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Bearish divergences build as BTC stalls

Updated: May 6, 2025
Published: May 5, 2025
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BTC faces rejection below key resistance, with Open Interest high and funding neutral. A FED decision looms, potentially triggering a pullback as bearish signals begin to stack.

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  • On the price move up to $97,000, the negative Funding reset to neutral (a Short-squeeze), but the Open Interest remains relatively high in USD terms. This suggests that the build-up in Shorts has mostly been squeezed, but with OI still high, there's more room for this to potentially develop.
BTC's Open Interest (by USD value):

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Technical analysis

  • BTC has seemingly rejected through the $97,500 level, with price now below, but battling at the mid-level of the range at $95,700.
  • If the price falls below the local low of $93,400, it will likely reach $90,000. This is a major psychological support that we're watching, and if lost, then $86,00 is on the cards.
  • If price can recover $95,700, then it's possible we see a move higher to the major resistance level at $98,900. If this were to happen, we'd expect that to be a local top, and likely an area where we'd strongly consider a more sizeable Short.
  • The RSI did briefly pop into overbought territory, but since it has pulled back, and it's now beneath its moving average. It's possible we see a move higher in price that then potentially puts in a bearish divergence (higher high in price and lower high on the oscillator) in overbought territory, and price can then pull back from there.
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  • Next Support: $91,700
  • Next Resistance: $98,900
  • Direction: Bearish
  • Upside Target: $98,900
  • Downside Target: $86,000

Cryptonary's take

We move into a pivotal week with a FED Meeting on Wednesday 7th, where we expect Powell to be somewhat hawkish and keep his optionality open. This might lead to a pullback in risk assets as rate cut bets are potentially pushed out to July, maybe even September.

We're expecting BTC to have either put in a local top, or for a local top to be very close here. We're not looking to add to Spot bags at the current price, and we're expecting a pullback over the coming 2-6 weeks to take the price back to at least $86,000.

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