Dogecoin Price Prediction as $500 Million Trading Volume Floods In – Are Whales Buying?

John Isige
Last updated: | 4 min read
DOGE/USD daily chart

Investors are treading carefully in light of the recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank

Dogecoin, the leading meme coin by market capitalization, succumbed to significant overhead pressure over the weekend, further heightening market concerns. 

However, crypto prices have now rebounded following news of the US government stepping in to contain the damage. 

At the time of writing, DOGE is up 9% with nearly $800 million in trading volume.

How SVB Toppled From The Top

According to the Guardian, SVB’s downfall began when it made significant investments in US government bonds with long maturity periods, including those supported by mortgages, which were considered extremely secure.

Bonds and interest rates have an inverse correlation, meaning bond prices decrease when interest rates increase. As the Federal Reserve began to raise rates quickly to reduce inflation, SVB’s bond investment suffered substantial losses.

SVB faced a shortage of liquid funds, which prompted it to sell its bonds at significant losses, leading to panic among investors and clients. The company’s disclosure of the asset sale was followed by its collapse after only two days.

Why Dogecoin and the Crypto Market Dumped?

News of a liquidity crunch at SVB sent panic across the world with clients rushing to withdraw funds – typical of a bank run. Circle, the company that issues the second largest stablecoin USDC, announced it had exposure to SVB with $3 billion of reverses stuck in the bank.

The news fueled a sell-off in the crypto market with USDC dropping 10% from its dollar peg. Investors panic-sold, fearing a repeat of the TerraUSD (UST) crash in May 2022. Bitcoin price dropped to sub $20,000, pulling most cryptos down.

Due to the sell-off, the total market capitalization slipped below the $1 trillion mark. However, Monday came with renewed interest among investors and hence the spike to $1.05 trillion at the time of writing.

The most popular meme token was not spared by the explosive selling activities over the weekend. Dogecoin price stretched the leg significantly below the monthly open roughly at $0.0825 and tested support at $0.0625.

Retail traders flipped bearish to take advantage of the available short positions, which kept DOGE suppressed throughout the weekend. However, Elon Musk’s most loved crypto shot up 5% on Monday to trade at $0.06914 at the time of writing.

The trading volume has also been on an upward roll with over $500 million recorded in 24 hours, representing a 90% increase. Spikes in trading volume often indicate the presence of liquidity, in addition to a heightened accumulation of DOGE tokens. In other words, an expanding volume is often a positive signal for the token being traded.

Evaluating Dogecoin Price Profitability This Week

Dogecoin investors will throughout the week mainly be concerned about securing higher support, preferably above $0.07. Such a move will reduce the chances of declines extending below $0.06. However, investors should be open to Dogecoin price revisiting the most recent support at $0.0625.

DOGE/USD daily chart

Key levels to watch to the upside would be the region at $0.07 as mentioned. Holding above this level is crucial for the immediate resumption of the uptrend. Furthermore, DOGE staying above this level would repair investor confluence in a short-term trend reversal for gains targeting $0.08 and $0.10, respectively.

Dogecoin price will likely complete a daily bearish candle close On Monday and below $0.07. Nonetheless, all would not be lost for the meme coin, considering the Moving Average Convergence Divergence (MACD) indicator could validate a buy signal anytime from now.

Traders would be looking forward to the MACD line in blue flipping above the signal line in red. A general upward movement in the momentum indicator toward the mean line at 0.00 and the positive region above it would keep investor interest intact.

Approximately 80,500 addresses that bought 34.59 billion DOGE between $0.0738 and $0.0758 are out of the money. This means if they sold at the current market rate, they would realize a loss relative to the price at which they purchased the tokens.

Investors must keep in mind that as the Dogecoin price strikes above $0.07, it is likely to face resistance in the range between $0.0738 and $0.0758 because investors in this cohort will likely sell at various breakeven points.

Dogecoin price as $500 million in trading volume comes in
Dogecoin IOMAP

On the downside, the Dogecoin price lacks robust support as observed from the chart above. The small green circles represent potential liquidity areas where DOGE can find support and rebound.

Given that support areas remain suppressed, a little spike in overhead pressure could force the Dogecoin price below $0.06 with potential support at $0.058 before it bounces again.

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