Bitcoin (BTC) saw a fresh rejection at the $23,500 resistance on August 5 as US stocks failed to embrace surprisingly strong payroll data.
‘Real wage collapse’ mocks payroll printing
Following data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView BTC/USD as bears kept the market in its daily trading range.
Wall Street opened recklessly although US payrolls for July came in at double the estimated levels. The bizarre reaction has some analysts arguing that the numbers don’t actually show economic strength, but that existing workers are taking second jobs due to inflation.
“528,000 jobs gained in July as the labor force participation rate fell to 62.1 meant that most of the new jobs went to people who already had jobs,” replied.
The collapse in real wages forces many workers into the moonlight to pay the bills. If the job market was strong, one job would be enough.”
Schiff was far from alone in his doubts about the employment situation, with Weltheon CEO Adam Taggart, among others expressing distrust.
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Two quarters of contracting GDP, busy Fed hikes, contracting company margins, big companies freezing hiring or layoffs – these are in no way indicative of solid job creation.
I call BS
– Adam Taggart (@menlobear) August 5, 2022
Meanwhile, Kyle Bass, chief investment officer at Hayman Capital Management, noted the Fed’s optimism about hiring in the years leading up to the 2008 global financial crisis.
It would be a housing crisis unless we had a bout of massive unemployment. She never left my memory. Boy were they wrong. #Recession #Careers
– Kyle Bass (Jkylebass) August 5, 2022
Thus, both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite opened slightly lower the day before entering the wave of relief, while Bitcoin recovered from a dip below $23,000 to redirect range tops at the time of writing.
“Short corrections are possible, but the trend is still up. Looks very good on the higher timeframes of Bitcoin,” Michael van de Poppe, Cointelegraph contributor. added.
However, data from Binance’s command book has some concerns about whale activity. Notably, an entity was most likely trying to break out of its position altogether at current levels, warned Maartunn, a contributor to on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant.
The whale that wanted to get out was controlling the market.
Purple ($100,000 – $1 million) took these steps
1. Bids below to support the price
2. Buying the market to raise prices
3. The price has been pushed up in orders
4. Heavy selling in the market
5. The bids are cleared belowdata by Tweet embed pic.twitter.com/XY8fezFHyd
– Marton (@JA_Maartun) August 5, 2022
“Historically, the purple class of whales has had the greatest impact on the price of bitcoin,” he added.
Too many rejections?
Meanwhile, bitcoin traders have weighed the possibility of a new drop amid repeated rejections at $24,500.
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The popular Profit Blue trading account is eyeing $20,000 as the next major level of interest should the downtrend continue.
# bitcoin Perspective update.
The double top pattern that I warned about at 24k works very well.
There is still a lot of downside potential here, let’s find out how the 20K level holds next. pic.twitter.com/vyrV1rZCvO– PROFIT BLUE (@ kingdom8lue) August 5, 2022
“$BTC crossed lows and accumulated liquidity below $22.6K,” fellow trader Daan continued.
“The closest downside liquidity is now along the high volume node below $21,000. However, the upside is very close to $23.6K-$24.7K. Seems a good trend for me.”
BTC dollars & ETH dollar Since the futures contracts opened this week.
Crypto is underperforming in the rest of the markets this week, that’s for sure. Trying to bridge the gap now though. pic.twitter.com/6JzM7MSRFf
– Daan Crypto Trades (DaanCrypto) August 5, 2022
Daan also noted that the cryptocurrency has been “underperforming the rest of the markets this week,” but that could indeed change.
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