Bitcoin Price Key Highlights
Bitcoin price recently made a strong downside break, signaling that bears are taking control.
Price is making a short-term pullback to the broken near-term support, offering an opportunity for more sellers to hop in.
Bitcoin is testing the area of interest at the $448-450 area, which might hold as resistance.
Bitcoin price could be ready to resume its drop if the nearby resistance levels are able to keep gains in check. Technical Indicators Signals
The 100 SMA is above the 200 SMA for now but the moving averages have inched close together, indicating that a downward crossover is looming. This could be interpreted as a signal for more sellers to short bitcoin, taking it back down to the recent lows around $437.
In addition, the moving averages could hold as dynamic inflection points, possibly holding as resistance up to the $450.50 mark. A descending trend line can be drawn to connect the latest highs of price action since May 5, with the falling resistance level coinciding with the area of interest.
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