{"id":457272,"date":"2021-02-22T11:00:56","date_gmt":"2021-02-22T11:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/?p=457272"},"modified":"2024-06-11T07:18:19","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T07:18:19","slug":"bitcoin-drops-after-record-setting-rally-is-bearish-bias-returning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wncen.com\/news\/bitcoin-drops-after-record-setting-rally-is-bearish-bias-returning\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Drops After Record-Setting Rally; Is Bearish Bias Returning?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Bitcoin (BTC\/USD) sold off heavily throughout the Asian and early European session on Monday after achieving a new record high of $58,367 in the previous session.<\/p>\n
The flagship cryptocurrency was down by up to 5.5 percent after the London opening bell, flirting with short-term technical support near $55,550 for an extended bearish breakout move. In doing so, BTC\/USD targets the $52,000-54,000 as its next downside target.<\/p>\n
Looking from a broader perspective, the pair appeared to have been testing an upward sloping trendline that acts as a price floor to a Rising Wedge pattern<\/a>. Technically, a break lower risks sending the Bitcoin price lower by as much as the Wedge’s maximum height (which is about $10,000-long).<\/p>\n That puts the cryptocurrency on a corrective course to $45,000\u2014about 20 percent lower from the latest peak.<\/p>\n