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<p>The summer lull lasted only a moment. Just as bitcoin seemed to consolidate its recent gains, a wave of sales triggered at the Wall Street open abruptly reversed the trend. In a few hours, the market reminded that its most violent moves do not always arise from speculation, but from large investors’ arbitrages. This new shock illustrates a persistent reality: the price of bitcoin remains largely influenced by the cash management decisions of listed companies.</p>
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  <h2 class="in-brief--title" id="in-brief">In brief</h2>
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   <li>Strategy sold 3,588 BTC to finance its financial obligations, causing an immediate drop in Bitcoin and increased market volatility.</li>
   <li>Analysts differ on what comes next: some fear a scenario similar to summer 2022, while others already detect signs favoring a rebound.</li>
   <li>Strategy’s upcoming decisions and Bitcoin maintaining above the $60,400 support could determine market direction in the coming days.</li>
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<h2 id="strategy-s-arbitrage-3-588-btc-liquidated-for-financial-imperatives">Strategy’s arbitrage : 3,588 BTC liquidated for financial imperatives</h2>
<p>While <a href="https://www.cointribune.com/en/bitcoin-bernstein-sees-signs-of-recovery-and-confirms-150000-by-the-end-of-2026/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">Bernstein sees signs of recovery</a>, the fundamental trigger of this correction centers on precise factual data and a rapid asset capitulation movement :</p>
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 <li>A massive sale : the tech company Strategy officially sold 3,588 BTC, a transaction completed on July 5th, directly aimed at financing the payment of preferred stock dividends and replenishing its cash reserves ;</li>
 <li>A sharp price drop : the impact was immediate as the BTC/USD pair plunged nearly 4 % to trade near $61,000, wiping out much of the gains accumulated in previous days ;</li>
 <li>A timid technical rebound : a reaction began at the start of the American session, allowing the asset to stabilize around $62,000, but the market failed to recover more than half of the losses sustained during the day.</li>
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<p>For market watchers, this capitulation is not a total surprise, but rather an indicator of underlying fragility. Analyst Exitpump highlighted that the company’s announcement acted as the catalyst for a market already showing structural weaknesses. He stated: <em>“bearish signs were there, I posted about it yesterday, the news of Saylor’s sale just triggered a further decline”</em>.</p>
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<p>He also revealed that funding rates remained quite positive on exchanges, while noting that an institutional buyer had so far been using the TWAP method (time-weighted average price) to accumulate exposure. The analyst anticipated that once this buyer withdrew, the market would undergo a rapid purge, now setting a short-term technical ceiling around $64,000.</p>
<h2 id="2022-fractal-vs-reversal-signals-the-analysts-dilemma">2022 Fractal vs. reversal signals: the analysts’ dilemma</h2>
<p>Beyond the immediate impact of this selling flow, opinions diverge radically regarding bitcoin’s macroeconomic trajectory. On one hand, trader and analyst Rekt Capital prefers a cautious, historical reading. He <a href="https://cointelegraph.com/markets/bitcoin-price-falls-on-strategy-btc-sales?utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_source=rss_feed" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">states</a> that the current behavior of the asset duplicates the dark phases of the previous cycle: <em>“generally, bitcoin is doing exactly the same thing today as in summer 2022”</em>. His chart analysis highlights the 50-month exponential moving average (EMA 50) trendline, which might be transforming into a new major technical resistance zone, replicating precisely the bearish pattern observed four years ago.</p>
<p>Opposite this scenario, other experts call for nuance, relying on momentum indicators and on-chain data. Trader Jelle refuses to give in to ambient pessimism, qualifying the situation by stating: <em>“I’ve seen BTC’s chart look much worse over the years”</em>.</p>
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<p>He bases his optimism on the appearance of bullish divergences on the weekly Relative Strength Index (RSI), while several on-chain indicators are currently printing trend reversal signals not seen since late 2022.</p>
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<h2 id="h-towards-a-counterattack-from-strategy">Towards a counterattack from Strategy?</h2>
<p>The outcome of this technical confrontation could paradoxically depend on future decisions by the entity behind the crash. Analyst Michaël van de Poppe believes the current panic is a temporary excessive psychological reaction by investors: <em>“markets react with shock to this news. BTC falls, clearly valuing the potential impact of Strategy continuing to sell in the future”</em>. This drop reflects the immediate integration of a threat of prolonged capitulation by the firm.</p>
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<p>However, this downturn phase could quickly be invalidated by a strategic turnaround by the company itself. Michaël van de Poppe hypothesizes that this move could be short-lived if Strategy publishes, in the coming days, a new bitcoin purchase announcement that offsets or even exceeds the volume of its recent liquidation.</p>
<p>The evolution of the <a href="https://www.cointribune.com/en/crypto-markets/bitcoin-btc-en/" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow">bitcoin price</a> in the critical $60,400 zone, identified as the most important support level of the week, will definitively arbitrate between validating the 2022 bearish fractal and starting a long-term rebound.</p>
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