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April 16, 2019

Crypto Trader Warns Bitcoin Whale Rally Not Sustainable – BTC, Ethereum, XRP, Litecoin Forecast

By Daily Hodl Staff

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Former Wall Street trader and vice president at JPMorgan Chase, Tone Vays, says unless Bitcoin can hold above $5,200, he expects the price of BTC to fall.

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Vays says a BTC drop to $3K or lower is still a very real possibility in 2019. At a crypto meetup in Philadelphia, Vays said if Bitcoin’s initial push above $5,000 really was triggered by single whale, as some reports indicate, then the recent rally is not sustainable.

“I am definitely leaning more bearish than bullish right now. If we can go back to $5,200 and stay there, I can go back to being bullish. 

I wouldn’t call this a run up. This whole thing happened in two days, right. So two days doesn’t make it a run. So this does look like a single large purchase that went through the order book. So, this is a very short-term run up… if this was due to a single whale buying trade, then it’s literally the definition of not sustainable. And that’s another reason to assume we’re going lower.”

Meanwhile, a technical gauge that accurately predicted the bottom of the 2015 bear market is flashing.

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The Mayer Multiple (MM), which uses the 200-day moving average to identify market trends, has moved above the crucial level of 1.0, indicating the current market cycle has already reached a bottom.

Right now, the crypto market is mostly in the green. Bitcoin is up 2.21% at $5,177. Ethereum is up 6.76% at $166.34, and XRP is up 0.83% at $0.3237.

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Technical analysts are looking for Bitcoin to consolidate above $5,000, while watching resistance levels for Ethereum, XRP and Litecoin.

Bitcoin

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Ethereum

Coinspeaker After breakout, $168 may be the price target

NewsBTCEthereum bulls are not out of woods yet

XRP

Forex CrunchXRP price supported by stack which runs from $0.317-$0.318

Blockonomi$0.3225 and $0.3240 now crucial resistance levels

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Litecoin

FXStreet Important resistance level created at $84.40

Crypto Daily LTC/USD contending with technical resistance around the $83.71

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