BTC price bounces at $25.8K lows amid warning over low whale interest
Bitcoin (BTC) sought to pass $27,000 on May 13 after a “scam wick” produced new two-month lows.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it recovered from a flash dip to $25,800 on Bitstamp.
The pair saw weakness after the start of the week’s final Wall Street trading session, briefly cutting through the key 100-day and 200-week moving averages (MAs) before rebounding.
As the weekend began, market participants were split over the likely course of events to come.
“Nice daily close. Has to hold 26.5K going forward. That’s the line in the sand for me,” Daan Crypto Trades told Twitter followers.
Michaël van de Poppe, founder and CEO of trading firm Eight, agreed that the May 12 daily candle had turned out to be “good.”
Analysis before the local lows likewise flagged $26,500 as an important level to reclaim in order to consider long positions.
#Bitcoin is showing weakness and #altcoins are slightly bouncing in their BTC pairs as they have been retracing significantly. Overall, I'm looking at a case that we need to reclaim $26,500-26,800 before hitting longs (mentioned yesterday).Otherwise, $25K. pic.twitter.com/dgwxdH3NHE
For fellow trader Crypto Tony, the potential long flip level was higher at $27,300 despite the “nice bounce” overnight.
“We are also in the weekend now, so liquidity itself will be far less,” he added in a tweet on the day.
Turning to the state of the Binance order book, meanwhile, monitoring resource Material Indicators remained far from optimistic.
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A lack of bid liquidity formed a major point of concern, with the largest cohorts of whales abstaining from the market.
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