Bitcoin (BTC) analysts faced another day of gloom on May 28 as BTC/USD refused to offer volatility.
“Not the decoupling we wanted”
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed that the largest cryptocurrency has remained in a narrow short-term range over the weekend.
Support levels had previously been forecast to avoid a deeper correction in the May 27 Wall Street trading session, but a higher bounce was equally absent as commentators looked for new signals.
“Short resistance and long support until one of them is broken. Keep it simple in ranges as they are to engineer liquidity for trend continuation or reversal,” summarized popular trading account CryptoTony in part of a Recent Tweet,
Others focused on the relative underperformance of bitcoin compared to the stock, which ended the week. The S&P 500 was up 2.47% on May 27, while the Nasdaq Composite Index was up 3.33%.
Well, it looks like this time may be different.
Plus, it’s not the decoupling we wanted. #bitcoin $BTC https://t.co/3YSFbL4rcb pic.twitter.com/krFEurFkaf
— Jan Wustenfeld (@JanWues) 27 May 2022
Unlike bitcoin, equity markets were making the most of the continued decline in the strength of the US dollar.
The US dollar index (DXY) was circling the day at 101.6, below the high of 105 it had last seen in late 2002.
Analyst Matthew Hyland noted that the index’s reversal meant that it was now challenging its overall uptrend from the beginning of the year.
The US Dollar (DXY) weekly RSI is heading towards an important test of the trend line that started at the beginning of the year: pic.twitter.com/529BsZxshD
— Matthew Hyland (@MatthewHyland_) 28 May 2022
Do Kwon confirms the reincarnation of LUNA
On altcoins, the revival of controversial blockchain protocol Terra was greeted by lame performance.
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Terra co-founder Do Kwon confirmed the launch of the new mainnet for the in-house token LUNA earlier that day.
for your viewing $luna (or $LUNA2 as some exchanges call them) token balance, you just need to log in to the station and refresh the page
For new users coming from IBC etc, create a station wallet with the same ledger and the station should walk you through the rest of the steps https://t.co/1ZKmCGKLvp
— do kwon (@stablekwon) 28 May 2022
At the same time, worry was growing On other major altcoin projects, notably Celsius (CEL), which fell from $0.80 to around $0.50 within a week.
Hex (HEX), a project that has raised doubts throughout its existence, faced a similar fate, falling from just $0.11 a week ago to less than $0.05.
The top ten cryptocurrencies by market cap nonetheless mimicked bitcoin’s low-volatility behavior in the 24 hours as of the time of writing, with only Dogecoin (DOGE) seeing a noticeable move, this time to the upside to reclaim $0.08.
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