The FTX black swan and its offshoots, along with the cost of energy for mining activities, continue to exert downward pressure on Bitcoin and cryptocurrency prices, all the more damaging as the market pull equities has made a comeback since the short squeeze on Thursday, October 13. Let’s ignore this difficult context and establish an unfiltered technical diagnosis of the crypto market.
A trust issue that will be resolved in the coming weeks
The bankruptcy of the FTX platform, the scammer that is the person of Sam Bankman-Fried, the powerful movement of distrust of cryptocurrencies that followed via a very large amount of withdrawals from centralized platforms (CEX) is a black swan.
For the financial markets, the black swan is the worst fundamental event that can occur, as its exceptional nature poses systemic riski.e. a risk of the market in question collapsing due to an unpreparedness to deal with it.
By definition, it is indeed a market risk that had not been listed in the potential risks at the beginning of the year. In the current case, FTX was still considered a “top ranking and safe” player a month ago and its CEO, as a beneficial personality for the ecosystem.
Gold, this gentleman turns out to be a black sheep (no relation to the swan), a dirty trickster who ultimately finds himself excluded for the sake of the future of the crypto ecosystem.
But do not dream, the long time will be necessary to erase the crisis of confidence that this event has triggered. In turn, the downward trend in the price of cryptocurrencies in place since the fall of 2021 is developing further, making fewer and fewer mining farms profitable.
It is therefore becoming urgent to stabilize the total market capitalization of cryptos, in order to be able to start an upward trend in 2023, on a sound structural basis.
In the meantime, the balance of holders continues its upward slope, confidence vis-à-vis the CEX is not yet making a big comeback.
Figure 1: Chart that juxtaposes the price of Bitcoin with the balances of holders and traders
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On a technical level, volume and participation data are the key to evaluating a possible buying remobilization
In order to measure the evolution of the general confidence towards cryptos, volume, engagement and participation data are the most relevant within the tools of the technical analysis of the financial markets.
The evolution of deposits and withdrawals at centralized platforms (CEX), the measurement of Open Interest (OI) on crypto futures contracts, Asset under Management (AUM) on crypto ETFs as well as the evolution of the share of liquid assets at institutional managers.
The latest data from these metrics does not yet show a movement back from available liquidity to cryptos, but there is nevertheless a stabilization which shows that the post-bankruptcy haemorrhage of FTX has stopped.
I remain convinced that the available liquidities (their amount among institutional traders is close to its record which followed the bursting of the speculative bubble 2.0 at the beginning of the century) will be partly reinvested in the crypto market as soon as confidence is income, a trust that first and foremost requires accounting transparency and the financial solvency of the key players in the ecosystem.
To conclude on the chartist level, the price of Bitcoin (BTC) must exceed the old lows of last June to resume an upward trend, be the resistance at $19,000/$20,000.
Figure 2: Graph showing the evolution of the share of cash among institutional managers
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Sources: Figure 1 – TradingView; Figure 2 – Bank of America monthly survey
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Vincent Ganne is a market strategist, technical analyst, trainer on the stock market and speaker on BFM Business. With a long experience in the field of analysis, he offers a global approach to financial markets. Both from a macroeconomic point of view and from a microeconomic point of view. Vincent Ganne also uses many aspects of chart analysis with the aim of forecasting trends in financial assets over the medium and long term.
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