Bitcoin News | Bitcoin Slides for Five Straight Weeks as AI Stock Rout Spills Into Crypto
Bitcoin has closed lower for five straight weeks, and last week’s sharp selloff in AI stocks added to the pressure. The price now sits between its 50-day moving average at $81,800 and its 200-day average at $73,200, trading around $75,950 on November 8.AI Stock Selloff Spreads to CryptoThe Nasdaq Composite fell about 5.5% on November 5, its worst day since April 2025, on concerns that Democratic control of Congress could slow the AI data center buildout. Chip stocks had their worst session since the March 2020 Covid selloff.The losses hit AI hardware hardest. For the week:Sandisk fell 27.4%Micron dropped 22%The VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH) fell 11.2%The Nasdaq lost 3.4% overallThe selling spread to crypto. More than $1 billion in leveraged positions were liquidated over 24 hours, according to CoinGlass. Bitcoin liquidations reached $1.27 billion, about $1.1 billion of it from long positions. Over the same period, bitcoin fell 5.3% and ether 7.3%.Wall Street Cut Risk Across the BoardMorgan Stanley’s derivatives team said leveraged ETFs sold a record $57 billion of US stocks on November 5, the most since data began in 2007. Hedge fund net leverage fell 5 points in a single day, the fifth-largest drop since 2010, and retail selling in the first 90 minutes was the second-largest since 2016.Morgan Stanley also noted that stocks are moving more closely together, a sign that risk-cutting is spreading. Bitcoin has followed the same pattern: it fell with stocks during the selloff but did not join Friday’s rebound in chip stocks.Bitcoin ETFs See OutflowsBitcoin ETFs saw withdrawals as markets fell. On November 5, Fidelity’s FBTC lost about $200 million and BlackRock’s IBIT lost $105 million, extending IBIT’s outflow streak to five sessions, according to Farside Investors.Rate Hike Bets Add PressureA strong US jobs report added to the strain. The US added 165,000 jobs in October, far above the 65,000 forecast, and unemployment fell to 4.1%. Fed funds futures now price about an 80% chance of a December rate hike, according to LSEG. Higher rates tend to weigh on riskier assets such as tech stocks and crypto.US October CPI data, due Tuesday at 13:30 UTC, is the next test.Funding Rates Turn NeutralDerivatives data shows the selling has calmed. BTC funding rates are in the neutral range at 0.0081% to 0.0087%, according to CoinGlass, and ETH funding has also risen into neutral territory.On-chain data still shows heavy short positioning. Analyst KillaXBT noted that long-to-short ratios are at extremes that have coincided with past market bottoms.Key Levels: $90,000 Upside, $72,000 DownsideLevelWhat it is~$90,000Upside target if support holds, some analysts say~$82,000Trapped long positions that could cap a rebound$81,80050-day moving average$75,000–77,000This week’s key range$73,200200-day moving average$72,000–73,000Downside target if $75,000 breaksA rebound could be helped by oversold signals and buy orders below the price, while a break under $75,000 would open the way to the 200-day average.
