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Most traders look for the cleanest breakout.
I disagree with that instinct.
Clean levels attract crowded orders, and crowded orders create easy liquidity.
That tension often defines breakout outcomes in popular tokens.
The clearer the level, the heavier the positioning around it.

This dynamic explains why popular tokens often stall at obvious highs.That is why popular coins trap traders.
They trap them during the “perfect” moment.
To ground this discussion, I will reference three widely traded coins: #bitcoin , #Ethereum , and #solana
Each has shown similar liquidity behavior across different cycles.
When we look at breakout traps at range highs in $BTC the pattern becomes easier to see.
BTC has ranged for weeks across 2021–2024 cycles, making the range high obvious to everyone.
Breakout buys stack above it, while short stops sit there as well.
The uncomfortable truth is simple
That zone becomes a liquidity magnet, and price can push through it and still fail.
Not from weakness, but from absorption.
In my experience, acceptance matters more than the first impulse.
A pullback that holds above the former high shows buyers defending structure.
It also reduces exposure to first-candle traps.

This concept of waiting for structural defense also appears at swing highs in ETH.
Liquidity sweeps above prior highs in $ETH have been common during volatile periods.
We saw this repeatedly in 2021–2022 and again during 2024 continuation attempts.
A wick breaks the high, triggers stops, and price closes back inside structure.
Most traders treat the wick as strength.
I disagree with that interpretation.
If we look closer, many of those wicks represent liquidity collection.
The practical adjustment is restraint.
Wait for a close above the level and observe follow-through.
A later reclaim often provides cleaner structure than the first push.
below highlights that distinction.

Meanwhile, traps also develop inside strong trends, particularly in SOL.
Fake range expansion in $SOL during 2023–2024 encouraged chasing near highs.
Expansion candles attracted late entries, and pullbacks quickly reset positioning.

The uncomfortable truth is about the entry location.
Late entries compress stop placement and weaken reward-to-risk.
Direction can be correct while timing still fails.
I prefer structure-based entries.
Look for higher lows and pullbacks near prior consolidation.
This ties risk to structure rather than emotion.
The chart logic below outlines that approach

At the same time, beyond price structure, volume can also create misleading signals in BTC and ETH.
Breakout volume spikes in BTC and ETH often appear convincing.
-I agree volume matters.
-I disagree that spike volume automatically confirms continuation.
Historically, expansion into resistance with extreme volume has stalled.
Late buyers provide liquidity for distribution.
Price can pause even after strong closes.
What this suggests is simple.
Compare breakout volume to prior impulse legs.
Watch whether continuation volume sustains before adding exposure.
Slide below frames volume within structural context.

But on the other hand, liquidity traps are not limited to resistance.
Stop hunts under support in BTC have repeated during consolidation phases.
Throughout 2022–2023 ranges, price dipped below support, triggered stops, then reclaimed.
The breakdown appeared convincing until structure recovered.
Most traders cluster stops at the same level.
That predictability concentrates liquidity.
Sweeps become more likely as a result.
I prefer reclaim confirmation.
Allow price to close back above support and define risk beneath the sweep low.
This aligns the trade with recovered structure.
The diagram below illustrates the reclaim logic.

The pattern that follows across all these setups is consistent.
Popular tokens trap traders at obvious levels because liquidity gathers there.
That is often structure-driven rather than manipulation.
I focus on acceptance, reclaim, and structure-based risk.
This approach reduces breakout frustration over time.
KEY TAKEAWAYS
Obvious levels attract concentrated liquidity.Wait for acceptance after breakout attempts.Treat wick breaks as possible liquidity sweeps.Favor pullback entries over expansion chasing.Compare breakout volume to prior impulses.Use reclaim confirmation under support breaks.

Now back to you👇

If you had to self-check, when you look at your failed breakouts, was the idea wrong, OR did you simply enter at the worst possible liquidity zone?
#MarketRebound

Recently, Bitcoin reached the $70,000 region and tapped a key supply zone on the 1-hour timeframe. This area previously acted as resistance, meaning sellers were likely waiting there to take profits or open short positions.
As expected in technical analysis, when price enters a strong supply zone, selling pressure increases — and that’s exactly what happened.
🔎 What Caused the Drop?
Here’s a simple breakdown for beginners:
1️⃣ Supply Zone Reaction
The $70K level aligned with a 1H supply area. Supply zones are regions where large sellers previously stepped in. When price revisits these zones, it often faces rejection.
2️⃣ Profit Taking Near Psychological Level
$70,000 is a major psychological level. Round numbers often attract heavy profit-taking, especially after strong upward momentum.
3️⃣ Short-Term Target Achieved
After rejection from supply, Target 1 was achieved as expected, confirming the short-term downside reaction.
🎯 What’s Next?
The next downside level to watch is $66,000.
If bearish momentum continues and lower timeframes maintain a bearish structure, price may move toward that level. However:
If buyers step in strongly before $66KOr if market structure shifts bullish again
Then the pullback could be temporary.
🧠 What Beginners Should Learn From This
Price reacts strongly at supply and demand zones.Psychological levels (like $70K) increase volatility.Always wait for confirmation instead of predicting blindly.Targets should be planned before entering trades.
Markets move in cycles: impulse → correction → continuation or reversal.
Right now, this looks like a technical correction from a supply zone — not necessarily a full trend reversal.
$BTC

Sitting here on this lazy Sunday, coffee in hand, charts open, and man… $BTC Bitcoin did snap back toward $70K after kissing the low-$60Ks, which has me thinking “Is that the bottom… or just another dead cat bounce?
Right now, the honest answer is: the data is mixed. There are serious signs of a proper flush-out, but also real risks that price revisits the $50K–$60K zone before this correction is truly done.
This whole rebound screams “weekend pump” to me, the kind we’ve all gotten burned by before.
Before we go deep, here’s what happened:
A fast drop: Bitcoin was chilling around $95K–$100K, then BAM, early February hits, and we’re staring at $60K. A straight 50%+ haircut from the October 2025 ATH of $126K, this triggered heavy forced selling/liquidations. $8.7 billion in liquidations get wiped out. Oof.A rebound back: Then this weekend? Boom. Up 15–17% in a flash, back over $70K. Helped by broader risk assets stabilizing (tech bounce was part of that mood shift). The whole market followed: $ETH jumping, SOL breathing again, total cap back near $2.4T.Now the market is hovering around that $68K–$70K zone, a battlefield area, not a victory lap.
But here’s the thing that’s nagging at me (and probably you too): this feels exactly like those classic weekend pumps we’ve learned not to trust.
You know the drill: thin liquidity, retail traders bored on Sunday scrolling X, a couple of big whales or ETF flows creating a fake squeeze, then Monday comes and reality slaps everyone. I’ve been wrecked by these before. They look juicy on the 4H chart… until they don’t.

Okay, But What Actually Sparked This Rebound?
I’m not saying there’s zero reason for the bounce. A few things lined up perfectly:
Cooler CPI data – January print came in at 2.4% YoY (lower than expected). When inflation data comes in cooler than feared, markets start whispering about “less aggressive rates” or “earlier cuts.” That tends to lift risk assets, stocks, high beta trades, and yes, Bitcoin.
Whether that optimism lasts is a different matter, but it’s a real short-term trigger.
ETF inflows finally flipping – After a brutal month of outflows (over $1.7B at one point), we got back-to-back positive days: $471M on Friday, another $145M on Monday. BlackRock and Fidelity leading the charge. When flows flip positive after a stretch of outflows, it can feel like institutions are “buying the dip,” and that narrative alone can ignite a rally.
But here’s the key: one or two strong inflow days doesn’t automatically equal a trend. It needs follow-through.
The great liquidation cleanse: This bounce didn’t come from nowhere. It came after serious damage in the derivatives market. $8.7B gone. Leverage got absolutely nuked. Funding rates crashed, open interest dropped hard. Some analysts are calling it “healthy deleveraging.” I get it, weak hands out, stronger foundation?
On paper, it looks bullish. I even caught myself smiling at the chart for a second. But then I dug deeper…
My On-Chain Check
Insane Realized Losses: We just saw $3.2 billion in entity-adjusted losses. That’s bigger than the Terra collapse. That’s capitulation-like behavior, yes but deep realized losses can sometimes happen before the ultimate low.Short-Term Holders (STH) are Rekt: The STH MVRV is sitting at 0.72. People are underwater and looking for any exit. We haven’t seen the full “everyone who was gonna sell has sold” moment. Recent buyers tend to be the ones who panic first. If they’re still dumping aggressively, the market can still have another leg down.Long-Term Holders (LTH) are Distributing: Data shows the OGs are selling into this $70K strength. That is not bottom behavior.Standard Chartered’s Warning: They just slashed their target to $100K and warned we could test $50,000 first. When the big bulls start sweating, I listen.
Bottom line: this bounce is not automatically “fake”… but it also doesn’t yet scream “the bottom is confirmed.”
Why I’m Calling This a Dead Cat Bounce + Classic Weekend Pump
Alright, here’s my honest take: 6 reasons I’m not trusting this move:
Weekend pumps are traps 80% of the time
Low volume, no institutional firepower on Saturdays/Sundays. Retail piles in, then on Monday, the big boys take profits. I’ve seen it too many times. This one has that exact smell.$70K–$72K is a heavy, psychologically resistant zone
Markets love to retest broken levels. And this range has acted like a magnet and a ceiling lately. We’ve rejected here multiple times in the last two weeks. Volume on the way up was way weaker than the sell-off. If the price keeps rejecting there, it can turn into a launchpad for another drop. Weak conviction.Standard Chartered warns about lower levels:
They slashed their 2026 target from $150K to $100K and straight-up said we could see $50K first. These guys are usually pretty bullish. When even they’re warning of more pain… I listen. Some institutions have openly discussed $50K downside risk before a later recovery. Whether you agree or not, that kind of call matters because it shapes market psychology.History doesn’t lie: Every bull cycle has these fakeout rallies mid-correction. 2017, 2021, same script. Post-halving corrections take time. We’re only 4 months from the top. The real bottom usually comes after the “this is it!” moment fools everyone.Macro isn’t fully clear
Cooler CPI is nice, but tariffs, sticky shelter costs, and “higher for longer” talk aren’t dead. Plus, money’s rotating into international stocks right now. Crypto isn’t the only game in town.Sentiment is still too hopeful
Everyone’s already calling bottom. That’s usually when we get the real flush.
I’m not saying we’re going to zero. But this rebound? Feels like the market giving us one last chance to load up cheaper.
My Personal Prediction (And What I’m Actually Doing)

Base case: One more leg down to $50K–$55K in the next 4–8 weeks (probably March–April). That’s where the real capitulation happens, on-chain metrics bottom, and the big money starts slurping for real.
Why that zone?
Lines up with StanChart’s warningNear the 200-week MA and realized priceGives the market time to digest macro stuff (March Fed meeting, etc.)Matches the 50–60% drawdowns we usually see in bull markets (we’re at 52% now)
What am I doing in my own portfolio right now?

Holding my core BTC stack (never selling the king)Not buying this rebound — sitting on cash I raised during the $60K dipDCAing small amounts below $62K if we retestAdding to quality alts (SOL, some RWA plays) on weakness because those narratives are still strong long-termTight stops — if we somehow break $75K clean with volume, I’ll admit I’m wrong and rotate back in fast
I’m not trying to catch the exact bottom. I’m trying to buy when fear is actually maximum.

Long-Term? Still Stupid Bullish (Don’t Get It Twisted)
Look, I’m not some doomer. After this final shakeout, 2026 is still going to be wild.
ETF inflows are going to explode once the fear fadesTrump-era regulation looks pro-cryptoRWA tokenization, AI agents, all that stuff is just getting startedHalving supply shock is still working in the background
My crazy target? $120K–$150K by year-end if we get the real bottom soon. But only after the pain.

Bottom line from one regular dude to another:
This $70K weekend pump? Dead cat bounce. Don’t trust it. One more dip is coming, and that’s when the real accumulation phase starts. That’s when I’ll be going hard.
What about you? Are you buying this bounce or waiting for cheaper sats?
What Option Are You Going With Below
Buying the dip right nowWaiting for $60K or lowerAlready all-in and chillingSelling everything (lol)

Drop your thoughts, your charts, your bags, let’s talk. I read every comment.

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Not financial advice. Just my thoughts after way too much screen time this weekend. DYOR always.
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Bitcoin’s price structure is once again forming a classic 1–2–3 market cycle, a pattern that previously marked major bullish expansions — most notably in 2021.
But the current environment is fundamentally different.
Unlike prior cycles that were fueled by speculative excess, today’s rally is being supported by strong macro tailwinds. Recent CPI data came in below expectations, reinforcing the narrative that inflationary pressure is easing. This has shifted market sentiment, with capital rotating back into risk assets at scale.
Over the last 24 hours alone, more than $120 billion in fresh liquidity has entered global markets — a level of inflow that historically precedes sustained upward trends rather than short-term relief rallies.
This is not a repeat of the 2022 environment.
This is a structural reset.
The Critical Range That Decides Everything
Bitcoin is now trading within a decisive technical zone. The entire market outlook hinges on whether price can break and close above the $72,000–$73,000 range.
A confirmed breakout would invalidate the bearish thesis and signal that the $60,000 region has likely formed a long-term bottom.
From a market psychology perspective, most sidelined participants remain skeptical — a classic setup where late buyers are forced to re-enter at significantly higher levels. Historically, this behavior has resulted in rapid price discovery phases.
If momentum holds, six-figure Bitcoin is no longer a speculative idea — it becomes a mathematical outcome of liquidity expansion and structural demand.
The smart money isn’t asking if Bitcoin moves higher.
They’re positioning for how far.

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