Markets Update: HODLers Pray for Higher Lows, Prospective Coinbase Listings Rally

The BTC markets are currently attempting to establish a higher low above $6000 after failing to break above resistance at $6800 at the end of June, whilst BCH appears to have bounced off the critical support area of $600 – $650 for the second time in 2018. In recent altcoin market action, Cardano (ADA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC), and 0x (ZRX) have produced gains of roughly between 10% and 20% after Coinbase confirmed on the 14th of June that it is currently “exploring” listing said markets.

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BTC Rangebound Between $5800 and $6800

Since gaining 18% from the 29th of June low of approximately $5800 to the local high of roughly $6840 on the 7th of July, the BTC markets have retraced by over 8% during the last seven days – with current prices hovering at approximately $6250.

Market sentiment is mixed, with price action currently testing a key support level on the daily charts after failing to break above the significant resistance area of approximately $6800, however, appearing to produce what could turn into an inverse head and shoulders formation – should support at $6200 hold, thus producing a higher low.

Looking at the stochastic RSI, one can see that both the 1-week, 1-day, and 12-hour charts appear heavily oversold – with the stoch RSI below the 20 threshold, whilst the 3-day chart is showing a retrace from a test of the 80 threshold.

BCH Markets Retrace Heavily in Recent Weeks

As of this writing, the BCH markets are sitting at approximately $700 after testing the critical support area of roughly $650 earlier this week.

Looking at the weekly charts, the markets have produced three weeks of sideways consolidatory action after losing nearly 60% of its value over the course of the preceding seven weeks.

When measuring against BTC, Bitcoin Cash currently appears to be forming a green doji candle after five consecutive weeks of downward momentum. As of this writing, BCH is trading for roughly 0.1125 BTC

Coinbase Considers Adding Five New Cryptocurrencies

Major exchange and cryptocurrency unicorn, Coinbase, has published a blog post announcing that it is currently “exploring the addition of several new assets” – specifically Cardano (ADA), Basic Attention Token (BAT), Stellar Lumens (XLM), Zcash (ZEC), and 0x (ZRX). The news produced sharp bullish momentum across the aforementioned markets – with the fiat-value of said cryptocurrencies all posting quick gains of between roughly 10% and 20%.

The company states that it “will be working with local banks and regulators to add them in as many jurisdictions as possible,” adding that “Unlike the ongoing process of adding Ethereum Classic, which is technically very similar to Ethereum, these assets will require additional exploratory work and we cannot guarantee they will be listed for trading.”

The exchange claims to have announced the new prospective listings “internally at Coinbase and to the public at the same time,” emphasizing its intention to “remain transparent with [its] customers about support for future assets.”

Coinbase also notes that its “listing process may result in some of these assets being listed solely for customers to buy and sell, without the ability to send or receive using a local wallet,” elaborating that “We may also only enable certain ways to interact with these assets through our site, such as supporting only deposits and withdrawals from transparent Zcash addresses.”

Markets React to News of Prospective Listings

Despite Coinbase emphasizing that it “cannot commit to when or whether these assets will become available at this time,” the announcement of the prospective listings caused sudden bullish surges of over 9.5% across each of the cryptocurrency markets in question. Whilst each market currently appears to be consolidating, it is not yet clear as to whether the upward moves will evolve into meaningful longer-term rallies, or fail to produce anything more than short-term spikes.

The seventh-ranked cryptocurrency by market capitalization, Stellar, quickly gained 9.5% from approximately $0.1847 to $0.2023 in less than two and a half hours. When measuring against BTC, the markets gained from 2794 satoshis to 3244 satoshis. As of this writing, Stellar has a market capitalization of $3.76 billion, and is trading for $0.2 and 3209 satoshis.

Cardano, the eighth largest cryptocurrency by market cap ($3.5 billion), enjoyed a sudden gain of 11.5% from roughly $0.1265 to $0.1411 following Coinbase’s announcement. When measuring against BTC, the markets gained from 2036 satoshis to 2270 satoshis in just half an hour. ADA is now consolidating at approximately $0.1363 and 2185 satoshis.

Zcash, the twenty-first largest cryptocurrency with a market capitalization of $754.5 million, gained 17.5% from $157.5 to 185.1 and from roughly 0.02536 BTC to 0.02977 BTC in half an hour following the news of the possible Coinbase listing. As of this writing, ZEC is trading for approximately $173.4 and 0.02774.

0x, the twenty-fifth largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization ($521 million), responded with 15% bounce from approximately $0.87 to $1.00 and 0.0001395 BTC to 0.0001614 BTC over the course of two hours. ZRX is now trading for roughly $0.974 and 0.00015 BTC.

Basic Attention Token, the thirty-seventh largest cryptocurrency market with a total capitalization of $334.3 million, produced the strongest bounce of the markets confirmed to be in consideration for a Coinbase listing. BAT gained 19.3% from roughly $0.2777 to $0.3314 and 4464 satoshis to 5335 satoshis over the course of one and half hours, before producing a secondary high of $0.3403 and 5466 satoshis three hours later.

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