- The market has been registering higher highs and lows since mid-February ; The mid-term trend is bullish
- Over the past couple of weeks, and with the establishment of a new all-time high, prices have naturally consolidated inside a bearish wedge.
This consolidation led the market back below the $2,300 zone where buyers seemed to be powerful and numerous enough to prevent prices from dipping lower.
Meanwhile, both short-term moving averages are on the verge of registering a bullish cross while the RSI indicator already broke-out its bearish trendline, inside the buying zone.
- This is a bullish situation, even if the market is still consolidating.
The bearish wedge is a reliable chart pattern that plays a continuation model when placed inside a bullish trend. The fact that this pattern occurred right after a new all-time high can be seen as a normal situation because investors can be tempted to take some profits out, usually causing a pull-back.
This is what happens here.
In addition, the limited range of the pull-back associated with the bullish signals sent by the moving averages and RSI allow us to forecast a bullish trend resurgence.
A bullish break-out of this bearish wedge would unlock a new bullish potential towards $2,420, $2,455, $2,500 and $2,563 by extention.
Pierre Veyret, Technical Analyst at ActivTrades
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