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Bitcoin Price Prediction: One Level Stands Between Bulls and a $10,000 Drop

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Anjali Belgaumkar

Bitcoin remains trapped in a weeks-long sideways grind, with no clean break above a key resistance level that has capped rallies since April of last year. The April low from last year continues to act as a ceiling. A test of that level triggered the current pullback, and the weakness has yet to resolve.

The weekly close looms

The question heading into the weekly close is simple: can buyers hold the line, or does this drift lower? Price is currently probing the 61.8% Fibonacci retracement near $67,000, a level technicians have flagged as a potential floor for a short-term bounce. 

The broader setup through February had pointed to a possible rally first to overhead resistance, and then higher as part of a larger corrective wave structure. That thesis is still alive, but it’s under pressure.

Two paths, one decision point

If $67,000 fails to attract buyers, the next meaningful support sits in the $55,000 to $56,000 range, where a cluster of structural and Fibonacci levels converge. 

That scenario stays off the table as long as the range floor, roughly $61,400 to $62,600, holds intact. In the more constructive case, the current dip is a fourth-wave pullback within a five-wave advance, with one more high still to come. In the bearish case, the market is tracing out a fuller corrective structure that eventually tests the mid-$50,000s.

Cracks beginning to show

Weekend price action complicates the reading. The market has slipped below the lower boundary of its short-term channel, not a confirmed break, but a warning sign. The structure of the current pullback lacks the clean, three-wave characteristics that would signal a straightforward correction. Bulls still hold enough ground to make a case. But the margin for error is shrinking.

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Anjali Belgaumkar

Writer by choice, CryptoCurrency Writer, and Researcher by chance. Currently, focusing on financial news and analysis, as well as cryptocurrency news and data. One may not call me a crypto “Enthusiast” but trust me I'm getting there.

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