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Bitcoin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">BTC</a>) pushed to $64,500 on May 4 as out-of-hours trading produced fresh BTC price gains.
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 BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView
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<h2 id="bitcoin-ups-volatility-as-weekend-begins">Bitcoin ups volatility as weekend begins</h2>
Data from <a href="https://subscription.cointelegraph.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Cointelegraph Markets Pro</a> and <a href="https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BTCGBP/?exchange=BINANCE" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TradingView</a> confirmed new local highs of $64,522 on Bitstamp — a new peak for May.
The strength that appeared on United States employment data gathered speed into the daily close, fueled by encouraging crypto market recovery signals, including the <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/grayscale-gbtc-inflows-record-bitcoin-exchange-traded-fund-etf" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">first inflows for the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust (GBTC)</a> in nearly three months.
BTC/USD was up 5% month-to-date at the time of writing, per data from monitoring resource <a href="https://www.coinglass.com/today" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">CoinGlass</a>, already contrasting with <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-price-loses-60k-support-2-month-lows" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">April’s 15% losses</a>.
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 BTC/USD monthly returns (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass
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“Had a great push into the market close yesterday,” popular trader Daan Crypto Trades reacted in part of his latest coverage on X.
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 “While I am liking how the charts are shaping up on the higher timeframes, I’ll be patient and not start adding on green candles during the weekend. Will see how this plays out.”
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 BTC/USD chart with CME futures data. Source: <a href="https://twitter.com/DaanCrypto/status/1786749489287467519" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Daan Crypto Trades</a>
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An accompanying chart showed a clear divergence from the latest CME Group Bitcoin futures closing price, creating a “gap” that BTC/USD tends to fill later on.
Despite the impressive weekend performance, some were concerned about the overall strength of the market in the absence of TradFi participation.
Keith Alan, co-founder of trading resource Material Indicators, <a href="https://twitter.com/KAProductions/status/1786747491150331961" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">warned</a> that a correction could easily come thanks to thin order book liquidity.
“Looking for bid liquidity to replenish to keep this rally going,” he told X followers, reposting an order book chart from Material Indicators.
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 “Otherwise, it isn’t going to take much to dump through thin liquidity.”
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 BTC/USDT order book liquidity on Binance. Source: Material Indicators
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<h2 id="analysis-btc-price-still-below-main-resistance">Analysis: BTC price still below "main resistance"</h2>
<a href="https://twitter.com/CredibleCrypto/status/1786678084827050322/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Summarizing</a> his market views, meanwhile, popular trader and commentator Credible Crypto said that conditions might favor going short BTC below “main resistance” around $69,000.
Related:&nbsp;<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/price-analysis-5-3-btc-eth-bnb-sol-xrp-doge-ton-ada-avax-shib" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Price analysis 5/3: BTC, ETH, BNB, SOL, XRP, DOGE, TON, ADA, AVAX, SHIB</a>
Uploading a chart to X, he forecast two possible outcomes for current BTC price action, with the current area comparatively short on liquidity.
“Green path is ideal. We hold the local highs we broke above and continue up to the major resistance. This will allow me to fill shorts on a number of alts across the board. Red path is not ideal. We fail to hold this reclaim, see an ‘early’ breakdown, and ideal short zones for most alts I'm eyeing up are not met,” he wrote.
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Credible Crypto added that long BTC positions would be of interest should BTC/USD dip below $56,000.
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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