Bitcoin stumbles below $69K: Bitcoin price prediction 2026 turns bearish - Correction to $60K next?

Bitcoin's inability to hold the $69,000 handle has started to look less like a "healthy dip" and more like a market-wide stress test.

On Tuesday (February 10, 2026), Bitcoin was seen trading around $68,970 after slipping back under $70,000 again, keeping traders stuck in a whipsaw tape where rallies fade quickly. Volatility has been unforgiving.

The bigger issue isn't the psychological round number. It's what tends to happen after a key level breaks and fails to reclaim: derivatives positioning flips, spot bids step back, and ETF holders, who've been conditioned to 'buy every dip', suddenly start acting like risk managers. Tough shift.

Flows matter here. (https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bitcoin-etf-suffers-worst-decline-in-over-year-and-new-investors-are-now-sitting-on-ugly-losses-c093dca6) Recent reporting showed heavy spot Bitcoin ETF outflows, including a $528 million outflow day for BlackRock's IBIT, alongside meaningful year-to-date outflows for other major products, the kind of mechanical selling pressure that can keep Bitcoin pinned below moving averages once momentum cracks.

And when that happens, technicians stop giving the benefit of the doubt.
At the same time, not all flow signals are bearish. Data cited from SoSoValue showed a sharp $561.9 million net inflow day on February 2, ending a multi-day outflow streak, suggesting institutions are still willing to re-enter, just not at any price.

But does that reset the trend? Not on its own.

So what's the bearish setup now, and where do analysts think Bitcoin could realistically land if $69K remains overhead?

Key levels put $60K back in play

Bitcoin's near-term structure is starting to resemble a classic 'breakdown → failed reclaim → continuation' pattern. That's the core bearish thesis: if $69K becomes resistance instead of support, dip buyers may discover there's less liquidity underneath than the chart implies. Textbook stuff, frankly.

Some Street analysts are already mapping that downside. Compass Point's Ed Engel flagged risk of Bitcoin revisiting the $60,000 area, with a deeper tail risk toward $55,000 in a more aggressive drawdown scenario.

He also highlighted two levels that matter for where sellers may start to run out of room: an estimated average purchase price near $56,000 and the 200-day moving average near $58,000 (often a 'line in the sand' for trend followers).

Why that matters: a lot of casual coverage focuses on vibes, while professionals focus on where forced selling likely stops. If Bitcoin slides toward the high-$50Ks, the second-order effect is that ETF creations/redemptions, systematic trend strategies, and leveraged basis trades can all amplify the move. In previous cycles, we've seen failed reclaims bleed into multi-week drifts lower before real buyers step back in.

Scenario map (next 2-6 weeks):
- Bull case (reclaim $69K-$70K): Bitcoin reclaims and holds $69,000-$70,000 on strong spot volume, ETF flows stabilize, and price rotates back into the low-$70Ks rather than instantly rejecting. That would neutralize the breakdown and shift focus back to resistance near the mid-$70Ks.
- Base case (messy range): Bitcoin chops between roughly the mid-$60Ks and $69K, with rallies capped and dips bought-until a macro catalyst forces a directional break (Fed messaging, risk assets volatility, or another wave of ETF flows).
- Bear case / invalidation for bulls (lose the mid-$60Ks): A clean break lower with follow-through puts $60,000 on the radar quickly, with the $58,000-$56,000 zone as the next "must hold" area if the market wants to avoid a more serious trend reset.

Watch Bitcoin as $69K gets retested, because repeated rejection there is how corrections stop being 'temporary.' That's the tell.

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