Bitcoin faces do-or-die weekly, monthly close with macro bull trend at stake

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) is leaving traders guessing as the future of the bull market depends on the last week of February.

In multiple tweets on Feb. 17, popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital flagged crucial resistance battles ongoing on BTC/USD across multiple timeframes.

Bitcoin hit new six-month highs this week as the latest innings of its 2023 recovery kept the bull-bear debate raging.

After a consolidatory start to the month, February has turned out to be something of a reckoning point for Bitcoin price strength. Gains have been a lot harder to cement than in January, when BTC/USD finished up nearly 40%.

For Rekt Capital, now is the time to pay attention — no matter whether trading daily, weekly or even monthly timeframes.

The weekly chart perhaps represents the biggest struggle in the wake of the 2022 bear market. Bitcoin is currently attempting to beat out an area of resistance it failed to vanquish last August, so far without success.

“Ultimately, a Weekly Close above this key area is what BTC needs to achieve to break this confluent area of resistance to continue moving higher,” Rekt Capital wrote in part of his latest update on the weekly chart.

The picture is complicated thanks to two other major resistance trend lines lying overhead, these coming in the form of the 50-week and 200-week moving averages (MAs).

As Cointelegraph reported, these have also just formed their first-ever “death cross” — a potential nail in the coffin for those hoping that a new bull market is beginning.

On monthly time frames, an equally tense situation is developing. Here, too, BTC/USD is “getting very close to breaking the Macro Downtrend,” Rekt Capital says.

The upcoming monthly close will be the deciding factor, as continued strength could see