Bull regime intact, but BTC trades below its 20-day average near a lightly tested floor.

Bitcoin is still sitting inside a confirmed bull regime — the 20-day average (83,404.87) remains above the 50-day average (79,667.50) — but price has slipped under that shorter average, last printing 82,654.70. The past 24 hours took about three-quarters of a percent off the price, and the week is down roughly 2.6%, with the 24-hour range (82,191.80–83,804.30) sitting right at the bottom of the wider 7-day range (82,191.80–87,229.00). That puts current trade closer to the low end of the week's action than the high end. It reads as a pullback within a longer uptrend rather than a break of it, since the 50-day average is still well below current price, but the retreat has been persistent enough to show up across both daily and weekly timeframes, and it's unfolding against a backdrop of broader risk-off headlines — a bond selloff, an oil rally, and reported long-liquidation pressure across crypto.

Funding on both BTC and ETH perpetuals is sitting essentially flat — barely positive on either — which doesn't suggest aggressive positioning in either direction right now. Open interest in BTC is holding around 2,350 contracts, a current reading rather than a trend signal on its own. Rotation is negative at -3.1, consistent with capital leaning toward BTC rather than flowing into alts at the moment. As of this writing, a 30-minute order-flow snapshot shows buy volume slightly ahead of sell volume (about 57% buy-side), with whale wallets logging 16 buys against 9 sells and larger buy-side dollar flow than sell-side — but this kind of short-window flow reading flips often and should not be read as the character of the day. Sentiment has also cooled, with the Fear & Greed Index at 64 (Greed), down from 74 a week ago.

The resistance band above current price has been tested extremely heavily — more than 50 touches — making it a well-worn ceiling that has repeatedly capped upside attempts. The support band below has seen only a couple of touches so far, meaning it's a much lighter test and its reliability is less proven. Price is currently sitting closer to that lightly tested floor than to the heavily worn ceiling, which leaves more unknown about how the lower boundary behaves under pressure than the upper one. Whether this band is tightening or widening isn't clear yet from a single day's action — that will depend on whether the floor holds on renewed tests or gives way.

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