{"id":5097,"date":"2025-10-17T14:16:52","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:16:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/bitcoin-price-slides-to-104000-as-market-fear-hits-extreme-levels\/"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:16:52","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:16:52","slug":"bitcoin-price-slides-to-104000-as-market-fear-hits-extreme-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/17\/bitcoin-price-slides-to-104000-as-market-fear-hits-extreme-levels\/","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Price Slides to $104,000 as Market Fear Hits \u2018Extreme\u2019 Levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-slides-to-104000\">Bitcoin Price Slides to $104,000 as Market Fear Hits \u2018Extreme\u2019 Levels<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>Bitcoin price has sharply reversed course after reaching a record high above $126,000 just two weeks ago \u2014 and the downturn isn\u2019t letting up. The <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/bitcoin-price\">price<\/a> has now slipped into the $104,000 range, extending a <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-crashes-to-107000\">multi-day decline<\/a> that\u2019s driven market sentiment to its most cautious level in months.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, the bitcoin price is is $105,485, but the price was as low as $103,516 in early morning trading on some exchanges. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Bitcoin Fear &amp; Greed Index, sentiment <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitcoinmagazinepro.com\/charts\/bitcoin-fear-and-greed-index\/\" target=\"_blank\">now stands<\/a> at 22\/100, marking a shift into the \u2018Extreme Fear\u2019 category. The index, which ranges from 0 (extreme fear) to 100 (extreme greed), is widely viewed as a gauge of investor psychology and potential market turning points.<\/p>\n<p>Last Friday, on October 10, Bitcoin and the broader crypto market witnessed a <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/news\/bitcoin-price-crashes-to-108000-as-trump-to-impose-100-tariffs-on-china\">drastic and sharp sell-off<\/a> as President Trump announced sweeping 100% tariffs and export controls in response to China\u2019s new restrictions on nearly all products starting November 1, 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The news triggered a sharp crypto sell-off, with Bitcoin briefly down 12% and other major cryptocurrencies falling as much as 40%. <\/p>\n<p>Now, bitcoin is near the low price of the sell-off with much of the broader crypto market following suit.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Is Bitcoin going lower?\u00a0<\/h2>\n<p>Bitcoin price fell below $105,000 for the first time since June, fueling fears of a deeper correction as traders braced for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/digital-assets\/2025\/10\/17\/this-will-be-brutal-bitcoin-suddenly-goes-into-free-fall-as-price-crash-panic-wipes-600-billion-from-crypto\/\" target=\"_blank\">potential declines<\/a> into the $90,000s or even $80,000s.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Technical indicators showed momentum weakening: Bitcoin\u2019s Relative Strength Index dipped to 37, while the Average Directional Index barely confirmed a downtrend at 25.23.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On shorter timeframes, the sell pressure intensified, with the RSI at 32.7 and the ADX climbing above 34, signaling strong bearish momentum. Charts also <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/344679\/moon-doom-bitcoin-price-100k-or-120k-next?amp=1\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> a \u201cdeath cross\u201d pattern \u2014 a technical signal often associated with extended downturns.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regarding the Bitcoin Fear &amp; Greed Index, periods of \u201cextreme fear\u201d often coincide with <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-weekly-close-at-115k-after-fridays-crash-support-at-105k-holds-but-bears-dominate\">oversold conditions<\/a>, as traders retreat from risk and liquidity tightens. Historically, such phases have sometimes preceded local bottoms, though timing remains uncertain amid broader market volatility.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-struggles-below-110000\">sell-off comes as macro uncertainty<\/a> weighs on risk assets globally. Bitcoin\u2019s decline mirrors weakness in equities and commodities, as investors brace for renewed geopolitical tensions and cautious monetary policy commentary later this week.<\/p>\n<p>Just two weeks ago, when Bitcoin <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-teases-further-all-time-highs-above-125000\">traded above<\/a> $124,000, the index read 70, signaling \u2018greed\u2019 and highlighting how sharply sentiment has reversed.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, gold has surged to fresh all-time highs above $4,350 per ounce, extending its outperformance against Bitcoin so far this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This post <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/markets\/bitcoin-price-slides-to-104000\">Bitcoin Price Slides to $104,000 as Market Fear Hits \u2018Extreme\u2019 Levels<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/\">Bitcoin Magazine<\/a> and is written by <a href=\"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/authors\/micahzimmerman\">Micah Zimmerman<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bitcoin Magazine Bitcoin Price Slides to $104,000 as Market Fear Hits \u2018Extreme\u2019 Levels Bitcoin price has sharply reversed course after reaching a record high above $126,000 just two weeks ago \u2014 and the downturn isn\u2019t letting up. The price has now slipped into the $104,000 range, extending a multi-day decline that\u2019s driven market sentiment to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":5098,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5097","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digkrypton.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}