Bitcoin Bounce A Bull Trap? Analyst Sees 2022-Style Bear Flag

A cryptocurrency analyst has pointed out how the recent Bitcoin price action could echo the bear flag formation from the 2021-22 period. Bitcoin May Be Inside A Bear Flag Right Now In a new post on X, analyst Ali Martinez has highlighted a similarity that has been emerging between the Bitcoin price trend from 2021-22 and that from 2025-26. Below is the chart shared by Martinez that puts the two periods side-by-side. As is visible in the graph, Bitcoin saw a 54% drawdown during the first half of 2021, before…

XRP Price Starting to Copy Gold’s Multiyear 180% Boom: Analyst

XRP (XRP) is on track to repeat gold’s multiyear rally in 2026, according to analyst Steph is Crypto. Key takeaways: XRP is tracking gold’s past breakout structure, supporting $8–$10 targets if the fractal holds. Failure to reclaim the 100-week EMA could send XRP back toward the $1.61–$1.97 range. Gold’s fractal hints at $8-10 XRP price next The bullish outlook took cues from gold’s recovery in late 2022, which occurred after two years of consolidation inside the $1,620-2,055 area. In 2020-2022, the precious metal formed the classic five-wave structure of the…

Analyst Says the Worst Is Over For Dogecoin, Predicts Rally To $0.8

Crypto analyst Charting Guy has predicted that the worst may be over for Dogecoin, with a potential rally to $0.8 on the cards. This comes as meme coins like DOGE dominate the crypto market at the start of this new year.  Dogecoin Eyes Rally To $0.8 As The Worst May Be Over In an X post, Charting Guy shared a chart showing that Dogecoin could rally to as high as $0.8, marking a new all-time high for the foremost meme coin. Based on this, he remarked that the worst may…

Only 1 Week Left As XRP RSI Breakout Sets Up $10 Path: Analyst

XRP is compressing on the weekly chart into a clearly defined post-breakout range, and analyst Maelius (@MaeliusCrypto)argues the next directional clue will come from the RSI, with a breakout “sometime in Q1” that he expects to coincide with higher prices and a push toward $10. Maelius’ chart is a 1W XRP/USD view (Bitstamp) with a 50-week EMA overlaid. The market’s most recent regime shift is clear: a sharp vertical expansion carried XRP from a long base into a higher trading band, followed by a multi-week consolidation inside a shaded range.…

Analyst Shares Historical ETH Setup For A Q1 Rally

While Ethereum (ETH) attempts to turn a crucial level into support, some analysts have shared a bullish outlook for the cryptocurrency, which could send its price above the $4,000 barrier in the first quarter of 2026. Related Reading End-Of-Year Weakness To Ignite Q1 Rally On Monday, Ethereum broke above the $3,200 barrier for the first time in nearly a month, hitting a four-week high of $3,259. The cryptocurrency has seen a 8.3% surge from the crucial $3,000 level since Friday, consolidating above the $3,100 level over the weekend. Now, the…

PEPE Explodes 62%, But Analyst Warns Of Breakdown Retest

Pepe has witnessed a sharp rally over the past week, but a cryptocurrency analyst has warned it could turn out to be a setup for another move down. Pepe Has Shot Up Over The Past Week PEPE has taken off to start 2026 as the memecoin’s price has gone up by more than 60%, significantly outperforming all cryptocurrencies in the top 50 by market cap list. At the height of the rally, the asset touched $0.00000725 on Sunday, but it has since seen some retrace back to $0.00000676. Other meme-based…

Analyst Updates XRP Price Prediction: Why $16 Is Still On The Table

A crypto analyst who previously predicted that the XRP price could rise toward $16 has now updated his outlook to a higher target. According to the revised projection, XRP is preparing to rally above $18, a level that would represent a staggering 369% surge from its current all-time high of about $3.84 Updated XRP Price Forecast Eyes Breakout Above $16 Crypto market analyst ChartNerd has updated his XRP price outlook from a previous analysis, reinforcing his bullish stance while outlining two potential market scenarios. He described the structure in his…

Crypto Deposits Rise, But Buyers Aren’t Showing Up: Analyst

Large crypto holders have been moving tokens onto Binance, a pattern analysts associate with potential selling, but buying demand remains muted. So-called crypto whales deposited $2.4 billion near-evenly split between Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH) to Binance in the past week, the exchange’s largest net inflow in a month, but the “buying power is missing,” CryptoOnchain said in a note to CryptoQuant on Sunday. “Crucially, this surge in risk-asset deposits was not accompanied by new buying power,” it added, noting that stablecoin net flows were “essentially flat” at an inflow…

Altcoin Market Cap Holds ‘Critical’ Support, Poised for Upside: Analyst

The altcoin market, which is valued at over $879 billion at the time of this writing, is poised for its next major leg up toward its previous all-time high of nearly $1.2 trillion, according to crypto trader and market analyst Michaël van de Poppe. The Total3 market cap, which tracks the total market capitalization of the entire crypto token ecosystem, excluding Bitcoin (BTC) and Ether (ETH), has maintained critical support around the $784 billion level, Van De Poppe said.  The price of Total3 is also inching back toward the 365-day…

Metaplanet Has an Edge Over US-Based DATs Due to JPY Weakness: Analyst

Metaplanet, a Bitcoin (BTC) treasury company, may have a financial edge over other digital asset treasury companies due to structural weakness in the Japanese yen (JPY), according to BTC analyst and crypto treasury company investor Adam Livingston. Japan’s debt-to-gross-domestic-product ratio is about 250%, Livingston said. This high debt level continues to weaken the yen, which must be printed to shore up deficits every year, contributing to an even higher debt level and an erosion of the yen’s value. Measured in US dollar terms, BTC has appreciated by about 1,159% since…