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Bitcoin price prediction: BTC/USD controlled by bears  – Bitcoin confluence

  • BTC/USD drops under $8,500, but sell-off may be limited.
  • The critical support is created on approach to $8,200.

Bitcoin (BTC) dropped below $8,500 handle after an unsuccessful attempt to clear the $8,800 barrier. The first digital coin has lost over 2.5% of its value since the beginning of Monday and nearly 2% in recent 24 hours. On a weekly basis, BTC/USD is down 2.3%.

Bitcoin confluence levels  

BTC/USD has a lot of barriers clustered around the current price. It means that the price may spend some time in a range before the market finds a new direction.

Resistance levels

$8,600 – a host of Simple Moving Averages (SMAs), including SMA100 1-hour, the lower line of 1-hour Bollinger Band and middle line of 4-hour Bollinger Band.
$8,750 – 38.2% Fibo retracement daily
$9,044 – the highest level of the previous week and the highest level of the previous month.

Support levels

$8,400 – 61.8% Fibo retracement weekly, 161.8% Fibo projection daily.  
$8,200 – SMA100 4-hour, middle line of 1-day Bollinger Band, the lower line of 4-hour Bollinger Band, 23.6% Fibo retracement monthly.
 

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