Share this article

Bitcoin Range-Bound Above $35K-$37K Support; Resistance at $40K

The sideways price range could result in higher volatility over the next two weeks.

Updated May 11, 2023, 3:57 p.m. Published Mar 14, 2022, 6:19 p.m.
Bitcoin daily price chart shows support/resistance .(Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)
Bitcoin daily price chart shows support/resistance .(Damanick Dantes/CoinDesk, TradingView)

Bitcoin (BTC) remains in a tight trading range, although buyers maintained support at $37,500 over the weekend. Still, the cryptocurrency faces strong resistance beyond $40,000, which could limit additional upside over the short term.

BTC was trading at $38,700 at press time and is roughly flat over the past 24 hours.

STORY CONTINUES BELOW
Don't miss another story.Subscribe to the Crypto Daybook Americas Newsletter today. See all newsletters

The downward sloping 100-day moving average has kept the four-month downtrend intact. Recent sideways trading, however, could result in volatile price swings over the next two weeks.

jwp-player-placeholder

Buyers will need to hold support above $35,000-$37,000 in order to preserve the long-term uptrend.

More For You

Protocol Research: GoPlus Security

GP Basic Image

What to know:

  • As of October 2025, GoPlus has generated $4.7M in total revenue across its product lines. The GoPlus App is the primary revenue driver, contributing $2.5M (approx. 53%), followed by the SafeToken Protocol at $1.7M.
  • GoPlus Intelligence's Token Security API averaged 717 million monthly calls year-to-date in 2025 , with a peak of nearly 1 billion calls in February 2025. Total blockchain-level requests, including transaction simulations, averaged an additional 350 million per month.
  • Since its January 2025 launch , the $GPS token has registered over $5B in total spot volume and $10B in derivatives volume in 2025. Monthly spot volume peaked in March 2025 at over $1.1B , while derivatives volume peaked the same month at over $4B.

More For You

Fed’s Hammack tilts hawkish on rates, questions CPI drop as distorted

Beth Hammack

"My base case is that we can stay here for some period of time," Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack told the WSJ.

What to know:

  • Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack, who will be a voter on the central bank's policy-making FOMC in 2026, says interest rates need to remain on hold for several months.
  • She threw shade on last week's surprisingly soft CPI report, noting data-collection distortions created by the government shutdown.
  • Other things being equal, bitcoin would typically benefit from easier Fed monetary policy, but that hasn't at all been the case in 2025.