chart<\/a>, LTC price traded towards the $48.00 support area and formed a new monthly low at $48.22. Later, there was an upside correction and the price recovered above the $48.80 level.<\/p>\nIt also moved above the 23.6% Fib retracement level of the recent decline from the $50.96 high to $48.22 low. However, the price is still trading well below the $50.00 resistance and the 100 hourly simple moving average.<\/p>\n
More importantly, this week\u2019s followed important bearish trend line is still in place with resistance at $49.80 on the hourly chart of the LTC\/USD pair. The trend line is near the 50% Fib retracement level of the recent decline from the $50.96 high to $48.22 low.<\/p>\n
Above the trend line, the $50.00 handle is likely to act as a solid resistance for buyers in the near term. Therefore, if the price corrects higher, the $49.80 and $50.00 levels are likely to protect gains.<\/p>\n
Overall, litecoin price is clearly under a lot of pressure below the $51.00 and $50.00 levels. As long as there is no close above $51.00 and the 100 hourly simple moving average, there could be more declines. An immediate support is the recent low at $48.22, below which the price may test the $47.50 support.<\/p>\n
The market data is provided by TradingView.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Litecoin price extended declines below the $50.00 support against the US Dollar. LTC\/USD is under a lot of pressure below the $50.00 and $51.00 levels. Key Talking Points Litecoin price extended declines and traded below the $50.00 support (Data feed of Kraken) against the US Dollar. This week\u2019s followed important bearish trend line is still in place with resistance at $49.80 on the hourly chart of the LTC\/USD pair. LTC price may correct higher, but upsides are likely to be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":25883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[824],"tags":[188,161,111],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25882"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ethereumworldnews.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}