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Nick Leeson
Mar 24, 2020
by Nick Leeson

Monero's bearish bear flag; $29 and lower soon?

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Bitcoin's recent 13% surge from $5,865 to $6,650 has caused altcoins to surge as well. At the time of writing, Monero was at $41 and had a market cap of $722 million. The privacy coin had a 24-hour surge of 1.81% and a 28% surge in the last 7 days.

Even with Bitcoin's surge, the coin is still stuck in a rising wedge forming a continuation pattern. The targets for Monero includes $34 and $29, at 16% and 29% from the current price level.

  • The continuation pattern exhibits bearish favor for the privacy coin. A total of 16% to 29% downside can be expected if the coin breaches the pattern.

  • More downtrend can be expected if the sellers take control of the situation and the price could dip as low as 37% to $25.

    • Four Hour Monero Chart

    Source: Trading View.

    The rising wedge is a pattern with a bearish bias, however, the prior trend makes this a continuation pattern cementing Monero's downward trajectory. The price has a 16% upside before it starts collapsing. By the time, the price surges 16%, the RSI will continue its surge to the overbought zone. From this point, the price will start its downward trend pushing the price to first support level $34.45. Further bearish pressure will push the price to $29.26.

    With both the 50-day MA and the 200-day MA coming closer, there might be a death cross forming by the end of March. A formation of this would be extremely bearish for the coin. Most altcoins are already forming the death cross and Monero might just be following the trend.

    Further, the correlation of altcoins with Ethereum, the king of altcoins, will determine how the price moves. At the time of writing, the ETH-XMR correlation, as well as the BTC-ETH correlation is growing.

    Source: Coinmetrics.

    The correlation depends on the dominance of individual coins. Since Bitcoin has the highest dominance and captures the most market, every other coin shows a correlation to it. Similarly, the ETH-XMR correlation was at 0.82, a considerably higher level for two coins. This indicates that Monero's moves are closely related to Ethereum's. If Ethereum collapses, then Monero will promptly follow. The same applies to Ethereum as its correlation with BTC is 0.87. Hence ETH will follow BTC.

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      Nick Leeson
      Nick Leeson is an avid trader and cryptocurrency enthusiast. Introduced to cryptocurrencies in early 2016 by a misclick on a YouTube video, Leeson has grown increasingly fascinated by them. He owns cryptocurrencies to trade and complete his goals of growing his accounts from scratch. Leeson's favourite cryptocurrencies include a lot of mid-cap altcoin projects that have the potential to actually disrupt the future. Any and all technical analysis/price prediction by Leeson is not a financial and/or investment advice of any sort.

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