Bitcoin sits below its 20/50-day averages in a bear trend, near a lightly tested floor.

Bitcoin is trading in a confirmed bear regime, last near $74,934 — well under its 20-day average around $78,076 and its 50-day average near $79,220, a gap that has held for weeks now. The coin is roughly flat to slightly higher over the past 24 hours but remains down over the week, two weeks, and month, part of a longer slide that has left it about 40% below its October all-time high. The 24-hour range stayed tight while the 7-day range was notably wider, pointing to choppy conditions without a clean breakout in either direction. Sentiment backs that read: the Fear & Greed Index sits at 29, labeled 'Fear,' down from 37 a week ago.

Funding on both BTC and ETH perpetuals is sitting essentially flat, showing no strong lean from leveraged positioning either way. Open interest on BTC reads near 2,535, a middling level that doesn't suggest aggressive new leverage building up right now. The rotation reading is negative at -3.32, pointing to capital tilting away from altcoins relative to Bitcoin over the recent stretch. As of this writing, in the last 30 minutes aggressive buy orders made up about 87% of BTC flow, with whale wallets logging 13 buys and zero sells worth close to $480,000 — a snapshot that can and often does flip within the hour.

The level structure above price is heavily worn — the resistance band has absorbed dozens of tests without giving way, making it one of the more reliably defended ceilings seen recently. The floor below has been tested far less often, so its durability is less proven even though it has held every time so far. Price currently sits closer to that lighter-tested floor than to the battered ceiling, leaving more room beneath the next real test on the upside. The overall band has stayed fairly tight through the recent chop, neither clearly widening nor collapsing, which keeps both boundaries relevant.

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