I would not get my hopes up about BTC $60K in the next week or two. I don't think you are wrong about $42k being a good entry point, but its probably not going far before it comes back to these levels. We are in a downtrend or drawdown right now. It's actually healthy. Institutional investors dumped big money into BTC in December and January. It skyrocketed and then plateaued. Now you have some profit taking over a few months until the sellers exit the volume they don't want to hold. Once that selling is over, the uptrend will likely kick back in.
Here is my chart. I posted this on here about a week ago and laid out the likely scenario of where BTC was heading. You can see it's tracking directly on one of my 2 possible paths I projected to this point. There is a lot to look at on the chart, so I have numbered my levels to better explain.
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#1. That is the April 25th low at around 47k. This low was the first "lower low" BTC had put in since the covid crash. That is a pretty strong start of a downtrend. It was confirmed when the lower high was put in last Monday. Once the market falls below an important number like that, it becomes resistance (When we get back up to it, it triggers selling from institutional money.) I highlight resistance with a red line. You can see after yesterday's bounce, the resistance held.
#2. That is the Feb 28th low at around $43k. It to is an important number and right now, it is holding as support. That's why it is still green. Once we close below that number (BTC doesn't really close, but I just go with the US market close) it becomes resistance and I will turn it red. So far, we have not gotten that hard pivot of heavy buying that sends it skyrocketing. It looks like its going to give up the number this afternoon to me.
#3. That is the previous breakout area from Jan-Feb at around $40K. You can see back in January that it put in a high then came back down, only to breakout like crazy on the 8th of Feb when TSLA announced they had BTC on the balance sheet. That big breakout is from a lot of institutional buyers. They will want to protect that number. I have a big thick green line there because I believe it will be heavy support.
#4. This turquoise line is the 200 day simple moving average. Another very important place that triggers the algos to buy in most scenarios when it's tested.
#5. The 2 big red diagonal lines make what is called a falling wedge. This is a consolidation pattern where sellers sell heavy when it hits the top line and stop when it hits the bottom. This prevents them from crashing the market. For it to work you also have to have buyers, which is bullish. So even though the stock price is trending down, this considered a bullish reversal pattern as eventually, the sellers exit all the positions they want to trade and there is nothing left but buyers. This is the same type of pattern that setup last summer around 9-10k before the big run up. I have mentioned before, I missed that one because I was a wimp about the security of exchanges/wallets... I won't miss this one.
So that's the setup. I put those 4 different possible paths together last week as well. I figured the white then blue was most likely, but did not want to rule out the red or yellow. So yesterday I bought a nice position at 43.5K, but saw it hit that resistance around $47k and I exited at $45k. Small profit, but it turned out to be the right trade.
Now I have a limit buy order for a full position in just above $40k. I figure that 200 day and #3 support area are to magnetic not to hit at this point. If it fills, then once the price action gets back up to the $43K mark and then the diagonal red line at the bottom of the wedge, I will see what happens. Probably going to sell half and let it try to break through or watch it go back down to see if it gets below $40k. If it goes down, I will sell the 2nd half at $43K on the way down if it breaks through.
I could see it breaking through the 200 day sma and $40k on the downside. But there is heavy participation in the $30K range. If we get there I will get back in...Bigly.
Ultimately, I am trading until we get through this phase of bad news and consolidation. Once it get's back into the falling wedge or breaks out of the top, I will go long with a big position. I have a feeling there are going to be some massive highs if and when it breaks out. I could see $90-100K by the end of the year if it establishes a new uptrend. I want to be a part of that, but for now, I am trading.
ETA. The bottom of the chart above is what's called a RSI or Relative Strength Indicator. It measures the speed and change of price movements. You can see the RSI started a downtrend before the actual price of BTC did. This is called a bearish divergence is usually a pretty good sign a top is coming. I used this to sell all of my trade on April 16th. It came right after some political BTC news out of Turkey. I started feeling anxious and do not want to trade on emotion. I have been on the sidelines since then waiting for some better setups.. They are here now.
Also, I just post this crap kind of to hold myself accountable and not get sloppy. I don't recommend trading with anything more than fun money for those without a gameplan. One thing I have figured out about BTC is there are not a lot of fundamental factors to consider, so the technicals kind of are the fundamentals. Since I really started charting BTC in February, its become my favorite asset to trade (outside of all the damn news... I may kick Musk in the nuts if he doesn't shut his damn twitter account down.)I know a lot of folks are just long BTC and are buying dips and holding. I think that's smart if you did not miss the last run up like I did and have a much lower overall cost than I would. The lowest I have bought BTC at so far has been $43Kish twice. During trends. I plan on doing the same at the next breakout from a consolidation. I hope that comes in the next couple of months somewhere in the areas I have identified.
I will keep sharing this information when I see something new or confirm my projections.
For you Dogecoiners... here's what the charts are saying to me.
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This is a symmetrical triangle formation that is about to break.. Up or down. No telling. But as you move forward, the extension of the trend lines will become resistance or support. Good luck.