Bitcoin Price Dips to $65,000: BTC Futures Signal Prime Buying Opportunity – What’s Next, $60,000 or $70,000?

• Bitcoin’s price dips to $65,000, signaling a potential prime buying opportunity as analysts predict fluctuations between $60,000 and $70,000.
• Market sentiment remains strong despite recent price corrections, with analysts suggesting a cyclic pattern in Bitcoin’s trajectory.

CryptoQuant, a leading on-chain data/analytics provider, has noted record-long positive Bitcoin futures funding rates, signaling a robust bullish sentiment. This suggests an imminent opportunity in the Bitcoin market. Such sustained positive futures funding rates indicate not just strong bullish sentiment but may also hint at an upcoming price correction.

This scenario is increasingly viewed as a prime buying opportunity by market experts. Futures funding rates, which are periodic payments exchanged between traders, reflect the divergence between the perpetual futures contract price and Bitcoin’s spot price. In a typical situation, if futures prices are higher than the spot, holders of long positions pay those holding short positions, and vice versa, as detailed in the CNF YouTube video below.

However, this optimism is often a precursor to price corrections. Market analysts observe that a decrease in Bitcoin’s price following this trend could offer an ideal buying window. Additionally, a growing Coinbase Premium, indicative of active U.S. institutional buying, further reinforces this outlook.

Bitcoin’s value recently decreased by approximately 9% over the past week, now standing 10.5% below its all-time high. Market analyst Tony Sycamore anticipates a further decline to around $60,000, which he interprets as a corrective phase before an eventual upswing towards $80,000.

This view aligns with a recent CNF report on Bitcoin ETFs under pressure, highlighting GBTC’s record outflows as BTC dipped by 5%. Despite these outflows, Bitcoin’s price remained relatively stable. This trend aligns with other analysts’ observations that corrections around all-time highs are typical market behaviors, often leading to a strong bullish phase. Historically, Bitcoin has demonstrated the potential to rebound significantly after such corrections, suggesting a cyclic pattern in its price trajectory.

Further emphasizing this sentiment, CryptoQuant tweeted about Crypto SunMoon, a Korean cryptocurrency trader, noting these record-long positive Bitcoin futures funding rates. This historically precedes price corrections, suggesting that a subsequent drop may present a prime buying opportunity.

.@t0_god noted record-long positive #bitcoin futures funding rates, signaling strong bullish sentiment.

Historically, such optimism precedes price corrections.

A subsequent drop may offer a prime buying opportunity. pic.twitter.com/RDLHJUw32f

— CryptoQuant.com (@cryptoquant_com) April 3, 2024

What’s Next, $60,000 or $70,000?

IG market analyst Tony Sycamore notes that BTC has fallen about 9% over the past week, hitting a low just below $65,000 on April 2. It currently stands 10.5% below its March 14 all-time high of $73,738, and there’s potential for a further drop.

In a recent post, Sycamore predicted a drop to support at around $60,000, or possibly lower. He mentions,

“Bitcoin is higher at $65,781 (+0.48%) in quiet trading ahead of Friday night’s critical Non-Farm Payrolls release. Tuesday’s sell-off increases the likelihood that #BTC is undertaking another leg lower (into support at $60/58k) to complete a three-wave correction from the $73,794 high before the uptrend towards $80,000 resumes.”

As per the latest update from Coin Market Cap, BTC is trading around $66,186, showing a decrease of 5.60% over the past week. In my view, whether the next milestone will be $60,000 or $70,000 will depend on dynamic market factors.