{"id":47727,"date":"2025-10-01T14:09:40","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/?p=47727"},"modified":"2025-10-01T14:09:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T19:09:58","slug":"bitcoin-price-just-closed-its-biggest-quarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-just-closed-its-biggest-quarter","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Hits Historic Quarterly Close \u2014 Is $150,000 Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bitcoin ended the third quarter of 2025 at a record high<\/a>, fueling the belief among investors that Bitcoin\u2019s price will go up further into the final quarter of the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Bitcoin price closed September about 5% higher at roughly $114,000, defying expectations of seasonal weakness. September has often been a difficult month for Bitcoin, but when it has finished higher, the final quarter has tended to deliver outsized gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Data shows<\/a> that in years such as 2015, 2016, 2023 and 2024, positive September closes were followed by fourth-quarter rallies averaging more than 50%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seasonal patterns suggest early-quarter strength may be particularly important. Since 2015, October has delivered average gains of 21.8%, while November has added 10.8%, according to Bitcoin Magazine Pro<\/em> data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If similar patterns repeat this year, Bitcoin could clear past $150,000 before the end of the year. That is a familiar sentiment in the Bitcoin space<\/a> and add another leg higher in a year already defined by new all-time highs, and it would come in the wake of the April halving event that cut new supply of the asset in half \u2014 a milestone often followed by upward price pressure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bitcoin has traded sideways in recent months, but key liquidity indicators suggest a breakout may be near<\/a>. Global M2 growth, stablecoin supply trends, and gold\u2019s rally \u2014 which Bitcoin has closely tracked with a 40-day lag \u2014 all point upward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy \u2018Up\u2019tober <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bitcoin surged<\/a> past $118,000 today as the U.S. government officially shut down at midnight after Congress failed to pass a funding bill. While Wall Street tumbled, investors turned to safe-haven assets, sending gold to a record above $3,900 an ounce. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shutdown immediately affects federal workers, Social Security recipients, and travelers, while markets face disruptions from halted economic data. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Weekly jobless claims, September payrolls, and mid-October inflation figures may be delayed, complicating Federal Reserve policy decisions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bitcoin ETFs and institutional buy-in<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Institutional activity is adding to a bullish sentiment. BlackRock moved<\/a> more than $130 million worth of Bitcoin onto Coinbase, a transfer some market watchers interpret as a sign of potential inflows into its investment products. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2015, Bitcoin has averaged<\/a> a gain of nearly 58% in the fourth quarter, outperforming every other three-month period. Whether 2025 follows that historical playbook will depend on how long investors sustain risk appetite in the months ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bitcoin closed the third quarter of 2025 at an all-time high, what’s next?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3817,"featured_media":47728,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[409,76,5649,345,2156],"class_list":{"0":"post-47727","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-markets","8":"tag-all-time-high","9":"tag-bitcoin","10":"tag-bitcoin-supercycle","11":"tag-price","12":"tag-sentiment"},"author_data":{"id":3817,"name":"Micah Zimmerman","nicename":"micahzimmerman","avatar_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Micah_Zimmerman_Author_Image.jpg"},"featured_image_url":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Bitcoin-Price-Hits-Historic-Quarterly-Close\u2014-Is-150000-Next.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}