Bitcoin has set a ‘Golden Cross’ which last saw a 170% BTC price gain.

Bitcoin has set a 'Golden Cross' which last saw a 170% BTC price gain.


Bitcoin (BTC) continued to face excessive liquidity pressure on May 17 as it saw a new “golden cross” on the smaller timeframes.

BTC/USD 4-Hour Chart. Source: TradingView

Bitcoin chart bull symbols are stacked.

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed that BTC price action is at its highest level since mid-April.

Liquidity at $67,000 and above continues to be an upward force, totaling around $75 million at the time of writing, according to data tracked by CoinGlass.

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BTC liquid temperature map (screenshot). Source: CoinGlass

While below both the 2024 and 2021 all-time highs, Bitcoin nonetheless excited market watchers, with the famous anonymous trader's mustache highlighting two trends in particular.

“The golden cross (12h-chart) is close for $BTC,” he told his followers on X (formerly Twitter) in one of his latest posts.

A golden cross occurs when the short-term moving average crosses above the long-term counterpart, the last event in October last year – before Bitcoin posted its most recent gains.

“The last bullish cross was six months ago. Since then, Bitcoin is up more than 170%,” Mustache added.

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BTC/USD with Golden Cross events. Source: Beard/X

Crypto Titan Trader suggested that the Ichimoku Cloud indicator could record the trend.

“BTC seems to be repeating the same pattern from the beginning of 2024,” added the X post section read on May 16 when BTC/USD met the Ichimoku criteria above 60%.

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Source: Titan of Crypto

Ichimoku Cloud Consolidates $60,000 BTC Price Support

Subsequently, the titan of crypto was among those who disclosed that $60,000 was transferred from support resistance.

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As Cointelegraph reports, that area contains a variety of bull market trends, all of which are now coming together in one place.

Among them are the short-term holder's guaranteed price and the 100-day moving average, the latter of which is rising rapidly and is now above $62,000.

“BTC is perfectly reversing its previous resistance to support,” Titan of Crypto summarized with an Ichimoku chart.

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BTC/USD chart with Ichimoku data. Source: Titan of Crypto/X

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