Technically Speaking – April 26, 2023

Let’s have a quick look at what some cryptocurrencies currently look like on their charts. 

Cosmos

We last looked at $ATOM back on April 21, highlighting a support zone between the bottom of the bearish pennant and the VPOC:

ATOMUSD Weekly Chart April 21, 2023 – Click to enlarge.

Fast forward to today, and it looks like ATOM is looking for a bounce. 

ATOMUSD Weekly Chart – Click to enlarge.

But take a look at the Composite Index – it’s at an angle that suggests it will likely cross above its slow and fast-moving averages. That could signal some bullish momentum ahead. 

However, the bearish pennant is a bearish continuation pattern, and ATOM is just barely hanging on to its final support zone before the bears come in and pounce on it. 🐻

Stellar

In our Technically Speaking article from April 21, 2023, we examined $XLM. We focused on the last support zone in the Ichimoku Kinko Hyo system on the weekly chart, which was positioned at $0.093:

XLMUSD Weekly Chart – Click to enlarge.

Bulls were able to close last week’s candle above the Tenkan-Sen and Kijun-Sen, but just barely. 

Like ATOM’s weekly chart, Stellar’s weekly chart is in a bearish continuation pattern (bear flag) and is at risk of some deep dives south if support fails. 🔻

Total Cryptocurrency Market Cap Chart

We last looked at this chart in the Saturday Litepaper:

BTCUSD 3-Day Char, April 21, 2023 – Click to enlarge.

“On the 3-Day chart above, you might notice the wicks missing from the candlesticks. I did this because it makes the flag the market is stuck in a little easier to see. 

The gray-shaded area represents a very thin zone between $1.278T and $1.675T in the Volume Profile – an area to watch closely if the market finds a bounce. ” – Technically Speaking April 21, 2023

Doing the same thing (removing the wicks) and looking at today, this is what the current 3-day chart looks like:

Total Market Cap 3-Day Chart – Click to enlarge.

If you’re a bull and felt a little panic after the chart closed below the bull flag for the second time in a row, you had a good reason to. 

Currently, bulls have pushed the market back into the bull flag, which begs a couple of questions:

  1. Is this a retest of the breakout? If so, bears need to close this 3-day candle below the bull flag to get sellers back in. 
  2. Is this a shallow, false breakout south that turns into a broader bullish continuation? If it is, bears and bulls will need to watch what happens near the 1.278 trillion value area. Fireworks could happen. 

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