The cryptocurrency market is up 1.6% over the past 24 hours to $2.08 trillion but has seen some selling from the opening high near $2.15, which is about the middle of its range over the past 30 days.
Bitcoin fails to break above $60K and faces selling after the asset attempted to break above the 50- and 200-day moving averages late last week, indicative of seller dominance.
While sentiment moved out of extreme fear territory, on a daily basis, the RSI index moved out of oversold territory, thus reducing the potential for additional rise.
In this atmosphere, Bitcoin is more likely to decrease by $5,000 than to grow by the same amount.
The Ether has increased by 4.5% in the last 24 hours but, on a daily chart, is currently at the 61.8% Fibonacci level from July 22's high to the August 5 low, which is acting as the upside barrier to this technical correction.
A heavy sell-off in cryptocurrency prices might signal renewed momentum pressure on equities, still rebounding from the lows set on August 5.
According to CoinShares, crypto funds took in $176 million of investment inflows last week after quite a remarkable outflow of $528 million on a weekly basis.
Investments in bitcoin rose by just $13 million, while those in Ethereum increased by $155 million and Solana by $5 million.