- Polkadot hodlers are underwater
- A bullish situation stays legitimate if the lows maintain
- A transfer above $7 ought to result in extra positive aspects
It has been a troublesome interval for long-term holders of Polkadot. The DOT/USD alternate charge has moved South relentlessly after peaking at $56 in late 2021.
From $56 to $5, it was a straight decline. It took just one yr for Polkadot to frustrate bulls.
And even now, as cryptocurrencies have rallied in 2023, one must be scared trying on the each day chart. In spite of everything, the bounce from the lows appears to be like so small when deciphering the larger image that it’s troublesome to discover a bullish argument.
Polkadot chart by TradingView
Polkadot ought to overcome $7 resistance space for bulls to be in management
Zooming in, one might even see the 2023 rally that introduced again optimism within the cryptocurrency market. Positive sufficient, Polkadot already gave again greater than half of its YTD positive aspects.
However the invalidation stage for a bullish situation nonetheless holds. Successfully, it implies that the current worth motion could be nothing however a correction a part of a bigger-degree bullish pattern.
Polkadot chart by TradingView
The Elliott Waves concept states that an impulsive transfer (i.e., the one which started in the beginning of the yr) is adopted by a corrective construction, an a-b-c.
This a-b-c that corrects a bullish pattern ought to have two waves transferring in the other way (i.e., waves a and c), and one which strikes in the primary pattern’s course.
It implies that one could simply say that the transfer from the 2022 lows is an impulsive construction, and the decline from the 2023 highs is the a-b-c. On this case, the implications are bullish for Polkadot and bearish for the US greenback.
Nonetheless, solely a transfer above the pivotal $7 stage would cement the bullish Elliott Waves situation. Till then, bulls may want for the worth motion to carry above the invalidation space proven on the chart above.