Bitcoin Sentiment Flatline: Bull Score Crashes To 0 – What This Means For The Market

Despite a bounce in the price of Bitcoin back to the $104,000 mark, bearish pressure still lingers heavily around the flagship crypto asset. BTC’s recent market turbulence and strong pullback have triggered a surprising shift in its market dynamics, as evidenced by a sharp decrease in the BTC Bull Score Index.

Bullish Momentum Vanishes As Bitcoin Traders Step Back

While Bitcoin’s price has showcased robust bearish and downward action, several key metrics that measure market performance are starting to flip into a negative territory. The most recent metric that has turned negative is the Bitcoin Bull Score Index, which may imply that market optimism is seeing a hard reset.

In a quick-take post on the CryptoQuant platform, a market expert and author with the nickname IT Tech, disclosed that the Bitcoin bull score index has fallen to level 0. The Bull Score Index is a crucial metric that monitors investor momentum, accumulation strength, and confidence across significant cohorts, and a decline to 0 is uncommon for the indicator. 

It is worth noting that the last time the index dropped to this level was in January 2020. A drop to this level often signals that all short-term mood indicators have completely lost their bullish conviction. Although it does not necessarily prove a complete trend reversal, the level indicates that enthusiasm has cooled down to its lowest possible reading.

Even though the metric has fallen to level 0, the expert highlighted that the market is not in an early-bear capitulation like 2022. With BTC’s price remaining in the six-figure range, this reset follows a protracted bull market.

Historically, a Bull Score of 0 indicated either late-cycle distribution before a trend reversal or macro bottoms as seen in 2020 and 2022. Given the current levels, the structure appears similar to a late-bull to early-bear transition than a deep capitulation.

Presently, all 10 on-chain components are below trend, including the MVRV, ETF flows, stablecoin liquidity, demand growth, and trader margins. Meanwhile, Exchange-Traded Fund (ETF) and corporate inflows slowed, long-term holders continue to distribute, and stablecoin liquidity remains contracted. 

IT Tech noted that market strength is based on constrained supply rather than fresh demand, and momentum has completely cooled. However, IT Tech claims that ETF inflows, liquidity growth, and long-term holder re-accumulation must swiftly return in order for the market to regain strength. Otherwise, Bitcoin enters into a prolonged consolidation phase.

A Change In BTC Market Pattern

After examining the Bitcoin Realized Cap, Mignolet, a market expert, has outlined a shift in the current market structure. Although the pattern has changed, market interest in BTC is still strong. This pattern is one of the shifts that followed the approval of Bitcoin Spot ETFs.

Before ETFs, Mignolet highlighted that most of the attention was drawn by ratio-based data. However, this pattern changed after the BTC Spot ETFs were greenlighted. A look beyond ratios shows that the market is not overheated, but this was not the case, as investor interest was obviously high.