Bitcoin can pass $30K before setting new bear market low — forecast
Bitcoin (BTC) may gain another 50% before seeing a mass sell-off to complete its bear market, new research predicts.
In the latest edition of its regular markets newsletter, “The Crypto Circular,” trading firm QCP Capital delivered a grim warning to those who believe that crypto winter is over.
Bitcoin has surprised by retaining new support levels abruptly reclaimed in its week-long bull run, so far topping out at $21,650.
Despite widespread suspicion over the “choreographed” move, BTC/USD has nonetheless clawed back key trend lines and psychological price points.
For QCP, there is still plenty of fuel to send the pair higher, but that still does not mean that the bear market overall is done and dusted.
Updating its long-term Elliott Wave price analysis, it argued that the current upside constitutes a Wave 4 for Bitcoin — essentially a bear market relief move.
“Make no mistake, what we are seeing now in risk markets are characteristic of Wave 4s,” it wrote.
Such a final capitulation would be no joke; Wave 5, a previous chart from December showed, would mean both Bitcoin and Ether (ETH) potentially dropping to below their 2022 floor.
“The extension we are currently seeing so far in 2023 falls within the parameters of the Wave 4, even if it has broken some near-term technical levels to the topside, thereby increasing bullish momentum,” the newsletter continued.
Elliott Wave theory states that the 20%, 38.2% and 50% Fibonacci retracement levels are of particular importance in Wave 4. Since Bitcoin has already corrected almost 20% from the recent macro lows, two remaining price targets are now in play: $27,100 and $31,850.
“Technically until these levels are broken, Wave 4 is still in play and a final Wave 5 for these markets that
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