Key takeaways:
Bitcoin needs a weekly close above $114,000 to avoid a deeper correction and reaffirm bullish strength.
Failure to hold $112,000 and a bear flag breakdown could trigger drop to $103,700.
Bitcoin (BTC) may avoid an “ugly” correction to lower levels if BTC/USD ends the week above $114,000, according to traders and analysts.
Why Bitcoin price must reclaim $114,000
Bitcoin price is heading for its third consecutive week of losses, 11% below its Aug. 14 all-time high of $124,500, per data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView.
Bitcoin dropped below the crucial level of $114,000, a level that has supported the price over the previous six weeks, as shown in the chart below.
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BTC price must flip this level into support to confirm the strength of the uptrend, according to trader and YouTuber Sam Price.
“Bitcoin bulls are defending $109K support nicely,” Price said in an X post on Thursday, adding:
“A weekly close above $114K would be big.”
The long wick below $109,000 signalled “solid buy pressure,“ suggesting that bulls are aggressively defending this support level.
Analyst Rekt Capital said that it was important for Bitcoin to reclaim $114,000 as support to avoid a prolonged correction period.
“Turning $114K into new resistance would prolong the pullback period,” the analyst said in a Thursday X post, adding:
“This has been a cycle of downside deviation, so all it comes down to is Bitcoin Weekly Closing above $114K for bullish bias.”
Bitcoin bears want to pull price down to $103,000
As Cointelegraph reported, Bitcoin’s price outlook hinged on holding above $112,000.
Similar sentiments were shared by MN Capital founder Michael van de Poppe, who spotted Bitcoin trading at $112,800 on Thursday and said that the support at $112,000 was “crucial” for BTC price.
“If Bitcoin can’t hold above $112K, we’ll probably face a very ugly correction across the board.”
Bitcoin had dipped below this support as of Friday, validating a bear flag on the four-hour chart, as shown.
A bear flag suggests a continuation of the bearish momentum, with sellers taking control.
Note that the price was rejected from the upper boundary of the flag, which is around $114,000, and has dropped below the lower boundary, which coincides with $112,000.
The measured move target from the pattern suggests a potential decline toward $103,700, representing a 6% drop from the current level.
The relative strength index remains below the mid-line, confirming the bearish momentum.
Liquidation data shows bid clusters all the way down to $104,000, suggesting that BTC price is likely to sink deeper to grab liquidity around this level.
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