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Daily Crypto Review, August 31 – Cryptos Making Steady Gains Over the Weekend; ETC Hit By Third 51% Attack

The crypto market had a good weekend, with almost every single top cryptocurrency ending up in a net gain. Bitcoin is currently trading for $11,664, which represents an increase of 0.66% on the day. Meanwhile, Ethereum gained 4.42% on the day, while XRP gained 2.19%.

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 Daily Crypto Sector Heat Map

When taking a look at top100 cryptocurrencies, UMA gained 48.99% on the day, making it the most prominent daily gainer. Flexacoin (27.54%) and bZx Protocol (26.08%) also did great. On the other hand, DFI.Money lost 17.06%, making it the most prominent daily loser. It is followed by Golem’s loss of 10.16% and NEM’s drop of 7.06%.

Top 10 24-hour Performers (Click to enlarge)

Bottom 10 24-hour Performers (Click to enlarge)

Bitcoin’s dominance level has gone down quite a bit over the weekend and dropped below the 60% mark. Its value is currently at 59.24%, represents a 1.82% difference to the downside when compared to our last report.

Daily Crypto Market Cap Chart

The crypto market cap has increased significantly over the course of the weekend. Its current value is $372.72 billion, which represents an increase of $19.24 billion when compared to our previous report.

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What happened in the past 24 hours?

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Technical analysis

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Bitcoin

Bitcoin spent the weekend slowly rising in price on low volume. The largest cryptocurrency by market cap rose above $11,460 and $11,630 resistance levels, turning them into support. The $11,630 level is currently being retested, but it looks like Bitcoin will stay above it unless a large spike of sellers suddenly comes to the market.

Traders should take a look at Bitcoin’s confirmation of the $11,630 level. If BTC stays above it, traders can consider Bitcoin to be moving in within a range, bound by $11,630 and $12,000.

BTC/USD 4-hour Chart

Technical factors:
  • Price is above its 50-period EMA and 21-period EMA
  • Price is slightly above its middle band
  • RSI is neutral but leaning towards overbought (57.95)
  • Volume is low
Key levels to the upside          Key levels to the downside

1: $11,630                                1: $11,460

2: $12,015                                2: $11,090

3: $12,330                                 3: $10,855

Ethereum

After passing the descending trend and moving above it, Ethereum had a couple of days of steady gains. The second-largest cryptocurrency by market cap slowly gained ground and passed the $400 as well as $415 resistance levels along the way. The move stopped just above $430, before starting to retrace. There is a big possibility that the $415 level will be tested as a support level.

Ethereum traders should look for ETH’s reaction when the price reaches $415 again.

ETH/USD 4-hour Chart

Technical Factors:
  • Price is currently above its 21-period and 50-period EMA
  • Price is slightly below the upper band
  • RSI is severely overbought (67.64)
  • Volume is average
Key levels to the upside          Key levels to the downside

1: $415                                     1: $400

2: $445                                     2: $360

3: $496                                      3: $340

Ripple

XRP also had a great weekend, with its price consistently moving towards the upside after briefly breaking the $0.266 support level to the downside, which is where the bullish move on Aug 27 started. While it made some progress towards the upside, XRP did not reach past any significant resistance levels. In fact, it got stopped by the $0.285 level, which it most likely won’t pass.

Due to its RSI being close to overbought, low volume, and price rejection around the $0.285 level, XRP will most likely start a move towards the downside now.

XRP traders should trade it on its way down towards $0.266 or possibly look for a bounce off of the support XRP will find on its way down.

XRP/USD 4-hour Chart

Technical factors:
  • The price is above its 21-period and 50-period EMA
  • Price is slightly below its upper band
  • RSI is nearly overbought but is moving towards neutral (58.17)
  • Volume is low and relatively stable
Key levels to the upside          Key levels to the downside

1: $0.285                                   1: $0.266 

2: $0.31                                     2: $0.2454

3: $0.32                                    3:$0.235

 

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By Ilija Rankovic

Cryptocurrency trader, analyst and writer with a prolific experience in the industry. Moved from trading/analysis of the traditional markets to cryptocurrencies in 2013. His industry career includes jobs such as ICO advisor, analyst, crypto algorithmic trading contributor etc.

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