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The Crypto Market Remains Stuck in the Mud

By:
Alexander Kuptsikevich
Published: Mar 18, 2025, 12:55 GMT+00:00

The first cryptocurrency has managed to stabilize, but it is not yet on a solid growth track.

The Crypto Market Remains Stuck in the Mud
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Bitcoin’s Rebound Faces Strong Resistance

The crypto market has been hovering in a narrow range for the past four days, adding just over 2.5% over the past seven days to $2.72 trillion. These are levels below the 200-day moving average, indicating that the balance of power is now on the sellers’ side. It is an important signal line separating bull from bear trends.

It is also noteworthy that stabilisation is taking place on reduced volumes, indicating that the current position is fragile despite the positive performance of stock indices in the last couple of trading sessions.

The cryptocurrency sentiment index is in fear territory, but over the past week, it went to neutral territory a couple of times during Bitcoin‘s rebound.

The first cryptocurrency has managed to stabilize, but it is not yet on a solid growth track. Strong resistance in the form of the 200-day moving average has smashed attempts to grow over the past week and a half. The stabilization of the price is helping the Relative Strength Index rise, which is reducing the oversold condition. Our concern is that this stabilization is just digging a hole under Bitcoin, and it will fall into it.

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According to CoinShares, global investments in crypto funds fell by $1.687bn last week. Bitcoin investments fell by $978m, Ethereum by $176m, and Solana by $2m. Investments in XRP rose by $2m and Cardano by $0.4m.

If the two stable correlations persist, bitcoin may move to recovery in the second quarter, Wells Fargo expects. We are talking about a positive correlation between BTC and money supply growth (M2) and a negative one with the dollar index.

Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy) reported buying 130 BTC for $10.7 million, the smallest bitcoin purchase in the firm’s history. The average purchase price was $82,981 per coin.

North Korean hacker group Lazarus currently owns 13,518 BTC ($1.13bn), more than the BTC assets in the wallets of the government of Bhutan or El Salvador, Arkham Intelligence calculated.

by FxPro’s Senior Market Analyst Alex Kuptsikevich

About the Author

Alexander is engaged in the analysis of the currency market, the world economy, gold and oil for more than 10 years. He gives commentaries to leading socio-political and economic magazines, gives interviews for radio and television, and publishes his own researches.

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