Altcoin season hopes rise as Bitcoin price forms a bullish pattern

Crypto traders are bracing for the next altcoin season as Bitcoin forms an extremely bullish pattern on the weekly chart. 

A good example of the cup and handle pattern in action happened in gold. On the monthly chart, it formed the cup section between September 2011 and July 2020. It then formed the handle section and made a bullish breakout to a record high of $2,485 this month.

Additionally, Bitcoin has some solid fundamentals. Demand is rising as institutional investors buy through ETFs, while the Federal Reserve is expected to start cutting interest rates as soon as in September. Supply has been hampered by April’s halving event.

Fed rate cuts are positive for Bitcoin and other altcoins because they lead to a risk-on sentiment among investors. In this case, some of the $6 trillion invested in money market funds will likely rotate to riskier assets like stocks and cryptocurrencies.

Analysts are also bullish on Bitcoin. Michael Saylor, the biggest Bitcoin buyer, expects that the coin will rise to $13 million in his base case and to $49 million in his most optimistic case. In a recent note, Ki Young Ju, the founder of CryptoQuant, noted that the bull cycle may continue into 2025.

Bitcoin to stir another altcoin season

A strong Bitcoin bullish breakout will likely stir another altcoin season. Historically, altcoins, including meme coins, do well when Bitcoin is rising. 

Many traders love these meme coins because of their low prices vs. Bitcoin. In this case, it is always cheaper to buy a token like Book of Meme (BOME) that was trading at $0.011 instead of Bitcoin that trades at $66,000. Meme coins are also highly volatile and have a lot of volume.