Bitcoin Coinbase Premium threatens bear flag repeat with BTC price at $76K

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Bitcoin (BTC) rebounded supra $76,000 astatine Thursday’s Wall Street unfastened portion traders stayed bearish connected the short-term BTC terms outlook.

Key points:

  • Bitcoin's Coinbase Premium Index flips antagonistic arsenic investigation warned the January breakdown could repeat.
  • BTC terms enactment is already astatine hazard of repeating a carnivore emblem breakdown to caller macro lows.
  • The April monthly adjacent should inactive connection Bitcoin's champion gains successful a year.

Bitcoin Coinbase Premium risks repeating bearish history

Data from TradingView showed 1% regular gains aft initial pressure implicit precocious lipid prices and a hawkish US Federal Reserve gathering the time prior.

BTC/USD one-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView


With US stocks treading water, Bitcoin marketplace participants saw small crushed to flip bullish connected shorter clip frames. 

Among the concerns was the Coinbase Premium — the quality successful terms betwixt Coinbase’s BTC/USD and Binance’s BTC/USDT pairs.

“Bitcoin’s ripping higher… but the selling connected Coinbase is getting DEEPER by the minute,” X idiosyncratic Against Wall Street wrote

A antagonistic Coinbase Premium implies insufficient request for Bitcoin during US trading hours, with terms enactment usually suffering arsenic a result. 

In January, a alleviation bounce connected BTC/USD combined with a steepening antagonistic Premium, and the brace yet broke to caller macro lows.

Bitcoin Coinbase Premium Index. Source: CryptoQuant

“We’ve seen this nonstop movie before, and spoiler alert: everybody already knows however it ends,” Against Wall Street continued, referring to January's events.

As Cointelegraph reported, then, arsenic now, terms formed a alleged “bear flag” operation connected the regular illustration — a informing to buyers that a breakdown could occur.

BTC teases champion monthly terms gains since April 2025

Other traders besides felt the request for caution, with trader CJ seeing small motion of a semipermanent level already being successful place.

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A illustration uploaded to X connected the time included a imaginable people of $65,000.

“I deliberation adjacent if we are putting successful a bottommost here, we *at least* spot thing similar this,” they commented. 

“This would beryllium my bullish outlook. I'm yet waiting connected April adjacent to refine.”

BTC/USD one-day chart. Source: CJ/X


The monthly adjacent was acceptable to connection 11.6% gains for April astatine the clip of penning — inactive Bitcoin’s best performance successful a year, per information from CoinGlass.

BTC/USD monthly returns (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass

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