{"id":13169,"date":"2019-03-18T07:30:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T11:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/?p=13169"},"modified":"2019-03-18T07:30:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T11:30:26","slug":"bitcoin-has-a-lot-more-room-to-rally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/bitcoin-has-a-lot-more-room-to-rally\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Has A Lot More Room to Rally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just about nobody is talking about the rally in bitcoin.<\/p>\n<p>When we looked at the king of the cryptocurrencies <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/the-next-big-move-for-bitcoin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">last month<\/a>, we noted the technical pattern of bitcoin looked bullish. The chart was breaking out to the upside of a consolidating triangle pattern. And, we figured bitcoin could be trading back near its December high of about $4,200 within just a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here we are, just four weeks later, and bitcoin is trading above $4,000. It&rsquo;s up 12% over the past month. That&rsquo;s far better than the 2% gain in the S&amp;P 500 over the same time frame. <\/p>\n<p>But, while everybody is talking about the bullish action in the stock market, the move in bitcoin is being overlooked.<\/p>\n<p>That makes me think there&rsquo;s a lot more room for bitcoin to rally. And the technical picture backs up that thought.<\/p>\n<p>Here&rsquo;s an updated look at the NYSE Bitcoin Index ($NYXBT) &ndash; which tracks the action in the cryptocurrency&hellip;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/jc-stable.s3.amazonaws.com\/ee-assets\/channels\/articles\/mm\/201903-mm\/20190318-MM-01.png\" width=\"700\" style=\"width:100%; max-width:700px; margin: 0 auto;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Notice how bitcoin is now trading above all of its various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jeffclarktrader.com\/glossary\/#movingaverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">moving averages<\/a> (the squiggly red, green, and blue lines on the chart). That&rsquo;s the first sign of bullish price action we&rsquo;ve seen since last July.<\/p>\n<p>But, unlike last July, when the rally quickly reversed, and bitcoin headed lower, the technical indicators at the bottom of the chart are nowhere near overbought conditions. In fact, they&rsquo;re all in neutral territory. This tells us there&rsquo;s still plenty of energy available to fuel higher prices.<\/p>\n<p>Given this setup, bitcoin shouldn&rsquo;t have any trouble rallying above the first red resistance line at about $4,200. The November high of $4,400 is the next logical resistance level.<\/p>\n<p>But, if bitcoin can get above $4,400, then there&rsquo;s not any resistance until way up near $5,500.<\/p>\n<p>That&rsquo;s the sort of move that will get folks talking about bitcoin again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px\">Best regards and good trading,<\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/casey-assets.s3.amazonaws.com\/images\/misc\/jeff-clark-signature.png\" width=\"200\" style=\"max-width:200px; width:100%;\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"-ms-text-size-adjust: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: none; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px\">Jeff Clark<\/p>\n<h2 align=\"center\"><strong>Reader Mailbag<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Why don&rsquo;t you think people are talking about bitcoin anymore? Are you trading any cryptocurrencies?<\/p>\n<p>And as always, you can send any other trading stories, suggestions, or questions to <a href=\"mailto:feedback@jeffclarktrader.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">feedback@jeffclarktrader.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just about nobody is talking about the rally in bitcoin&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"service":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"publication":[10],"person":[7],"newsletter-type":[],"ticker":[],"class_list":["post-13169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-market-minute","publication-market-minute","person-jeff-clark"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"publication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"person","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/person?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"newsletter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newsletter-type?post=13169"},{"taxonomy":"ticker","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeffclarktrader.com\/market-minute\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ticker?post=13169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}