The new crypto week has a clear centre of gravity: on Wednesday, October 14, the US publishes the consumer price index for September at 8:30 a.m. in Washington, and on the same day the German federal cabinet is due to take up the crypto tax bill in Berlin. Bitcoin enters the week at $82,922, Ether at $2,504, XRP at $1.40 and Solana at $109.91, according to CoinGecko early on Sunday morning. For this outlook we analysed the daily prices of the past twelve months. The most striking result: Ether and XRP sit almost exactly on their 50-day moving averages, the line at which the direction will be decided over the coming days.

Why Wednesday counts for all four coins

In the minutes of its September meeting, the US Federal Reserve let it be…