Since hitting a brand new all-time excessive, Bitcoin (BTC) worth has been unable to flip the $19,400 stage to assist. That is probably as a result of chance that whales are promoting aggressively within the $19,400 to $19,600 vary to stop the all-time excessive from being breached. Above the report excessive, there’s little resistance till a brand new ceiling is achieved.

Bitcoin whale inflows into exchanges. Supply: CryptoQuant

Whales hold promoting every time BTC nears the all-time excessive

Information from each CryptoQuant and Whalemap present that the $19,500 stage is a vital space for whales.

First, there are massive whale clusters at round $19,500. Which means that whales purchased BTC right here and didn’t transfer their holdings, which could make it a take revenue area.

Moreover, whale inflows to exchanges have been rising as the worth of Bitcoin surpassed $19,500. This exhibits that whales are strongly promoting or shorting $19,500 and past.

A pseudonymous dealer often known as “Byzantine Basic” additionally emphasised that there are heavy promote orders on Binance. He famous that the $19,500 stage could be a troublesome resistance space for patrons to interrupt.

What may occur within the brief ter?

Within the close to time period, analysts are divided on the short-term outlook of BTC. Some say {that a} main correction might nonetheless come, particularly if  BTC continues to reject on the $19,500 stage.

Ki Younger Ju, the CEO of CryptoQuant, stated he expects BTC to both transfer sideways or down within the brief time period. He wrote:

“I am long-term bullish, however I feel it’s going to go sideways for a couple of days or get corrected. I feel we will not break $20K within the short-run. I count on it’s going to break 20k on the finish of this yr. (I am not a PA dealer tho) In conclusion, OG whales stopped HODLing and I am short-term bearish.”

Ki pinpointed that Bitcoin whales stopped accumulating Bitcoin on the present worth. He defined that it’s troublesome to segregate institutional bids from spot bids. Nonetheless, he stated that the timing of the stalling of BTC’s rally and the sell-off from whales match. He added:

“This $20k battle could be $BTC OG whales versus retail traders. And I am on their aspect, short-term bearish. I do know on-chain information cannot inform the inflows of institutional spot bids. But it surely appears to be like like present BTC whales(OGs) stopped their transfer that was good for the bull rally.”

Bitcoin (BTC) noticed the most important whale inflows since July, based on information from CryptoQuant. The info coincides with BTC’s steady rejection at $19,400.