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Cryptocurrencies at the Mercy of Extreme Fear: What Technical Signals Indicate
The cryptocurrency market has entered February 2026 under intense pressure, with sentiment plunging into Extreme Fear. Key technical signals and market developments include:
Critical Support Break: Bitcoin has decisively broken below the psychological and technical stronghold of $80,000, reaching lows around $78,600.
Liquidation Cascade: A massive wave of liquidations, totaling over $2.5 billion on January 31 alone, has wiped out leveraged long positions, further fueling the downward momentum.
Bearish Indicators: Technical analysts note a "necessary reset" as the 21-week EMA crosses below the 50-week EMA, a mid-term bearish signal similar to previous crypto winters.
Dominance as Safe Haven: Despite the crash, Bitcoin's market dominance has risen to 57.3%, suggesting that investors are fleeing volatile altcoins for the relative perceived safety of the original digital asset.
Contrarian Bullish View: Analytics platforms like Santiment suggest that such extreme negative sentiment often acts as a bullish signal for "smart money" to begin accumulation while retail investors panic. $BTC $ETH #Fear #PanicOnTheExchange

Bitcoin could hardly be more bearish for many traders as the weekly close brings a retest of the yearly open.
With that, BTC/USD has erased all its 2025 gains, making for a truly unusual bull market year — one that many seem to have already forgotten.
There’s precious little to celebrate: Bitcoin has lost some key support trendlines, and unsurprisingly, nearby targets are to the downside.
Can April’s open CME gap form the basis for a bottom? Other levels on the radar extend all the way down to $76,000.
You’d thus be forgiven for thinking that a major trend breakdown has hit macro markets, perhaps on the back of a seismic macroeconomic or geopolitical shift.
In reality, however, nothing of the sort has happened. It’s crypto that’s looking increasingly out of place in an overall bullish risk-asset landscape.
This is a leading analysis to compare BTC and altcoin price action to that of a “leveraged tech stock,” especially given the complete lack of correlation between crypto and gold.
What’s on the menu to break the curse? The lack of US macro data remains a headache for market sentiment, even with the shutdown behind us. No one’s truly sure, for example, that the Fed will cut interest rates next month.
With crypto market sentiment on the floor, Cointelegraph takes a look at the state of play at a defining moment for the bull market.
Continue reading to discover five things to follow in what promises to be a turbulent week.

Bitcoin goes back to #Square one
Just like that, Bitcoin’s 2025 gains are gone.
The price is now back at the yearly open, and traders are split on the outlook: Is $76,000 really on the cards?
Liquidity is thickening as the week begins, and with it the odds of a breakout move.

Time for a classic #cme gap fill
One nearby price target frustratingly unfilled is the $92,800 CME futures gap.
That’s been an outlier on the charts since April, and the price is now inches from ticking it off the list.
Will the coming days finally see historical patterns repeat themselves?

#Bear market support loss: Check
One support line in the sand that bulls definitely didn’t want to lose is the 50-week moving average.
Now above $100,000, the make-or-break bull market level seems out of reach for just the fifth time in Bitcoin’s history.
The last time the price closed a weekly candle below the 50-period moving average was in March 2023.

Crypto as a “leveraged tech #stocks ”
Where crypto leads, stocks follow? Not this time.
US stocks futures are in the green this week, as Bitcoin’s gold correlation breaks down entirely.
Is crypto now just another “leveraged tech stock?”

#fear , fear and more fear
How fearful can the average crypto trader get right now? About 10/100, per the Crypto Fear & Greed Index.
Now setting new joint lows for 2025, the index is deep in “extreme fear” territory.
Amid the misery, though, could lie early signs of a market rebound.

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