Bitcoin's bull trend holds, but price is squeezed between a worn floor and a tested ceiling

BTC trades in confirmed bull regime territory, with its 20-day average sitting above its 50-day average, though price itself is currently wedged just under the 20-day line and above the 50-day line — a sign of hesitation inside an otherwise intact uptrend. Over the past week price has ranged widely, from a high near 84,300 down to roughly 79,100, and the coin remains down a few percent on the week even after a firmer last 24 hours. Zoomed out, BTC is still about 35% off its October all-time high and down close to 29% over the past year, so today's chop sits inside a much larger drawdown, not a fresh breakout. Sentiment has cooled alongside the price action — the Fear & Greed Index reads a neutral 51, down from 63 a week ago.

Funding on both BTC and ETH perpetuals is sitting essentially flat, barely positive, which points to no meaningful leverage lean in either direction right now. Open interest on the BTC contract is near 2,467, a middling reading that hasn't shifted much. The rotation reading is modestly negative, suggesting money isn't rotating into alts at the moment. As of this writing, order flow over the last 30 minutes skewed toward sellers — about 40% of aggressive volume was buy-side, and whale wallets sold more than they bought by dollar value — but this kind of short-window flow reverses often and shouldn't be read as the day's character.

The floor beneath current price has been tested heavily, roughly 49 times, making it one of the more reliable reference points on the chart, while the ceiling above has seen meaningfully fewer tests, under 20, making it a lighter barrier by comparison. Price currently sits closer to that less-tested ceiling than to the well-worn floor, inside a fairly narrow band given the wider swings seen over the past week. Whether that band tightens further or widens out isn't clear yet — for now it reads as a market pausing between a strong support and a comparatively untested resistance, with no edge confirmed on either side.

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