Litecoin Price Forecast: LTC/USD failure to regain $50 has proven to be punishing

Litecoin price is trading in positive territory by 0.40 % in the session on Tuesday.
LTC/USD subject to deeper falling following a rejection at $50, next major support eyed at $40.
Price action has been narrowing within recent trading, ahead of a possible incoming breakout.

Ken Chigbo Independent Analyst

LTC/USD daily chart

Vulnerabilities remain tilted to the downside, given the bearish flag breach.

LTC/USD 60-minute chart

Near-term price action is moving within a bearish flag structure via the 60-minute chart view.

Spot rate: 41.51

Relative change: +.0.40%

High: 41.91

Low: 40.57

LTC/USD

Overview
Today last price	41.51
Today Daily Change	0.1739
Today Daily Change %	0.42
Today daily open	41.3361

Trends
Daily SMA20	41.2194
Daily SMA50	46.208
Daily SMA100	55.1114
Daily SMA200	53.1171

Levels
Previous Daily High	42.0341
Previous Daily Low	39.565
Previous Weekly High	47.6578
Previous Weekly Low	39.9638
Previous Monthly High	63.9927
Previous Monthly Low	24.9467
Daily Fibonacci 38.2%	40.5082
Daily Fibonacci 61.8%	41.0909
Daily Pivot Point S1	39.9227
Daily Pivot Point S2	38.5094
Daily Pivot Point S3	37.4537
Daily Pivot Point R1	42.3918
Daily Pivot Point R2	43.4474
Daily Pivot Point R3	44.8608

Author

Ken Chigbo

Independent Analyst

Ken has over 8 years exposure to the financial markets. He started his career as an analyst, covering a variety of asset classes; forex, fixed income, commodities and equities.

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Litecoin Price Forecast: LTC/USD failure to regain $50 has proven to be punishing