$BTC.D Even with the drop from last week, the Bitcoin Dominance chart still looks insane.
This has been up only for nearly 3 years now as Bitcoin is seeing massive inflows throughout these years. Alts as a whole are having a hard time keeping up with it.
The 71% level has been a previous resistance in multiple years. If price were to re-visit that area that would definitely be a good level to watch.
Price saw a sharp move post Tariff drama, outperforming stocks in doing so. Since some of the trade uncertainty got cleared up, stocks kept going while BTC stalled.
The big ATH level sits right above. If price were to go back into price discovery then that could be the momentum it needs.
Until then, we're range bound and stuck in a small consolidation.
$90K remains my long term line in the sand for spot exposure. I will consider cutting bags if price were to drop below that level as that'd mean we lose the range again which has not happened prior this cycle.
So cautiously bullish as long as we trade above $90K. But I did like the risk/reward more last month when BTC was showing relative strength and was trading 20-30% lower. Now we're seeing relative weakness the past few days as price is trading near resistance.
I would not be surprised to see a short term flush if stocks were to roll over and make a higher low somewhere. Considering most stocks moved 30-50% in a single month, this wouldn't be that crazy either.
$BTC Is pretty far away from any large liquidity clusters.
Price didn't trade for a long time up here just yet so after the initial squeeze of shorts there's not that many new positions built up around this area.
The main level to look out for would be local highs above $106K and below all the way down to $93K which was the start of the recent move.
$ETH $5B+ Open Interest ramped up in the span of a week.
Partially explained by the price increasing but there's also been a lot of chasing the past few days with minimal price movement.
Spot ETF Net flows have been pretty much flat during this time so I still think most of this move was short squeeze driven. As was the case for many "dead" alts.
Looking for a $2B+ open interest wipe to make things interesting again. The quicker it goes the better it would be for a reset. You don't want to get a slow dribble back down to some support level because that generally ends in more pain afterwards.
I still hold some long term spot ETH but have shaven some profits of from the buys I did in the past couple of months.
$ETH $2.4K level will be pretty key. I think it makes sense to test that local support level. I don't have any interest in longs until some of these billions in Open Interest have been wiped out.
Will reassess depending on how price reacts around that region. A sweep and back up likely leads to a local range being formed between $2.4K-$2.7K.
If price loses that area then the $2.1K big horizontal makes a lot of sense. You wouldn't want to see price slowly bleed down into that area as that is a recipe for disaster. A quick flush into that zone would be perfect for dip buys but it might be short lived if we get it at all.
Keep in mind, the drop might look pretty big but it would still be up 20% from the week prior so relatively speaking it's not all that strange.
Larger range still $2.1K-$2.8K which we're now stuck in for a while I think.
$ETH $2.4K level will be pretty key. I think it makes sense to test that local support level. I don't have any interest in longs until some of these billions in Open Interest have been wiped out.
Will reassess depending on how price reacts around that region. A sweep and back up likely leads to a local range being formed between $2.4K-$2.7K.
If price loses that area then the $2.1K big horizontal makes a lot of sense. You wouldn't want to see price slowly bleed down into that area as that is a recipe for disaster. A quick flush into that zone would be perfect for dip buys but it might be short lived if we get it at all.
Keep in mind, the drop might be pretty big relatively speaking but it would still be up 20% from the week prior so relatively speaking it's not all that strange.
Larger range still $2.1K-$2.8K which we're now stuck in for a while I think.
$BTC.D With a sharp rejection after the recent $ETH/BTC rally.
Currently in the middle of this range. If BTC Dominance were to grind back to the highs then I think it's safe to say this was just a big squeeze on ETH/BTC and alts and BTC takes the spotlight back for a while.
If ALT/BTC pairs can find the strength we could see this move to the range low at ~60% which would still be a nice move.
At this point I do think the market is waiting out BTC's next move first and then go from there.
Not really a place where I'd want to bet on a side in the short term in terms of ALT/BTC performance.
$ETH If you're sidelined and want to get in, you generally want to do it when you get some kind of flush and higher low.
For this I generally like to use simple Fibonacci retracements and horizontal levels.
Currently ETH is at an important level. If it loses this area we might visit one of those green boxes below. In that case you can simply wait for a consolidation to be formed at those levels and don't knife catch either.
Alternatively, if price keeps going up, maybe the currently level will become a nice retest of the horizontal. But at that point at least you have some of the high leverage flushed out as you're coming from higher prices.
$BTC Opened up with a small gap. Nothing special there and these have generally been getting closed within 1-3 days over the past few weeks.
$ETH on the other hand, opened up with a massive gap below. We've not really seen this often and up to this point I've never found a lot of value in tracking the ETH gaps, as BTC is generally leading for the market's direction.
Still might be interesting to keep track of if price were to trade into it at some point. Could make for a decent local reversal zone.
There we go, we got what the market was looking for. The 90 day timeframe is interesting here and sets us up for more headlines over the next few months. These could obviously be good or bad.
Also explains why Trump said to buy stocks before the weekend.
Stocks up big, $BTC & $ETH not a giant move but they did move during the weekend.
$BTC Has outperformed stocks since "Liberation" / Tariff Day on the 2nd of April.
It held up incredibly strong during a sharp sell off on stocks in April.
It then also proceeded to outperform as the markets bounced and tariffs were implemented.
Back then people were wondering if a reason for the relative strength could have been the narrative that countries could potentially be using $BTC to bypass tariffs.
With a potential US & China Trade "Deal" teased/announced today we could be seeing the answer to this question.
Theoretically speaking, if the trade uncertainty was what was making BTC outperform, it should stop outperforming after we hit the most important deal which includes China.
If BTC keeps doing its thing and just keeps outperforming it's safe to assume that tariffs likely have little direct impact on how BTC is treated/used.