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Bitcoin failed to clear its 200\u2011day simple moving average near $83,300 and slipped back under $81,000, reviving comparisons with the March 2022 breakout that quickly reversed into a deep selloff.<\/p>\n
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Bitcoin\u2019s latest rally hit a wall just below its 200\u2011day simple moving average on Wednesday, with BTC coming within striking distance of the long\u2011watched level around $83,300 before rolling over and falling back below $81,000, CoinDesk reported. The failed attempt has revived memories of March 2022, when Bitcoin briefly reclaimed its 200\u2011day SMA only to reverse sharply and sink to roughly $20,000 by June, punishing traders who treated the breakout as confirmation that a new bull run had begun.<\/p>\n
Market participants treat the 200\u2011day line as a rough dividing line between long\u2011term bull and bear regimes. If Bitcoin can sustain closes above that band, it would reinforce the increasingly popular thesis that \u201cthe bear market ended when BTC fell below $63,000 in February\u201d and that the current phase is the early leg of a fresh bull cycle. But the inability to hold above the average on this attempt, combined with risk\u2011off action across majors, has some desks cautioning that the market may be setting up another \u201cfalse breakout\u201d akin to 2022.<\/p>\n
The broader crypto complex is already flashing fatigue. CoinDesk\u2019s Smart Contract Platform Index, which tracks large\u2011cap L1s and L2s, dropped more than 2% in the past 24 hours, the weakest showing among major sectors, as traders trimmed exposure to Ethereum and its competitors. That pullback follows weeks of choppy flows into and out of higher\u2011beta tokens, even as Bitcoin ETFs continue to attract net inflows, a pattern crypto.news has highlighted in a recent\u00a0inflows analysis.<\/p>\n
Derivatives house Marex told clients that whether Bitcoin can resume its climb \u201cdepends on three major factors\u201d: spot funds continuing to \u201cchase prices\u201d rather than fade the rally, exchange balances continuing to tighten as coins move into cold storage or ETFs, and derivatives markets staying \u201chealthy and not overheated.\u201d If those three conditions align, Marex said BTC \u201cmay quickly open up space toward the $85,000 range,\u201d effectively turning the 200\u2011day average from resistance into a springboard.<\/p>\n
FxPro chief market analyst Alex Kuptsikevich struck a cautiously optimistic tone, arguing that \u201cthis round of correction seems more like a brief pause in the upward process rather than the end of the trend,\u201d but he flagged the daily RSI\u2019s prior move into overbought territory as a risk. Historically, he noted, similar RSI spikes have preceded \u201csignificant corrections,\u201d especially when they coincide with crowded long positioning in futures and perpetuals. Educational materials from\u00a0FxPro<\/a>\u00a0emphasize that RSI readings above 70 often signal overbought conditions and growing odds of a trend pullback.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Macro conditions are at least providing some tailwind. The yield on the 10\u2011year US Treasury has eased from 4.46% at the start of May to about 4.32%, a modest but meaningful move that lowers the gravity of real yields on risk assets. That kind of drift lower in yields has historically been constructive for both equities and Bitcoin\u2014an interaction crypto.news has probed in a\u00a0macro outlook\u00a0and a\u00a0safe\u2011haven comparison, both of which argue that BTC behaves more like high\u2011beta macro risk than an uncorrelated hedge when the Fed is on pause.<\/p>\n For now, the tape is finely balanced. A clean break and hold above the 200\u2011day would likely confirm the \u201cbear is dead\u201d narrative and embolden calls for six\u2011figure BTC, as explored in another crypto.news\u00a0feature. But if Bitcoin continues to get rejected at that band, March 2022\u2019s script\u2014a grinding distribution top followed by a deep retrace\u2014will loom large in traders\u2019 minds.<\/p>\n <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Bitcoin failed to clear its 200\u2011day simple moving average near $83,300 and slipped back under $81,000, reviving comparisons with the March 2022 breakout that quickly reversed into a deep selloff.…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptocurrency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27847"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27847\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27848,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27847\/revisions\/27848"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitunikey.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}