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🚨 ALPHA SIGNALS DESK · MORNING BRIEF

BTC is holding a bullish structure but the easy leg of this move looks done. Here's what we're watching before the US open.

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📊 MARKET PULSE

BTC Bias: Bullish short-term, neutral medium-term

Overhead Resistance: 82,814 (Coinbase, early-May range high)

Support Below: 71,900 (50% Fibonacci retracement of the current impulse leg)

Resistance from the early-May range at 82,814 is still unbroken. The 71,900 zone is where a pullback would find its first real test.


BTC/USD (COINBASE) — KEY CHART LEVELS



Daily BTC/USD (Coinbase spot) — price testing back into the early-May resistance zone.

Resistance 1 (nearer-term): 81,265
Resistance 2 (early-May range high): 82,814
Support 1 (50% Fib / 200 EMA confluence): 71,900
Support 2 (impulse leg origin): 62,468
EMAs: 50-day → 67,692 · 200-day → 71,900

The current impulse leg (62,468 low to 81,265 high) places the 50% Fibonacci retracement at 71,866, converging closely with the 200-day EMA at 71,903. This confluence represents a technically significant area where price could find support on a pullback.

ATR(14) currently reads 2,247, offering a volatility-adjusted reference for stop placement rather than a fixed level, given current conditions.

RSI(14) sits at 66 — elevated but still below the classical overbought threshold of 70, consistent with extended but not yet exhausted upside momentum.

A daily close above 82,814 — not just a tag — is what would confirm trend resumption rather than a range-bound marke

SENTIMENT DATA

Perp Funding Rate

🟢 0.0062% — Mildly positive, longs paying shorts but not stretched

Open Interest (OI)

🟡 Caution — -3.93% (24h), declining into the rally, not yet backed by fresh leverage

Options Skew

🟢 -6.09% (1M) — calls bid over puts, bullish positioning concentrated short-term

Fear & Greed Index

🟢 65, Greed (down from 74 yesterday)


SENTIMENT CALL

Funding remains mildly positive while Open Interest contracts into the rally — a combination more consistent with spot-led price action than leverage-driven momentum. Options positioning shows a bullish skew concentrated in the near term, and broader sentiment has eased modestly from yesterday without leaving Greed territory. Taken together, the data points to constructive but measured positioning, not the stretched, leverage-heavy setup typically associated with late-stage euphoria.

ALTCOIN WATCH

TONUSDT — 1D — Kraken

Pattern: Falling Wedge

Key Level: Confirmation on a daily close above the 200 EMA, currently 1.61 (moving level)

Status: Emerging, unconfirmed

ATR(14) reads 0.072 — offered as a stop-sizing reference given the pair's current volatility, not a fixed level.

TONUSDT's structure is developing independently of BTC's price action rather than mirroring it — worth noting, since much of the broader altcoin complex continues to trade as high-beta exposure to Bitcoin rather than on independent structure.

✅ FINAL WORD

Short-to-medium-term positioning remains moderately bullish, though the easier leg of this move already appears to be behind us.

The next test is structural: whether Bitcoin can pull back into the 71,900 confluence zone, hold it, and build enough momentum to challenge resistance at 82,814. A clean reclaim there — rather than a brief tag — would be the stronger signal that trend continuation is back in play.


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