By ForexTime
At the time of writing today (Monday, November 11th), the world’s oldest cryptocurrency came to within a whisker of the big, round number of $82,000.
Here’s how Bitcoin has fared of late:
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President-elect Donald Trump has expressed his desire to make the US the “crypto capital of the world”.
Whatever the “crypto capital” entails, perhaps industry-friendly regulations or even the touted strategic Bitcoin stockpile, markets hope that the incoming Trump administration will foster further innovation in the industry that boosts greater adoption of the asset.
What’s clearer is that crypto investors and traders are not willing to sit around to find out the finer details. They’re already flooding back in to send prices soaring.
This latest wave of crypto fever is evidenced by:
And Bitcoin’s 17% ascent since Nov. 5th is certainly superior to other “Trump trade” assets for the same period:
However, smaller cryptos have outperformed the more illustrious Bitcoin’s 17% since polling day
Here’s a list of cryptos within the FXTM universe that have posted larger gains compared to Bitcoin since November 5th:
Within the FXTM universe, only Litecoin (15%) and Ripple (+12.8%) has lagged behind Bitcoin’s 17% gain since November 5th.
From a technical perspective, Bitcoin’s 14-day relative strength index is now far higher than the 70 threshold – the textbook level which denotes “overbought” conditions.
At 76.5 at the time of writing, this is the highest reading for the 14-day RSI since mid-March.
The last Bitcoin’s RSI was at this level, it preceded a 23.4% drop for Bitcoin.
The selloff commenced from the March 14th intraday high of $73850 – then a new record high – through to the May 1st intraday low of $56,457.70 when the RSI moved close to the 30 mark which denotes “oversold” conditions.
Even so, Bitcoin’s downtrend – a series of lower highs and lower low – persisted for nearly 6 months, from mid-March through to early-September.
Of course, the macro environment is far different this time around compared to that March-September downtrend.
Although back then, there was the euphoria surrounding the first-ever Bitcoin ETF and its mid-April halving, crypto bulls did not enjoy the massive boost stemming from “Trump trades”.
Even if Bitcoin were to see a healthy technical pullback over the near-term, once the froth from its recent surge has been cleared, Bitcoin prices may yet recover to seek fresh record highs, provided there’s still more momentum to the ongoing Trump-phoria.
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