we could be building out a big bull flag off the $13.8k top. if that plays out, this leg up will probably go near $12k or so before another chop down. breakout by the end of the month methinks.
It could also form a bearish decending triangle.
since we're in a strong uptrend, we should assume a triangle is a bull flag until proven otherwise IMO. all triangles tend to be continuation patterns, descending or not. it's extremely rare to see markets
top with a triangle.
for now there is only higher lows anyway. we'd need to retest the july 2 low to draw it as descending.
The way Litecoin is being dumped down this close to the block halving makes it not entirely unlikely that Bitcoin will follow the same pattern. At the end of the day, it very likely has the block halving already priced in. I hope it's a bull flag, but if we yet again dip below $10,000 the forthcoming months might not be all that pretty.
the litecoin pump seemed to be driving things up until april or so but LTC/BTC crashed and never recovered after that. they decoupled a while ago. bitcoin has been driving this rally for months---i don't think anyone cares about litecoin.