Bitcoin 'death cross' sees BTC price dip $1K erasing Uptober gains
Bitcoin (BTC) broke lower on Oct. 11 as $27,000 saw its first real test since the start of the month.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked increasing overnight BTC price weakness, including a trip to $26,978 on Bitstamp.
Bitcoin thus came full circle for October, erasing all of the gains seen after the September monthly close.
Analyzing intraday performance, popular trader Skew noted the interplay between two moving averages (MAs), along with a so-called “death cross.”
In March, he noted the 100-day MA crossed above the 200-day counterpart — a “golden cross” event that traditionally marks upside to come.
“Here we technically just had the death cross, so if we head lower kinda leaning towards a squeeze eventually to test 200D MA again before trending,” part of X commentary read.
The daily chart shows the 200-day MA acting as stiff resistance for BTC/USD despite its early “Uptober” gains. Since the death cross confirmed on Oct. 9, the pair has lost almost $1,000, or 3.4%.
On shorter timeframes, Skew highlighted $27,300 and $26,800 as key levels.
“Bears have price control here with loss of 4H EMA trend, if price recovers above $27.3K I will see that as strength,” he wrote.
$BTC 4H
Bears have price control here with loss of 4H EMA trend
if price recovers above $27.3K I will see that as strength
More importantly any recovery needs to be spot driven from here imo, wont rule out a squeeze.
Below $26.8K this will look weak to me https://t.co/ymFr8bYtyf pic.twitter.com/HvxZnN4SrI
Fellow trader Crypto Tony revealed that he was already short BTC, having triggered the change as Bitcoin dropped below $27,200.
$BTC / $USD - Update
Lost the support zone overnight, so as per the plan i will be shorting this down while below
