BTC's bull trend holds, but price sits below its 20-day average under a worn ceiling.

Bitcoin remains in a confirmed uptrend — the 20-day average still sits above the 50-day — but price itself has slipped just under that faster average while staying comfortably above the slower one. The pair is up modestly over the past 24 hours and essentially flat on the week, though it's off close to 1.6% over the past two weeks after pulling back from a seven-day high well above where it trades now. That pullback tracked a stretch of macro and regulatory noise — a failed CLARITY Act vote and a Fed rate decision — that briefly pushed bitcoin toward a multi-week low before it steadied. Sentiment has cooled sharply, with the fear-greed index back to a neutral reading versus a much greedier score a week ago. Even with the pullback, the 30-day gain remains sizeable, which is the main reason the broader trend still reads as intact rather than broken.

Funding on both BTC and ETH perpetuals sits barely positive, a near-neutral reading that shows no aggressive leverage building in either direction right now. Open interest on BTC is holding at a moderate level, with nothing that looks like a dramatic build or unwind alongside the recent price swing. The rotation reading is negative, which points to capital leaning toward bitcoin rather than spreading into alts at the moment, though this kind of reading can shift quickly and shouldn't be treated as a fixed condition. As of this writing — a 30-minute snapshot only — order flow skewed toward aggressive buyers, with whale wallets logging more and larger buy transactions than sell transactions; short-window flow like this routinely flips within the hour and doesn't describe the day as a whole.

The level structure shows a ceiling that has been tested far more often than the floor beneath it, a sign the upper boundary has repeatedly capped advances without giving way. The support below has also been tested a couple dozen times and has held on every occasion, which gives it real credibility even though it's less battle-worn than the ceiling above. Price currently sits closer to the floor than to the ceiling, inside a band that's fairly narrow relative to bitcoin's overall size. Whether that band holds, tightens further, or widens as price probes either edge again isn't something the current data can settle.

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