$BTC stays steady, ALT markets get MINI CAPITULATION!

in Nerday3 years ago (edited)

Today was a fairly good day for BTC, and a downright awful one for alt coins!

Coming back with a market update to my friends at the NERDAY community, and the news is fairly great for Bitcoin.

While BTC did take a few jabs and saw some wicks down to the 22800 price region, has remained rather steady and back above 23000.

On the other hand, the altcoin market today suffered a major sell-off and a mini "capitulate" event with some downright low prices.

The sell panic news come from the SEC involvement with RIPPLE labs, and triggered a massive coin sell off.

Unfortunately due to the low liquidity of many alt coins, some of them saw massive loses down to 30-40%!

Shown below here is a massive wick on the DEFI asset $SUSHI, which had a capitulation wick to over 100% of it's value!

XRP itself had the worst of the day, going down over 100% to nearly .20 from it's intraday high of .44.


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👍 It was a huge sell off indeed!

Its good to see BTC stay strong at that price but not a good one for alt coins.

BTC doesn't seem to care about anything anymore, but alts have been suffering thanks to xrp. I still don't get how easily manipulable this market can be.

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Ripple is having massive judicial issues with, among others, the SEC in America. I'd stay away from that for a while. Or, if you're feeling confident/lucky, buying the massive dip right now could yield good gains.

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