Bitcoin preps highest weekly close since January as BTC price nears $79K

Bitcoin (BTC) eyed $79,000 into Sunday’s play adjacent arsenic crypto markets continued to beryllium guided by the US-Iran war.

Key points:

• Bitcoin circles a cardinal play level into the play close, with the highest adjacent successful respective months connected the table.
• Analysis sees the mid-$80,000 portion and higher coming backmost into play.
• Liquidity grabs signifier the ground for caution among immoderate traders.

BTC terms nears highest play adjacent successful implicit 3 months

Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD attempting to clasp higher aft cancelling retired losses from earlier successful the week.

Finishing the week supra $78,670 would present the pair’s highest play adjacent since precocious January.

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

Friday delivered a boost to hazard assets arsenic hopes of a caller bid statement betwixt the US and Iran accelerated. On Sunday, however, US President Donald Trump appeared skeptical of ratifying Iran’s latest bid proposals.

In a station connected Truth Social, Trump wrote that helium “can’t ideate that it would beryllium acceptable.”

Source: Truth Social

Despite this, immoderate crypto marketplace commentators remained optimistic astir the short-term outlook.

“Strong consolidation connected $BTC , and Friday gave america a flimsy penetration successful what's apt to come,” trader and expert Michaël van de Poppe wrote connected X.

Van de Poppe referenced Friday’s beardown inflows to the US spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (ETFs), which totaled astir $630 million.

“I don't deliberation this volition dilatory down successful the coming week and that's astir apt wherefore we're seeing a comparatively shallow consolidation taking place,” helium continued. 

“The $79K country is simply a important zone. That needs to break. If this breaks, I'm assuming we'll spot much upwards momentum and I've got $86-88K arsenic archetypal absorption country and $92-94K arsenic the important one.”

BTC/USDT one-day chart. Source: Michaël van de Poppe/X

Bitcoin traders pass of liquidity games

Caution was besides visible, with traders watching for liquidity grabs to the upside earlier a consequent terms reversal.

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“Starting to spot a physique of liquidity signifier below, but a instrumentality of the precocious liquidity and utilizing that to dump,” Crypto Tony commented connected information from CoinGlass connected the day.

BTC liquidation heatmap. Source: CoinGlass

Trading relationship JDK Analysis described the liquidity setup arsenic “typically bearish.”

“We tin intelligibly spot caller longs opening into the highs, portion terms continues to amusement signs of absorption - incapable to propulsion meaningfully higher contempt progressively assertive marketplace buying for now,” it summarized successful posts connected X.

BTC/USDT 15-minute chart. Source: JDK Analysis/X