Watch these BTC price levels as Bitcoin threatens to lose $27K support
Bitcoin (BTC) looked poised to give up $27,000 as support on May 17 with traders lying in wait for new lows.
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD trading near $26,800 at the time of writing.
The pair had staged multiple crosses of the $27,000 mark the day prior, that area forming a low-timeframe focus now at risk of breaking down.
“3 wave up into resistance, followed by a retest and a rejection off resistance zone,” popular trader Crypto Tony summarized about recent activity.
He added that a potential target to wait for was now $26,400.
Trading account TraderSZ had previously predicted an “expansion candle” to enter should the breakdown continue.
$BTC daily. Looks like it’s breaking down. If correct we should get big down expansion candle soon. https://t.co/MAV2GY6mKn pic.twitter.com/24GXaMJPXR
“Small long flush early in the morning,” another popular trader, Daan Crypto Trades, continued.
Analyzing order book setup on Binance, monitoring resource Material Indicators noted an overall lack of liquidity.
The largest-volume traders, it revealed, had reduced activity to a minimum as a result, perhaps due to that absence of coins exposing them to potential slippage.
Liquidity on both sides of #Bitcoin price is so thin that whales have to either break up their market orders into smaller order sizes to minimize slippage or wait for pockets of liquidity before smashing buttons. Cranked the Volume Percentile filter way down to see how and… pic.twitter.com/dpXddCKgiX
Zooming out, however, an accompanying narrative for many remained the concept of “choppy” price action continuing.
The current trading range, featuring as a key support and resistance zone from 2021 onward, showed no signs of relinquishing control.
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