Litecoin Up over 120% Since December Low, What’s Fueling Litecoin to Outperform Bitcoin
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The 5th largest cryptocurrency Litecoin has been having a green February for the most part as it surges 59 percent in this month alone. At the time of writing, Litecoin has been trading at $51.50 with 24-hours gains of 6.03 percent. In the BTC market as well, it has been in the green by over 6 percent.

While the top cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, XRP, Stellar, Tron, Cardano, Bitcoin SV, IOTA, and Monero have turned red by around 1 to 2 percent, it’s amazing that Litecoin is still holding gains.

Since hitting the bottom in mid-December at below $23, Litecoin has climbed more than 120 percent, outperforming the top cryptocurrencies, especially Bitcoin.

                     LTC price chart, Source: Coinmarketcap

It is not only the Litecoin price that is surging, but the LTC/USD longs are also approaching its all-time high in November 2018. With the way the longs are spiking, there is a low possibility that a severe drop would be happening.

                     LTC/USD Longs, Source: TradingView

Litecoin Outperforming Bitcoin

Meanwhile, the February month saw Litecoin trading volume going well above $1 billion. Currently, LTC is managing the daily trading volume of $1.54 billion which is seeing a slight increase from yesterday’s $1.4 billion, unlike Bitcoin’s daily trading volume that yesterday hit its highest at $9.9 billion in about 9 months only to now drop down to $8.8 billion. According to the data provided by Coin Metrics, on February 9th, the exchange volume went to $1.7 billion for LTC and the last time Litecoin’s daily trading volume has been above $1 billion has been a year back in February 2018.

                           Litecoin Exchange Volume (USD), Source: Coin Metrics

This is not the first time that Bitcoin has been outperforming Bitcoin by price and trading volume increment as the 5th largest cryptocurrency has historically led the Bitcoin rallies as well, as Joe McCann said,

“Looking at how LTC has outperformed BTC since the epic selloff on November 14th 2018, we can see that LTC has outperformed BTC by better than 4:1 from current cycle low to current session high. As mentioned before, LTC has historically led BTC rallies…”

In the first week of February, Litecoin price started seeing a surge on the grounds of Litecoin creator, Charlie Lee announcing new features in the form of fungibility and Confidential Transactions to be added on Litecoin. However, unlike the previous time, Litecoin Foundation took active steps this time by exploring Mimblewimble implementation and collaborating with Beam for this.

Apart from the trading volume keeping the prices up, the on-chain transactions on Litecoin have been keeping stable around 20k. Even during the bear market, the transactions have held their ground that means speculators have fled from the Litecoin market, as noted by eToro senior analyst, Mati Greenspan, who further added,

“Unlike Bitcoin, $LTC has already snapped its long term bearish trend line (yellow) at the beginning of the year. At the moment, there’s a strong psychological resistance at $50, but after that it’s smooth sailing #ToTheMoon.”

Well, Litecoin has already crossed $51 and now with only about 168 days are left in Litecoin reward halving, it would be interesting to see where will this short-term rally lead to or if Litecoin is leading another rally to the peak!

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The 5th largest cryptocurrency Litecoin has been having a green February for the most part as it surges 59 percent in this month alone. At the time of writing, Litecoin has been trading at $51.50 with 24-hours gains of 6.03 percent. In the BTC market as well, it has been in the green by over 6 percent.
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