Bitcoin sees Bollinger Bands 'head fake' with $117K bulls' next target

Key points:

• Bitcoin bulls keep momentum intact at the Wall Street open, with $117,000 and higher on the radar.

• Order-book liquidity shows shorts getting liquidated, with fresh liquidity being added higher.

• Bitcoin conforms to key Bollinger Bands levels, producing another fake breakdown this month.

Bitcoin delivered a textbook rebound move Thursday as BTC price stayed pinned by key resistance levels.

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Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed nearing $117,000 before cooling off.

The Wall Street open preserved bullish momentum, and market participants dug in to see how BTC price action would play out.

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Fellow trader CrypNuevo noted that upside liquidity on exchange order books had been taken with the visit beyond $116,800.

“This is the way the market moves - always around and towards the liquidity. Market structure for context and MM footprints for signs,” he told X followers, suggesting that $119,000 could come “next.”

Data from monitoring resource CoinGlass showed resistance now thickening between $117,500 and $118,000.

Bids meanwhile extended all the way to below $114,000, surrounding a now-filled gap in CME Group’s Bitcoin futures.

“Bitcoin has successfully found a support within the Daily CME Gap,” Rekt Capital observed.

Bollinger Bands track fake BTC price breakdown

Price action nonetheless conformed to prescribed levels highlighted on the Bollinger Bands volatility indicator.

On hourly timeframes, price rejected at the upper band, while the daily chart delivered what creator John Bollinger described as a “head fake.”

Price dipped below the lower band before reversing, rejecting a breakdown in a similar style to previous swing lows in 2025.

“Bitcoin $BTCUSD and a number of the other cryptos are setting up a head fake after a Bollinger Band Squeeze. Interestingly, the pattern is not evident in the ETFs as they don't trade on weekends and holidays,” Bollinger noted on X. 

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