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BTC/USD Forecast: Consolidate in the Same Range

By Christopher Lewis
Senior Technical Analyst

Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for tra...

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  • Bitcoin has been fairly negative during the trading session, but it looks like we are still hanging around the $67,000 level for support.
  • In other words, despite the fact that we have sold off, I don't know that much has changed.
  • We just continue to go sideways as the market churns.

This is a market that now has become basically an index as interest in the market has had institutions piling in and now, they don't really have a whole lot to do. I think this becomes more or less like the S&P 500 where it will have a proclivity to go higher but that doesn't necessarily mean that we're going to see massive moves. Long gone are the days of Bitcoin making 10% in a session without some type of major catalyst.

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Slow and steady market

So, with that being the case, I think you have to look at this more or less as a slow and steady market. If we were to break down below the $66,000 level, it could open up a move down to the $60,000 level after that. That's an area that I expect to see a massive amount of support. If we break higher and clear the $73,000 level, then we could go looking to the $75,000 level and then eventually 80,000, which I think is probably the most likely of outcomes.

BTC/USD Forecast Today 03/06: Consolidate in Range (graph)

In the meantime, you have to expect a lot of noisy choppy volatility, but really that's been the case for three months now and I just don't see how that changes anytime soon. Either way, I have no interest in shorting BTC/USD despite the fact that it's not exactly exhibiting a lot of upward momentum.

Because of the lack of momentum, I think bitcoin is going to become like any other asset, just simply part of your portfolio, and not some type of “Yolo trade.” All of the big money has already been made in bitcoin, and now it just becomes like anything else that Wall Street handles.

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Senior Technical Analyst
Christopher Lewis is a technical analyst and market commentator at DailyForex with more than two decades of trading experience in Forex and other leveraged markets. Based in Columbus, Ohio, he specializes in chart-based analysis of major currency pairs, stock indices, commodities, and energy markets, focusing on clear support and resistance levels, trend structure, and risk management. Christopher produces daily written and video analysis for traders who rely on technical setups to navigate volatile market conditions

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