BTC's bull trend holds well above its averages, now pausing inside a tight, heavily tested range.

Bitcoin is trading at $76,971.60, sitting well clear of both its 20-day average near $67,469 and its 50-day average near $65,829 — the kind of gap that keeps this market classified as a confirmed bull regime. Zoom out and the move is still large: BTC is up roughly 22% over the past week, even though the last 24 hours brought a pullback of about 1.7% from a session high near $78,800 down to a low near $76,016. That slip has parked price in a narrow pocket bounded by a support line tested five times and a resistance line tested seven times, with the two sitting unusually close together. Net effect: the multi-week surge looks paused, not broken, and the market is digesting rather than extending the move.

Funding on BTC and ETH perpetuals is running slightly positive, a mild sign that leveraged longs are paying to stay in the trade rather than shorts dominating. Open interest sits near 2,040 BTC equivalent, and the rotation reading of 0.55 suggests a fair amount of activity is spilling into alts alongside bitcoin rather than staying concentrated. As of this writing, the last 30 minutes of whale flow skewed toward selling — about $344k in whale sell volume against $239k in buys, with roughly 40% of aggressive volume on the buy side — but this is a short snapshot that can flip within the hour, not a read on the day's character. Sentiment, meanwhile, has swung hard: the fear/greed index sits at 71 (Greed), up sharply from 34 a week ago.

Both boundaries of the current range are well worn rather than freshly drawn — the floor has held on five separate tests and the ceiling has capped rallies seven times — which makes this a genuinely two-sided box rather than a level waiting to be brushed aside. Price is currently sitting closer to the lower edge of that band than the upper one. Compared with the past week, when BTC ranged from the low-60s to just past $79,500, the last 24 hours have compressed into a much narrower channel, meaning the band has tightened noticeably even as the broader uptrend stays intact.

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