Bitcoin is navigating one of its most delicate phases of the year, with market structure, risk signals, and seasonal volatility colliding across multiple data points. Analysts from Bitcoin Vector, Swissblock, and Bitcoinsensus are highlighting that the market remains in a high-risk regime, but the core trend may finally be stabilizing.
Selling pressure has softened, spot demand continues to support the market, and the decisive battleground now sits at the $94K–$95K area. A successful retest could confirm the first real trend shift since Bitcoin’s November correction.
A collection of charts published today shows Bitcoin’s long-term structure, holiday-week volatility tendencies, and a potential ascending-channel breakdown forming beneath the surface.
Risk Signal Stabilizes but Market Awaits Confirmation
Bitcoin Vector’s model shows BTC still operating inside a high-risk zone, but the intensity of that risk is gradually fading. In their chart, the upper panel tracks Bitcoin’s price against key support and resistance markers, while the middle panel plots the Risk Off Signal. This indicator recently peaked in the “high-risk” zone but has begun to flatten, suggesting that forced selling may be losing momentum.
The lower panel, labeled Structure Shift, shows spot demand turning upward even as risk indicators remain elevated. Historically, this setup precedes a gradual recovery phase, but only after price retests a key structural level. For this cycle, analysts identify $94K–$95K as that level. Until Bitcoin reclaims and holds this range, the market cannot confirm a durable trend reversal.
Thanksgiving Volatility Is Noise, Not Signal
Swissblock’s chart places Bitcoin’s recent movement in the context of holiday-week patterns. Their historical breakdown shows BTC typically experiences outsized, erratic moves during Thanksgiving weekend due to thin order books and lower liquidity. The chart highlights the 2023, 2024, and 2025 Thanksgiving periods, each marked by sharp but ultimately short-lived price swings.
Swissblock emphasizes that these moves have no predictive power for December trends. The firm notes that macro liquidity remains weak and institutional flows have not yet meaningfully returned, meaning traders should treat the holiday spike in volatility as noise rather than signal. This fits with broader analyst consensus that the real directional clarity will emerge only after BTC challenges the $94K–$95K region.
Ascending Channel Signals a Warning Beneath the Surface
Bitcoinsensus provides a contrasting perspective by focusing on Bitcoin’s multi-month ascending channel. Their chart draws comparisons to the 2021–2022 structure, where BTC repeatedly rejected from the mid-channel line before rolling over into a deeper correction.
In the current pattern, Bitcoin recently faced another mid-channel rejection, triggering what the analyst labels a “Relief Rally.” If historical analogs hold, BTC could be setting up for a breakdown from channel support. The projection on the chart shows a possible path toward sub-$50K levels if the lower trendline is lost.
However, the bearish scenario only activates if Bitcoin fails to reclaim the mid-channel zone and loses structural support. The broader market is still watching for confirmation from the higher timeframe signals highlighted by Bitcoin Vector.
The Key Question: Has the Worst Passed?
Across all three models, one theme stands out: Bitcoin is stabilizing, but not confirmed bullish. Risk levels remain high, liquidity is thin, and the market has not yet completed the structural retest needed to reset the trend.
Bitcoin Vector emphasizes the importance of $94K–$95K as the pivot zone for a larger directional shift. Swissblock stresses the need to ignore holiday volatility and wait for real flows to return. Bitcoinsensus warns that the ascending channel is nearing a make-or-break moment.
The convergence of these independent analyses creates a clear roadmap: watch the structural levels, ignore the noise, and track how Bitcoin behaves as it moves toward the $94K–$95K threshold. That test, not Thanksgiving candles, will answer whether the worst is behind us or if the market still has a deeper correction ahead.