Bitcoin (BTC) did not ship a Santa rally for Christmas 2023 as Dec. 25 supplied much more sideways BTC worth motion.

Bitcoin volatility index plumbs lowest ever ranges

Information from Cointelegraph Markets Professional and TradingView confirmed BTC/USD clinging to a good buying and selling vary round $16,800.

The pair had stubbornly refused to supply any type of volatility via a lot of the week, with an absence of a macro set off reinforcing lackluster efficiency.

“Bitcoin’s volatility is at an all-time low,” William Clemente, founding father of crypto analysis agency Reflexivity, noted alongside a chart of the Bitcoin historic volatility index.

He added that the full crypto market cap had retraced the whole lot of its good points from its 2017 highs and was now testing these highs as assist.

Dealer and analyst Phoenix in the meantime eyed similarities to Christmas 2018, proper after the pit of Bitcoin’s final bear market throughout its earlier halving cycle.

The size of time between its prior all-time excessive and Christmas lows a yr later, he confirmed, have been broadly related — 117 bars and 137 candles for 2018 and 2022, respectively, on the 3-day chart.

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Wanting forward, fellow widespread analytics account Bagsy had some equally uninspiring information for hodlers going into 2023.

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Subsequent yr, he forecast, BTC/USD would fail to interrupt above $25,000, leaving the actual restoration to its halving yr, 2024.

Even much less optimistic was analyst Toni Ghinea, who on Christmas Eve doubled down on his principle that subsequent quarter would produce the following bear market trough.

This did, nevertheless, depart room for a ultimate dash towards $19,000 within the final week of the yr.

“Final bull entice at 17.5-19k in December-January. Last crash to 11-14k in Q1 2023,” he predicted.

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