Dogecoin Gains 3 Percent on Friday but Near-Term Trend Points South

Dogecoin, a meme coin pushed mainstream by billionaire Elon Musk, rebounded slightly on Friday following a decline of 248.6 percent since it peaked at $0.76 a coin on May 8, 2021.

The coin gained 3 percent from $0.195419 it traded in the last 24 hours to $0.229505 a coin on Friday.

Investors traded dogecoins worth $796.89 million in 20,439 transactions in the last 24 hours. The meme coin has returned 4,526.94 percent profit this year so far.

Dogecoin like other cryptocurrencies has been on the decline despite Elon Musk tweeting last week Thursday to boost the coin attractiveness.

The zero-used case coin has consistently enjoyed Musk’s support even when experts pointed out the danger of investing in a joke project with zero use case.

However, with the decision to stop accepting Bitcoin as payment for Tesla, the cryptocurrency community now sees Elon Musk as an opportunist using the community to advance his brand and push his other projects to over 50 million followers on Twitter and other social media platforms.

“It seems that investors are no longer listening and are finally realizing that the tweets of one man should not be the deciding factor for whether they buy or sell their assets,” Alexandra Clark, sales trader at UK-based digital asset broker GlobalBlock, said on Friday.

On the technical side, a break below $0.15960 support could open the meme coin for a long bearish trend to the $0.7 support level given the current bearish head and shoulders pattern formed on a weekly candlestick.

Therefore, the near-term remained bearish and could get worse if China pushes for more stringent policies on cryptocurrency.