Bitcoin (BTC) further reduced volatility ahead of the July 30 weekly close as traders eyed an exciting long-term bull signal.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed sideways BTC price action over the weekend, with BTC/USD sticking in a tiny $150 range.
#Bitcoin Trading within a $10 range for the past 1.5 hours.Weekends are slower than ever lately. pic.twitter.com/FmZLL82wrk
Conditions throughout the week had remained calm, despite a slew of macroeconomic data events, leading some to assume that a breakdown would come next.
With hours until the weekly close, however, there was still no sign of volatility returning.
#BTC exhibiting impressive price stability around the ~$29250 for most of the week$BTC #Crypto #Bitcoin https://t.co/QB6iHS2gsT pic.twitter.com/mnoDg7ltpx
“Price action has not been this compressed since the very start of 2023. The longer this goes on, the bigger the move will be that follows it,” popular trader Daan Crypto Trades argued in part of the weekend’s commentary.
As Cointelegraph reported, Bitcoin’s Bollinger Bands currently echo conditions from the start of the year, just before BTC price went on to gain 70% in the first quarter.
Analyzing movements among traders on the Binance BTC/USD order book, monitoring resource Material Indicators noted that buying pressure from whales was combining with increasing resistance closer to $30,000.
“Expecting guard rails to stay up until we near the Weekly and Monthly candle closes,” part of accompanying comments stated on July 29.
A more exciting topic came in the form of a potential bullish cross on Bitcoin’s moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) indicator.
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