BTC/USD Forex Signal

Bitcoin: New 1-Year High near $9k

Last Thursday’s signals were not triggered, as none of the key levels were ever reached.

Today’s BTC/USD Signals

Risk 0.75% per trade.

Trades must be entered prior to 5pm Tokyo time Tuesday.

Long Trade

• Go long at a bullish price action reversal on the H1 time frame following the next touch of $8,436.

• Place the stop loss 1 pip below the local swing low.

• Adjust the stop loss to break even once the trade is $50 in profit by price.

• Take off 50% of the position as profit when the trade is $50 in profit by price and leave the remainder of the position to ride.

Short Trades

• Go short after a bearish price action reversal on the H1 time frame following the next touch of $8,893, $9.003, or $9,238.

• Place the stop loss 1 pip above the local swing high.

• Adjust the stop loss to break even once the trade is $50 in profit by price.

• Take off 50% of the position as profit when the trade is $50 in profit by price and leave the remainder of the position to ride.

The best method to identify a classic “price action reversal” is for an hourly candle to close, such as a pin bar, a doji, an outside or even just an engulfing candle with a higher close. You can exploit these levels or zones by watching the price action that occurs at the given levels.

BTC/USD Analysis

I wrote last Thursday the due to the selling earlier above $8,000 the picture looked a little more bearish and less consolidative. I would still be ready to take a long trade from lower support at $7,202. I would take a very weak bearish bias if the price can close below $7,583 for a couple of hours consecutively later.

This wasn’t a great call, but it was enough to keep out of trouble as ever since I wrote that, the price has been rising and continued to rise to a new 1-year high.

Bitcoin has almost doubled in value in recent weeks and this new high just under $9,000 presents a much more bullish picture. There is a strong long-term bullish trend so traders should consider getting interested in Bitcoin again.

I would take a bullish bias today if there were a strong bounce at the support level of $8,436.There is nothing important due today concerning the USD. It is a public holiday today in the U.S.A.