Bitcoin bounces from $15,500 as CPI release proves bullish

Despite the major setbacks to the space in the last 72 hours, today’s CPI release coming in at 7.7% YoY — a 9-month low — gave market participants much-needed hope.

BTC surged \(1,000 within 30 minutes after the news and is currently trading around \)17,800. Altcoins, including ETH, also benefited from the improved sentiment, with ETH regaining the $1,300 level.

Moving forward, market participants will be hoping that fallout from the collapse of FTX and Alameda is not enough to dampen potential bullish macro developments as a tumultuous year draws to an end.

Top altcoin gainers and losers

Gainers

• Maker MKR (+25.86%)
• Terra Classic LUNC (+14.37%)
• Polygon MATIC (+13.89%)

Losers

• FTX Token FTT (-21.23%)
• Toncoin TON (-13.02%)
• Solana SOL (-8.89%)

BTC Technical Analysis

Bitcoin broke through June lows earlier and went down as far as \(15,700 before finding support. Currently, it is up 13%, mainly because of Core CPI coming lower than expected. This move has also reset a lot of indicators signaling oversold previously; however, the weekly time frame still needs more correction hence lower prices are likely, especially if Bitcoin is unable to close above \)17,700 on the daily.

ETH Technical Analysis

Ethereum fell a little short of our target of \(1,050 but we were able to see \)1,079 before a 23% move up to \(1,320. Currently trading at \)1,300+ Ethereum either needs to have a daily close above \(1,240 at least. In case of failure to do so, this move up will be considered a bull trap, and sub \)1,000 will be likely.

NFT Market Map

Nearly half of the top NFT collections recorded a slump in their volume today.

Async Blueprints (+11,054%), Steady Stack Titans (+3,370%), and merge. (+3,008%) topped the list of best performers by volume.

Steady Stack announced that its NFT holders would gain full access to AlphaSharksNFT v2 with NFT analytics and trading tools.

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