Bitcoin price slips under $77K as bulls battle for new 'macro-bullish shift'

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Bitcoin (BTC) fell much than 2% connected Monday arsenic US-Iran warfare nerves again guided macro markets.

Key points:

  • Bitcoin gave backmost early-week gains arsenic its downside extended toward 3% connected Monday.
  • Two cardinal moving averages bent successful the equilibrium amid macro uncertainty implicit the warfare successful Iran.
  • Bulls request to wide the debased $80,000 country next, says marketplace analysis.


Crypto exec: Bitcoin needs to wide bull marketplace enactment band

Data from TradingView showed BTC/USD hitting section lows of $76,567 connected Bitstamp, giving backmost earlier gains.

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


The brace had managed a play candle adjacent supra a key moving average — thing that marketplace participants had hoped would let it to debar a caller retracement.

“Bitcoin conscionable reclaimed the 21W EMA for the archetypal clip since Oct 2025,” trader Ryan Hogue noted successful a post connected X

“$84.5K (200DMA) looks similar the adjacent halt this week.”

BTC/USD one-week chart. Source: Ryan Hogue/X


Nic Puckrin, CEO and cofounder of crypto acquisition level Coin Bureau, added that Bitcoin reclaiming its bull marketplace enactment set — two moving averages of which the 21-week EMA is 1 — was present key.

“We are close successful the mediate of the Bull Market Support Band. This has historically served arsenic a cardinal enactment for bull markets. We broke beneath the set successful October past year,” helium told X followers. 

“While 80k is acting arsenic a absorption close now, if we flip the set to support, it would constituent to a large macro-bullish shift.”

BTC/USD one-day illustration with bull marketplace enactment band. Source: Nic Puckrin/X


Crypto markets "shaping up for much upside"

Uncertainty implicit advancement betwixt the US and Iran connected ending the warfare nevertheless directed Bitcoin little astatine the Wall Street open, on with US stocks.

Related: First 21-week inclination enactment reclaim since October 2025: Five things to cognize successful Bitcoin this week

Oil conversely began to gain, with WTI crude reaching $97.50 per tube to adjacent two-week highs.

CFDs connected US WTI crude lipid four-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView


Commenting, trading institution QCP Capital suggested that Iran’s overseas curate flying to Russia for talks with President Vladimir Putin was “reviving concerns of broader geopolitical alignment and escalation, and adding to marketplace uncertainty.”

“Whether the adjacent limb higher proves to beryllium different classical bull trap oregon a much durable betterment volition hinge connected BTC’s quality to adjacent supra 82k,” it wrote successful its latest Market Color analysis.

QCP added that firm net represented different root of imaginable risk-asset volatility for the week ahead.

BTC/USDT six-hour chart. Source: Michaël van de Poppe/X


Elsewhere, crypto trader Michaël van de Poppe was assured astir a breakout beyond the existent multimonth trading range.

“The markets are inactive shaping up for much upside, and it's inactive holding important levels,” helium wrote connected the day. 

“I deliberation that we'll spot $85-88K successful May and correct/consolidate from there.”

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