The Bitcoin price has now broken above the $68,000 mark amid a run of a 12% price increase in the past seven days.
The Bitcoin price has surged by over 12% in the past seven days, climbing above the $68,000 mark. However, a crypto analyst now claims that the BTC price will not stop surging anytime soon. According to the analyst, a breakout from the USDT.D chart is all that is needed for Bitcoin to reach an ambitious target of $95,000.
Taking an unconventional approach to analyzing Bitcoin’s price movement, a crypto analyst known as TheSignalyst relies on a lesser-known metric to gauge the BTC price outlook. According to the analyst, the USDT.D chart, which tracks the dominance of the stablecoin Tether (USDT) in the cryptocurrency market, efficiently tracks the overall sentiment of the crypto market.
Although not widely used by mainstream analysts, this metric has proven useful in predicting market tops, bottoms, and future price action. According to the USDT.D chart, the USDT dominance has been playing out a descending triangle pattern since the first days of August.
During this period, the USDT dominance ranged between 6.5% and 5.34% of the total crypto market cap. As the analyst noted, as long as USDT dominance remains within the descending triangle, Bitcoin’s price is likely to continue consolidating in a range.
However, TheSignalyst adds that for Bitcoin to truly enter a bullish run, the USDT dominance needs to break downward. Specifically, it would have to fall below the lower boundary of the descending triangle and drop beneath 5.2% of the total crypto market cap.
As the largest stablecoin, the USDT dominance can reveal a lot about the prevailing sentiment among crypto traders. High periods of USDT dominance suggest investors are pulling out of riskier assets and parking their funds in stablecoins, while a decline in the USDT dominance suggests inflows into cryptocurrencies.
In the case of TheSignalyst’s analysis, the USDT dominance breaking below 5.2% would signal reduced reliance on the stablecoin and a renewed appetite for riskier assets, paving the way for Bitcoin to embark on a more aggressive upward trajectory.
According to the analyst, if this scenario unfolds, it could enable Bitcoin’s price to break past the $70,300 mark in the weekly timeframe. This level sits just above a descending trendline that has been stopping Bitcoin’s momentum since April, and a successful breakout could confirm the start of a much larger rally.
In the case of such a breakout, the analyst suggests a strong surge towards the $100,000 price level. At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $68,100 and is about 47% away from this six-figure target.