Bitcoin’s latest golden cross failed again as the post-signal move turned lower
Bitcoin printed a golden cross earlier this week, with the 50-day moving average crossing above the 200-day moving average, a setup that is usually treated as a bullish signal. This time, though, the market did not follow the script. According to the analysis cited by BlockBeats, BTC had already climbed from $62,000 to $82,000 before the crossover formed. After the signal appeared, the price instead slipped from around $80,000 to near $77,000.
The report argues that this has happened repeatedly in past cycles. In several cases, Bitcoin posted most of its gains before the golden cross appeared, then pulled back shortly afterward, making the signal look more lagging than predictive. It cited examples from 2021, 2023, 2024 and 2025: BTC rose from $35,000 to about $52,000 before a September 2021 crossover and later fell to around $40,000; from $16,000 to $23,000 before a February 2023 crossover and then retreated to roughly $20,000 in March; from $54,000 to $70,000 before an October 2024 crossover and then eased to about $67,000 before November; and from around $76,000 in April 2025 to about $110,000 in May before dropping back to around $100,000 in June after the signal formed.