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$BTC is still hovering above the same ugly shelf after the $180M flush, and I don’t like how the book looks there.
We tagged around $76,769, bounced just enough for people to start saying support held, and then the tape went back to acting like every bid under spot is made of paper. The $75.6k to $75.7k area is not some beautiful level. It is just where the last liquidation wave stopped for now. Late longs are still damaged, perps are jumpy, and the spot book has that hollow feel where size looks fine until someone actually tries to hit it.
I wanted to bid the low $76k area for a scalp, then watched spot delta flatten on the first lift and kept my hands off it. BTC popped maybe $500 and immediately ran into a fresh stack of asks. Not patient sellers either. The kind that reload right above market like someone has inventory to move and does not care if everyone can see it.
That is the reflex-bounce trap. You get a move off the lows, funding calms down a bit, people convince themselves the forced selling is done, then the reclaim fails because the bid is not real. The bounce is just air between two sell zones.
Now we have Nvidia sitting there with a $78.8B revenue expectation, FOMC minutes landing in the same mess, rate-cut hopes already fragile, Iran reopening its market while U.S.-Iran headlines still look one bad quote away from turning risk-off again, and everyone is trying to price all of that through a BTC book that can barely absorb a medium sell without the spread widening and the next layer vanishing.
Great setup.
You can see the ghost bids. A decent wall shows up under spot, maybe enough to make the chart look supported, then a 100 BTC sell order taps the tape and half of it disappears before it has to prove anything. That is not absorption. That is decoration.
The Nvidia crowd will try to make this about AI risk appetite. Maybe they get a clean print, maybe equities like it, maybe crypto gets dragged higher for a few hours. But if BTC cannot hold the lift and push back toward $79k without the ask side reloading instantly, nobody on the desk is going to pretend that is strength. It just means the same sellers got a better level.
FOMC minutes are worse because they hit the part of the trade that already feels weak. If the language leans even slightly hawkish, the “cuts later” crowd has to back up again, and crypto does not have much cushion after a flush where the spot bid never properly rebuilt. Iran is just another headline grenade sitting in the corner. Reopening can be spun as calm. A threat can flip the same tape five minutes later. Strong markets absorb that noise. This one waits for someone else to buy first.
The whole thing comes back to the failed reclaim. BTC lifts, stalls, ask reloads, delta goes flat, then everyone stares at $75.6k again like it is supposed to save the week. The level has been tested emotionally before it has even broken technically.
Greg already pulled half his limits under support because he does not want to be the bid someone uses before the weekend gap, and I can’t blame him.
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The recent correction in the crypto market, which saw Bitcoin pull back from its mid-May highs near $82,800 down to the current range of $77,000 - $76,900, is due to a confluence of macroeconomic, geopolitical, and internal liquidity factors.
First, it corresponds to Macroeconomic Catalysts (Hawkish Repricing)
The latest macroeconomic data from the U.S. shook up the global risk board.
Persistent inflation from April's CPI is coming in at 3.8%, and the PPI surprised with a strong spike to 6%.

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