There are a lot of bitcoin forecasts that are circulating around the crypto space. However, pinpointing the correct level that the digital asset will fall into has been one of the hardest tasks. Nevertheless, the analysis can often try to tell what will happen next for the digital asset due to market movements and one of those analyses has been put forward by Peter Brandt, a notable name in the crypto space.

Brandt Says Brace For Downtrend

In a recent tweet, the market analyst and trader had posted a chart that put forward what he believed was next for the price of bitcoin. By that point, the digital asset was still trading below $20,000 and with market momentum declining, it wasn’t expected that there would be much recovery and Brandt’s chart said as much.

He had identified what is referred to as a pennant, a series of market movements that shows where the digital asset price had peaked at a point and would be making a drastic change. This time around, the analyst put forward that since the movement trend identified looked like a pennant, it was most likely a pennant.

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The thing about pennant formations is that they are famous for preceding a decline in price. The last time a pennant had been identified, as shown in the chart, had been back in June. It had preceded the market crash that saw bitcoin’s price touch as low as $17,600. So if Brandt’s analysis is right, then the price of bitcoin would be expected to fall to this point once more.

When it looks like a pennant and acts like a pennant it is often a pennant $BTC pic.twitter.com/O7RtnvFSp0

— Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) July 5, 2022

But Is Bitcoin Listening?

One thing about the movement of bitcoin in the market is the fact that it does not exactly follow any logic or reason. The volatility that is associated with the cryptocurrency is one of its best and worst-selling points at the same time, which makes it impossible for anyone to accurately pinpoint its next move.

BTC loses momentum | Source: BTCUSD on TradingView.com

Peter Brandt’s analysis had been posted when the digital asset was trending at $19,000 but since then, the price of bitcoin has gone up instead of down as was expected from the analysis. This clear deviation from the expected shows that the formation of a pennant may now always mean impending doom for the digital asset.

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However, as the weekend is drawing to a close, bitcoin has lost about half of the value it has added in the last day. This reversal of a recovery trend suggests that the results of the pennant formation may not have been averted but simply delayed.

If this is true, the market will likely see a 20% decline in the price of bitcoin in the coming day.

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The bullish depletion of Bitcoin and Ether, Cardano’s FOMO smart contract, and a general boom in the altcoin market have catalyzed ADA’s gains.

Cardano’s native token ADA ignored a serious price drop warning to climb to a new all-time high.

The ADA / USD exchange rate hit $ 2.56 for the first time on Friday, following a 154.54% price boom that began on July 20. In doing so, the pair also ignored veteran trader Peter Brandt’s 60% -90% price drop warning, which was based on a classic bearish pattern called the head and shoulders.

I remember being mercilessly mocked when I identified this cap on $ LTCUSD in mid-2018

Hello cardano trolls $ ADAUSD, point… pic.twitter.com/3gytNHW4cR

– Peter Brandt (@PeterLBrandt) July 30, 2021

But a surge of bullish fundamentals helped Cardano ignore the bearish technical setups.

Capital turnover

At first, ADA / USD’s bullish rally in the early days appeared largely in the wake of a similar boom in the cryptocurrency market, led by the euphoria surrounding the major software update from rival Ethereum, and New endorsements for Bitcoin from Tesla’s Elon Musk and Twitter. Jack Dorsey.

ADA prices also followed Bitcoin (BTC), which has recently recovered above $ 48,000. But the Cardano token began to outperform Bitcoin after Tuesday, as the latter was stuttered by the US Federal Reserve’s phasing-out decision, as Cointelegraph covered here.

ADA price trends (black and white) vs BTC price trends (red and blue). Source: TradingView

In detail, the ADA / USD exchange rate rose 36.81% from its Wednesday low of $ 1.87 versus BTC / USD’s 7.91% rally in the same period.

Other major altcoins also outperformed Bitcoin, suggesting that traders simply turned capital out of the flagship cryptocurrency market for risks of overvaluation.

Adjusted 24-hour performance of Altcoins against the US dollar and Bitcoin. Source: Messari

FOMO smart contracts

Merchant offers for ADA also increased due to hype surrounding Cardano’s “Alonzo” update, which is scheduled for mid-September. The update hopes to implement smart contract functionality on Cardano’s blockchain, a step that, according to supporters of the project, will make it a direct rival to Ethereum.

#Cardano #smartcontracts are coming …

We are on track to meet the projected HF dates for the #Alonzo testnet and mainnet update, as Nigel described in last week’s update.

A new era is scheduled to begin on Sunday, September 12, 2021 $ ADA pic.twitter.com/HrdrqYizhP

– Input Output (@InputOutputHK) August 17, 2021

Smart contracts would allow Cardano to integrate more decentralized applications into its ecosystem, in particular decentralized financial platforms that enable automated lending, lending, and business services.

Technical perspective

It seems less likely that traders will notice Brandt’s bearish setup in the face of bullish Cardano fundamentals.

The ADA / USD daily chart shows the pair at price discovery. Meanwhile, a Fibonacci retracement chart outlined from the $ 2.51 high to $ 1.05 low signals that the ADA tests $ 2.51 as its interim resistance level.

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A close above said price ceiling puts ADA / USD on its way to the next resistance line at 1.618 Fib Line near $ 3.41.

Technical setup of the ADA / USD daily chart. Source: TradingView

By contrast, ADA’s Daily Relative Strength Indicator (RSI), now above 70, has warned of its tentative overvaluation risks. As a result, ADA / USD may undergo a certain degree of correction to neutralize its overbought state, with the next support target located near the 0.786 Fib line (at $ 2.20).

Cardano’s native token, ADA, ignored a serious price crash warning to rally to a new all-time high.

The exchange rate reached $2.56 for the first time on Friday, following a 154.54% price boom that started on July 20. In doing so, the pair also ignored veteran trader Peter Brandt’s 60%–90% price crash warning, which was based on a classic bearish pattern called the head and shoulders.