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Bitcoin holds 5-week high as trader suggests ‘parabolic’ bear trend is over

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Bitcoin (BTC) took purpose at $24,000 on July 20 after an evening of stable positive aspects put bulls within the driving seat.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Supply: TradingView

Parabolas violated

Information from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView adopted BTC/USD because it breached $23,800, its highest degree since June 13.

Towards expectations, crypto staged a restoration past an intra-hour “fake-out” as danger belongings benefitted from declining United States greenback energy.

The inverse correlation between the U.S. greenback index (DXY) and Bitcoin remained middle stage on the day, with the dollar coming off twenty-year highs on the finish of the week prior.

U.S. greenback index (DXY) vs. BTC/USD 1-day candle chart. Supply: TradingView

“The Greenback is taking a pleasant hit immediately from the bears,” fashionable dealer Crypto Tony told Twitter followers because the breakout took form:

“Good signal for Bitcoin as issues cool off for the DXY.”

Fellow analyst Wolf, in the meantime, eyed the breakdown of a “parabolic development” in place on DXY all through 2022. On the similar time, as per evaluation from fashionable dealer Jibon, BTC/USD had ended its parabolic run to macro lows.

These “expectations” referred to a technique forecasting BTC/USD rising to $40,000 earlier than one other bearish phase places in a recent macro backside.

Main trendlines see a sudden check

Returning to present value motion, in the meantime, significance got here within the type of essential trendlines being damaged.

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Amongst them have been the 200-week transferring common (WMA) at $22,800 and Bitcoin’s realized value at $21,934 as of July 19, knowledge from on-chain analytics agency Glassnode confirmed.

Bitcoin realized value chart. Supply: Glassnode

Each are classic fixtures in Bitcoin bear markets, with BTC/USD normally wicking under whereas preserving the degrees as fundamental assist.

Consideration thus targeted on the weekly shut, which might affirm a breakout from the 200 WMA.

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