Bitcoin Trades Below $17K Following Disappointing Weekly Close (Market Watch)

The cryptocurrency market remained largely flat throughout the past 24 hours. Bitcoin’s price is still unable to reclaim $17K, while the majority of altcoins also didn’t chart any notable gains.

Bitcoin’s Price Flat Below $17K

Bitcoin’s consolidation below $17K continues. At the time of this writing, the cryptocurrency trades at around $16,750 and has failed to produce anything of significance in the past 24 hours. The weekly candle closed below $17K, which was disappointing and shows the lack of buyers.

It’s worth noting that prolonged periods of low volatility are typically a precursor to big moves, so it’s important to stay vigilant as the crypto markets rarely stay calm for long.

At the same time, it’s also evident that market participants are reluctant to accumulate aggressively, perhaps in anticipation of lower prices because of the FTX contagion. Just today, Dutch exchange Bitvavo said DCG has experienced liquidity issues.

Altcoin Volatility Disappears

Bitcoin’s dominance remained flat. It’s the metric analysts use to gauge its share relative to that of the rest of the market. This means that altcoins were unable to take advantage of the indecisiveness in Bitcoin’s price.

As seen in the below heatmap, most of them charted very slight gains or losses over the past 24 hours.

The best performer of the day is Toncoin (TON). The Open Network’s native cryptocurrency continues defying expectations amid the raging crypto winter and is up 6% on the day and 35% on the week.

On the other hand, XCN lost the most, down 11% in the past 24 hours. It’s also worth noting that the Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index is currently showing that the predominant market sentiment is “fear.” This is a slight improvement from a couple of weeks ago, but still close to the lower end of the spectrum.