BTC price recovers to 3-day highs as new whale support forms at $19.2K

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) held steady at the June 20 Wall Street open as nervous traders waited for a short-term trend decision.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD climbing to just shy of $21,000 at the time of writing, a three-day high.

The weekend had spooked the majority of the market and liquidated speculators with a trip to $17,600, marking Bitcoin’s lowest levels since November 2020.

Now, with United States equities cool at the start of the week, comparative calm characterized the largest cryptocurrency.

“Nice reaction off of the bottom of our 16-20k demand zone,” popular trading account Credible Crypto commented on the weekend’s price action.

When in doubt, zoom out

The idea of focusing on HTF, or higher timeframe price structures was shared by various commentators as the week began.

“BTC is in a macro bottoming period for this cycle,” fellow trader and analyst Rekt Capital continued.

Rekt Capital additionally described a $20,000 BTC price as a “gift” to buyers.

“BTC data science shows that anything below $35,000 is an area that has historically yielded outsized ROI for long-term Bitcoin investors,” part of a tweet on the day read.

On-chain analytics resource Whalemap meanwhile highlighted dip-buying by major investors at levels below the seminal $20,000.

New whale level has formed over the weekend's dump.The accumulation is quite large, >100k BTC, and happened on the 18th of June. Prior to that, a large portion of Dec 2018 Bitcoins have moved from the previous 4k bottom... Could be OTCLooks like a great short-term support pic.twitter.com/rJbV26ZifG

Bitcoin heading below its prior halving cycle all-time high meanwhile increased pressure on the popular Stock-to-Flow BTC price models — and criticism of