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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.

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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