Market Outlook #250 (18th December 2023)
Hey, and welcome to the 250th instalment of my Market Outlook.
On this week’s submit, I can be protecting Bitcoin, Ethereum, Casper Community, TriasLab, Morpheus Community and Cellframe. I will even be offering a year-end replace to Altcoin Market Cap.
That is the final Outlook for 2023. Have an amazing Christmas and a Joyful New 12 months and I’ll see you in 2024.
Bitcoin:
Weekly:
Every day:
Worth: $40,971
Ideas: If we start by taking a look at BTC/USD, from the weekly timeframe we will see that worth spent final week contained in the vary of the earlier week, printing an inside week. Given this formation, the very first thing to contemplate is the potential for inside week failure, which might kind if we take out both final week’s low or its excessive after which shut again inside that weekly vary. On condition that we bought off from final week’s open into the shut again beneath $42k, and thus our proximity to the weekly vary low (and the broader market outlook), I lean in the direction of the probability of us taking out the weekly low at $40.3k earlier than closing again above it. In that situation, we might anticipate final week’s excessive to get taken out out and worth to seemingly proceed to squeeze past $45k, with $48.2k as main resistance past that. If, nonetheless, worth closes the week beneath $40.3k, this situation is invalidated and I might anticipate a deeper pullback from there in the direction of $38k as untested prior resistance.
Dropping into the each day, we will see that each day construction is now bearish, given the break and shut beneath the $43k swing-low and subsequent lower-high; nonetheless, that wasn’t a lot of a swing level, so while that is technically bearish construction I’m not significantly satisfied by it as of but. If we had been to now shut the each day by way of $40k, that seems to be far more convincing for short-term bearishness, with first targets of a trendline retest and the $38k prior resistance, with $33k as the most important stage beneath that if we’re to take out all of these untapped lows alongside the trendline earlier than bottoming out. Nevertheless, if we will proceed to carry right here above $40k (or deviate this low and shut again above it), I might search for a push again above $43k earlier than favouring additional upside; between these ranges I don’t have a lot of a bias. Shut again above $43k and I do suppose we proceed to push larger into $48k…
Ethereum:
ETH/USD
Weekly:
Every day:
ETH/BTC
Weekly:
Every day:
Worth: $2132 (0.05203 BTC)
Ideas: If we start by taking a look at ETH/USD on the weekly timeframe, we will see that worth retraced all the positive factors of the prior weekly growth final week, promoting off from the open again into reclaimed help at $2172. Worth depraved beneath the prior weekly low into $2137, which held as help, with the pair closing again above $2172. Truthfully, that is very a lot giving blended alerts: we have now erasure of the earlier week’s positive factors following growth past yearly highs, however we have now a sweep of the weekly low into main help too. Mainly, chop continues. What I’m taking a look at right here is the place we will proceed to carry above $2172 this week; shut above it after sweeping final week’s low and I feel we have now the makings of a backside earlier than one other run at $2425. If, nonetheless, we shut the week beneath $2137, I feel we’re prone to see $1850 taken out earlier than a backside is discovered. Trying on the each day, we will see how each day construction seems to be set to show bearish right here if we do break and shut beneath $2137, and if that’s confirmed we will anticipate $2036 to be examined later this week, however with far more help down round $1850. Nevertheless, as talked about earlier, sweep this space of prior resistance after which climb again above $2172 later this week and I feel shorts get trapped and we squeeze again in the direction of yearly highs.
Turning to ETH/BTC, we will see that worth continues to cut round between help at 0.051 and resistance round 0.055. There’s little else to be added right here given the narrative has been the identical inside this vary for weeks now. Once we break and shut both aspect of the vary, I wouldn’t be fast to fade it.
Casper Community:
CSPR/USD
Every day:
CSPR/BTC
Every day:
Worth: $0.038 (92 satoshis)
Ideas: On condition that each pairs look just about an identical right here for CSPR, let’s deal with the Greenback pair.
Taking a look at CSPR/USD, we will see that it has been range-bound for 585 days at this level, with a lot of that being spent above $0.025 and beneath $0.055, aside from a quick fakeout past that vary resistance earlier this yr. We have now bullish construction right here on the each day however have bought off from prior help up close to the prime quality, with worth now set to retest the 200dMA at $0.037 as help. So long as we now maintain above reclaimed help at $0.035 and the 200dMA, forming a higher-low, I might anticipate to see one other push on the vary resistance from right here up close to $0.055. If it is a undertaking you have an interest in (reader request, FYI), I might take into account this nearly as good an entry as any on condition that your invalidation right here might be as tight at $0.031; closing beneath that will invalidate all of this latest construction and we’d seemingly return in the direction of the underside of the vary from there. Trying forward, the disbelief section is clear – shut above $0.073 and I feel this begins its bull cycle, with $0.22 as main resistance past that.
TriasLab:
TRIAS/USD
Every day:
TRIAS/BTC
Every day:
Worth: $5.57 (13,579 satoshis)
Ideas: Once more, given how comparable these pairs look right here, let’s deal with the Greenback pair, because the construction can also be a bit cleaner.
Taking a look at TRIAS/USD, we will see that worth was in a protracted interval of growth off the underside earlier than spending a lot of 2023 in consolidation beneath $4.15, faking out above that stage as soon as. This lengthy consolidation vary led to cost winding tighter with the 360dMA performing as help and worth then reclaiming the 200dMA as help in October. Since, the pair has rallied in the direction of $4.15, consolidated between the 200dMA and that stage and most not too long ago damaged out sharply past that resistance, breaking recent yearly highs by way of $5. Given this market construction, I might completely not be fading this, as a substitute contemplating this seemingly the start of the subsequent main leg larger for TRIAS. If we will now maintain above $4.15, I might anticipate $6.40 to present method and worth to make its method in the direction of trendline resistance and reclaimed resistance up close to $12 earlier than the subsequent native high kinds.
Morpheus Community:
MNW/USD
Weekly:
Every day:
MNW/BTC
Weekly:
Every day:
Worth: $1.08 (2659 satoshis)
Ideas: If we start by taking a look at MNW/USD on the weekly, we will see that worth continues to be capped by trendline resistance from the all-time highs, having now rejected beneath the 23.6% fib retracement of the bear market at prior help ~$1.46. We’re presently discovering help above $0.94, as has been the case since late final yr, however to be trustworthy this isn’t a very enticing long-term chart at current. We have now worth discovering help above the 200wMA in Nov final yr, then rallying to recent yearly highs into $2.45, confirming a weekly uptrend, however then rejecting, erasing the positive factors again into the 200wMA after which rallying far more weakly off that very same help into the trendline. If that $0.94 help goes, this pair returns to bearish construction on the weekly, in order that’s presently your most essential stage. Till it will get a weekly shut by way of that trendline and again above $1.50, I wouldn’t have an interest on this to be trustworthy – a lot better alternatives out there.
Taking a look at MNW/BTC, we will see that the pair may be very a lot nonetheless in a bear cycle at current, with recent lows on the newest break and shut beneath 3264 satoshis. Worth is now sat in no man’s land, with main help beneath close to 1400 satoshis, and resistance overhead at that 3264 stage. There’s additionally no signal simply but of pattern exhaustion on the weekly timeframe. I really feel like given how not too long ago this rallied into all-time highs (Nov 2022), will probably be some time but earlier than this one absolutely bottoms out; while most of its worth capitulation seems to have occurred, we might must see a interval of flat consolidation earlier than one other cycle can start for MNW.
Cellframe:
CELL/USD
Every day:
CELL/BTC
Every day:
Worth: $0.19 (475 satoshis)
Ideas: Once more, very similar to a few different tokens on this submit, CELL’s pairs look very comparable right here and I’m specializing in the Greenback pair, as that can also be what I’m basing my long-term place on.
So, taking a look at CELL/USD, we will see that worth has retraced following the push above $0.24 into $0.29, returning to reclaimed help above $0.185 and the 200dMA. We stay capped by the long-term trendline resistance, however following the multi-year downtrend we have now been consolidating above all-time lows and beneath $0.37 since mid-2022. I’m very a lot nonetheless in my spot place right here and if I used to be not absolutely allotted I might be shopping for some inside this vary. Invalidation can be recent all-time lows, the place I might minimize and anticipate a reclaim or a brand new vary formation. However given the broader market circumstances I feel we usually tend to proceed chopping round right here after which begin reversing sharply when ETH begins outperforming. Above $0.37 the primary bull cycle begins…
Altcoin Market Cap:
ALT/USD
Weekly:
ALT/BTC
Weekly:
Market Cap: $441.2bn
Ideas: Starting with ALT/USD, we will see that the altcoin market has emerged lastly after over 500 days of being range-bound, not too long ago rallying again by way of the 200wMA, consolidating above it as help after which pushing by way of multi-year resistance at $413bn. We have now pushed into the 23.6% fib retracement of the bear market right here at $480bn and rejected, now consolidating throughout the prior weekly vary. I might anticipate to see additional consolidation right here after the multi-week rally, however there’s nothing bearish about this on the upper timeframes. So long as we will now maintain above that $400bn space, I might anticipate the subsequent squeeze to open up a wider vary, the place issues will get very fascinating: above $480bn, there isn’t any resistance for alts again into the 38.2% fib and prior help close to $590bn – over 25% larger from right here. That’s the place I might anticipate extra resistance to be discovered for alts and maybe a broader market correction. Disbelief is turning into hope.
Taking a look at ALT/BTC, we will see that regardless of some positive factors in Greenback values of alts – and big positive factors on-chain in non-ETH ecosystems – we have now largely been trending decrease in opposition to BTC for over a yr. Most not too long ago, alts depraved beneath help at 10.5mn into 9.6mn and bounced, with pattern exhaustion now showing on this timeframe. We additionally noticed the market shut above trendline resistance, marginally – that is all indicative of a interval of altcoin outperformance being imminent, which is confluent with the Greenback valuation of the altcoin market. If we will reclaim 11.4mn as help right here, I feel that would be the catalyst for alts outperforming BTC into the 200wMA and prior multi-year vary help up close to 13.3mn BTC.
And that concludes this week’s Market Outlook – and the ultimate one in all 2023!
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