Bitcoin has gained around 18% over the last three days after reaching support at $20,000 on Friday. This comes on the heels of major banks collapsing and the US government quickly stepping in stating they will protect depositors in full.

Bitcoin is on third down at the 9th yard line, 4 points behind the challengers (team FUD) at the fifth edition of the new world currency wars. The goal line is represented by Bitcoin’s 200-week simple moving average. The simple fact is that all Western Traders would agree that a market of any sort trading above its 200-day simple moving average was indeed in a long-term bullish trend, i.e.

Bitcoin broke through its support level today opening the door for lower prices. The lost level of support that could now turn into resistance is at $22,500 and is also exactly were the 20-day exponential moving average is.

The most recent rally in Bitcoin last week brought BTC back above $20,000 and erased much of the “price” damage done by the FTX collapse, though many have called last week’s move market manipulation, I think that’s just an easy way of saying you don’t know why a market is moving.

Bitcoin kicked off the new year at $16,531 (Coinbase) and closed on the first day of January only $10 off of the highs at around $16,620. Closing on the highs was just one clue that BTC was about to turn bullish.

Fourteen years ago today, on January 3rd, 2009 the Bitcoin blockchain mined its first-ever block. I want to compare Bitcoin with the two indexes it tends to follow and how all three of them will react in this new year, the young, the old and the new.

Fellow traders following along with our trades should put in a limit order in current BTC short trade we initiated on December 16th. We sold BTC at $16,850 with very tight protective stops at $17,350. Now is the time to put in a limit on your short trade to pull profits at $16,400.

Yesterday after declining from just under resistance at the long-term 78% retracement ($17,779) losing around $450, Bitcoin completed one of the most accurate of candlestick patterns, the “three river evening star”.

The CPI for November 2022 was released today and came in under the expectations for 7.3% at 7.1% for the last 12 months, a 0.1% increase from last month.

Starting today Glassnode, one of the top sources for chainmetrics added an awesome new metric that in light of the recent FTX fiasco will become instrumental in order for crypto exchanges to regain any sort of public confidence.