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Bitcoin rate dealswith ‘last stand’ as weekly close threatens $22K retest

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Bitcoin (BTC) remained near secret assistance on March 5 as the weekly candlelight close brought fresh worries of a breakdown.

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BTC/USD 1-hour candlelight chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

Analyst alerts over fate of $20,000

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it continued to relocation in a tight variety over the weekend.

The set had stayed almost fixed because its abrupt fall on March 3, setoff by a margin call amidst unpredictability over  Silvergate Bank.

While preventing evenmore losses, analysis alerted that Bitcoin might still quickly fall much lower if a close-by assistance level stoppedworking to hold.

Monitoring resource Material Indicators discussed that BTC rate action had “lost secret technical assistance” and that $22,000 — the sight of a current resistance/support (R/S) flip — was now all that stayed for bulls to hold onto.

“The regional R/S Flip zone is the last stand inbetween a retest at the pattern line. Meanwhile, Trend Precognition is showing a sag,” it composed in part of a Twitter upgrade on the day.

“Will see if that modifications after the W close.”

Accompanying charts revealed the pattern line and the BTC/USD order book on Binance at stake, with quote liquidity at $22,000.

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BTC/USD charts. Source: Material Indicators/ Twitter

Cointelegraph factor Michaël van de Poppe, creator and CEO of trading company Eight, cautioned that must $21,300 stopworking to hold as well, $20,000 might not aid to stem the exodus.

“Crucial location for #Bitcoin is to hold the $21.3K location. Losing that, and we’ll see another sweep towards $19.5Kish and altcoins dropping 15-25%,” he anticipated on March 4.

Van de Poppe nevertheless kept a more positive view total, recommending that $40,000 might still appear “in a coupleof months.“

“Moral of the story: Dollar-Cost Average and have balls to buy when you puton’t feel positive,” he recommended in part of a subsequent post.

“Overwhelmingly bearish belief”

With Silvergate’s capacity personalbankruptcy still a hot subject, researchstudy company Santiment queried why the market response hadactually been so extreme.

Related: Bitcoin rate would retest $25K without Silvergate legend — analysis

In a devoted post on the phenomenon, experts exposed what they explained as an “unusually high quantity of unfavorable commentary about the markets.“

“It’s especially fascinating that #cryptocrash hasactually been a secret of-and-on trending hashtag on the platform, even however Bitcoin’s moderate -5% pullback happened more than 3 days ago,” it continued about Twitter user habits.

“Typically, you can capitalize on this level of negativeness on the markets, and this kind of extremely bearish belief can lead to a great bounce to silence the critics.“

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Twitter information chart with chosen crypto terms. Source: Santiment

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