Bitcoin battles bears 'on offense' as Christmas delivers a $50K BTC gift

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"Bears become bulls" short term?
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD maintaining $50,000 support into the weekend, having ranged after local highs above $51,500.

The pair was calm as the holiday season got underway, with thinner liquidity yet to show itself in the form of volatile price moves.

With most taking a break from trading and analysis, the nearest target to the upside remained the $1 trillion market cap valuation level at $53,000.

For popular trader Pentoshi, a point of friction could come in the form of sellers actively driving down BTC/USD to liquidity at $46,000, only to then buy back in for a rebound.

"Right now beras on offense. They take price down to 46k but there was a lot of resting liquidity there = stop price from moving. They begin to close shorts and buy some spot back," he offered as a forecast.

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