Bitcoin fends off bear attack, clinging to levels
|Market picture
The crypto market lost 0.75% in 24 hours to $2.29 trillion. A day earlier, we noted a decline in cryptocurrencies in contrast to the positivity in equities on Wednesday, and then synchronised selling prevailed on Thursday. Meanwhile, the sentiment index remains at 57 (greed). This is bad news for the market right now, as a state of fear might have attracted buyers on downturns, but now they will wait for a bigger drawdown.
At the same time, the bulls in Bitcoin are leaving important levels behind them, having managed to push back from the 50-day moving average. The price change over the past 36 hours is small (-0.6%), but this result masks a 5.5% jump in price in the five hours after touching lows near $62.3K on Thursday night.
Current levels fit into a corrective pattern from the July price amplitude. However, it is difficult to rely on this short-term pattern ahead of labour market data, with volatility spiking in equities.
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