Key points:
Bitcoin bulls keep momentum intact at the Wall Street open, with $117,000 and higher on the radar.
Order-book liquidity shows shorts getting liquidated, with fresh liquidity being added higher.
Bitcoin conforms to key Bollinger Bands levels, producing another fake breakdown this month.
Bitcoin ( BTC ) delivered a textbook rebound move Thursday as BTC price stayed pinned by key resistance levels.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD nearing $117,000 before cooling off.
The Wall Street open preserved bullish momentum, and market participants dug in to see how BTC price action would play out.
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Fellow trader CrypNuevo noted that upside liquidity on exchange order books had been taken with the visit beyond $116,800.
“This is the way the market moves - always around and towards the liquidity. Market structure for context and MM footprints for signs,” he told X followers, suggesting that $119,000 could come “next.”
Data from monitoring resource CoinGlass showed resistance now thickening between $117,500 and $118,000.
Bids meanwhile extended all the way to below $114,000, surrounding a now-filled gap in CME Group’s Bitcoin futures.
“Bitcoin has successfully found a support within the Daily CME Gap,” Rekt Capital observed .
CME Bitcoin futures one-day chart. Source: Rekt Capital/X
Price action nonetheless conformed to prescribed levels highlighted on the Bollinger Bands volatility indicator.
Related: Bitcoin price echoing 2024 pattern that saw 50% BTC gains: Trader
On hourly timeframes, price rejected at the upper band, while the daily chart delivered what creator John Bollinger described as a “head fake.”
Price dipped below the lower band before reversing, rejecting a breakdown in a similar style to previous swing lows in 2025.
“Bitcoin $BTCUSD and a number of the other cryptos are setting up a head fake after a Bollinger Band Squeeze. Interestingly, the pattern is not evident in the ETFs as they don't trade on weekends and holidays,” Bollinger noted on X.
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