BTC has recovered from Friday’s jobs-driven dip, but Enflux says overhead resistance remains intact while Glassnode’s market structure data suggests traders are buying the rally while still positioning for downside.
BTC has recovered from Friday’s jobs-driven dip, but Enflux says overhead resistance remains intact while Glassnode’s market structure data suggests traders are buying the rally while still positioning for downside.
Bitcoin is trading just above $80,000 with a stronger structural floor from ETF demand and low exchange reserves, but its rebound still looks more like a test of resistance than a decisive breakout. Trading data from Glassnode show buyers growing more aggressive in both spot and futures markets, yet rising leverage and increased short-side funding suggest many traders are still hedging rather than fully embracing the rally.
The recovery in other high-end risk assets, such as luxury watches, contrasts with bitcoin’s inability to clear key resistance levels, leaving its next move heavily dependent on upcoming inflation data and broader macro sentiment. The market structure tells a more complicated story than the price alone, according to market observers.
Beneath bitcoin’s rebound, buyers are becoming more active, and structural support from ETFs remains intact, but much of the recent activity is also being amplified by leveraged futures traders rather than purely spot demand. That makes the recovery more vulnerable to a macro disappointment, particularly with inflation data looming.
Singapore-based market maker Enflux said in a note to CoinDesk that ETF demand and low exchange reserves are helping to build a structural floor for BTC, while Glassnode’s market indicators in itsThe problem is that the improvement is not clean. Momentum has eased, leverage has risen, and funding is showing more short-side demand, suggesting traders are still hedging against the rally rather than fully embracing it. That leaves bitcoin in an awkward middle ground.
BTC is up 13.4% over the past 30 days and is holding above $81,000, but Friday’s reaction to the stronger-than-expected jobs report — strong numbers mean the Fed is less likely to cut rates — showed how sensitive the market remains to recent buyer cost bases. The headline number beat consensus, yet BTC fell from about $82,000 to $79,743 before recovering over the weekend.
“A headline beat should have cleared $80,700 cleanly, but spot pulled back first,” Enflux wrote. “That level is real overhead, not just a chart marker. ” If risk appetite is returning, why hasn’t BTC broken out more convincingly? Enflux points to an unusual comparison point, arguing that the recovering luxury watch market may offer an early read on how affluent investors are behaving.
, the firm noted that prices rose 1.9% in the first quarter, with gains spreading across 25 of 35 tracked brands as value retention and inventory turnover improved. The broader takeaway is not that crypto money is flowing into watches, but that affluent buyers are re-engaging with risk assets where pricing, scarcity and demand look easier to underwrite after a long correction.
That creates an uncomfortable contrast for bitcoin: if high-end risk appetite is thawing, BTC’s continued struggle to decisively break above key resistance suggests crypto has not yet become the clearest expression of that returning confidence. Glassnode’s trading data suggests buyers are becoming more aggressive, but not in a way that fully resolves the question of conviction. One key measure is cumulative volume delta, or CVD, which tracks whether traders are more aggressively buying at market prices or selling into bids.
In simple terms, it helps show who is pushing the market. Glassnode said spot CVD, which reflects activity in the underlying bitcoin market, rose 46.4% from $42.4 million to $62.0 million, suggesting buyers are increasingly willing to pay up rather than wait for cheaper entry points. Perpetual CVD, the same measure applied to crypto futures, jumped from $110.0 million to $410.3 million, showing leveraged traders are also leaning more bullish.
That can accelerate gains, but it is a less durable signal than spot demand because futures positions can reverse quickly if sentiment shifts. The caution signals are just as important. Bitcoin, market observers say, has a stronger floor than it did a month ago, but the next leg higher may depend less on crypto-native enthusiasm than on whether inflation data gives traders enough confidence to stop hedging the rally and start chasing it.
Bitcoin held above $81,000 after touching $82,026 overnight, while solana led the major altcoins on the week as The Big Short investor warned the Nasdaq 100 had reached dot-com bubble territory and oil zoomed past $105 on fresh Iran ceasefire doubts. Major cryptocurrencies, including bitcoin, largely held their gains near record levels even as global equity markets and other risk assets came under pressure.
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