That high sits well below the $66,900 peak set ten days earlier, continuing a pattern of lower highs that has defined the past two weeks.
Those descending peaks form a channel whose upper boundary has turned back every rally attempt since the $66,900 high.
Coindoo’s owner Filip Vantchev, posting on X, described the setup directly: BTC was “rejected at the descending channel resistance and is now retesting the 0.2 Fib and 50 SMA – a strong support confluence.”
“Bulls need to defend this level,” he wrote. “If they don’t, the lower boundary of the channel becomes the next downside target where we can see a support. If the current support holds we can see another breakout attempt of the descending channel resistance line.”
Two independent markers sit within roughly $200 of each other there. The 0.236 Fibonacci retracement, measured from the $57,750 low to the $66,900 high, runs near $63,600, and the 50-day simple moving average sits at $63,400.
Today’s low reached $63,550, taking price through both before buyers pushed it back. That first test held, though the daily candle has not closed and the defence is provisional until it does.
The 100-day average sits near $69,050 and the 200-day at $71,460, roughly 8% and 12% overhead, both sloping down.
Separate analyses published on July 31 reached the same conclusion from different directions.
CryptoQuant contributor normalised the price path from each halving to the eventual low and compared where the current cycle sits against previous ones. On that measure, 2024 has not reached the window in which 2016 and 2020 found their floors. “For now, the cycle data only suggests that downside risk remains,” the post reads. “It is still too early to conclude that a bottom has formed.”
Glassnode measured something else entirely and landed nearby. Its chart tracks drawdown from the all-time high across four cycles, and this one is currently 49% down. “By depth, it is the mildest on record so far,” the firm posted on X. “By the clock it isn’t finished: prior bear markets ran about 1/3 longer before reaching the lows.”
Every previous bear bottomed in a band far below 49%, and each took roughly a third more time than this one has. Depth and duration both point the same way.
The methods share a limitation. Three prior cycles is a thin sample, and both require choices about scaling and start dates that other analysts make differently. What they offer is a frame rather than a forecast.
That frame changes what a defended floor is worth. If this cycle has already bottomed, $63,400 holding looks like the base of a recovery. If it hasn’t, the same outcome looks more like a pause. Nobody knows which applies until afterwards, which is why two models converging matters less as a prediction than as a reason to treat a bounce here cautiously.
Bitcoin sits on two overlapping supports after a rejection at channel resistance, with all three major moving averages overhead. The $69,050 and $71,460 averages would more convincingly signal a trend change, and both continue to slope down. On that basis, a hold at support looks closer to a defensive result than the start of a reversal.
A daily close above $63,600 keeps the floor intact and puts the channel’s upper boundary back in play. Clearing that line would break the sequence of lower highs running since $66,900.
A close below $63,400 removes the Fibonacci marker and the 50-day average at once, leaving the lower channel boundary as the next area where buyers have a defined reason to act.
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