Bitcoin Cracks 7-Month Ceiling. Can Bulls Push It Higher?

Piyasa gündeminde öne çıkan haber: Price data by News Markets Bitcoin Cracks 7-Month Ceiling. Can Bulls Push It Higher? The price of Bitcoin breaks a seven-month downtrend as geopolitical shifts and prediction markets point to $84K next.

By Jose Antonio Lanz Edited by Guillermo Jimenez Apr 17, 2026 Apr 17, 2026 4 min read Crypto trading. Source: Shutterstock/ Create an account to save your articles. Add on Google Add as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google.

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In brief Bitcoin jumped 2. 7%, breaking the descending resistance line that had capped every rally since October. Myriad traders have flipped bullish, giving BTC a 69% chance of hitting $84K next.

Traders, though, give a new Bitcoin all-time high only a 6. 2% chance of happening before July. Bitcoin is surging today on a geopolitical trigger few predicted: Iran today announced the Strait of Hormuz (or Strait of Iran , as President Donald Trump now calls it) will remain fully open during the ongoing ceasefire.

It sent oil prices tumbling and risk assets surging in tandem. Bitcoin climbed above $78,000 intraday on the news before pulling back slightly, while digital asset treasury stocks like Strategy surged more than 10% as BTC's rise pushed its holdings back out of the red. The macro environment had been brutal for most of 2026 with Middle East tensions, inflation fears, a strong dollar, and tight liquidity keeping Bitcoin locked in a grinding descent from its October 2025 peak of $126,000.

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Today's candlestick on the Bitcoin charts is significant. Bitcoin opened at $75,172 and traders pushed the daily candle up to $77,205—a 2. 7% gain on the session, with an intraday high of $78,384.

That move, modest as it sounds, was key to solidifying the thesis that the descending resistance trendline that had been rejecting Bitcoin at every rally attempt since October 2025 has been, finally, invalidated. For seven months, that line was gravity. This has been the first week Bitcoin trades over that line since the bearish pattern began.

Since the $126,000 all-time high, Bitcoin has traced a textbook descending channel—lower highs, lower lows, and a string of failed breakout attempts, each capped harder than the last. The yellow trendlines on the chart above show that, for months, Bitcoin registered a compression structure where each bounce got shallower, and each support got tested deeper. If the trend had continued uninterrupted, the math was pointing toward $50,000–$55,000 as the logical next support zone.

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