Why is Dogecoin price up today?

Dogecoin (DOGE), the largest memcoin by market cap, has risen more than 23% in the past 24 hours, emerging as the top performer in the cryptocurrency market amid anticipation surrounding Elon Musk’s support for memcoin in the Trump administration.

Currently trading at $0.2771, DOGE has reached its highest value since October 2021, registering a rise of 86% over the past seven days and 152% over the past month.

DOGE now has a market cap of over $41.2 billion at press time, surpassing USDC’s $36.9 billion (USDC) and XRP’s (XRP)’s $32.7 billion to become the sixth-largest cryptocurrency by market cap.

Pro-crypto Trump’s victory boosted DOGE price

DOGE’s bullish stance coincides with rallies in the cryptocurrency market, which sent Bitcoin (BTC) into price discovery, hitting a new all-time high above $82,000 on November 11. This comes less than seven days after Donald Trump won the 2024 US elections. Presidential elections.

DOGE, which has a reputation as a community-driven, high-volatility memcoin, is benefiting from renewed commercial interest due to its abbreviation potentially becoming part of Donald Trump’s new administration.

While campaigning for Trump, Elon Musk proposed creating a “Department of Government Efficiency” with the goal of reducing government waste — a concept conveniently abbreviated as DOGE.

This has sparked speculation among traders that there may be more to DOGE than just an acronym for a potential government administration, which has increased interest and interest in Dogecoin.

High DOGE financing rates

DOGE’s bullish price action on November 11 is preceded by a jump in the interest-weighted open-end funding rate, indicating new capital entering the market. The chart below shows that DOGE’s 8-hour OI weighted funding rate rose to 0.0448% on November 11, the highest level since June 2024.

This indicates a high appetite for long positions as the price of DOGE has risen by about 23% in the past 24 hours.

DOGE’s rise on November 10 was accompanied by short liquidations totaling $37.25 million versus $24 in long liquidations. This resulted in short DOGE liquidating more than $36.4 million over the past 24 hours.

In other words, short traders were surprised by DOGE’s rise to $0.30.

The U-shaped DOGE pattern indicates a rise to $0.37

Dogecoin’s gains today are part of a 259% rebound from the August 5 lows at $0.080, which led to the formation of a golden cross on the daily chart, recouping all the losses incurred between March 28 and August 5.

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A golden cross is a bullish technical pattern that occurs when the short-term moving average, usually the 50-day moving average (MA), crosses above the longer-term moving average, usually the 200-day moving average.

The formation of this bullish signal on November 6 led DOGE price to make a decisive move above the neckline of the U-shaped recovery pattern at $0.228.

A decisive close above the psychological level at $0.30 is likely to push DOGE/USD towards the upside target of the prevailing pattern at $0.377, representing a gain of over 34% from the current price.

Conversely, a pullback from $0.28 could see a retest of the U-shaped neckline at around $0.22.

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