Altcoins Are Currently Building Towards a Most Bullish Cup and Handle Pattern Formation

• Altcoins are currently building towards a most bullish pattern.

• Analysts marks a huge cup and handle formation on the altcoin price chart.

• Chances for altseason arrival grows stronger.

The crypto market continues to move sideways, and today it is trading on the lower spectrum. To highlight, the price of Bitcoin and Ethereum are both trading towards lower targets, giving rise to bearish sentiments and feeding dump predictions. Despite the dreary points of view, one reputed crypto trader and analyst notices that altcoins are currently building towards a most bullish cup and handle pattern formation.

Altcoins Are Currently Building Towards a Most Bullish Pattern

High expectations for the latest bull cycle to allow a bullish altseason peak phase were brutally crushed during the final quarter of 2025, and despite the crypto market slinking towards bear market expectations, altseason expectations have only been growing stronger over the last few days. This is because, alongside altcoin blockchains setting new milestones, their native token price charts have been printing multiple bullish signals.

Since the crypto market tanked in Q4 of 2025, expectations for altseason went from peak expectations to being absolutely wrecked. All of 2025, the altseason peak phase was highly anticipated, and altcoin holders watched as the price of ETH set a new ATH at a snail’s pace after slow pumps over the year. When the asset finally set its new ATH, it was just barely over the previous ATH target, making even that a disappointment.

Soon after, all asset prices collapsed at a rapid pace and now struggle to maintain critical support levels. This is where bear analysts have been loud, stating that the market could experience a small price pump before a significant fall will allow the price of BTC to bottom, likely in the $40,000 price range. In contrast, bullish analysts believe that BTC has one final pump left in it, which will also trigger altseason and its peak phase.

Altcoin Price Chart Nearly Completes Cup and Handle Formation

Many analysts are also comparing the current geopolitical strife to that of the 2020 COVID market dump, stating that the price of crypto assets soared a few months after the crisis dump hit. Thus, they await a similar outcome to play out after a few months. Presently, expectations for altseason and for altcoins to set new ATH prices are stronger than ever due to the many bullish signals on the altcoin price chart.

ALTCOINS ARE BUILDING THE MOST DANGEROUS PATTERN IN MARKETS.

A multi-year cup base.
Retests held. Momentum compressing.

Once this structure breaks resistance:
Parabolic moves follow. Every time.

Hold the base: chaos begins. The bullish kind.
Lose it: patience required a… pic.twitter.com/Vvc1JyEkI4

— Merlijn The Trader (@MerlijnTrader) March 26, 2026

As we can see from the post above, this reputed crypto analyst says that altcoins are building a most interesting pattern at the moment. As the video in the post depicts, the altcoin chart is setting up a multi-year cup base, and with retests holding and compressed momentum, it is only a matter of time until the mighty Cup and Handle formation breaks resistance and parabolic altcoin price moves can ensue.