Source: PANews
Original Title: Bitcoin Hits New High, Then Shows "Top Selling" Signal? Long-Term Holders Take Profits, Market Enters Distribution Game Stage
Author: Glassnode; Translated by: Felix, PANews
As long-term holders begin to take profits, Bitcoin started to pullback after reaching a new high of $118,000. Key support levels are at $103,700 and $95,600, with signs indicating long-term investors are selling, presenting a serious challenge for bulls.
Key Points:
Bitcoin reached a historical high of $118,000 but quickly fell back to $103,200. The initial rise seemed to be driven by the spot market, with major accumulation zones at $81,000-$85,000, $93,000-$96,000, and $102,000-$104,000, which have now become potential support levels.
From a macro perspective, through the CBD heatmap, many historical accumulation zones have transformed into selling zones. Sellers from the $25,000-$31,000, $38,000-$44,000, and $60,000-$73,000 ranges are putting pressure on price movement.
Cost basis percentiles and short-term holder ranges indicate near-term support at $103,700 and $95,600, with resistance at $114,800. These levels are important statistical indicators of broader market sentiment shifts.
Realized profits surged to $1.47 billion per day, marking the fifth major profit-taking in this cycle. Selling is primarily led by long-term holders, not short-term traders.
The group holding for over a year dominates recent sales, reflecting mature capital rotation. This is consistent with previous CBD heatmap observations, confirming experienced investors are shaping the current top formation phase.
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Profit Realization
As Bitcoin retreats from its recent high of $118,000, most selling pressure seems to come from seasoned holders within the cycle, those who accumulated Bitcoin early in the rally and are now realizing substantial gains. At this stage, the profit realization mechanism is a key factor in assessing demand exhaustion risk.
By calculating the 7-day simple moving average of daily realized profits (adjusted to exclude internal entity flows), the daily realized profits peaked at $1.47 billion last week. This is a significant level, highlighting the intensity of recent capital rotation.
More importantly, this marks the fifth time in this cycle that daily profit-taking has exceeded $1 billion. Such events often coincide with local market tops or slowdowns, especially when new demand cannot absorb such a scale of realized gains. This underscores the market's resilience when facing massive selling pressure.
Dynamic Shift
To better understand the significance of the current profit-taking wave, it's necessary to examine it from a cyclical perspective. Not all profit-taking events are the same, and the dynamic nature of these mechanisms can reveal how market maturity and volatility shape investor behavior over time.
One effective method is to examine the 90-day simple moving average (SMA) of market cap-adjusted net realized profits. This adjustment allows for comparison across different cycles. A clear trend is that profit-taking enthusiasm has weakened over time, reflecting the general degradation of cyclical upward performance and reduced volatility as the market matures.
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This trend suggests that while profit-taking still exerts significant pressure, it has become more moderate, potentially signaling a shift from boom-and-bust fervor to more structured capital rotation in a maturing asset class.
Who is Profiting?
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