Markets Update: Bitcoin's Price Takes a Quick Dive
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Markets Update: Bitcoin's Price Takes a Quick Dive

THELOGICALINDIAN - After aerial about the 16500 area for best of the day on December 12 bitcoin jumped in amount to about 17100 during the aboriginal hours of December 13 Bitcoin markets were benumbed forth in that ambit for a few hours and again about 12 pm EDT the amount started branch south and alone onedeep leg bottomward to the 15400 area At the moment the amount has rebounded and bullish traders are badly aggravating to command prices ranges aloft the 16K region

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Bitcoin Markets See Turbulent Price Swings

Bitcoin markets and the cryptocurrency’s amount has been agitative to watch as assemblage about the apple admiration what will appear next. At the moment bitcoin amount (BTC) markets are convalescent from a massive dip that took abode about midday eastern standard. The amount is aerial about $16,000-16,200 afterwards falling about $1,500 in amount over the accomplished two hours. Aggregate is aerial as all-around barter aggregate has apparent almost $13bn over the accomplished 24 hours. The top bristles exchanges swapping the best BTC volume are Bitfinex, Bithumb, GDAX, Bittrex, and BTCC. The bead additionally beatific abounding added agenda assets into the red area as they followed bitcoin’s acting dive. The top ten agenda bill bazaar capitalizations accept bounced aback as able-bodied with alone a few of them still nursing their wounds.

Technical Indicators

Looking at the archive shows that beasts accept a lot added assignment to do if they appetite to butt prices they captivated beforehand this week. Looking at adjustment books on the advertise ancillary shows there are some cogent walls to hurdle aloft the $16,500-$17,000 range. However, on the cast side, the accomplishments of buy walls appearance some stronger foundations, but traders should be accurate if the amount break beneath $15,250.

The concise 100 Simple Moving Average (SMA) is way aloft the 200 SMA which agency the amount will acceptable see some added uptick northbound. RSI and Stochastic oscillators still appearance oversold conditions, but both indicators accept been cogent this adventure regularly. The best arresting hurdle beasts face will be three key zones which accommodate $16,500, $17,200, and $17,500 in adjustment to breach new ground.

Digital Asset Markets Closing In on a $500 Billion Market Cap

Three out of the top bristles agenda assets with the bigger bazaar caps accept recovered from bitcoin’s amount dive. The three cryptocurrencies accomplishing hardly bigger accommodate ethereum, bitcoin cash, and ripple. Ethereum (ETH) markets are up 15 percent as the amount per ETH is about $700. Bitcoin banknote (BCH) has had a appealing appropriate day as markets are now up over 5 percent with one BCH priced at $1,600. The bill ripple (XRP) apparently had the best day out of all the cryptocurrencies on December 13 as one XRP is now $0.45 afterwards accepting over 70 percent in value. Lastly, litecoin (LTC) is bottomward 6 percent and the amount per LTC is almost $300 at the moment.

Novogratz Says Sell Your Litecoin and Sees Bitcoin Hitting $40K While Cboe Futures See a Low

Bitcoin proponents and association affect still seems adequately positive, and abounding still accept the amount will see alike added best highs this advancing year. For instance, the macro barrier armamentarium administrator at Fortress Investment Group, Michael Novogratz, is added optimistic about bitcoin afterwards seeing litecoin’s contempo spike. According to an interview with CNBC, Novogratz says he would advertise litecoin backing afterwards LTC acicular over $300, and sees bitcoin extensive $40,000 in a bald two months.

However added boilerplate investors don’t assume so assured as Cboe’s bitcoin-based futures markets are way down. After skyrocketing to a aerial of $18,650, futures markets are now seeing lower predictions in the $16,750 amount range. On the aboriginal day of Cboe’s bitcoin futures trading markets were apoplectic due to a ample amount swing. The aforementioned affair happened today on December 13 as the abrupt bead in amount had Cboe’s bitcoin markets cease operations temporarily. 

Bitcoin spectators, skeptics, proponents and ardent cryptocurrency enthusiasts accept no abstraction what will appear next, but it’s safe to say best of them accept been alert to the bazaar activity over the accomplished few weeks.

Where do you see the amount of bitcoin branch from here? Let us apperceive in the comments below.

Disclaimer: Bitcoin amount accessories and markets updates are advised for advisory purposes alone and should not to be advised as trading advice. Neither Bitcoin.com nor the columnist is amenable for any losses or gains, as the ultimate accommodation to conduct a barter is fabricated by the reader. Always bethink that alone those in ascendancy of the clandestine keys are in ascendancy of the “money.”

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