Bitcoin analysts weigh sub-$17.5K dip after 'weak' BTC price bounce

cointelegraph.com:

Bitcoin (BTC) avoided losses as United States equities dived on the July 14 Wall Street open, but traders remained nervous.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView followed BTC/USD as it lingered around $20,000 on the day.

Wall Street opened with losses, the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index both down around 1.8% at the time of writing.

Bitcoin nonetheless managed to hold its own as the largest cryptocurrency's correlation to stocks fell to its lowest levels of 2022 so far.

That said, few were willing to say that the worst was over for hodlers.

"This has been a weak rebound so far. Another possible bearish continuation...," macro analyst Aksel Kibar summarized to Twitter followers.

Popular analyst and social media personality Michael Suppo meanwhile expected a lower low than June's near $17,500 levels thanks to a cocktail of macro economic factors.

"No way is $17.5k the bottom for Bitcoin," he wagered.

Others hoped that higher support levels would hold before any retest of existing multi-month lows.

13.7K is a possibility that we've been watching for 10 months now. #Bitcoin will not hit 13.7K unless we lose 19.5K as support.19.5K is holding really well so far. The bottom is likely in or very close to being in but most will miss the bottom while waiting for lower prices pic.twitter.com/AJF5ye0ntn

"BTC has experienced most of its Downtrend Acceleration phase," fellow trader and analyst Rekt Capital continued with a slightly more optimistic perspective.

The macro story on the day remained the U.S. dollar, which continued to hit new twenty-year highs against a basket of trading partner currencies.

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Those included the euro and Japanese yen,