Bitcoin ignores US jobs data as BTC price dip puts $28K support at risk

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Bitcoin (BTC) has recovered from a 10-day low on Wall Street on April 20 as US jobs data boosted investor confidence.

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BTC/USD 1 hour candlestick chart (Bitstamp).Source: Trading View

BTC Price: ‘Lights Out’ at $28,000?

Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView It showed BTC/USD flipping upwards after reaching $28,360 on Bitstamp.

The pair nevertheless failed to regain $29,000 as support as U.S. unemployment data suggested tight financial conditions were working to cool inflation amid an ongoing correction.

Physical gold became the major risk asset beneficiary, rising above $2,000 on the day.

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XAU/USD 1-hour candlestick chart. Source: TradingView.

US stocks opened higher but then reversed their gains, with the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index down 0.6%.

BTC/USD is hovering around $28,800 at the time of writing, with popular Twitter trader and analyst Adam warning that the current range is not holding.

“This seems like a ‘lights out if you lose this level’ type of scenario,” he says. Admitted Along with a chart showing the range of support.

“As far as participation goes, the low end is pretty well suppressed for me, who likes to go long and aggressive here.

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BTC/USD annotated chart.Source: Adam/Twitter

Fellow trader Pierre, meanwhile, has his eyes on a retest of the No Trade Zone, which will drop to $27,000.

In an additional post, I explained the upside and downside targets if BTC/USD fails to stay trendy for a few weeks on the daily timeframe.

Binance orderbook data shows bid liquidity dipping below the spot an hour before job data, with the closest real support currently at $28,000.

“Note: local support has become very tight,” said monitoring resource Material Indicators, which produced the data and uploaded it to Twitter. I have written Part of the accompanying commentary.

“Some were put in place to absorb a dump of just over $28,000.

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BTC/USD orderbook data (Binance). Source: Material Indicators/ Twitter

Crypto Liquidations Cool Down After 2023 Record

A day after April 19, when the largest tally of 2023 took place, the long-term liquidation took its last breath as the funding rate turned negative.

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According to data from coin glassCroscript Long liquidations for the day totaled $262 million, compared with just $34 million on April 20.

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Crypto Liquidation Charts. Source: Coinglass

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