Bitcoin's uptrend stays intact, but price sits below its 20-day average, hugging a well-tested floor.

BTC trades near $81,569, which keeps it in a confirmed bull regime since the 20-day average ($82,639) sits above the 50-day ($80,424) — the slower-moving trend structure is still up. That said, price itself is currently below the 20-day line, meaning the short-term pullback has outpaced the average. Over the past 24 hours BTC is roughly flat (+0.08%), but it's down about 1.6% over the week and has ranged between roughly $80,700 and $82,800 in that window, a tighter band than the $79,700–$84,250 seen over the full seven days. The broader picture: still about 35% off the October all-time high, with momentum cooling after a stronger 30-day gain.

Funding on both BTC and ETH perpetuals is sitting essentially flat, barely positive, which doesn't suggest leveraged positioning is stretched in either direction right now. Open interest on BTC is holding near recent levels, a current reading rather than a trend signal. The rotation reading is negative, pointing to money not moving into altcoins relative to BTC at the moment. As of this writing, the 30-minute order-flow snapshot shows aggressive sellers dominating (buy ratio near 26%), with whale activity skewed to selling — zero buy-side whale prints against seven sell-side ones — but this kind of short window flips often and shouldn't be read as the day's character.

The resistance band above has been tested extensively — far more than the support below — which marks it as the more heavily defended boundary, while the floor underneath has also seen plenty of tests but somewhat fewer. Price is currently sitting closer to that floor than to the ceiling, inside a range that remains fairly narrow relative to the week's wider swing. Neither boundary has given way outright; the floor has held on each test so far, but with heavy selling in the headlines (ETF outflows, Strategy index-exclusion concerns) the band's durability is only as strong as its next test. Whether this range holds, tightens further, or widens out is something the data doesn't yet show.

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