{"id":437083,"date":"2020-09-02T17:00:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T17:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=437083"},"modified":"2024-06-11T12:11:53","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T12:11:53","slug":"monthly-macd-bearish-divergence-warns-of-imminent-bitcoin-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/monthly-macd-bearish-divergence-warns-of-imminent-bitcoin-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"This Monthly MACD Bearish Divergence Warns Of Imminent Bitcoin Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bitcoin price over the 24 hours plummeted<\/a> from over $12,000 to as low as $11,150 in a violent selloff. As blood runs in the streets and the crypto market turns into a sea of red, investors must decide to buy the dip or sell before things get worse.<\/p>\n According to a massive bearish divergence on the monthly MACD dating back more than a year, selling may be the better of the two options. If the bearish signal confirms, what might this mean for the leading cryptocurrency by market cap?<\/p>\n After months of an uptrend, Bitcoin price may have started a reversal. A nearly $1,000 crash today<\/a> is close to completing a head and shoulders formation, with a short-term target of $10,250.<\/p>\n Crypto investors confident that a new Bitcoin bull run is beginning, are likely to hold strong through any coming correction, while traders “buy the dip.” However, a bearish signal on monthly timeframes in BTCUSD could suggest that a much larger crash is ahead.<\/p>\n Related Reading | Bitcoin Price (BTCUSD) Sees Violent $750 Drop, Top Formation Appears<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n According to the moving average convergence divergence indicator<\/a>, or MACD for short, there’s a massive bearish divergence potentially forming across 16 months of Bitcoin price action.<\/p>\n Bearish divergences appear when an indicator sets a new high, but price fails to do so. On monthly timeframes, the MACD rose to a higher level recently, than it did when the cryptocurrency traded at over $13,000 in 2019.<\/p>\n Bitcoin’s 2020 high thus far is $12,400, set just a week or so ago. This bearish divergence suggests that could be the high for the year, and another large drop is coming across crypto.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Extending that bearish divergence line even further, and switching to weekly timeframes, potentially reveals the dominant downtrend line<\/a> that is still keeping Bitcoin at bay.<\/p>\n Just like Bitcoin already broke free from a downtrend line before exploding toward $14,000, a new, dominant downtrend line was formed after the second peak. Trend lines are considered valid when they have at least three touches.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The top trendline of the symmetrical triangle<\/a> drawn with the new dominant downtrend line perfectly matches the 8-degree angle of the bottom trend line, adding to the pattern’s overall symmetry.<\/p>\n Related Reading | Current Bitcoin Price Action Closely Follows Textbook Distribution Pattern<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\nBitcoin Price Drops Nearly $1,000 In Less Than 24 Hours, Is This The Start of a Bearish Reversal?<\/h2>\n
Monthly Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) Indicator Bear Div | Source: TradingView<\/a><\/pre>\n
BTCUSD Monthly MACD Bear Div May Have Revealed Dominant Downtrend Line, Retest of Lows Ahead<\/h2>\n
BTCUSD Weekly Symmetrical Triangle ABCDE Correction | Source: TradingView<\/a><\/pre>\n