Traders mull the bottom as bitcoin returns to week's lows below $86,000
Yahoo Finance·2025-12-18 03:31

Bitcoin has returned to its week low of $85,500 after suffering the dreaded "Bart Simpson pattern" earlier on Wednesday in which the price quickly runs higher, flattens out for a few minutes, and then just as quickly plunges to its previous spot. The resulting shape on the charts ends up looking similar to the head of the famous cartoon character. The crypto market again appears to be stuck the troublesome scenario of not being at all correlated with stocks when they're headed higher, but having a 1:1 co ...