The daily candle
Bitcoin closed the October 22 daily candle at $81,381, down 3.18% on the day, after trading between $80,900 and $84,320. What stands out on the daily chart: below 50-day average, 30-day closing low, below 20-day average.
Moving averages
The close of $81,381 is 2.0% below the 20-day average ($83,044).
The close of $81,381 is 0.5% below the 50-day average ($81,786).
Momentum: RSI and MACD
The 14-day RSI reads 46.1, 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 61.07 against a signal line of 258.4, so the MACD line is below its signal. MACD measures the gap between a fast and a slow exponential average.
Volume and range
Volume on the day was 1.42 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 $80,035 to $86,053, and the close is inside the bands.
Over the previous 30 days the highest close was $86,485 and the lowest $81,453.
What it costs to hold a position
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