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Polkadot eyes breakout to $75 after DOT price rally sets up classic bullish reversal

Polkadot (DOT) chart technicals suggest it may rally to a new record high near $75 if DOT can manage to close above its $41–$43 range decisively.

That’s according to a classic bullish reversal setup known as an inverse head and shoulders (H&S) that forms when the price undergoes three selloffs during a period of market consolidation.

Specifically, the pattern contains an initial selloff, followed by a short-term price rally and another — deeper — selloff. That leads to one more small correction to the upside, followed by another selloff that bottoms out near/at the lowest level of the first selloff.

Inverse head and shoulders pattern illustration. Source: ThinkMarkets

The first and last selloffs represent “left” and “right” shoulders, respectively, while the second selloff represents the “head.” On the other hand, the level around which all the short-lived rallies top out represents the “neckline” of the head and shoulders pattern.

Traditional analysts typically calculate the H&S upside target from the neckline resistance by measuring the maximum distance between it and the head formation.

So, it appears that Polkadot has been forming a similar bullish pattern on its weekly chart, as shown below.

DOT/USD weekly price chart featuring inverse head and shoulders setup. Source: TradingView

The maximum distance between DOT’s neckline and the head’s bottom comes out to be nearly $31. Therefore, a successful bullish breakout above the neckline range of $41–$43 puts the next long-term target at approximately $75.

Parachain auctions coming in November

The inverse H&S pattern emerged as DOT rallied by almost 30% this past week to reach a five-month high at around $44. At the core of its weekly uptrend was a price boom across the crypto market, as well as the news of Polkadot’s first parachain auctions going live on Nov. 11.

In detail, Polkadot’s parachains are parallelized, application-specific chains — child ledgers tethered to a single parent ledger called the Relay Chain. Due to their parallel nature, parachains tend to process multiple transactions simultaneously and maintain and record their data on the main ledger by communicating with other chains.

Related: Polkadot to debut parachain auctions after governance vote

That comes as a break from the method of queuing transactions and processing them sequentially.

https://twitter.com/Polkadot/status/1448348274537156611?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw

DOT, which serves as a utility token for fees, governance, interoperability and bonding inside the Polkadot ecosystem, rallied by more than 24% after the parachain auction announcement.

Next, Polkadot aims to introduce a cross-chain feature that will enable its Relay Chain to external blockchains (Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc.) via specialized smart contracts. Meanwhile, the project also plans to launch “in-built bridging modules” that will enhance the interoperability of external blockchains with Polkadot. 

The views and opinions expressed here are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of Cointelegraph.com. Every investment and trading move involves risk, you should conduct your own research when making a decision.

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