{"id":9788,"date":"2022-06-23T17:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T22:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/?p=9788"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:48:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T22:48:45","slug":"trader-who-called-2018-bear-market-bottom-says-one-altcoin-already-gearing-up-for-next-bull-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/?p=9788","title":{"rendered":"Trader Who Called 2018 Bear Market Bottom Says One Altcoin Already Gearing Up for Next Bull Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The crypto strategist who accurately called the bottom of the 2018 bear market says he\u2019s one altcoin looks strong during the current correction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pseudonymous analyst known as Smart Contracter\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartContracter\/status\/1539006955293114368\" target=\"_blank\">tells<\/a>\u00a0his 208,500 Twitter followers he\u2019s surprised how well smart contract platform Binance Coin (BNB) has held up against\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/bitcoin\" target=\"_blank\">Bitcoin<\/a>\u00a0(BTC) during the latest bear market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>\u201cReminds me of [Ethereum] in 2017. When I do start longing with the intention of the bottom being in, BNB is gonna be one of \u2019em for me.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/bnb\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Binance Coin<\/a>&nbsp;is trading for $218.18 at time of writing, down over 2% in the past seven days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart Contracter has compiled a list of developments he says indicate the bear market bottom is near. First on the list is a tweet from economist Alex Kr\u00fcger, who notes that Google searches for \u201cBitcoin dead\u201d hit all-time highs over the weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The strategist also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartContracter\/status\/1539065924845998080\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">notes<\/a>&nbsp;the Fear and Greed Index is displaying a six rating, which indicates \u201cextreme fear.\u201d The Fear and Greed Index measures market sentiment with values ranging from 0 to 100.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The analyst also&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmartContracter\/status\/1539064050013065216\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">thinks<\/a>&nbsp;news of crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital\u2019s staggering losses is another sign that the bottom is near.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Smart Contracter said\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/2022\/06\/15\/crypto-trader-who-nailed-2018-bear-market-bottom-says-bitcoin-and-ethereum-very-close-to-pivotal-moment\/\">last week<\/a>\u00a0that both BTC and top altcoin\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dailyhodl.com\/currencies\/ethereum\" target=\"_blank\">Ethereum<\/a>\u00a0(ETH) have gone through a capitulation phase and are now trading at a price area that he says offers strong support for the two leading crypto assets by market cap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The crypto strategist who accurately called the bottom of the 2018 bear market says he\u2019s one altcoin looks strong during<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3423,254,3421],"tags":[3456,3426,888],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9789,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9788\/revisions\/9789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.jlbn.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}