Bitcoin risks return to low $80K zone next as trader says dip ‘makes sense’

Bitcoin (BTC) traders saw fresh downside at Friday’s Wall Street open as $90,000 hung in the balance.

Key points:

• Bitcoin edges closer to $90,000 with traders lining up lower BTC price targets next.

• Liquidity conditions favor a sweep of bids as an initial move, analysis agrees.

• Ichimoku Cloud signals point to a potentially bigger dip to come.

BTC price bets refocus under $90,000

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD down nearly 2% versus Thursday’s close.

After rejecting at the 2025 yearly open level the day prior, Bitcoin lacked impetus for gains, and market participants were keen to see support retests further down.

“Orderbook heatmap shows thin bid side with only reasonably large buy walls at 86K and below it,” trading account Exitpump wrote in fresh analysis on X. 

“Thinking about slowly filling the gap and resetting OI which will be healthy for the upside.”

Crypto investor and entrepreneur Ted Pillows used exchange order-book data from monitoring resource CoinGlass to flag $90,000 as an important zone.

“Bitcoin has 2 decent liquidity clusters right now. The upside liquidity is around the $94,500 level, while the downside liquidity is around the $90,000 level,” he summarized. 

“IMO, a sweep of downside liquidity before reversal makes sense.”

Pillows described current chart conditions as a “one of those ‘clean the lows then decide’ setups.”

“Ideally this doesn’t lose that ~$88K region again on the higher timeframes,” trader Daan Crypto Trades concluded the day prior.

Bitcoin Ichimoku analysis points down

Considering potential future lows, trader Titan of Crypto employed Ichimoku Cloud analysis to bring back levels closer to $80,000.

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A would-be support zone, he noted on the day, lay just below the current $83,900 local lows seen at the start of the week.

“Bitcoin $89,000 next?” he queried, referring to various key Ichimoku chart features.

“BTC took the previous weekly high and failed to break above the Kijun. A pullback toward the Tenkan from here makes sense. That’s the key level to watch. If it cracks, next support sits around $83.9k.”

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