Bitcoin Eyes $82K Resistance: Is the Rally Resuming?

After a dip of around 5.5% the Bitcoin price looks as though it has turned around and may be heading back to the key $82K horizontal resistance level. Can it break through this time, or does another rejection await?

Small breakout taking place

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The 4-hour time frame chart illustrates the rising channel with the $BTC price chopping around inside. Right now the price looks to be attempting to break out beyond the small descending trendline. If there is a similar result to the previous small time trend breakout, the price could rocket higher.

Could the key overhead resistance be broken this time? Possibly. That said, this is a strong resistance level, which also aligns with the top trendline of the rising channel. 

Nevertheless, if the $BTC price can rise back to the resistance and then keep tapping against it, eventually it will break. It may be that the price has to come back down again, but if it can stay in the range between $79,500 and $82,350 it will be close enough to the top of the range to be able to break through.

Next rally loading

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As can be seen in the daily time frame, the $BTC price has already come very close to making that extremely important higher high. It stopped nearly $500 short and then came back down to the bottom of the channel. Currently sitting on relatively strong support, the scene could be set for the next rally back to the top of the channel, and hopefully for the bulls, a break of the $82,825 horizontal resistance and the prize of that higher high.

At the bottom of the chart, the Stochastic RSI indicators in this time frame are about to touch bottom, ready to turn around and eventually signal strong upside price momentum when they pass the 20.00 level.

AI stocks rally good for Bitcoin price

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We look at the weekly time frame as the $BTC price is indeed breaking out in the much smaller 4-hour time frame. The end of this week could see the $BTC price back above the 50-week SMA for the first time since November 2024. What’s more, a close above the top of the shooting star candle of a couple of weeks ago will go a long way towards negating its bearishness. 

As AI stocks start to trend higher again after undergoing their own corrective move, this will be good for the Bitcoin price. AI agents will have access to permissionless digital money for small payments, and Bitcoin as a store of value will become crucial as AI pushes the cost of services towards zero and governments react to deflation by expanding the money supply. 

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