15 May Bitcoin Dip-Buyers Are Now Watching This Level After Another 5% Drop
At 2 A.M. (UTC) time Bitcoin (BTC) price abruptly dropped 5.11% to $9,256 before recovering to trade in the $9,500 range. This followed a previous sudden drop on Thursday after BTC briefly touched $10K to fill the CME futures gap.
Crypto market weekly price chart. Source: Coin360
Data from CoinMarketCap shows that earlier in the day the price surged to $9,939 and the following consolidation of higher lows and lower highs convinced some traders that further continuation to $10K and above was in the works.
BTC USDT 1-hour chart. Source: TradingView
After the surge to $9,939, traders were watching to see if $9,650 would function as support and the break below the pennant trendline and 20-MA dropped the price below a high volume node on the volume profile visible range.
BitMEX XBTUSD Liquidations. Source: Skew.com
Data from Skew shows the drop to $9,256 liquidated $28 million in BitMEX long positions but as discussed in a recent analysis, after a more than 20% rally since May 11,…