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$84,460

+1.8% +$1,514 24h·+3.5% +$2,886 7d

90 days

Trend by timeframe1h — bullish4h — bearish1d — bullish1w — mixed1M — bullish

Between levels$95,076+12.6%$84,051-0.5%

Price action · levels and averages in placelast candle is still forming

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retarget~Thu 29 Oct in 8 daysest +6.3%1,203 blocks to go9m25s a block

halving~11 Apr 2028 in 538 days77,475 blocks to go3.125 → 1.5625 BTC a block

Key levels

confluencetwo level classes within 0.4% of each other

$99,900◆optionspivot+18.3%

$95,076◇optionspivot+12.6%

spot $84,460

long730d · 5 zones

$104,676◆$101,337–$106,52062.9d+23.9%

$96,167◆$92,636–$98,84191.4d+13.9%

$84,051◆$81,776–$85,95865.7d-0.5%

$77,218◆$75,882–$80,16163.6d-8.6%

$64,206◆$63,095–$65,01141.4d-24.0%

short90d · 3 zones

$83,633$82,185–$85,10519.5d-1.0%

$77,218◆$76,642–$79,36519.4d-8.6%

$64,206◆$62,781–$65,33624.6d-24.0%

swingsrejection highs and lows on 1D candles

$90,742low2024-12-30 · broken 2025-02-25+7.4%

$89,164low2025-01-13 · broken 2025-02-25+5.6%

$88,772high2025-04-02 · broken 2025-04-22+5.1%

$87,374high2026-09-21 · holding+3.4%

spot $84,460

$83,814low2025-12-18 · broken 2026-01-31-0.8%

$82,833high2026-09-03 · broken 2026-09-21-1.9%

$80,537low2025-11-21 · broken 2026-01-31-4.6%

$78,197low2025-02-28 · broken 2025-04-08-7.4%

What has moved the priceresearched 2026-10-21

Bitcoin firmed on Wednesday to the low-to-mid $83,000s: it opened at about $82,940 per Yahoo Finance, up 1.3% from Tuesday's open, and CoinDesk's price page showed about $83,679 at 10:13am ET, as strong AI earnings revived tech shares. It has not closed a day above $84,000 since 6 October. Spot bitcoin ETF buying slowed sharply, to about $23m on Tuesday per SoSoValue after Monday's $527m, and Brent climbed back above $110. The 28 October FOMC decision is the next fixed point.

2026-10-21todaymarket

Bitcoin hovers near $83,000 as AI earnings revive tech

Bitcoin rose about 1.3% in Asian trading on Wednesday after strong tech earnings lifted Asian equities, per CoinDesk. Yahoo Finance had it opening at about $82,940, up 1.3% from Tuesday's open, and CoinDesk's price page showed about $83,679 at 10:13am ET. One market report noted bitcoin has not closed a day above $84,000 since 6 October.CoinDesk →

2026-10-21todaymacro

Brent back above $110 after Tuesday's reversal

Brent crude traded at about $110.38 at 03:50 GMT on Wednesday, up about 1.5%, per Reuters as cited by FinanceFeeds. On Tuesday it touched $111.99, its highest since May, before settling at $108.79 after unconfirmed reports of a Qatar- or Pakistan-backed plan to revive US-Iran talks; CoinDesk reported the proposal was later denied.FinanceFeeds →

2026-10-201d agoflows

Bitcoin ETF inflows drop to $23m after Monday's $527m

US spot bitcoin ETFs took in about $23.16m on 20 October per SoSoValue, down roughly 96% from Monday. BlackRock's IBIT added about $29.86m and Fidelity's FBTC about $3.58m, while Bitwise's BITB lost about $10.29m. Net assets stand near $106.28bn and cumulative net inflows near $57.43bn.KuCoin News →

2026-10-201d agomarket

Bitcoin dips to $81,400 as Brent tops $111, then recovers

Bitcoin opened Tuesday at about $81,844 and fell to roughly $81,405 by 7:31am ET per Yahoo Finance, as Brent crude climbed above $111, its highest since May, on attacks in the Middle East and against shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. It recovered through the US session, with Yahoo's chart at about $82,704 at 10:07am ET and CoinDesk's price page at about $82,463 at 2:36pm ET, as oil reversed lower on reports of a US-Iran proposal.Yahoo Finance →

2026-10-201d agomacro

Oil falls from five-month high on report of US-Iran proposal

Brent fell roughly 2-3% from above $111 on Tuesday, with quotes ranging from about $105.76 to $107.04 depending on source and time, after reports that Qatar and Pakistan had proposed a framework to ease US-Iran tensions, reportedly tied to interest on about $6bn of Iranian funds held in Qatari banks and an unannounced IAEA inspection. Reports differ on whether both sides have accepted it, and none is confirmed. The 10-year Treasury yield held near 5.12%, and the Dow rose about 1% while the Nasdaq was roughly flat.Invezz →

2026-10-192d agoflows

Bitcoin ETFs take in $527m, biggest day since 22 September

US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded a net inflow of about $526.6m on 19 October per SoSoValue (Farside: $526.7m), the largest since 22 September. BlackRock's IBIT took in about $665.2m and was the only fund with a positive flow; Fidelity's FBTC lost about $83.6m and Grayscale's GBTC about $54.9m. Cumulative net inflows since launch stand near $57.40bn. Daily flows have alternated between inflows and outflows for six straight sessions.BeInCrypto →

2026-10-192d agomarket

Bitcoin rebounds toward $83,000 as oil eases and risk mood improves

Bitcoin closed Sunday up just under 1% near $82,000 and extended the rebound on Monday, briefly trading above $83,000; CoinDesk's price page showed about $81,928 at 3:41pm ET, up roughly 1.4% on the day. FXStreet tied the move to a roughly 2% drop in Brent, which stayed above $100, and to firmer equities, while noting US spot bitcoin ETFs had lost about $228.6m the prior week. One analyst called it a retracement after a big risk-off week rather than fresh strength.FXStreet →

2026-10-192d agomacro

Nasdaq rebounds 1.1% as Brent slips from five-month high

The Nasdaq rose about 1.1% to 26,430.89 and the S&P 500 about 0.4% to 7,690.73 on 19 October as tech stocks recovered from the prior week's selloff; the Dow slipped about 0.07%. Brent fell from Friday's $109.86 settle, trading around $107.50-$108.50 intraday, after Trump waived sanctions and tariffs on Russia that may free up more Russian fuel exports, though Iranian media reported a tanker struck a mine in the Strait of Hormuz on Sunday. The 10-year yield held near 5.1%, and October hike odds were reported around 16-17%.Yahoo Finance →

2026-10-174d agomarket

Bitcoin holds near $81,500 as Brent hits $110 on Iran strike warning

Bitcoin traded near $81,500 on Saturday, down about 0.7% on the day, as Brent crude reached a monthly high of about $110. An Iranian state-media correspondent said Trump's remarks pointed to conflict within 24 hours and that Iran's armed forces were fully prepared; that is a media claim, not an official announcement. Bitcoin had briefly fallen below $80,000 earlier in the week for the first time in a month before rebounding.TokenPost →

2026-10-165d agoflows

Bitcoin ETFs shed $82m, led by BlackRock's IBIT

US spot bitcoin ETFs recorded a net outflow of about $82.4m on 16 October per SoSoValue, with withdrawals from IBIT and FBTC; other trackers attribute about $71.8m, roughly 87%, to IBIT. Cumulative net inflows since launch stand near $56.88bn, and October's net outflow is about $615m. Ether ETFs lost about $60-70m the same day, depending on the tracker.Crypto Briefing →

2026-10-165d agomacro

Nasdaq falls 2% to worst week since June; Brent settles near $110

The Nasdaq fell 2.14% on 16 October to 26,140, its worst week since June, on an extended selloff in AI and tech shares; the S&P 500 fell 1.09% and the Dow 0.34%. Brent crude settled at $109.86, up about 3.7% and its highest since May, as no US-Iran deal emerged and Iran escalated attacks on vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.BNN Bloomberg →

2026-10-165d agomarket

Bitcoin slips below $81,000 as AI and chip stocks sell off

Bitcoin fell below $81,000 on 16 October in a selloff that began around 7:30am ET, alongside rising oil prices and a slump in AI hardware and infrastructure stocks; Bitcoin.com had it below $81,000 at 1:43pm ET, after an open near $82,100. Market-wide liquidations were about $290m per CoinGlass, down sharply from about $929m a day earlier. Micron, SanDisk and CoreWeave led a Nasdaq 100 decline of roughly 1.3-1.5% at midday, with CoreWeave pressured by concern over its debt load.Bitcoin.com →

Standing context — the background these headlines land against

October 2025 high was above $126,000. The drawdown into mid-2026 tracks the rhythm bitcoin has repeated after every halving since 2012 — which is a pattern, not a mechanism, and it cuts both ways as an argument.
The August rally is led by regulation and rates, not by adoption or on-chain demand. A squeeze that has already fired is spent fuel; a rulemaking still in its comment period is not.
The SEC's market-structure proposal remains just that -- a proposal, with 60 days of comments to run before anything is final, the one regulatory lever still standing after the CLARITY Act's cloture failure on 15 September.
The rally met its first real technical resistance on 25 August: an intraday high of $81,265 was rejected at the 50-week moving average and price fell back under $80,000. Whether that level holds on a retest is now an open question the squeeze itself doesn't answer.
The rate-path narrative flipped on 28 August: markets had been pricing cuts off falling yields and Treasury buybacks, but Fed Chair Warsh's hawkish Jackson Hole debut moved odds toward a possible September hike instead, reintroducing the macro headwind the summer rally had priced out.
That hawkish turn didn't hold: by 3 September, Fed Governor Waller's comments that he could support holding rates steady pulled September hike odds back down to about 50%, from above 63% a day earlier. It didn't hold either — the 4 September jobs report pushed odds back up toward 59%, the rate path's third swing within a single Fed meeting cycle. The 16 September FOMC decision itself is now the next fixed point, not a forecast.
The rate path swung a fourth time on 11 September: the hot core CPI print pushed hike odds to roughly 85-86% on CME FedWatch, the highest reading of the cycle, though prediction markets (Kalshi, Polymarket) still sat closer to 48-49% on the same day -- a reminder that the exchange-based odds quoted through this arc are one measure, not a consensus.
That gap closed by 14 September: Polymarket priced the hike at 81.5-90%, in line with CME's own reading (about 86.5%, up from 69.4% the Friday before), as prediction markets caught up to the exchange-based odds. A Saudi pipeline strike pushed Brent above $109 that same day, adding a fresh oil-driven inflation risk into the decision.
The CLARITY Act's Senate cloture vote failed 46-43 on 15 September, well short of the 60 needed -- the regulatory tailwind that helped drive the summer rally is now spent for 2026, not merely paused, with any successor bill unlikely before 2029 given the midterm calendar.
That fixed point arrived on 16 September: the Fed hiked 25 basis points to 3.75%-4.00%, its first increase in more than three years, voting 12-0, with 16 of 18 officials' projections pointing to at least one more hike by year-end.
The hike didn't hold as a headwind either: by 17 September bitcoin had erased its post-decision drop, rebounding over $76,600 as yields eased -- a sell-the-rumor, buy-the-fact reaction. With the FOMC decision now behind it, the market's regulatory question has shifted from the Senate, where CLARITY died, to whether the CFTC, SEC and a House reserve bill can fill that gap from the agency and committee side instead.
That rebound kept running: by 18 September bitcoin had cleared $80,000, a 5%+ short-covering rally -- futures open interest fell to a one-month low -- that outran the day's still-rising Treasury yields, the strongest evidence yet that the post-FOMC relief move has legs beyond a single session.
By 19 September the rate-path story had a new leg: October hike odds, barely on the radar a month earlier, jumped to roughly 56-58% across CME, Polymarket and Kalshi after Warsh declined to rule out a further tightening sequence, and price stalled just below the $83,000-$86,000 zone where long-term holder cost basis and the futures market's short-liquidation cluster both concentrate.
That zone was tested and broken on 21 September: a $648m short squeeze plus falling oil prices (Iran-diplomacy hopes ahead of the UN General Assembly) drove bitcoin above $85,000 for the first time since January, and the prior week's close above the 50-week moving average -- unbroken since 9 November 2025 -- adds a technical case the move has legs beyond a squeeze. The open question it doesn't answer: on-chain data shows roughly 1.07m BTC held by long-term holders with cost basis concentrated near $85,000, supply that could turn to selling pressure as it returns to breakeven.
The squeeze had a second leg on 22 September: spot ETFs absorbed a $999m inflow, their largest in nearly a year, as bitcoin extended to roughly $87,300 before easing back -- evidence the move is drawing in real buying rather than resting on short covering alone. Thursday's $14.4bn quarterly options expiry, the largest of the year, is the next scheduled test, with max pain estimated well below spot.
The rate path swung a fifth time on 23 September: Fed Governor Barr's public backing for another hike, alongside a hot S&P Global flash PMI print showing input costs at their steepest since October 2022, pushed October hike odds to about 73% and the 10-year yield to a 19-year high, pulling bitcoin back from its $87,300 peak toward $85,700-86,200 even as ETFs bought for a fourth straight day -- the same tug between real flow demand and a reasserting rate headwind that has defined the move since 19 September.
The rate path swung a sixth time on 24 September: CME FedWatch odds of the October hike rose further to about 75%, and traders began pricing a second, back-to-back hike in December at roughly 59% for the first time. Bitcoin slid to about $83,400-83,900, testing the bottom of the $83,000-$86,000 zone flagged on 19 September as long-term-holder cost basis, and the break below $84,000 triggered $360-400m in long liquidations -- the clearest sign yet that the rate headwind, not the ETF bid, is setting the market's direction into Thursday's $14.4bn quarterly options expiry.
That test resolved without a clear winner on 25 September: roughly $16bn in BTC/ETH options -- one of the year's largest quarterly expiries -- settled on Deribit while the 10-year yield pushed to a fresh multi-decade high near 5.2% and October hike odds firmed to roughly 70-75%, holding bitcoin in the $84,000-$85,200 range rather than resolving the $83,000-$86,000 zone either way.
The flow side of that tug-of-war won a round by 26 September: a $2.4bn weekly ETF inflow through 25 September flipped 2026 net flows positive for the first time since being $5.8bn underwater in mid-July, even with the 10-year yield still pinned near a 19-year high and October hike odds near 70-73% -- real buying outpacing the same rate headwind that has swung the tape six times since 19 September.
The rate path swung a seventh time on 28 September, this time from geopolitics rather than the Fed calendar: Trump's rejection of Iran's Hormuz reopening plan sent Brent toward $107 and the 10-year yield to a fresh 5.21% high, pulling bitcoin from the weekend's $84,800-85,000 range down to about $83,000-83,300 -- a reminder that oil-driven inflation risk, not just scheduled data, can move the same rate headwind that has swung the tape since 19 September.
That swing partly reversed on 29 September: bitcoin recovered above $84,000 and DeFi tokens rallied even as the 10-year yield pushed to a fresh 5.234% high and the 30-year neared a 2004 high, decoupling from stocks (down a second session) and gold (down nearly 4%) -- the first day since 19 September the rate headwind hasn't dragged price down with it.
The rate path swung an eighth time on 30 September, and for the first time since 19 September it swung in bitcoin's favor from the data itself, not just geopolitics: a cooler-than-expected PCE print -- core inflation at 3.0% against a 3.3% estimate -- cut CME FedWatch odds of the October 28 hike from about 70% to roughly 35-37%, with Polymarket's implied probability falling a similar amount. Bitcoin spiked to $85,600 on the print before giving back most of the move to settle near $84,400, leaving the $83,000-$86,000 long-term-holder zone flagged on 19 September still unresolved heading into the 2 October jobs report and 14 October CPI.
The first trading day of October brought no fresh swing, just a pause on both sides of the tug-of-war: the nine-day, $3.1bn ETF inflow streak that had carried the flow side since 19 September ended with a $149m outflow on 30 September, and the 10-year yield touched a fresh multi-decade high near 5.33% intraday before easing to 5.24%, holding bitcoin in a narrow range near $83,500 rather than testing either edge of the $83,000-$86,000 zone. The SEC also lost a crypto-friendly voice the same day its commissioner count effectively did: Hester Peirce's departure on 2 October narrows the agency to two members, Chair Atkins and Uyeda, heading into Friday's jobs report and the 14 October CPI print.
The rate path swung a ninth time on 2 October, and it was the softest labor print of the cycle that did it: September payrolls rose just 29,000, about a third of the roughly 90,000 forecast, and unemployment climbed to 4.2%. Bitcoin spiked above $87,000 on the read that a weaker labor market makes the Fed's case for easing rather than hiking, before giving back half the move to settle near $85,300 -- still inside the $83,000-$86,000 long-term-holder zone flagged on 19 September, now with the 14 October CPI as the next scheduled test. The flow side also turned, with a $676m ETF inflow on 1 October reversing the prior day's outflow, and the regulatory track gained a second lever alongside the stalled CLARITY Act: the SEC proposed a new crypto custody rule for advisers and funds on 1 October, opening its own 60-day comment period.
Bitcoin pushed to the top of that zone over the weekend, nearly retesting $87,000, before the rate path swung a tenth time on 5 October -- this time from the dollar rather than yields directly: the dollar index broke out to an 18-month high on fiscal and political risk in France and Spain, and the 10-year yield climbed back toward its 22-year high near 5.34%, pulling bitcoin back to about $86,000 even as October hike odds partly recovered to roughly 24% from Friday's 15% low. The same day brought the first US 3x leveraged bitcoin and ether ETFs, approved by an SEC now down to two commissioners, and a technical note to watch alongside the $83,000-$86,000 zone: bitcoin's 50-, 100- and 200-day moving averages are one crossover from their first full bullish alignment since 2025.

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