Bitcoin is trading in range, and still following our plan A and B (plan C discarded, as we know). I give plan A 60% chance, plan B 40% chance
For those who are new on my analysis, plan A was for the last two months "9000 ---> 12000 ---> drop ---> 11000 ---> ~8150 ---> 16500 ---> ~8000". We are between "11000 ---> ~8150 ---> 60-80 000" waiting to see if this part is finished early at 8300$
Plan B was "9000 ---> 12000 ---> drop ---> 11000 ---> 4400 ---> range accumulation very low----> ????"
"????" means we will need to judge the new momentum of this new cycle
So... Short term
For now, we are still in a classic bear flag formation, that also looks like a wave 4 ABCDE wave pattern. This projects directly to either our target zone (7800 - 8150) or lower, depending on the pattern you choose. I will judge by then if we breakdown, depending on the momentum we have, and will be crucial in knowing if we are doing plan A or plan B
The flag is composed of two higher highs, two higher lows, than a new higher low that is kept below the bear flag medium line (see orange drawings)
These usually breakdown slowly after the 3rd higher low, bleeding a bit, then dropping suddently (here drop will start below 8700$)
HOWEVER, these flags usually don't display such bullish spikes. They can be result of high capital accounts messing around with bot signals to shake them out, as a retaliation of the last few weeks, where bot manipulation became rampant and overthrew slowly classic technical analysis, but there is no knowing for sure. Still, it doesn't change anything
In case of a breakup over 9500, we could see a small rally for a giant range up to 10800, tradding in a really choppy and trader-crushing pattern. Past that turbulent zone, either shorting can be resumed at 10400 - 10800 zone with stop loss, or bullishness up to 16500 over 11 000$ for following plan A (variant with 8300$ bottom instead of the projected 7800-8150$)
If we break upward, it lowers back the plan B chance by a lot. Plan B is invalidated above 11 000$ at the resistance break (the one everybody thought was already broken, but never was, since smart money never uses linear scale, only log scale... Actually, the 11 600$ drop to now happened the second we touched this logscale resistance)
Short red arrows, long green arrows. Use stop loss below the previous swing low/high for both, as market is unstable
Be safe