Major Altcoins Rally as Bitcoin Sees Slight Gains

Wednesday, July 17— The number one cryptocurrency Bitcoin (BTC) is seeing slight gains on the day as major altcoins (ETH) and Ripple (XRP) rally.

Market visualization. Source: Coin360

Bitcoin has been trending down this week. Bitcoin retook $13,000 on July 9 before sinking all the way down to under $10,000 by July 16. At press time, BTC is trading just over $9,800 with a 2.64% gain on the day.

On July 4, analysts at SFOX conjectured that Bitcoin could rally in light of the American national holiday Independence Day, arguing that holidays in the midst of a bull market tend to spark FOMO. However, Bitcoin did not see any significant gains on the holiday, and is now sitting around $2,000 down from its price level 13 days ago.

Bitcoin 7-day price chart. Source: Coin360

Top altcoin Ether has had a bearish week, like BTC, mostly seeing a steady decline over the last seven days. It saw a fairly sharp fall on July 14, falling by about $200 in approximately an hour, without recovering….