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Markets Update: A Narrowing Range of Consolidation and Digital Asset Trade Volumes

Not a lot has changed since our last markets update four days ago as cryptocurrency markets continue moving sideways in a consolidated pattern. The top five digital assets have seen modest northbound gains this week, with increases between 1-5% over the last seven days. This Sunday, Oct. 21, the entire cryptocurrency economy of over 2,000 digital tokens is valued at $214.4 billion.

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Boring Market Action Often Leads to Something Unexpected

It’s been a lackluster week for cryptocurrency traders as not much has been happening, except for a few stablecoins having some interesting breakouts a few days ago. Since then most of the stablecoins, funnily enough, have seen less volatility and actually remained ‘stable.’ Top performing digital assets like bitcoin cash (BCH), ethereum (ETH), and bitcoin core (BTC) dropped a hair in value last week as traditional finance investments plummeted. However, these digital assets have regained the very small losses that took place on Oct. 19, and most of the top coins are up over the last seven days. This weekend, bulls seem to be strengthening their positions for another attempt to intensify a bearish-to-bullish trend change.

Markets Update: A Narrowing Range of Consolidation and Digital Asset Trade Volumes

Bitcoin Cash (BCH) Market Action

Bitcoin cash (BCH) is currently trading at $452 per coin this Sunday, with a market valuation of about $7.85 billion. Much like BTC and the rest of the top cryptocurrency markets, bitcoin cash trade volumes have been waning. Four days ago, BCH daily trade volumes were above $300 million, but have since dropped to $281.3 million. The top exchanges trading the most BCH today include Lbank, Hitbtc, Binance, Okex, and Bithumb. The dominant five trading pairs swapped

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