Bitcoin Risks Sub-$92K Retest as BTC Price Fails to Match 4% Gold Gains

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Summary:

Bitcoin is once more lagging behind relentless gold as the macroeconomic landscape continues to spark surprises — and levels closer to $90,000 may be next.

Key points:

Bitcoin is struggling again as gold retakes the limelight with week-to-date gains of nearly 5%.

Bitcoin’s correlation with gold is under scrutiny amid ongoing macroeconomic shifts.

Traders see a short-term slump amid a wider BTC price rebound.

Bitcoin eyed fresh month-to-date lows into the May 6 Wall Street open as “directionless” crypto markets contrasted with a gold rebound. Bitcoin Risks Sub-$92K Retest as BTC Price Fails to Match 4% Gold Gains_1

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BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView

Analysis: Bitcoin, crypto “largely directionless”

Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC price momentum stalling at $95,000 before the latest daily close.

Inching closer to the key yearly open support level at $93,500, BTC/USD appeared caught in limbo while gold returned to outperform.

XAU/USD was up 1.5% on the day at the time of writing, with week-to-date gains already at 4.4%. Bitcoin Risks Sub-$92K Retest as BTC Price Fails to Match 4% Gold Gains_2

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XAU/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView

“Crypto implied vols remain suppressed, with front-end skew drifting back toward neutral and spot largely directionless,” trading firm QCP Capital wrote in its latest bulletin to Telegram channel subscribers.

QCP noted various swings across the macro spectrum, with the dollar staying lower and emerging market currencies, especially the Taiwanese dollar, surging alongside gold.

“At the same time, the FX shakeup coincides with a nearly 3% surge in gold on Monday, as investors lean into the weaker-dollar narrative and price in geopolitical risk premia, including prospective US trade diplomacy,” it continued.

With Bitcoin yet to follow suit, QCP saw an “increasingly binary” next phase, with one outcome being that BTC “decouples from gold’s safe haven bid and relinks with broader risk proxies.”

In its own analysis, trading resource The Kobeissi Letter nonetheless saw the “first gold, then Bitcoin” narrative sticking.

“In April, Bitcoin joined the gold run, increasing correlation for the first time in months. Between April 7th and April 21st, gold surged +15% along with +12% in Bitcoin,” it observed in an X thread on May 5.

“The flight to decentralized and inflation-protected assets is strong. Keep watching this trend.”

Bitcoin vs. gold comparison. Source: The Kobeissi Letter/X

MACD gives BTC bulls pause for thought

Examining technical data, Bitcoin traders suggested that BTC/USD may be pausing within a broader comeback.

Evidence for this came from the moving average convergence/divergence (MACD) indicator, a measure of trend strength that gave conflicting signals on longer and shorter timeframes.

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Popular trader Dave The Wave revealed a bullish signal on the weekly MACD, while daily behavior confirmed a bearish crossing below the zero line.

“BTC is consolidating between last week’s high and low, awaiting tomorrow’s FOMC meeting and Jerome Powell’s speech. Meanwhile, the daily MACD is crossing bearish, signaling slowing momentum,” fellow trader Titan of Crypto summarized. Bitcoin Risks Sub-$92K Retest as BTC Price Fails to Match 4% Gold Gains_5

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BTC/USDT 1-day chart with MACD data. Source: Titan of Crypto/X

His post referred to the week’s key macro event, the meeting of the Federal Reserve to decide on interest rate changes, due on May 7.

Earlier, Keith Alan, co-founder of trading resource Material Indicators, warned that the yearly open was unlikely to hold as support.

“To summarize, I'll be pleasantly surprised if the YO holds,” he told X followers.

“While I'm prepared for a wick to to $88k - $90k range, I think the $91.6k level around the 21 MA is a likely target this week.”

BTC/USD 1-week chart with 21SMA. Source: Cointelegraph/TradingView

Source: Cointelegraph

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