Bull trend holds; BTC sits between a well-worn floor and a lighter ceiling.

Bitcoin remains in a confirmed bull regime, with its 20-day average ($82,532.97) still sitting above its 50-day ($80,548.01), even though the current price of $82,252.30 is trading just under that shorter moving average. The 24-hour range ran from $80,567.90 to $83,100.00, and the past week spanned $79,709.00 to $84,053.10, so price has mostly been consolidating inside familiar boundaries rather than breaking new ground. Momentum has softened in the short term — BTC is down 1.3% over seven days and 4.2% over two weeks — but it's still up 1.3% over the past month, which keeps the broader uptrend structure intact. The coin remains well off its October all-time high, down roughly 35% from that peak.

Funding on both BTC and ETH perpetuals is essentially flat, sitting near zero and showing no strong directional lean from leveraged positioning. Open interest in BTC contracts reads 2,287.7 as a current snapshot, not a trend signal on its own. Altcoin rotation reads -4.27, pointing to capital tilting away from alts relative to BTC over the recent window. In the last half hour, order flow leaned toward buyers — about 69% of volume was buy-side, with whale wallets logging four buys worth roughly $260,858 against two sells worth about $94,032 — but this is a 30-minute snapshot that can flip quickly and shouldn't be read as describing the whole day.

The level structure around price is lopsided. The floor beneath has been tested roughly fifty times without giving way, making it a heavily worn support that has repeatedly absorbed selling pressure. The ceiling above has seen far fewer tests — a couple dozen touches — making it comparatively lighter and less proven. Price currently sits roughly in the middle of this band, marginally closer to the ceiling than the floor, with the range neither clearly tightening nor widening over the past day, so neither boundary should be treated as a settled wall.

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