Bitcoin fails $17,000 test yet again following jobs report

Bitcoin has made several attempts to breach \(17,000 convincingly but failed yet again, despite Fed chair Powell hinting at potentially reduced rate hikes. Currently at \)16,900 the market leader took a hit when the unemployment rate came out exactly as forecasted at 3.7%. Coupled with Jobless claims being less than expected at 225K, the unchanged unemployment rate was interpreted as the economy showing strength.

ETH followed BTC’s price action with a drop of 1.4% after the jobs report. The coin then bounced back slightly to where it was at the beginning of Friday.

Meanwhile, the S&P 500 has been rejected from 4,100 and is barely holding onto 4,000, if we don’t see a bounce here, it could come down to 3,800 in the coming weeks. On the flip side, DXY has finally had a bounce from the previously mentioned support of 104.4 and is currently at 105.5

Top altcoin gainers and losers

Gainers

• Trust Wallet Token TWT (+17.83%)
• ETHPoW ETHW (+13.24%)
• Terra Classic LUNC (+10.92%)

Losers

• Theta Network THETA (-4.43%)
• Dogecoin DOGE (-3.94%)
• Hedera Hashgraph HBAR (-3.15%)

Bitcoin Technical Analysis

Bitcoin has been struggling to get over resistance as seen below, and given our current market conditions, a cool-off is likely. We can also see a huge fair value gap of around $16,500 which is supported by the range’s point of control. We can expect that to be our first magnet before we go for another leg up or down.

Ethereum Technical Analysis

Ethereum made another attempt at \(1,300 a few hours ago but was stopped at \)1,297. Currently, it’s trading at \(1,276 with a lot of long positions stacked up around \)1,210 - $1,230. This range is in line with Bitcoin’s fair value gap which is also present on the Ethereum chart. It is likely that ETH will correct itself in tandem with Bitcoin before any further moves materialize.

NFT Market Map

With their 3D release, Invisible Friends 3D (+1,419%) became the most impressive performer today as the #2 collection by trading volume, and the biggest winner in terms of volume growth among collections that had >$100k trading volume.

Other top NFT performers:

1. Verse Works (+2.2M%)
2. Bored Ape (+427K%)
3. Zombie Social Club (+189K%)
4. Mutant Turtles (+51K%)
5. CopeBears (+43K%)

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