Bitcoin (BTC) briefly snapped higher before the Sept. 6 Wall Street open as United States employment data failed to meet expectations.
Bitcoin dips below $55,000
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price action targeting $57,000 before fully retracing after the US trading session began.
New one-month lows followed, these reaching $54,919 on Bitstamp.
Nonfarm payrolls figures for August came in lower than forecast, adding to concerns over labor market strength.
At the same time, a senior Federal Reserve official argued that the time had come to reduce interest rates, with the decision to do so due on Sept. 18.
“The current restrictive stance of monetary policy has been effective in restoring balance to the economy and bringing inflation down,” New York Fed President John Williams said in a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations.
“With the economy now in equipoise and inflation on a path to 2 percent, it is now appropriate to dial down the degree of restrictiveness in the stance of policy by reducing the target range for the federal funds rate.”
Estimates from CME Group’s FedWatch Tool after the data print showed market odds for a 25-basis-point and 50-basis-point rate cut becoming roughly equal — at 53% and 47%, respectively.
US dollar strength saw its own uptick at the open, jumping a full 0.3% as Bitcoin canceled out its macro data reaction.
Commenting on the broader picture, however, popular trader Daan Crypto Trades saw enduring long-term dollar weakness.
“$DXY Remains very weak and is sitting on the ~101 support level,” he told X followers about the US dollar index (DXY).
“I think it\'s a matter of time before this breaks lower to the 99.5 level and beyond. This should generally help risk assets.”
BTC price chart spells out bulls\' dilemma
Focusing on short-term BTC price moves, meanwhile, trader and analyst Rekt Capital captured frustrating conditions for bulls.
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“Bitcoin is forming a 4-hour downtrending channel, with a Bullish Divergence developing as well,” part of various X posts explained.
An accompanying chart showed relative strength index (RSI) values increasing against declining price on 4-hour timeframes.
A further post confirmed that price was continuing to reject off a diagonal trendline within the channel structure.
“That\'s why 4-hr candle bodies above resistance are so important to confirm the next trend,” he commented.
“Upside wicks into/above the diagonal precede rejections.”
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