Market Wrap: Altcoins Outperform as Ether Rises Toward $4K – CoinDesk

For now, bitcoin appears to be oversold, and was down about 2% over the past 24 hours.

Ether, the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency by market capitalization, briefly touched $4,000 on Thursday after several weeks of choppy trading.

ETH has support around its 100-day moving average on the daily chart is also the most oversold since late September, which preceded a price rally.

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