Bitcoin holds its uptrend, pinned near a thin ceiling with a well-worn floor below.

Bitcoin sits in a confirmed bull regime, with its 20-day average near 83,563 running above its 50-day average near 79,417, and spot price trading above both. At 86,144 the coin is little changed over 24 hours (+0.46%) but up roughly 3% on the week and near 8% over the past month, even as it remains about 32% below its October all-time high. The 24-hour range spanned roughly 84,966 to 86,702, sitting inside the wider 7-day band of about 82,920 to 87,229. Price is currently running closer to the upper part of its recent range than the lower, though neither boundary has been a hard wall today.

Funding on both BTC and ETH perpetuals is sitting almost exactly flat, effectively zero on either side, which shows no strong directional bias from leveraged positioning right now. Open interest in BTC is running near 2,202 contracts-equivalent, a reading that doesn't on its own point to unusual crowding or stress. The rotation gauge is modestly negative, suggesting flows are leaning back toward Bitcoin rather than into altcoins at the moment, even as some headlines point to pockets of alt strength elsewhere. As of this writing, the 30-minute whale flow snapshot leans heavily toward buying — aggressive buy orders made up about 77% of flow, with whale buy volume well ahead of whale sell volume — but this is a short-window reading that routinely flips within the hour and shouldn't be read as the day's character.

The support band beneath price has been tested extensively, with dozens of touches, making it one of the more heavily worn floors in recent memory. The resistance band above has only been tested a handful of times, making it a comparatively unproven ceiling that hasn't had to absorb much pressure. Price is sitting nearer that lightly tested upper boundary than the well-worn floor below it, and the range between the two isn't showing a clear tightening or widening on today's data. That imbalance in test counts means the upside boundary simply carries less history behind it than the downside one does.

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