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Bitcoin reaches $111,000 for the primary time in November, however merchants anticipate the weekend’s upside unraveling.
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Coinbase promote strain comes as a Bitcoin whale resumes distributing BTC.
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Bulls are nonetheless unable to reclaim misplaced assist at $111,200 and above.
Bitcoin (BTC) noticed a late bid into Sunday’s weekly shut as key reclaim ranges stayed out of attain.
Bitcoin merchants mistrust “Sunday pump”
Information from Cointelegraph Markets Professional and TradingView tracked the BTC worth motion because it reached native highs of $111,129 on Bitstamp.
Whereas nonetheless rangebound, that stage marked a brand new November excessive amid the sudden return of bidder curiosity on main exchanges.
“Binance and Coinbase are bidding on $BTC now,” crypto investor and entrepreneur Ted Pillows confirmed on X.
Pillows famous that the development contrasted with that seen through the week. As Cointelegraph reported, US periods particularly had been characterised by sell-side strain.
A weekend transfer to the upside, he implied, wouldn’t maintain after the return of TradFi markets.
“I might actually recognize that if they will bid on weekdays too. One other Sunday pump, and we all know how this ends,” he added.
Commentator Exitpump forecast additional Sunday positive factors topping out at $114,000 at most.
“If that is going to occur, then as a consequence of nature of Sunday, worth can simply tag 113k and 114k going into Monday, however have low conviction on this,” he wrote.
Not everybody was within the temper to purchase. Dealer BitBull noticed renewed distribution from a Bitcoin whale pockets with outflows price $650 million since BTC/USD crashed as much as 20% from all-time highs in October.
The insider OG whale is promoting extra Bitcoin.
In the present day, he deposited one other $55M in BTC to Kraken.
Because the October crash, the whale has offered over $650M in $BTC.
When will he cease dumping? pic.twitter.com/irzkWhQLzG
— BitBull (@AkaBull_) November 2, 2025
BTC worth assist stays out of attain
Turning to necessary assist and resistance ranges, dealer and analyst Rekt Capital flagged Bitcoin’s 21-week exponential transferring common (EMA) as a close-by development line to reclaim.
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The 21-week EMA was at $111,230 on the time of writing, functioning as the present ceiling of the weekend’s upside.
“Bitcoin will not be too distant from reclaiming the 21-week EMA (inexperienced) for a profitable post-breakout retest,” Rekt Capital summarized Saturday.
Pillows, in the meantime, noticed the necessity for bulls to flip $112,000 again to assist.
$BTC pumped a bit on the US-China commerce deal.
However the energy continues to be not there.
Bitcoin must reclaim $112,000 stage with robust quantity for extra upside.
A failure to do this will end in an even bigger correction. pic.twitter.com/WcyuNjyEkD
— Ted (@TedPillows) November 2, 2025
Cas Abbe, a contributor to the onchain analytics platform CryptoQuant, in the meantime, positioned worth motion within the context of Fibonacci retracement ranges.
“BTC normally bottoms round 38.2% Fibonacci stage. This has been the case since Q1 2023, and final month one thing comparable occurred,” an X put up on the subject acknowledged.
“BTC dropped to this actual Fibonacci stage, after which bounced again. If historical past is something to go by, BTC has bottomed out. And if BTC closes a month-to-month candle beneath it, the bull run shall be almost certainly over.”
The extent in query was simply above the $100,000 mark.
This text doesn’t comprise funding recommendation or suggestions. Each funding and buying and selling transfer includes threat, and readers ought to conduct their very own analysis when making a call.
