The transient Dogecoin (DOGE) price rally final week following Tesla CEO Elon Musk’s bid to purchase Twitter seems to be tapering off, with DOGE closing the week over 8% larger.
DOGE’s price dropped to $0.142 on April 17, three days after peaking out regionally at $0.149. The Dogecoin correction, albeit modest, elevated the potential to set off a traditional bearish reversal sample with an 85% success price of reaching its draw back goal.
DOGE price eyes drop beneath $0.10
Dubbed “head and shoulders” (H&S), the sample seems when the price kinds three peaks in a row, with the center one (the “head”) between the opposite two, that are of virtually equal peak and are known as the “shoulders.”
These three peaks hold above a common support level called the “neckline.” As the theory goes, the price typically breaks below the neckline after forming the third peak, or the right shoulder, and falls by as much as the H&S’s maximum height — i.e., the distance between the head’s top and neckline.
It appears DOGE has been forming a similar structure at least since March 24. The cryptocurrency now could drop to the neckline after forming its right shoulder, followed by a full-fledged bearish breakout, as shown in the chart below.
As a result, the probability seems higher that Dogecoin will correct toward its H&S neckline near $0.132, down about 7.5% below April 17’s price. The level coincides with DOGE’s 50-day simple moving average (50-day SMA; the blue wave), thus providing additional support.
A decisive breakout move below the support confluence could risk triggering the H&S setup, with the downside target sitting below $1, down almost 30% below April 17’s price.
Interestingly, the target appears close to the lower trendline of the descending channel pattern that has enveloped Dogecoin’s price moves since December 2021.
The “Musk effect”
Musk continues to be an influential catalyst behind Dogecoin’s interim price trends.
The news of him buying a 9.2% stake in Twitter on April 4 helped boost DOGE’s price by more than 20% to $0.174 a day after, its best level in almost three months.
A correction followed as traders locked interim profits, only for DOGE price to rebound again after Musk showed intentions to acquire Twitter in its entirety for $43 billion.
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”Enthusiasts believe that the “Musk effect” and his growing influence on Twitter could boost Dogecoin adoption and price. Their sentiment was furthered by Robinhood CEO Vladimir Tenev, who earlier this week said DOGE could become the “currency of the internet.”
#dogecoin + Elon Musk + Twitter + Popularity = $10 future worth let’s go $Doge #DogecoinToTheMoon
— Dogecoin and Bitcoin HODL (@HodlDogecoin) April 15, 2022
Musk has supported the concept, suggesting that Twitter’s board introduce a DOGE fee possibility for its Twitter Blue month-to-month subscription service.
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