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Bitcoin (BTC) is attempting its first Bollinger Bands breakout in months, while creator John Bollinger is more bullish than some traders.
Key points:
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 <li>Bitcoin faces stiff resistance as it attempts daily candle closes above the upper Bollinger Band.</li>
 <li>Volatility comes on cue after the Bands' tightest-ever conditions last month.</li>
 <li>Creator John Bollinger takes advantage of positive trading signals as part of his investment program.</li>
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<h2 id="responses-mixed-as-bitcoin-tests-bollinger-bands-ceiling">Responses mixed as Bitcoin tests Bollinger Bands ceiling</h2>
Data from TradingView confirms that on Wednesday, BTC/USD saw its second daily close above the upper Bollinger Band on the daily chart, something it has not achieved since mid-January.<img alt="Bitcoin Bollinger Bands push key breakout as creator acts on positive signal" height="917" src="https://payload.lum-tri.org/api/media/file/BTCUSD_2026-05-07_12-11-16.png?prefix=media%2Fcontent" width="1614">
BTC/USD one-day chart with Bollinger Bands data. Source: Source: Cointelegraph/<a href="https://www.tradingview.com/symbols/BTCUSD/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">TradingView</a>
 The Bollinger Bands indicator, used to assess both volatility and momentum, recently saw the narrowest gap between its constituent trend lines ever recorded for Bitcoin.
This led to <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/markets/powerful-move-looms-bitcoin-price-bollinger-bands-indicator" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">predictions of a breakout move</a>, with the direction open to debate, as well as heightened volatility to come.
Commenting on the visit to the upper band, however, trader SuperBro noted that the price was now in an area full of potential points of rejection.
“Closed above the upper Bollinger Band, above the trendline on closing prices, but just below the log trendline on wicks,” they wrote in a post on X.
SuperBro added that most potential liquidations now belonged to long positions below the price, with shorts already taken out.
“There are relatively few short liquidations remaining up to 85K compared to long liquidations down to 74K,” they continued.&nbsp;
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 “However, bulls still have the momentum advantage and I don't yet see a good reversal setup. Despite the liquidation imbalance, I'm holding tight to see if we can blast through.”
</blockquote><img alt="Bitcoin Bollinger Bands push key breakout as creator acts on positive signal" height="1128" src="https://payload.lum-tri.org/api/media/file/HHrriCzboAAJRF2.png?prefix=media%2Fcontent" width="1835">
BTC/USD one-day chart with order-book liquidity data. Source: SuperBro/X
 Bollinger, the indicator’s creator, <a href="https://x.com/bbands/status/2052103511463412033" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">revealed</a> that one of his investment fund’s proprietary trading models had flipped positive on Bitcoin, and had taken a position accordingly.&nbsp;<img alt="Bitcoin Bollinger Bands push key breakout as creator acts on positive signal" height="547" src="https://payload.lum-tri.org/api/media/file/Screenshot%202026-05-07%2012.16.14.png?prefix=media%2Fcontent" width="1469">
Source: <a href="https://x.com/bbands/status/2052103511463412033?s=20" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">John Bollinger</a>/X
<h2 id="overheated-bollinger-signal-returns-after-18-months">"Overheated" Bollinger signal returns after 18 months</h2>
Wednesday also saw another Bollinger Band milestone, this time concerning the market value to realized value (MVRV) ratio for speculative investors.
Related: <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoin-can-crash-to-50k-if-most-critical-bear-market-test-fails-analysis" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bitcoin can crash to $50K if 'most critical' bear market test fails: Analysis</a>
The metric, recently <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/markets/btc-price-can-easily-hit-95k-five-things-to-know-in-bitcoin-this-week" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">covered by Cointelegraph</a>, compares Bitcoin’s market cap to the price at which the supply last moved, also known as its “realized cap.”
A Bollinger Bands derivative entered “overheated” territory for the first time since late 2024, the X analytics account Frank Fetter noted.
At the time, BTC/USD was building its first visit to $100,000 in history.<img alt="Bitcoin Bollinger Bands push key breakout as creator acts on positive signal" height="1395" src="https://payload.lum-tri.org/api/media/file/HHmfBVdWAAEbu05.png?prefix=media%2Fcontent" width="1285">
Bitcoin short-term holder MVRV ratio with Bollinger Bands oscillator. Source: Frank Fetter/X
 Asked whether “overheated” conditions implied a price reversal, the account said this was “not necessarily” a given outcome.

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