Bitcoin continues to 'mirror' 2017 as weekend sees third attack on $25K

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) tapped $25,000 for a third time on Feb. 19 as an all-important weekly close approached.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting $25,038 on Bitstamp.

Out-of-hours trading continued to see bulls pushing for a support-resistance flip of the key level, this marking the start of a major resistance cloud involving several long-term trend lines.

With everything to play for into the weekly close, the atmosphere among traders was tense.

"Sunday price movement can typically only be trusted towards daily close. Other than that, just gotta hope it stays in current range," popular trader Josh Rager acknowledged on Twitter.

Analyzing Binance order book activity, monitoring resource Material Indicators warned that large-volume players were still manipulating spot price by moving bid and ask levels.

#FireCharts 2.0 (beta) shows "they" just cleared a path to $25.2k, but "they" also pulled the notorious bid wall and moved it down to ~$23,450.#RiskManagement for the W. pic.twitter.com/RFKTc0CfYT

“The notorious BTC buy wall moved AGAIN!” it wrote in a previous update.

At the time of writing, volatility continued to edge back into spot markets with still more than six hours remaining until the UTC weekly candle close. 

The longer-term view meanwhile formed cause for calm for trading suite Decentrader on the day.

Related: Bitcoin faces do-or-die weekly, monthly close with macro bull trend at stake

Comparing current price behavior to Bitcoin's previous four-year halving cycle, the firm argued that in fact, everything was playing out in line with historical norms.

"The recent move from $17k to $23k matches the 2017 move around the 1000 day mark," it tweeted alongside an explanatory chart.

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