Bitcoin’s price is once again found in limbo, unable to make a decisive move in either direction. This happens as volatility thins out while volume declines across the board.

The most recent price action, however, has also created a popular technical pattern – one that was also present in the bear market of 2018.

More Pain to Come for Bitcoin’s Price?

According to an analyst from CryptoQuant, the BTC price is forming a very similar technical pattern to that in 2018’s bear market.

Other conditions are also relatively similar, including declining volume and volatility.

The movement of long-term hold bitcoins has decreased, and price volatility is becoming very low.

If the current descnending triangle pattern is completed and the price deviates from the support line, there is a possibility of a last crash in the bear market.

At the time of this writing, Bitcoin’s price is trading slightly above $19,000. It declined from yesterday’s high at around $19,700, unable to break the coveted resistance at $20K.

BTC Primed for Explosive Move

Another popular analytics resource, Glassnode, argued that Bitcoin’s market is primed for an outburst and that it’s currently in a state resembling a “coiled spring.”

Multiple reasons led to that conclusion, including but not limited to:

• The continuation of Bitcoin’s price consolidation
• Weekly aSOPR approaching breakeven values
• Off-chain volatility brewing

Additionally, the fact that Bitcoin’s price is trading relatively close to the critical resistance level of $20K makes it more likely that volatility will pick up.

However, the analytics resource failed to provide a directional prediction, arguing that the market can turn either way.

Meanwhile, the BTC market sentiment remains in a state of extreme fear, according to AlternativeMe. It has improved ever-so-slightly in the past couple of days, but it remains close to the cycle’s lows when zoomed out to a 1-year period view on the chart: