Bitcoin loses $40K as BTC price support levels give way to 1-week lows

Bitcoin (BTC) stayed below some critical support zones into the weekend after a late sell-off cost bulls the $40,000 mark.

BTC/USD 1-hour candle chart (Bitstamp). Source: TradingView

Upper range support levels crumble for BTC

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView painted a lackluster picture for BTC/USD Saturday — the pair lingering near $39,000 after seeing lows of $38,600.

Traders had hoped that various price points above $40,000 would be sufficient to steady the market after its latest run to $45,200.

In the event, however, bids failed to preserve the trend, sending Bitcoin back to the middle of a range in which it had acted throughout 2022.

#Bitcoin is hanging onto the edge of a cliff the past few hours pic.twitter.com/dAD2AveTOi

— Matthew Hyland (@MatthewHyland_) March 5, 2022

In a market update released Friday, Filbfilb, cofounder of trading suite DecenTrader, had highlighted $36,000 as a potential target for shorts should the area around $39,500 fail to hold — something which ultimately proved to be so. 

Bitcoin, he said, was “still rangebound on a macro level,” but support was there as a “rising tide,” which looked apt to preserve long-term structures.

Among these was the 200-week moving average (MA), now above $20,000 and rising, which should provide definitive support, as macro markets experienced something similar to the March 2020 COVID-19 crash in terms of sentiment.

“Systematic risk in the market is high and as a result, volatility should be expected and trade size and duration should be considered with this in mind,” Filbfilb advised.

“Short-term panic”

Also eyeing the macro environment was Cointelegraph contributor Michaël van de Poppe, who, in an extended YouTube video, discussed the impact of the Ukraine-Russia conflict and its knock-on effects worldwide.

Related: Price analysis 3/4: BTC, ETH, BNB, XRP, LUNA, SOL, ADA, AVAX, DOT, DOGE

Due to short-term flights to safety, he argued, gold and the U.S. dollar were profiting at Bitcoin‘s expense. Yet, under the surface, adoption was taking place.

“At this stage, we‘re seeing that Bitcoin is dropping down…

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