The Bitcoin has turned from the most exciting asset to the most boring lately. I still think but even more hope it's just a phase and this sideways/controlled movements will become history soon, because this is not Cryptoic :). Most moves that take more than a day nowadays, used to take an hour a few months ago. The extreme volatility we had a few months back, is quite exceptional and won't turn back in the same force very easily. The market is probably more mature with bigger players who make less emotional decisions (panic selling and FOMO buying). Which is a good sign for the market (stability) but it will chase out traders because the whole charm of day trading Bitcoin is almost gone. There are a few good moments like we had a week ago, but that was the only time in almost a month. The controlled movements are just so clear, but to what end is not clear yet.
The last 24H it was clear on Gdax Bitcoin was getting dumped, at some moments i saw the spread going up to even 90 points but most of the time around 50 points. I have not seen this for maybe 2 months now. This is a clear signal, BUT the higher the difference became, the higher the price on Bitfinex went (compared to Bitstamp, and probably others). So it almost looks like, the harder someone pushed the market down at Gdax, almost looked like someone on Bitfinex was trying to compensate.
It's just something i have not seen in a while, it's worth pointing it out! But the meaning, i can't really tell. I would say bearish, but maybe the dumping is on Gdax is over already, i don't have that info.
Technicals, we dropped out of that triangle and this were looking great, volatility was in the house, price was making a bear flag from which it broke out of on the downside. Price got supported ate the support level and the flag got extended into a rising wedge. We even saw a break of this bearish pattern and a 100 point drop, but buyers were just coming in to buy. And a day later this wedge got turned into a bullish channel, from which it almost seems that it will drop out off. Bulls were not able to push it above the 9300 and in the chart we can see the resistance levels for the bulls.
I went short at 9240 2 days ago, right before that drop out of the triangle, had a 400 point profit but i had decided up front that i would keep the position because i expected a break of the 8700. I did not think the 8900 would hold for long as well. I was wrong, so far at least. Normally i take partially profit after a 200/300 drop, because i am forced to lately with this sideways action, but the volatility from last week AND the break of the triangle gave me hope. But one should never hope in any market :) I took risk with my profit, so it's not that bad, but even more it was my plan upfront and not an emotional decision, that's the most important.
When i went short at 9240, most alts were showing short term bearish signs. Earlier this week it was 50/50 most of the time (something i mentioned a few times before. Yesterday some alts turned bullish again which makes it less clear again about what the market wants to do. If bulls are able to get it above the 9500, only than will i be willing to look up again. Bulls had me on their side until a few days ago, things looked great when it broke that (smaller) triangle upwards but failed around the 9500. This is a very weak signal and it's still my main signal. It's difficult to predict what the market wants to do because with this sideways action, volumes are low which means TA gets less predictable as well.
I do have a (short term) bullish scenario in my head still, and that is this price action looks allot like the 7800/8500 from 2 weeks ago. Where price also looked like making a bigger correction downwards several times but bulls were just buying it up again. So when it gets above the 9350 than things become neutral for me and above 9550 things get slightly bullish again.