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Can Bitcoin whales protect BTC price from new $48K downside target?

CointelegraphCointelegraph2024/06/14 09:16
By:William Suberg

Bitcoin can still drop below $50,000 if what remains of bid support gives way, new analysis warns.

In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on June 14, well-known trader Peter Brandt gave Bitcoin ( BTC ) bulls food for thought.

Trader says Bitcoin buyers must hold $60,000

Bitcoin is dividing opinion at $67,000 as disappointment builds over the latest failed BTC price breakout.

After touching $70,000 earlier this week, BTC/USD once again abandoned its attempt to leave a stubborn trading range in place for many weeks.

Instead, regardless of volatility which came from United States inflation data, the market returned to all-too-familiar territory .

Now, Brandt is not discounting the possibility of new long-term lows coming next.

“Sometimes the most obvious interpretations of a chart work out, most of the time the charts morph,” he wrote, describing BTC/USD as a “chart of interest.”

“But the most obvious is this: Break through 65,000, then mkt goes to 60,000. Break through 60,000 mkt goes to 48,000.”
BTC/USD chart. Source: Peter Brandt/X

Bitcoin last traded below the $50,000 mark in mid-February, one month before hitting current all-time highs of $73,800.

Those highs have since become formidable resistance, with data from trading suite DecenTrader showing the extent of liquidity in place there and beyond.

“There's pretty thick ask depth around $70K higher; market will require some new narrative probably to bid through that,” popular trader Skew added in part of his own analysis on June 13.

BTC liquidity map. Source: DecenTrader

Whale trends counter BTC price gloom

Not everyone subscribed to downside being the most likely BTC price direction to come.

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Bitcoin whales, some market observers noted, had upped BTC exposure significantly at recent price levels.

The number of whale entities holding at least 1,000 BTC is near all-time highs of its own this week.

“Yes this is bullish,” Willy Woo, creator of on-chain data resource Woobull, wrote in part of an X response.

“Every cycle in the past, the FOMO phase of the bull market starts when they start selling into the price rally (i.e. divesting from being whales).”
BTC/USD chart with whale population data. Source: Willy Woo/X

Crypto investor and YouTuber Quinten referred to data from on-chain analytics platform CryptoQuant, which showed whale purchases hitting $1.3 billion.

BTC inflows to accumulation addresses. Source: Quinten/X

This article does not contain investment advice or recommendations. Every investment and trading move involves risk, and readers should conduct their own research when making a decision.

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