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Bitcoin Volatility Hits Three-Year Low, Sparking Fears of Massive Sell-Off

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Bitcoin Volatility Hits Three-Year Low, Sparking Fears of Massive Sell-Off


The cryptocurrency data analytics and research company, Skew has warned that bitcoin could see a massive sell-off due to declining volatility.


The data analytics firm says that bitcoin (BTC) realized volatility hit 20% over the past 10 days – it’s the lowest 10-day reading in nearly three years.


“Last time we reached that level, we had the great sell-off of November 2018 shortly after,” Skew cautioned on Monday.


Back then, the price of BTC crashed by almost 50% from $6,500 in November to around $3,200 in early December. It was the lowest bitcoin had traded since its all-time-high of $20,000 in December 2017.


Realized volatility measures a change in prices in the past. Generally, the higher the volatility, the higher the risk, which also means the greater the earnings. The opposite is true for low volatility.


London-based Skew said bitcoin’s realized volatility in the last month averaged 35% and 64% over the past three months.


Bitcoin has struggled to scale past the psychological $10,000 level amid expectations of a bullish rally since its scheduled supply cut event in May.


The top cryptocurrency has mainly traded in the range of $9,000 to $10,000 for several weeks, occasionallyfalling below the threshold as investors took profit or as some other economic event led the price lower.


Falling BTC volatility has also coincided with declining bitcoin volumes, leading some analysts to predict an impending big breakout – either down or up.


“Stock market futures pumped since opening yesterday (July 5)and crypto has followed. So the short term picture has turned around completely again,” said crypto analyst Botje11 on his Telegram channel.


“So big chance if it (BTC) can stay above 9200/150 coming day or so, that we get a short squeeze of some kind coming days. Too early to say we see a break of 10k though, need much for that first,” he added.


At the time of writing, bitcoin is trading at $9,373, up more than 3% over the last 24 hours, according to data from markets.Bitcoin.com .


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