Bitcoin

Bitcoin&nbsp;dipped more than 2% on July 4 as a key support line saw its first retest since October 2023.
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 BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView
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<h2 data-ct-non-breakable="true" id="spot-selling-blamed-for-latest-btc-price-rout">“Spot selling” blamed for latest BTC price rout</h2>
Data from <a href="https://subscription.cointelegraph.com/?_gl=1*7499wx*_ga*MTQ0MzQ0NzI4Ny4xNzE2MzY1NTA0*_ga_53R24TEEB1*MTcxNjM2NTUwNC4xLjEuMTcxNjM2Njg2MC4wLjAuMA..">Cointelegraph Markets Pro</a> and <a href="https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BTCUSD/?exchange=BINANCE" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">TradingView</a> captured new local lows of $57,885 on Bitstamp after the latest daily close.
A lack of sentiment and steady selling from spot markets created unsavory conditions for Bitcoin bulls.
Data from monitoring resource <a href="https://www.coinglass.com/LiquidationData" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">CoinGlass</a> put 24-hour Bitcoin (<a href="https://cointelegraph.com/bitcoin-price">BTC</a>) long liquidations at nearly $60 million at the time of writing.
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 BTC liquidations (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass
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Commenting on the latest price action, popular trader Skew noted that BTC/USD had crossed its 200-day moving average (MA) for the first time in 10 months.
“So far since trend rejection &amp; reversal around $63.8K spot selling has been the main driver of this trend,” he <a href="https://x.com/52kskew/status/1808714751729619375" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">explained</a> in part of a post on X.
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 “So in order for this HTF MA to actually act as a systematic trigger for the market we need to see market demand &amp; reversal signs. Else volatility &amp; momentum pick up to the downside.”
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 BTC/USD 1-day chart with 200MA. Source: TradingView
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The 200-day MA sat at $58,400 at the time of writing, still marginally below the spot price after a low timeframe bounce.
Zooming out, trading suite DecenTrader eyed a large patch of long liquidations lying in wait closer to $50,000 should the price break down further.
“*If* Bitcoin does breakdown then $51k - $52k remains the area where there is a significant amount of 3x, 5x, and 10x longs liquidity. To the upside, the shorts liquidity is at $76k-78k,” it <a href="https://x.com/decentrader/status/1808409003359342665" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">noted</a>.
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 Bitcoin liquidation map. Source: DecenTrader
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<h2 data-ct-non-breakable="true" id="a-24-billion-sell-off">A $24 billion sell-off</h2>
Charles Edwards, founder of quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments, meanwhile saw clear factors influencing recent downside.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/sub-60k-bear-trap-5-things-bitcoin-this-week">Was sub-$60K a bear trap? 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week</a>
Bitcoin, he argued alongside data from onchain analytics firm Glassnode, had been seeing significant sell-side pressure throughout the year. The United States spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-etfs-trading-cboe-nyse-arca-nasdaq">launched in January</a>, had been unable to absorb the fallout.
“This is why we haven’t mooned yet. Saylor, Michael Dell, ETFs. It’s all noise,” he <a href="https://x.com/caprioleio/status/1808667121851011393/photo/1" target="_blank" rel="noopener nofollow">told</a> X followers. 
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 “When you look at the data of the 4 most important players in Bitcoin, we have net flows equivalent to $24B being dumped on the market in 2024.”
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 Bitcoin net flows since ETF launch. Source: Charles Edwards
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Edwards stressed that he did not see the ETFs as the “only demand” in the current market.
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