Bitcoin holds its bull trend, sitting just under a well-tested ceiling after a double-digit weekly run

Bitcoin is trading in a confirmed uptrend, with price sitting well above both its 20-day and 50-day averages (80,366 and 76,113) — a structure that's held for weeks now. The 24-hour move is essentially flat, but that flatness comes after a 10.5% run over the past week and roughly 9% over two weeks, so the bigger picture is still one of strong upward momentum rather than stalling. The past day traded in an $82,832 to $84,915 range, a much tighter band than the $76,231–$87,447 swing seen over the full week, suggesting the market is consolidating gains rather than extending them for now. Fear & Greed has climbed to 71 (Greed) from 50 a week ago, showing sentiment has warmed up alongside price.

Funding on BTC is only marginally positive and funding on ETH is slightly negative — both close to neutral, showing no strong one-sided leverage buildup in perpetual futures at current levels. Open interest sits at 2,227 (BTC-denominated), a reading worth watching for change rather than a directional signal on its own. Alt rotation is running at 5.61, a moderate reading that doesn't point to an aggressive shift into or out of altcoins right now. As of this writing, order flow over the last 30 minutes leaned toward buyers — roughly 74% of aggressive volume was on the buy side, and whale wallets logged 8 buys versus 4 sells, with buy dollar volume well ahead of sell dollar volume — but this is a snapshot that can flip within the hour and shouldn't be read as the day's character.

The floor beneath current price has been tested heavily — 35 touches — and has held each time, making it the more reliable boundary in this structure. The ceiling above has been tested far less, only 14 times, so its durability is less proven even though it has capped price so far. Price is currently sitting closer to that upper, lightly-tested boundary than to the well-worn floor beneath it. The tightening of the 24-hour range relative to the wider 7-day swing suggests the band between these two levels is compressing rather than widening, though with the upper boundary less proven, how that resolves is genuinely uncertain.

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