Bitcoin briefly tested $87,000 after posting its highest weekly close since late January, but the 2026 yearly opening price of $87,570 remained out of reach, leaving the market trapped beneath a resistance zone it has failed to clear several times since late September.
BTC/USD closed the previous week at $86,532 on Bitstamp, according to TradingView data, before producing several short-lived moves to $87,000. Those wicks marked Bitcoin’s fourth attempt to extend higher since Sept. 21. Each push has met selling pressure before the price could establish support above the yearly open.
The repeated rejection places $87,570 at the center of Bitcoin’s immediate trading structure. A sustained move through that level would put the market above a widely watched annual reference point and reduce the risk that the latest advance turns into another failed range breakout.
Liquidity clusters tighten Bitcoin’s near-term range
Short-liquidation activity around $85,500 accompanied the latest move higher, suggesting that traders positioned for a pullback were forced to close positions as Bitcoin advanced. Liquidations can accelerate price swings when traders using borrowed funds are required to buy back Bitcoin to exit losing short positions.
Order-book liquidity remains close to the spot price, according to CoinGlass data cited in the supplied material. That setup has kept Bitcoin’s volatility relatively contained while creating clear targets on either side of the current range. The same data showed liquidation concentrations near $83,700 and around the 2026 yearly open.
Rekt Capital, an independent market analyst, described Bitcoin’s current range as roughly $82,500 to $86,700. Under that framework, the latest move toward $87,000 pushed into the range’s upper boundary without yet delivering a decisive breakout.
The lower level carries particular weight. Rekt Capital said that maintaining $82,500 would help Bitcoin avoid slipping back into its previous 2026 range between $60,000 and $80,000. A loss of that support would therefore shift attention away from the yearly open and toward whether the market can preserve the gains made during its recent recovery.
A confirmed break above roughly $86,700, meanwhile, would open room for a move into a higher trading range, according to Rekt Capital’s analysis. The analyst identified approximately $93,700 as the upper boundary of that potential range. The path there remains conditional on Bitcoin turning the $86,700-$87,570 area from resistance into support.
Treasury sales and Fed minutes put bonds in focus
Bitcoin’s test of resistance coincides with a busy week for United States debt markets. The U.S. Treasury is scheduled to sell three-, 10- and 30-year securities over three consecutive days, while market participants are also awaiting the auction of 10-year notes and minutes from the Federal Reserve’s September policy meeting.
The Kobeissi Letter identified the bond market as a leading macroeconomic driver for the week. Rising Treasury yields can increase the appeal of government debt relative to assets perceived as carrying more risk, while also raising borrowing costs throughout financial markets.
The supplied material said the 10-year and 30-year Treasury yields reached 5.34% and 5.69%, respectively, last week, levels last seen in 2002. A weaker-than-expected nonfarm payrolls result briefly pushed yields lower, but the decline was largely reversed, with the 10-year yield quoted at 5.25% on Monday.
Federal Reserve officials voted to raise interest rates by 0.25 percentage points at their September meeting. CME Group’s FedWatch Tool showed that markets had previously assigned a 70% probability to another quarter-point increase in October, before that estimate dropped to 18%.
Timothy Chubb, chief investment officer at Girard Advisory Services, told CNBC that the rebound in yields after the payrolls report did not alter the Fed’s broader policy challenge. He cited persistent inflation and oil-price volatility linked to the Middle East conflict. The August Personal Consumption Expenditures reading came in below expectations, according to the supplied material, but did not materially alter inflation expectations. The next Consumer Price Index release is scheduled for Oct. 14.
October begins stronger than its historical opening days
Bitcoin entered October with a modest gain, defying a historically weak start to the month. CryptoQuant said Bitcoin’s first three days of October have, on average, produced a 0.66% decline.
In 2026, BTC/USD rose 1.4% during the first three days of October and was up 2.7% month to date, according to CryptoQuant contributor Andrew Kamsky. From the Oct. 1 close through the Oct. 3 close, Bitcoin avoided the typical early-month decline recorded in the historical data.
Longer-term October data has encouraged bullish seasonal expectations, though the sample is limited and does not determine short-term price direction. CoinGlass data showed Bitcoin has gained an average of 18.7% in October since 2013. Applying that historical average to current levels would place Bitcoin just below $100,000 by month-end. The same dataset recorded three negative Octobers in 13 years, with the steepest loss at 13% in 2014.
Bitcoin also entered the fourth quarter after gaining more than 40% in the third quarter, its strongest Q3 result since the 2017 bull market, according to the supplied material. That performance has lifted the stakes around the current resistance zone: a break above the yearly open would build on an already strong quarterly recovery, while another rejection would keep price action tied to the $82,500-$87,570 corridor as bond-market volatility unfolds.
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