Bitcoin in 'critical zone' as triple breakout meets $93.5K support battle

Key points:

• Bitcoin has beaten out three key resistance levels in a single weekly candle.

• The weekly close defended the 2025 yearly open, but a subsequent dip below it is making analysis question the strength of the BTC price breakout.

• BTC/USD remains in a “critical zone” pending fresh support confirmations.

Bitcoin (BTC) has broken through three key resistance levels in a week, but its biggest reclaim battle continues.

Analysis from sources including popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital underscores BTC price acting in a critical area for bulls.

Bitcoin’s latest weekly candle saw a reclaim of a full three resistance lines, Rekt Capital reveals.

In addition to horizontal weekly resistance, BTC/USD broke beyond a multimonth downtrend previously discussed by Cointelegraph, as well as the 21-week exponential moving average (EMA).

“Bitcoin broke them all last week,” Rekt Capital commented in a post on X while uploading an illustrative chart.

Another post highlights Bitcoin leaving both the 21-week and 50-week EMAs behind, with these traditionally offering bull market support.

“Bitcoin has repeated mid-2021 price history with a breakout from its range formed by the two Bull Market EMAs,” Rekt Capital summarized.

For some, however, the real test for the current BTC price rebound lies elsewhere.

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In his latest YouTube video analysis on April 28, Keith Alan, co-founder of trading resource Material Indicators, drew attention to Bitcoin’s ongoing battle to reclaim the 2025 yearly open.

At around $93,500, this level forms the key focus moving forward, with a brief dip below it after the weekly close leaving Alan concerned.

“It’s one of the reasons why I think we could see more downside volatility,” he said while acknowledging the potential benefits of a fresh support retest.

Alan added that he hoped the 21-week simple moving average (SMA) would hold, but that price was in a “critical zone.”

Short-term BTC price magnets also include $94,000 thanks to a wall of bids in place on the Binance futures order book.

The buy liquidity was flagged and uploaded to X by monitoring resource CoinGlass on April 29.

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