BTC/USD Technical Analysis – 3rd March 2014

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Let’s take a look at the hourly chart on BTC/USD below (click to expand):

We can see how price was hovering around the middle Bollinger band for a lot of the weekend. It soon started to rise at a cool pace, initiated by a combination of technicals.

I’ve drawn a white vertical line, to show this combination. At the close of this bullish candle, price had crossed above the middle Bollinger line, the Awesome Oscillator had turned green, the Accelerator Accelerator An accelerator or startup accelerator is defined as fixed-term programs that look to foster investment, connections, sales, and education to kindle growth in a project.Most commonly this effort constitutes a public pitch event, demos, and other forms of marketing. Startup accelerators are most commonly associated with Silicon Valley, a global hub for investing and fintech.Startup accelerators however are a global phenomenon that privately funded as an investment fund. This nature of investing he An accelerator or startup accelerator is defined as fixed-term programs that look to foster investment, connections, sales, and education to kindle growth in a project.Most commonly this effort constitutes a public pitch event, demos, and other forms of marketing. Startup accelerators are most commonly associated with Silicon Valley, a global hub for investing and fintech.Startup accelerators however are a global phenomenon that privately funded as an investment fund. This nature of investing he Read this Term Oscillator had turned green, and the Stochastic Oscillator had crossed over, heading upwards, whilst being underbought. Pretty ripe for a few bulls then.

Hence, price rose to 590, before witness to a long bearish candle, which retraced down to the 38.2% Fib level, around 570, which is where price is currently at.

To understand why price suddenly stopped at 590 however, we need to zoom out a little:

Now it becomes much clearer. The red horizontal resistance line shows the clearer picture. We can see how it’s now acted as a resistance on three occasions, circled in blue. However, with the AC and AO still in bullish mode, we could see another test of this line later today.