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Litecoin price analysis: $60.00 test still possible

By Nathan Batchelor

13:10, 16 April 2020

Litecoin price analysis

Litecoin is starting to consolidate around the $40.00 level as buyers and sellers battle for control of the seventh-largest cryptocurrency.

Litecoin price analysis shows that the cryptocurrency could test towards the $60.00 level if buyers can move price above the $47.00 resistance level.

Litecoin medium-term price trend

Litecoin is starting to trade in a narrow price range around the $40.00 level as the cryptocurrency struggles to find a clear short-term directional bias.

A lack of selling interest below the $40.00 support level is helping to keep the bull case alive, following the early month rally from the $37.00 level.

Litecoin price analysis

Litecoin technical analysis shows that if bulls move price above the $47.00 resistance level the LTC/USD pair could advance towards the $65.00 level.

The key upside level over the medium term that bulls need to overcome is the current monthly high, around the $47.00 level.

Once above the $47.00 level, the LTC/USD pair’s key 200-day moving average is key resistance, around the $52.00 level.

Looking at the downside, a sustained loss of the $37.00 level could prompt a test of the $33.00 and possibly the $30.00 support level.

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Litecoin short-term price trend

Litecoin technical analysis shows that the cryptocurrency has a short-term bullish bias while trading above the $39.50 level.

Last week the LTC/USD pair turned technically bullish over the short term for the first time since 25 February this year.

Litecoin price analysis

The four-hour time frame is showing that a head and shoulders pattern has formed, with a $13.00 downside projection.

If bulls can move price above the $47.00 resistance level the bearish pattern will be invalidated. 

The invalidation target of the pattern implies that the LTC/USD pair could rally towards the $60.00 level if a bullish breakout occurs.

Litecoin technical summary 

Litecoin technical analysis is showing that the cryptocurrency needs to break above the $47.00 level. Gains above the $47.00 level could prompt a rally towards the $60.00 level.

Markets in this article

LTC/USD
Litecoin / USD
90.72 USD
5.9 +6.990%

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