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Bitcoin slips under $104,000 amid doubts over BTC price support.
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Price targets now include the CME futures gap at $92,000.
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Short-term holders head deep into the red, sitting on growing unrealized losses.
Bitcoin (BTC) faced further losses Tuesday as traders prepared for sub-$100,000 BTC price levels.
Bitcoin price in โfreefallโ as $104,000 slips
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView tracked new lows of $103,732 on Bitstamp, with price down over 2% on the day.
Early weakness compounded during the Asia trading session, and now, market participants increasingly believed that $100,000 support would fail.
โ$BTC is in absolute free fall right now,โ crypto investor and entrepreneur Ted Pillows reacted on X.
โThereโs no strong support until the $100,000 level, which means itโll most likely get retested.โ
Pillows eyed an unfilled weekend โgapโ in CME Groupโs Bitcoin Futures market at around $92,000 โ just below the 2025 yearly open.
โIf Bitcoin loses the $100,000 zone, expect a correction towards the $92,000 level, which has a CME gap,โ he added.
Trader Daan Crypto Trades warned that BTC/USD had lost its โmain supportโ from recent weeks.
โNow nearing the bottom of the range where price made its initial higher low after the bounce post 10/10 liquidation event,โ an X post read, referring to the Oct. 10 crypto market crash.
Daan Crypto Trades noted that, in addition to โmassiveโ selling by Bitcoin whales, US stocks had become less bullish, while US dollar strength was rising โ three potential headwinds for crypto.
โAll in all not a great recipe for the time being,โ he concluded.
Derivatives trader Ardi was meanwhile among those eyeing a fill of the Oct. 10 candle wick, which on Binance had reached $102,000.
$BTC 10/10 liquidation wick now getting filled.
Back into the $103K range. pic.twitter.com/Gr37PuK0h5
โ Ardi (@ArdiNSC) November 4, 2025
This level features confluence with Bitcoinโs 50-week exponential moving average (EMA) โ a level untouched for seven months.
Unrealized losses spark โcapitulationโ
Price pressure in turn led to renewed stress on recent Bitcoin buyers, who were now underwater on their holdings.
Related: Retail investors โretreatโ to $98.5K: 5 things to know in Bitcoin this week
Data from onchain analytics platform Glassnode showed the Net Unrealized Profit/Loss (NUPL) indicator for short-term holders (STHs) returning to โcapitulationโ territory.
NUPL looks at the profitability of onchain transactions involving entities hodling for up to 155 days. At the time of writing, it measured -0.058 โย on the way toward its lowest levels since April.
โHistorically, such periods of STH stress and capitulation have marked attractive accumulation opportunities for patient investors,โ Glassnode commented on X Monday.
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