Weekly close risks BTC price ‘double top’ — 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week

Bitcoin (BTC) launches its first full week of September with BTC price action at a crossroads — can $26,000 return?

After a quiet weekend, the dust has appeared to settle on last week’s volatility as crypto markets return to “business as usual.”

Bitcoin finds itself lingering in familiar territory, but without a trend, traders and analysts remain undecided as to its next moves.

There is certainly no shortage of downside BTC price predictions — $25,000, $24,750 and even $23,000 have all become popular targets in recent weeks.

Bulls, on the other hand, are thought to have a more difficult task on their hands in winning back market momentum.

WIth network fundamentals due to consolidate recent gains of their own and macro markets quiet, the question as to whether September 2023 will be a classic month of single-digit losses for BTC/USD is now a talking point.

Cointelegraph takes a look at the main factors influencing BTC price action over the coming days.

Weekend Bitcoin price chops up BTC shorts

Bitcoin offered few surprises in out-of-hours weekend trading — a status quo that could continue with United States equities markets only opening on Sep. 5.

For most of the past two days, BTC/USD acted in a tight $200 corridor, data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView shows — but modest spikes up and down belied the presence of speculative exchange players.

These were noticed by popular trader Skew, who uploaded order book data showing failed shorts being behind Bitcoin’s brief trips past $26,000.

$BTC
Positions are still getting blown out in $200 price moves on a sunday lol

this small pop was shorts getting blown out or closing at market pic.twitter.com/7ih2KpjEEq

— Skew Δ (@52kskew) September 3, 2023

“All it took was someone figuring out where stops were and market buying a few mil in spot then dumping it after forcing out some shorts,” part of additional X (formerly Twitter) commentary added.

Further BTC spot market analysis queried whether the weekly close, which came in at around $25,970, would end up as a plan to give bulls a false sense of security.

$BTC
Operation save the 1W or is it operation trap the bulls into tuesday? pic.twitter.com/pP4JbeHzXC

— Skew Δ (@52kskew) September 3, 2023

As Cointelegraph reported, $25,900 was already on the radar for Skew as the level to hold into the weekly candle close.

For fellow trader and analyst Rekt Capital, however, anything much below $26,000 was…