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Bitcoin Cash Price Tanks Below $600 (Loses 10%)- How To Buy BCH?

  • Bitcoin Cash price tanks below the 200 SMA to seek refuge above the $600

         psychological level.

  • BCH price prediction in the short-term is bearish as indicated by the MACD indicator.
  • IntoTheBlock’s IOMAP model shows that BCH is facing stiff resistance around the $643 level.

Bitcoin Cash Price has plummeted 10% from yesterday’s high of $655, coinciding with the 200-day Simple Moving Average (SMA) to a low of around $591 recorded earlier today. With this drop, BCH has flipped the 200 SMA from resistance to support.

Currently, Bitcoin Cash price is trading in the green at $611.11 with bulls trying their best to hold above the $600 psychological level.

Bitcoin Cash Price Seems To Ignore PayPal’s News On Cryptocurrency Adoption

Bitcoin Cash price seems to be snubbing the news that PayPal was going to allow its UK customers to buy, sell and hold BCH.

On Monday, PayPal opened crypto services to its UK customers allowing them to sell and store Bitcoin Cash (BCH) and other major cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC), Ether (ETH), and Litecoin (LTC) through PayPal’s website and mobile app.

The announcement helped boost an already-recovering crypto market, with Bitcoin Cash price rising 7% on Monday, as reaction to the news. The news also saw Bitcoin (BCH) shatter the $50,000 mark hitting a three-month high.

The announcement follows PayPal’s provision of crypto services to US customers launched earlier this year. PayPal plans to scale the roll-out to more than 403 million of its international customers by the end of 2021.

Jose Fernandez da Ponte, Vice President and General Manager, Blockchain, Crypto and Digital Currencies at PayPal said:

The pandemic has accelerated digital change and innovation across all aspects of our lives — including the digitisation of money and greater consumer adoption of digital financial services.”

This announcement was welcomed by industry figure. For example, Laith Khalaf, an investment analyst at the financial firm AJ Bel welcome the development saying he expected the service to be enter the UK at some point. Speaking to The Guardian, Khalaf said, signs that investors were “leapfrogging traditional forms of savings and diving in at the deep end by investing in crypto” were all over at that regulators were concerned about the potential for consumer harm posed by volatile pricing. He was, however, positive about PayPal’s news saying that its “…presence is positive in that it is a high-profile, publicly listed company, which is already subject to regulatory scrutiny. But overall the crypto craze remains a worry for consumer advocates and regulators.”

The leader in this space is Strike, which allows virtually feeless buying, selling, transferring and receiving of Bitcoin. However, Strike does not provide access to Altcoins. PayPal’s provision of altcoins like Bitcoin Cash could help push the price of BCH even higher

However, after rising 7% on Monday following the news, BCH corrected to lows $600 as earlier seen today, indicating that more fundamentals could be needed to push the altcoin higher.

Bitcoin Cash Price Faces Massive Resistance Upwards

The short-term Bitcoin Cash Price Prediction as BCH/USD price continues to be rejected by the 200-day SMA since August 24. This warranted a sell-off as bulls retreated to seek support above the $600 psychological level as seen on the daily chart.

The bulls must keep the price above $600, a move that could ensure market stability and increase the chances of the Bitcoin Cash price turning bullish. In the meantime, remaining above the $591 major support level will favour the bulls, but breaking above the 200-day SMA at $660 will increase the odds of overcoming the intraweek high at close to the $700 psychological level.

Trading above this level may trigger more buy orders as speculation mounts for gains towards the May 20 high at $866. Investor interest is expected to shoot up, especially after more fundamentals kick in.

This bullish outlook is validated by the upward movement of the RSI away from the sell zone.

BCH/USD Daily Chart

Bitcoin Cash Price Daily Chart
Bitcoin Cash Price Chart by Tradingview

Things are, however, not rosy for BCH bulls as the movement of the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator below the signal line points to a bearish outlook. The MACD validated this when it crossed below the signal line on Monday August 23.

Moreover, the BCH’s immediate resistance at around the $643 appears robust. According to IntoTheBlock’s IOMAP on-chain metrics, this areas is within the$627 and $643 investor cluster where roughly 198,660 addresses previously bought  approximately1.17 million BCH. These investors may wish to break even as the price rises, dampening any bullish pressure.

Bitcoin Cash IOMAP Chart
Bitcoin Cash IOMAP Chart by IntoTheBlock

On the downside, a daily closure below this immediate support at $591 may trigger sell orders which would see Bitcoin Cash seek for support from the 100 SMA at $572 and the 50 SMA at $552 respectively.

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Nancy Lubale

Nancy Lubale

Crypto Analyst and Technical Writer Nancy is a successful crypto analyst and content writer with many years of writing experience finance and blockchain fields. Nancy has been producing quality content for websites in the cryptocurrency industry including Krptotrends. She is a Certified Cryptocurrency Expert (CCE) from Blockchain Council.