Bitcoin reached $13,800 this week. Traders expect prices to fall to $12,300 before rebounding again, based on a technical pattern that has repeated twice since March. The next hurdle for bulls is $14
Bitcoin reached $13,800 this week. Traders expect prices to fall to $12,300 before rebounding again, based on a technical pattern that has repeated twice since March.
The next hurdle for bulls is $14,000. Break through and traders could target $20,000. Wednesday brought a sharp selloff that dropped BTC to $13,000, the first support zone. Buyers moved in and recovered to $13,500, but selling pressure capped the gains there.
The pattern at work is called an upside parabola fractal. Bitcoin has traced it out twice since the March crash to $3,800. After a parabolic surge, prices reverse to a support level, trade sideways, then rally again with the old peak becoming new resistance. Eventually that resistance becomes support as the cycle repeats. Bitcoin is cycling through this for the third time.
If the pattern stays true to form, the current wave can still reach $13,800 or test $14,000 in the near term. Rejection there would mean a roughly 10% drop. That decline would land near $12,300—the support level where bulls can regroup and launch the next advance.
The first two cycles support this math. If the pattern holds, buyers will accumulate at $12,300 and prepare another run through $13,800. Once prices settle there, what used to be resistance becomes the support level for pushing higher.
Bitcoin trades at $13,274, with shorter-term charts indicating additional downside.