Bitcoin hits new all-time high above $119K as trader eyes 7-week uptrend
Key points:
Bitcoin tags fresh record highs into the weekly close as liquidations punish shorts.
BTC price areas of interest include a support test of $115,000.
Hopes build that
BTCUSD will copy its seven-week “discovery uptrend.”
Bitcoin BTCUSD hit new all-time highs on Sunday as BTC price volatility returned into the weekly close.
BTC price spikes to new record near $119,500
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTCUSD reaching $119,444 on Bitstamp.
The pair eclipsed its previous record peak from two days prior as it crossed the $119,000 mark for the first time, liquidating shorts as it went.
The latest data from monitoring resource CoinGlass put short BTC liquidations at over $20 million in a single hour.
“Going to get interesting next week. We've got a lot of big liquidity clusters above and below the current price. We just took out a good bunch at the $119K+ region,” popular trader Daan Crypto Trades reacted in a post on X.
Daan Crypto Trades eyed two key liquidation-related zones to watch next: $115,500-116,500 and the area above $120,000.
Cointelegraph@CointelegraphJul 13, 2025🚨 ALERT: 24h liquidations hit $208M as 95K traders wrecked.
The biggest single loss was a $1.49M BTCUSDT position on Bybit. pic.twitter.com/0Rg6PXKHtP
“$BTC has a major resistance level between $119K-$120K. But after that, there's a lot of upside,” trader and investor Niels, cofounder of Web3 accelerator and incubator Ted Labs, continued.
Room for 50% gains?
Others zoomed out, with trader BitBull staying firmly optimistic on the immediate outlook for BTC price action.
“There's no reason to be bearish on $BTC here. The strongest weekly breakout since November 2024, which led to a 50% pump last time,” he told X followers.
BitBull flagged multiple bullish catalysts impacting Bitcoin, including record institutional inflows, the upcoming US “Crypto Week” and rumors over the resignation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell.
“Week 1 in Bitcoin's Price Discovery Uptrend 2 is slowly coming to an end. Week 2 begins tomorrow,” popular trader and analyst Rekt Capital added.
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