Market Wrap: Bitcoin Stabilizes as Altcoins Underperform

Original Article By Damanick Dantes And Angelique Chen At Coindesk.com

Cryptocurrencies are starting to stabilize after declining sharply over the past week. Some indicators show investor sentiment at extremely bearish levels, which typically precede periods of buying activity. Other technical measures, however, suggest choppy price action could persist over the short term.

Bitcoin returned to above $35,000 and was up 3% over the past 24 hours, versus a 5% decline in SOL and roughly flat performance in ETH over the same period.

Still, it might be too soon to call a price bottom. “I think the determination of a bull/bear market is not as clear as previous cycles, due to the structure of the market changing drastically with institutions entering the space,” Marcus Sotiriou, an analyst at the U.K.-based digital asset broker GlobalBlock, wrote in an email to CoinDesk.

“Now, it is apparent that bitcoin is in a ranging environment (between $29,000 to $69,000 approximately) rather than a trending environment,” Sotiriou wrote.

“Bitcoin’s recovery is a long shot as investors are more keen on the price being stabilized for now,” Alex Axelrod, founder and CEO of Aximetria, a crypto financial services firm, wrote in an email to CoinDesk. Axelrod is monitoring BTC price levels of between $32,000 and $40,000 for confirmation of a breakdown or breakout.