Bitcoin continues to trade in recent days just above the $31,000 level, dangerously close to the lows of recent months.
Meanwhile, the founder of the investment company DoubleLine Capital, Jeffrey Gundlach, who is also known on Wall Street as the "king of bonds", called the bitcoin chart "frightening" and predicted a collapse of BTC to $23,000.
Gundlach justified his forecast with a head-shoulders technical analysis figure with a neck line of about $29,000. If this line breaks, the decline may accelerate.
"I don't trust this figure, but this time everything looks quite convincing. I have a feeling that soon it will be possible to buy bitcoin below $23,000", he said.
The CEO of DoubleLine predicted a "significant weakening of the dollar" in the long term due to the US trade and budget deficits. In view of this, for a longer period of time, the first cryptocurrency will be able to show better dynamics than USD.
At the same time, Gundlach rejected the possibility of personal investment in cryptocurrency due to the lack of "risk tolerance".
The head of DoubleLine Capital received the unspoken title of " king of bonds "from the financial markets and the media in the fall of 2014, after the former "king of bonds" Bill Gross, a former co-president of PIMCO, left the company with a scandal.
Recall that at the end of June, a similar forecast for BTC was given by the American bank JPMorgan. Bitcoin may fall to $25,000 due to the possible sale of shares of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust bitcoin fund after the six-month blocking period.
The units of the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust fund have a deferred repayment mechanism. GBTC owners must keep them for six months, only then they can be sold. According to the Bybt service, about 40 thousand bitcoins purchased in January will be unblocked in July.
Cryptocurrencies with their huge share of speculative capital are not characterized by periods of calm at high prices: either rapid growth or a deafening collapse with subsequent consolidation. This dramatically increases the chances that the exit from the consolidation will be down with a potential target of $10,000 at some point next year.