As we head into the weekend, Bitcoin is looking for meaning and support – a base to figure out its next plan. Is US$40K it? That’d be nice. But there’s a chance it needs propping up a bit lower than that first, according to some analysts.

Bitcoin in search of a higher low

Even if you’re holding heavy bags of altcoins, Bitcoin (BTC) is always good to look at first to gauge what’s going on and what might happen next.

It’s still the asset in the digital driving seat that can dictate the direction of the entire market, although it’s widely hoped that Ethereum (ETH) can decouple from that narrative one day soon.

Dutch trader Michaël van de Poppe may still only have a modest subscriber base on YouTube compared with, say, BitBoy or Altcoin Daily, but he’s become one of the most quoted analysts in the cryptoverse, including this section.

Astute technical analysis is his bag, and in his latest video, the full-time chart reader was looking at a few scenarios for the no.1 crypto as we rounded out the working week.

One of which is the possibility of Bitcoin forming a “higher low” level of support, which Van de Poppe suggests could fall within the US$36.7K to US$34.5K zone.

This would represent a drop of as much as US$4,500 from Bitcoin’s present level of US$39,000, but that’s potentially not quite as bad as it sounds if support can form and hold there.

In fact, if it can, and then range sideways for a few days, it could represent a chance for a switch to some overall upwards altcoin price action, according to the crypto analyst.

 

There is a chance, too, however, that Bitcoin has already found some strong support, right about where it’s sitting on its 200-day EMA (exponential moving average), as another go-to analyst, Rekt Capital, points out below.

The retest of this level is still playing out at the time of writing, but , naturally, things may well have completely changed by the time you read this.

There’s also the small matter of $US1.5 billion worth of Bitcoin options contracts expiring today on unregulated derivatives exchange Deribit. Watch for some potential price volatility on Saturday morning, AEST (late Friday afternoon EDT).

Looking ahead to Sunday’s “weekly candle close”, a position traders and analysts watch to assess market strength heading into the new week, Rekt Capital was eyeing off US$39,000. Pretty much exactly where we’re sitting at press time.

 

Mooners and shakers: ETH parties on, FLOW gushes

Source: coin360.com

As you can see from this Coin360 overview, Ethereum (US$2,344) is keeping it green for the moment, along with a few other top 50 notables in XRP (US$0.718); Chainlink (LINK), US$20.09; Uniswap (UNI), US$19.50; and Solana (SOL), US$30.76.

Oh, and in case you didn’t know, Ethereum turned six today. There’s plenty of excitement building around the protocol at present, and for good reason considering its improvement upgrade – shipping next week if all goes according to plan.

Let’s hope Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin is clapping with excitement and feeling “impress”. (See video of cult crypto classic hit below. It’s an ear worm for the ages.)

 

Meanwhile, one of the most hyped projects in the NFT sector of crypto, Flow (FLOW) by Dapper Labs, was gushing with activity today after it was added to the Binance exchange – an event that usually pumps newly listed coins, at least for a short time.

It started its day around the US$18.20 mark, soaring up to US$27.56. It’s presently pooling out around US$22.56 at the time of writing, still up 25.6% in the past 24 hours.

Two other notable cryptos doing well today: new kid on the gaming block, Yield Guild Games (YGG) – up 53.7% on the day; and free-VB-facilitator Power Ledger (POWR) with a +37.9% 24-hour gain.

SafeMoon (SAFEMOON), a DeFi token with a pump-and-dump reputation, has been a reasonably significant loser in the top 100 by market cap today, down 17.3% at press time.

And lastly, something for holders of top-5 project and Ethereum rival Cardano (ADA) to either take heed of, take with a grain of salt, or take no notice of whatsoever.

“Veteran trader” Peter Brandt, as he’s nearly always described, correctly called the top of the 2017/2018 bull market. So his opinion here about ADA’s chart potentially forming a bearish head-and-shoulders pattern can’t be easily dismissed.

Then again, maybe it can. Charts, eh?

 

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