Bitcoin cost wicks below $20K as whales send 50K BTC to exchanges

Bitcoin (BTC) saw an impressive change of mood into June 22 as multi-day highs turned into a brand new dive under $20,000.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

BTC often see accumulation below key trendline

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView demonstrated BTC/USD abruptly halting its latest gains hitting lows of $19,947 on Bitstamp.

The biggest cryptocurrency had passed $21,700 yesterday, its best performance since June 16, but momentum waned during Wall Street buying and selling.

For popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital, there is danger in BTC/USD being not able to reclaim its 200-week moving average (MA).

A classic support line in the past bear markets, Bitcoin had formerly retained the 200-week MA as support with wicks below it characterizing macro cost bottoms.

“If BTC can’t reclaim the 200-week MA as support… Then among the scenarios of the items might happen would involve disadvantage to new lows prior to the formation of the Accumulation Range the very first time underneath the 200-week MA,” he cautioned.

The 200-week MA was at $22,420 during the time of writing.

BTC/USD 1-week candle chart (Bitstamp) with 200-week MA. Source: TradingView

Fellow trader Credible Crypto was more positive around the short-term perspective, telling Twitter supporters he didn’t anticipate place cost going reduced.

Zooming out, Crypto Tony likewise highlighted the “demand zone” that BTC/USD was now acting in.

“On the macro we are able to visit a couple of things here. We broke lower clearly from the distribution range. We’re now testing the very first demand zone out of this range. A reaction is anticipated, although not a bottom yet for me,” he tweeted.

“A wick lower to $17k – $15k around the cards.”

Whales turn to reduce BTC exposure

For that largest BTC hodlers, meanwhile, indications of change were already visible in on-chain data.

Related: It is not hodling! 50 PlusPercent of Bitcoin addresses still in profit

Based on on-chain analytics firm Glassnode, on June 20 and 21, Bitcoin whales deposited 50 plus,000 BTC to exchanges. This adopted 58,000 BTC in inflows on one day on June 13.

Overall inflows from whale wallets thus continued to be elevated with an intraday basis, while still not matching the amount seen during some previous sell-offs.

On May 9, for instance, exactly the same group sent over 80,000 BTC to switch accounts, probably the most since March 2020.

Bitcoin whale exchange deposits chart. Source: Glassnode

As Cointelegraph reported the 2009 week, whale buyers meanwhile produced a possible major support level just above $19,000.

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