Trying additional forward, Thielen forecasted additional upside for bitcoin based mostly on Elliott Wave concept, a technical evaluation that assumes that costs transfer in repetitive wave patterns. Value traits develop in 5 levels, in response to the speculation, of which waves 1, 3, and 5 are “impulse waves” representing the primary pattern. Waves 2 and 4 are retracements between the impulsive worth motion. BTC accomplished its wave 4 retracement by correcting to $38,500, in response to Thielen, and has now entered its final, fifth impulsive stage of this uptrend focusing on $52,000 by mid-March.