BITCOIN: Is the cryptocurrency stuck in a crypto triangle? | City & Business | Finance

Following months of wildly erratic volatility, which saw the world’s dominant cryptocurrency experience some of the most dramatic peaks and troughs in its ten-year history, it entered August with an apparent determination to flatline. While treating this as welcome respite from a spell of immense unpredictability, it would be easy to assume BTC wants a period of quiet reflection and to simply sit still for a while. After all, a similar pattern was formed in 2018 when bitcoin spent much of the second half of the year unwilling to stray north or south of $6,400.

However, a look at the market graphs may betray a crossroads where bitcoin will be forced to turn rather than remain on its current course. A simple triangulation of highs and lows shows BTC is fairly comfortable in a range between $10,000 and $11,000 where it could possibly remain for the rest of month.

Cryptocurrency being what it is means that an array of curious market forces is always at work and anything could happen….