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What moves bitcoin (BTC/USD)

The real drivers behind the BTC/USD price.

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A move is a distance between two prices. What causes it is the subject of this page.

Bitcoin (BTC/USD) does not move at random. The main forces are risk appetite, liquidity cycles, the halving, ETF flows and the dollar. Once you can read them, the price makes sense.

Watch how each factor pushes BTC/USD: a stronger dollar usually weighs on it, while risk-off flows and easier policy tend to support it. Use the position-size calculator to trade these moves within a fixed risk.

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