$BTC is nearly seven days on from the 82.9k low and still hasn't made a decision.

Up 1% over the week, down 1.6% on the day, price around 84.1k with last week's 87.2k high untouched.

Cointelegraph reports Kalshi's gold prediction markets overtaking ether in volume. A story about where attention is drifting, not about why I'm in this trade, so it changes nothing.

Funding is -0.0047%. I'm being paid to hold a long while Fear and Greed reads 71. Warm mood, nobody crowded in. That standoff has been running for days and still hasn't broken either way.

So I carry the long from around 81.4k untouched. Not adding in the middle of this range, not cutting because of a red day.

The two levels still decide it: a close above 87.2k, or a slide back under 82.9k. Neither is close from here.

A week of chopping and the same two numbers on the chart.