BTC/USD

The price of Bitcoin has been increasing from last Friday when it was sitting around $11221 at its lowest and reached $11847 at its highest today which is an appreciation of 5.58%. Currently, we have seen a minor pullback but the price is still in an upward trajectory indicating strong bullish momentum.

On the hourly chart, you can see that a breakout was been made above the prior high made last week on Monday and the price is now retesting its levels for support. This minor pullback is likely the 4th wave out of the lower degree impulse wave which is why another increase would be expected from here before a more significant one. That correlates with the current rest on the support level as the price is likely to finds support here.

Looking at the bigger picture this rise is the continuation of the upward move that started in September after the price came down to $9889 on the 8th. Since then we have seen a series of higher lows which indicated the start of another upward impulse but today’s higher high has validated that even further. This is why we are likely to expect further uptrend continuation as this increase is the next five-wave move to the upside out of which we are currently seeing the development of the 3rd wave from the Minute count.

If this is true, then the price is headed for a higher high on this 3rd wave, pulling back on the 4th to retest the vicinity of the yearly high and going to continue moving to the level above $13000 which is the zone of the last year’s highs.

XRP/USD

From last Tuesday when the price of Ripple was $0.26 to at its highest we have seen a decrease of 8.22% measured to its Fridays low at $0.238. The price started increasing from there as it found support on the ascending trendline and came slightly above the $0.25 level but has since fallen again below the $0.2473 horizontal pivot point. Now it is again attempting to surpass the levels as it’s in an upward trajectory but we are yet to see if the momentum proves strong enough.

Looking at the hourly chart, you can see that the price has bounced inside this ascending channel from the 24th of September when it came down to $0.22 at its lowest and last Tuesdays high was most likely the competition of the 3rd wave of the higher degree count.  This is why the 8.22% decrease seen is counted as the 4th wave which fell back inside the territory of the 1st one but which can happen in a leading diagonal which this structure appears to be.

If we see a breakout above the significant horizontal resistance the price is likely headed slightly above the $0.26 area and the previous higher high for the completion of the 5th wave and would validate the ascending channel’s resistance level once more.

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