The crypto-markets have been looking a bit gloomy this past week with the total market capitalization dropping from $255 Billion on Tuesday the 7th of August, to current levels of $207 Billion at the moment of writing this (August 11th). One of the fears many crypto traders have is that this market cap will drop to levels below $200 Billion and continue to hurt their investment portfolios.
Looking at XRP, it has dropped from levels of $0.41 on the same Tuesday – 7th of August – to current levels of $0.29. This is a drop in price of 30% in less than 4 days. Comparing this to the peak value of XRP of $3.82 in January, the digital asset has dropped 92.4% in the past 8 months.
It is by a similar observation that the inventor of the Bollinger Bands used in trading – John Bollinger – believes it is time to start looking for signs of capitulation in XRP. In a tweet on the 10th of August, Mr. Bollinger had this to say about the recent slump in the price of the digital asset:
$XRPUSD is down 90%… time to start looking for signs of capitulation.
— John Bollinger (@bbands) August 10, 2018
Capitulation is when investors give up on any previous gains in an asset they own in the market and start selling abrupt to get out of their positions. Capitulation involves extremely high volumes and sharp declines. It also involves panic selling. The question now is, have the XRP investors totally given up on the coin that is meant to skyrocket to the stratosphere this year due to numerous news and its general popularity?
A brief history of John Bollinger
John Bollinger is a trusted and famous technical trader who developed the highly used Bollinger Bands. He developed the technique in the 1980s which uses a moving average with two trading bands above and below it. These two bands are used to gauge the possible highs and lows of an asset. Many traders believe that the closer the price of an asset moves to the upper band, the more overbought it is and most likely to drop in value. If it moves to the lower band, it is oversold and likely to start an upward trend.
John Bollinger further provides 22 rules to follow when using the bands as a trading system. Crypto trading platforms such as Binance and Bitfinex have Bollinger Bands as an analysis tool on their charts.
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