$15m Liquidated as Bitcoin Surges to $9,800 for the First Time in Weeks
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$15m Liquidated as Bitcoin Surges to $9,800 for the First Time in Weeks

THELOGICALINDIAN - After canicule of alliance Bitcoin accomplished a acute blemish over the accomplished few hours

The cryptocurrency aloof account ago broke $9,800, the accomplished amount it has traded at in over 10 days.

With this latest move higher, the cryptocurrency is up about 5% in the accomplished 24 hours. This is strong, abnormally back compared to altcoins — best of which are up 2-3% in that aforementioned time frame.

Bitcoin’s latest billow college resulted in the defalcation of millions of dollars account of approaching positions.

In the accomplished hour alone, $10 actor account of shorts on BitMEX has been liquidated. This adds to the about $5-7 actor in BitMEX shorts asleep back June 22nd started.

The acumen why added hasn’t been asleep is due to the almost apathetic clip of this move compared to previous defalcation events. 

The Start of a Greater Move Higher

Bitcoin’s assemblage to $9,800 is signaling to some that a greater move to the upside is in the works.

Microsoft AI/Cloud specialist Joe McCann wrote in his Telegram approach that a key balderdash arresting is about to appear.

The arresting in catechism is the  Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) press a bullish crossover. A bullish cantankerous in the MACD signals that Bitcoin’s trend is to the upside.

Case in point: BTC rallied over 50% in the six weeks afterwards the arresting appeared in March of this year.

Also advertence that Bitcoin has allowance to assemblage is the about backbone basis (RSI).

A bearding banker acclaimed that the admeasurement afresh bankrupt out of a balanced triangle arrangement to the upside. That suggests a BTC uptrend could form.

What’s Behind Bitcoin’s Bullish Price Action?

Behind Bitcoin’s bullish amount activity today seems to be a assemblage of trends.

First and foremost, the S&P 500 and added banking markets accept apparent a boost. The Nasdaq has already afresh set a new best aerial as Microsoft and Netflix rocket to new heights, admitting the pandemic.

The Federal Reserve aftermost anniversary appear that they will be affairs alone accumulated bonds; some see this as a assurance that the Fed may cavern and buy alone stocks, appropriately the rally.

As reported by Bitcoinist previously, an analyst empiric that Bitcoin has a macro and concise alternation with the S&P 500.

Also bullish is the account that PayPal is attractive to acquiesce users of PayPal and Venmo to anon acquirement and advertise cryptocurrencies in-app.

Sources told CoinDesk: “My compassionate is that they are activity to acquiesce buys and sells of crypto anon from PayPal and Venmo. They are activity to accept some array of a congenital wallet functionality so you can abundance it there.”