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Bitcoin closed the September 24 daily candle at $84,367, up 0.01% on the day, after trading between $82,800 and $84,930.
Moving averages
The close of $84,367 is 5.8% above the 20-day average ($79,732).
The close of $84,367 is 12.6% above the 50-day average ($74,919).
The close of $84,367 is 19.1% above the 200-day average ($70,853).
The 50-day average is above the 200-day average. A moving average is the mean of the last N daily closes; where the price sits against it describes the recent trend, not the next one.
Momentum: RSI and MACD
The 14-day RSI reads 65.5, between 30 and 70, neither extreme. RSI compares the size of recent up days with recent down days on a 0 to 100 scale.
MACD (12, 26, 9) is 2486 against a signal line of 1988, so the MACD line is above its signal. MACD measures the gap between a fast and a slow exponential average.
Volume and range
Volume on the day was 1.29 times its 20-day average. Volume counts how much traded; a move on heavy volume involved more of the market than one on light volume.
The Bollinger Bands (20 days, 2 standard deviations) run from $73,155 to $86,309, and the close is inside the bands.
Over the previous 30 days the highest close was $86,580 and the lowest $75,608.
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