Bitcoin Nears Overbought Territory After Flirting With $4,000
GTI Global Strength Indicator raises risk of retracement.
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(Bloomberg) -- After Bitcoin struggled to maintain positive price momentum, a technical gauge is suggesting more pain in the coming weeks.
The original cryptocurrency briefly breached $4,000 last week for the first time during weekday trading in more than two months, before falling back. Bitcoin is nearing overbought levels, according to the GTI Global Strength Indicator, a technical tool that accounts for intraday volatility. It could see further downside should it decisively break into that territory, the measure suggests.
Bitcoin followed a similar pattern in February when it breached into the overbought zone and lost about 3 percent during the subsequent two weeks. The token has waffled between gains and losses this year, mostly trading above $3,800. Bitcoin fell about 0.3 percent to around $3,967 as of 11:25 a.m in New York.
“We are due another retest of the lows,” said George McDonaugh, chief executive of KR1, a London-based blockchain technology investment company. “Normally, a market tries more than once to test the depths of despair and so far we’ve only had one clear test, which hit around the $3,100 level.”
--With assistance from Kenneth Sexton.
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