I am a long term crypto bull, here I am outlining Bitcoin as all other coins will follow suit...(or until the end of the year).
We are in a descending channel. One more sell-off to shake out those weak hands and a deliberate but nessesary test of the black trend line at $4900 (either in the next week or next month at $5400).
I expect this to be a long wick down and not a place for the price to hang around.
We have broken that trend line in pink which now becomes resistance which indicates more downside action. I would wait and see here as there is a lot of resistance in this area.
This isn't coming from any bad news within the space, quite the opposite is happening with regards to SEC statements etc. It is more natural negative market sentiment after a monster bull run.
Retail money doesn't want to touch it as they only like to buy when the price is going up and love to buy at the top!
This is time for smart money long positioning as we are entering the accumulation phase. This phase will be short lived compared to past 'crashes' as crypto is officially becoming a main stream asset class with low correlation to stocks.
I do see futures & ETF's as being price suppressive much like the effect on gold & silver. These are tools for central authorities to manipulate price by allocating multiple contracts to every underlying unit of 'asset'.
I would see a decoupling of another crypto asset from Bitcoin when this action becomes more evident.
The coin that gets adopted/used is the one that will offer the greatest returns. At the moment, I don't think it will be Bitcoin.