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BTC/USD Forecast: Bitcoin Pulls Back from 200 Day EMA

By Christopher Lewis

Christopher Lewis has been trading Forex and has over 20 years experience in financial markets. Chris has been a regular contributor to Daily Forex since the early days of the site. He writes about Forex for several online publications, including FX Empire, Investing.com, and his own site, aptly named The Trader Guy. Chris favours technical analysis methods to identify his trades and likes to trade equity indices and commodities as well as Forex...

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  • Bitcoin has shown itself to be a little bit negative early on Thursday, but that's not a huge surprise.

  • On Wednesday we had pierced the 200-day EMA and ended up forming a shooting star.

While that is a negative candlestick pattern, I don't necessarily look to short this market because quite frankly, we have a scenario where traders have been pushing Bitcoin higher regardless of interest rates or the war or anything else that should at least in theory cause problems for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin breaking above the 200-day EMA and staying above there would be an obvious bullish sign. It could open up a move towards the $84,000 level. That is an area that previously had been support and resistance going further back and now I think that makes a nice juicy target.

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With non-farm payroll numbers coming out on Friday, it does make a certain amount of sense that maybe Bitcoin hesitates. Institutional flows have been positive into the ETFs and that in and of itself probably makes Bitcoin attractive, but I also recognize that it had been beaten down so much that a bounce was almost inevitable.

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Ultimately, I think this is a market that will break out to the upside, you just have to be patient. Position sizing will be crucial obviously, and of course we also will have to watch whether or not interest rates start to spike again. Now, while it has ignored interest rates to a point, if we suddenly get vicious moves in the bond market, that will change everything. I'm bullish but I'm looking to buy on a dip.

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Christopher Lewis has been trading Forex and has over 20 years experience in financial markets. Chris has been a regular contributor to Daily Forex since the early days of the site. He writes about Forex for several online publications, including FX Empire, Investing.com, and his own site, aptly named The Trader Guy. Chris favours technical analysis methods to identify his trades and likes to trade equity indices and commodities as well as Forex. He favours a longer-term trading style, and his trades often last for days or weeks.

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