Bitcoin Holders Locking In Gains As Profit-Taking Surges Amid Market Recovery, Rally To Extend?

Bitcoin is heavily riding the renewed bullish wave observed across the broader crypto industry, and its price has now reclaimed the pivotal $120,000 price ￰0￱ selling pressure from investors and traders seems to have followed the ongoing upward action in BTC’s ￰1￱ Profit-Taking Frenzy Hits Bitcoin Investors are currently exhibiting a worrying trend as Bitcoin gains notable upside traction in a positive crypto market ￰2￱ a quick-take post on the CryptoQuant platform, Caueconomy, a market expert and investor, highlighted that Bitcoin investors are rushing to lock in gains during the newfound ￰3￱ weeks of erratic trading, the price recovery of Bitcoin has sparked profit-taking at levels not seen in months, with traders and long-term holders grabbing hold of the ￰4￱ spike in realized profits demonstrates both renewed market confidence and cautious positioning, as investors strike a balance between the appeal of rising prices and the memory of previous ￰5￱ from the Bitcoin Realized Profit and Loss metric shows that the crypto king has registered several landmarks in profit-taking in 2025 ￰6￱ Wednesday, as Bitcoin prices spiked further, profit-taking levels exceeded $3.7 ￰7￱ to the market expert, this massive figure marks the fifth-largest profit-taking volume recorded since the year ￰8￱ pattern indicates that the most recent surge in Bitcoin is bringing liquidity back into the market and testing investor confidence in how long the momentum can ￰9￱ this high level of profit-taking may impact spot selling pressure, Caueconomy noted that it does not yet show that short-term investors make up a sizable majority of the ￰10￱ his expectations on the notable profit-taking, the expert stated that the market might see this volume increase in the upcoming weeks.

BTC’s Price Action Moving In A Range Amid the current uptrend in Bitcoin’s price, market expert and author Darkfost reported that the crypto king continues to move within a ￰11￱ range represents an area where the market is usually flooded with optimism whenever the price hits the upper bound, and vice versa. Meanwhile, the consensus turns to predicting a bear market as it gets closer to the lower ￰12￱ the crypto market, this pattern is frequently seen during periods of market pause and ￰13￱ are times that are especially good at creating doubt, while the market itself is not doing ￰14￱ has outlined multiple price zones within the $105,000-$119,000 range of the Rectangle pattern where supply is being exchanged in the chart.

Typically, higher values in certain zones reflect stronger investors’ interest in those ￰15￱ periods like this, Darkfost outlines that the ideal strategy usually is to do nothing and wait for confirmation. It’s important to note that over 20% of today’s Bitcoin trading volume has occurred beyond $105,000, which is a very intriguing indication of genuine investor activity even when BTC holdings are above $100,000.