $455 would materialize my bearish scenario down to $420. The current daily cycle is still pointing there, to $420.

Paypal news is just the latest in a long series of positive news for the bitcoin environment but the market hasn’t reacted positively to these bullish news for many months, not to mention the null effect of Dell accepting bitcoins. This is definitely an abnormal behavior and it can only be explained by the low level of those who trade at the main bitcoin exchanges, they lack also of long term view on bitcoin and are here merely for short term speculation.

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Short Term update: Failure to recover $500

In my last update i’ve talked about a mandatory condition to move above $500 soon but XBT/USD failed to do so and instead drifted further down towards the $455-$465 support area. At this point the odds are for a drop down to the $420-$430 price zone, below the recent bottom done at ~$440 because the averages i’m using on the 3 days chart and weekly chart are bearish and pushing down the price.

For the next few hours because of a low reading of the RSI there could be a rebounce to $480 where there is the fast VWAP (7 days), notice how the second negative deviation line provided temporary support to the price action at around $465.

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Short Term Update: Time is Up

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In my previous update I hypothesized that the drop of last 31 August could have been a true breakout but at the same time i was leaning towards the shakeout theory, at this point considering what happened yesterday i have to remain moderately bullish for the upcoming days but there is a condition that must be met in order to move up to the first decent resistance, the VWAP at around $550.
This condition is to move above $500 soon, better this week, because with the weekend ahead i’m worried that there could be a new stall with a subsequent drop. Where will bitcoin found support in case of a furhter drop from here? Well the support for the second part of the month could be in the $420-$430 price zone, below the recent bottom done at ~$440; this possible scenario scary me a bit because moving below the previous bottom would have very bearish implications and i prefer to avoid complications.

 

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The #btctrading IRC channel

##btctrading is a place where many traders hang out and discuss about bitcoin market analysis. The community in ##btctrading will be mostly the same community that you’ll find here in the comments.

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Mac users might want to consider Colloquy: http://colloquy.info

Connect to the FreeNode Network

Once you install the application you’ll want to connect to the FreeNode network. FreeNode.net is a network that is very popular with open-source development communities. Most web-development frameworks have an IRC channel on FreeNode so we’re in good company.

To connect to FreeNode set your IRC client to connect to the server irc.FreeNode.net by setting it in the client’s user-interface or by entering the following line in the input box:

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Join ##btctrading

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NOTE
Again I please everyone to join the unofficial channel using the double # as prefix (##btctrading), thanks.
Why? well because of freenode rules on primary channels at the moment i decided not to use #btctrading, more here.

Short Term Update: sick drop? I’m not much surprised

I dunno why, but i’m not surprised to see an heavy selling activity on Sunday, probably too much bored traders at Bitstamp and/or Bitfinex; jokes apart i’m starting to be annoyed by the short term behaviour of this market, totally disconnected from the news with sudden heavy selling activities typical of an immature and unstable market and for unstable i mean the volatility level with its high variance or unpredictability as main characteristic.
Aniway $495 has been broken and now it will work as resistance in case of a rebounce, in the meantime the VWAP is quicly readjusting itself below the $500 mark. 
Support for next week should be in the $430-$440 price zone, resistance at around $495-$500.

The question now is whether this is a high volume breakout that portends much lower prices, or a high volume shakeout that will quickly be reversed by a strong reaction with good volumes and the price coming back above $500. Considering the low level nature of the investor community at the biggest bitcoin exchanges, personally I am leaning towards the shakeout theory rather than toward the breakout theory, it’ll be important to see how it’ll start the next week, the first 2-3 days.
 
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Short Term Update: Sideways

Trading sideways is when a security doesn’t make higher highs or lower lows. It just stays within the same trading range over any period of time, it’s a lull in between a bull market, when a security trade higher, or a bear market, when they are on a downward trend. Again XBT/USD is entering a congestion because it’s not too far from a period of ten days inside a specific range, the price zone from 480 to 540 dollars. 
The short term VWAP is now perfectly in the middle of the trading range, at 510 dollars. The volatility of the last seven days dropped further more and so the range defined by the deviation lines, as i indicated in the chart the last tops has been made on the first and second deviation lines with the last $522 top done on a RSI divergence.
Now the rsi is forming a new divergence with an higher bottom and bitcoin price doing a lower low, it could be a buying opportunity if today or tomorrow XBT/USD drops down to $490-$495. If someone want to try to go long there because this is short term operativity the stop loss must be very tight 5 or 10 dollars at max with a target around $515-$520.

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Short Term Update

Here’s a 60 min chart of the last 7 days, after an initial breakout of the short term VWAP notice that it stopped and found perfect resistance at the first positive deviation line of the volume average. Now it is very important to stay above the first negative deviation line at $480; any weakness below this level is a good indication that the selling pressure is increasing with the possible outcome of a new bottom below the previous one did at $440.
For now, watch out the 480$ level.

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Short Term Update: Now Bullish

In the previous update I mentioned as a possible resistance area the price zone from 480 to 510 dollars but the price has risen above my short term VWAP, i’ve to conclude that at least in the short term bitcoin has returned to a bullish position.
At this point I think that  XBT/USD could test the $ 540 resistance before some profit taking will take place.

The volume on all the main exchanges is high. Usually, momentum investors prefer to buy stocks that are rising with high volume, i hope they will be back to restore bitcoin price to at least 600 dollars as it was before the recent selloff.

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Short Term Update

I expected the support at $475 to hold instead the market has dropped further more to $ 440 or so, with this decrease the VWAP average adjusted itself to $ 509 from $520 and the first negative deviation line is now at 480 dollars.

I believe that XBT/USD will eventually end the rebound in this price zone, between 480 and 510 dollars; after that it will probably resume the drop within 24-48 hours. Any strength above $510 would suggest the intention of this market to reverse to the upside confirming ~$440 as a temporary bottom.

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Short Term Update: 60 min chart

chartThe recent sell off has brought the bitcoin into some decent short term support; the top chart above shows the XBT/USD coming into support that is defined by the first deviation line of VWAP, computed using only last 7 days of data for a very short term indication.
The bottom pane of the chart shows the RSI in oversold territory but its average is higher and this let me think that there should be a retest of the $500 support level.
It would appear to me that strong support in the near term comes in around the $470-$480 price zone while resistance is at the VWAP, now at ~$530.

I don’t expect to see bullishness soon but there is the possibility that if $502 will hold then bitcoin will have enough energy to recover the $550 level before dropping again.

Short Term Update: genuine crash at bitfinex or an orchestrated manipulation?

chartThis is a 5 mins chart of Bitfinex, i suspect that the decline may have been started by few speculators who knew that due to the margin call effect would have done the rest stacking and forcing many sale orders in multiple accounts provoking a quick flash crash that pushed the market enough low to allow them to rebuy at a much lower price.

Aniway the price is recovering and moving towards the fast VWAP at $535 that will act as resistance for the next few days.

UPDATE:
An interesting article about what supposedly happened at BitFinex.