Bitcoin Stalls, Litecoin Rejected at 4 Dollars

The Bitcoin rally hit a stumbling block on Sunday as prices crashed close to $40 in one hour. Meanwhile, Litecoin was rejected at the $4 mark for the third time.

Bitcoin Rally Stalls

Bitcoin is up by less than 0.5% of $3 compared to last Tuesday. Initially, the momentum move higher took us to $628.25 on Sunday but shortly thereafter prices plunged to a low of $590 on most exchanges.

As we can see in the chart above, the crash was much bigger on FXOpen/BTC-E. Here the prices bottomed out at $512.21 on Sunday. Subsequently, we got two more spikes on Monday with lows at $586 and later $581 per coin. Zooming in on lower timeframes, we can see that it took less than a minute for the prices to bounce back. It appears that the crashes were due to thin orderbooks or technical malfunction.

In this environment caution should be exercised until the situation is rectified. This is especially the case if you have leveraged longs on the MetaTrader platform. Using limit orders instead of market orders should help to limit the slippage in some circumstances.

As the crash to $512 was platform specific and not broad-based, the rally is still in place. To end it, the bulls will have to decisively break the $570 figure. We’re looking for a clean break here, not just a brief shallow spike below. A break below $556 would switch the short-term trend from up to down.

To resume the upward momentum, we need to see prices retake the $628 high. A strong resistance level can be found at the $650 mark. This is followed by more resistance levels at $670, $687 and $700 per coin.

Litecoin Rejected at $4 Again

Alternative cryptocurrency Litecoin got rejected at the $4 mark for the third time. This time prices got as high as $4.01. The subsequent sell-off took LTC/USD to $3.77 per coin. We’re now quoted close to these lows at $3.80.

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