FED keeps interest rates the same
5.25% to 5.50%
We need a cut to set the bull market back in motion
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Rektcapital
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Since the November 2022 Bear Market Bottom...
Bitcoin has experienced the following retraces:
• -23% (February 2023) lasting 21 days
• -21% (April/May 2023) lasting 63 days
• -22% (July/September 2023) lasting 63 days
• -21% (January 2024) lasting 14 days
• -23.6% (March, April, May 2024) lasting 49 days
This current pullback is only the 5th major retrace since the 2022 Bear Market Bottom
Bitcoin has currently pulled back -23.6%, becoming the deepest retrace in the cycle thus far
Retraces in this cycle oftentimes last 2-3 weeks but on the more rare occasions they lasted even up to 2-months
This current retrace will become one of the longest retraces in the cycle however
Generally, there are two key takeaways about retracements in this current cycle:
• The closer Bitcoin gets to a -20% retrace, the better the opportunity becomes
• The longer the pullback, the higher the chance an impending bottom will be reached
The more Bitcoin consolidates anywhere between current price levels & $70,000 after the Halving...
The more this cycle will decelerate and resynchronise with its regular historically-recurring Halving Cycle with a Bull Market peak in mid-September/October 2025
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How Much Lower Could Bitcoin Go?
Bitcoin bottom analysis
The Post-Halving Re-Accumulation Range
Bitcoin has been consolidating between $60,000 and $70,000 for over 60 days now.
And over the past few weeks, Bitcoin has mostly been hugging this Range Low area, which is more reminiscent of the 2016 price pattern than the 2020 one.
In 2016, Bitcoin maintained the Range Lows for quite some time in the immediate aftermath of the Halving:
In fact, in the 21 days that followed the 2016 Halving, Bitcoin continued to dwindle to the point where once it reached the Range Low, price downside-deviated below it by -11% before reversing to the upside.
This is why it is worth introducing the concept of the Post-Halving "Danger Zone" (purple):
The Post-Halving "Danger Zone" suggests based on 2016 post-halving price behaviour that if BTC were to see additional downside towards or even below the current Range Low at $60,600 - it would be over the next upcoming two weeks or so.
The Post-Halving "Danger Zone" was inspired by the Pre-Halving "Danger Zone" (orange) that I spoke at length about in the Pre-Halving period.
The Pre-Halving "Danger Zone" (orange) denoted where Pre-Halving retraces tend to begin and it turned out to be quite accurate in preceding the -18% pullback that occurred this past March.
That -18% March pullback occurred 30 days before the Halving or so, whereas in 2016 the Pre-Halving retrace occurred 28 days before the Halving and in 2020 the Pre-Halving retrace occurred 14 days before the Halving.
As a result, Bitcoin in 2024 resembled tendencies of 2016 in the Pre-Halving period which is why it may be worth at least considering if BTC could continue to replicate 2016-like price tendencies in the immediate weeks after the Halving.
In the three weeks following the 2016 Halving, price produced some downside volatility below its Range Low and so it could be something to consider as a possible scenario also for price in 2024, especially given the fact that BTC is at the Range Low right now and has been around this area even since the Halving occurred.