Litecoin (LTC) Closes Last Hour Up $0.83; Heads Up For the 3rd Straight Day, in an Uptrend Over Past 30 Days

The Hourly View for LTC

Last Updated April 16, 2021, 15:16 GMT

At the time of this writing, Litecoin’s price is up $0.83 (0.3%) from the hour prior. This is the 2nd consecutive hour Litecoin has seen its price head up. As for the trend on the hourly timeframe, we see the clearest trend on the 50 hour timeframe. The moving averages on the hourly timeframe suggest a bearishness in price, as the 20, 50, 100 and 200 are all in a bearish alignment — meaning the shorter duration moving averages are below the longer duration averages, implying a stable downward trend.

Litecoin Daily Price Recap

Litecoin is up 2.62% ($7.32) since the day prior, marking the 3rd straight day it has gone up. The price move occurred on volume that was down 27.1% from the day prior, but up 68.5% from the same day the week before. Relative to other instruments in the Top Cryptos asset class, Litecoin ranked 4th since the day prior in terms of percentage price change. Here is a daily price chart of Litecoin.

Litecoin Technical Analysis

The clearest trend exists on the 14 day timeframe, which shows price moving up over that time. For additional context, note that price has gone up 9 out of the past 14 days.

Overheard on Twitter

For laughs, fights, or genuinely useful information, let’s see what the most popular tweets pertaining to Litecoin for the past day were:

  • From rektcapital:

    Altcoins have been pumping like crazy todayBut this is nothing compared to the euphoria and FOMO that has yet to comeIn 2017, it took #Litecoin only 5 days to rally from $96 to $420The euphoria stages of a bull market come at you fastBe prepared$LTC #Bitcoin #Crypto

  • From Litewallet_App:

    We did it! ???Litewallet is proud to welcome @MoonPayHQ
    as one of our buy LTC partners! For the rest of April we are offering a 33% discount on purchase fees. Tap “Buy” pick your fiat and get some Litecoin into your Litewallet?? in 5 mins!

  • From Bitboy_Crypto:

    Bitcoin has also passed whats known as the Lindy Effect; If technology has been around for ten years, it’s drastically more likely to be around for ten more years. Litecoin is next

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