Seems like $26,000 is the new steady-state price... For how long? "Please, Bitcoin, do something!" etc., etc.
It always locks on round numbers. Must be human psychology. Would be interesting to see the price lock at $26,450 for a change. Or, even better, lock at $264,500.
(Most) folks just tend to be drawn to simplicity.
I confess, me too. "Buy and hodl" is my favourite

Back in the early days, I used to set limit prices based on the digits of Pi or other math constant. Like $314.159. It was fun to spot the transaction as it went through in the order book. Now I just do round numbers like the rest of us.
PS: This could even be an OPSEC issue I guess (but I bet there are many more OCD types out there)...
What do you guys think will happen? Will it hit 35k by the end of 2023 or it go down 25k? Waiting a lot for the outcome.
Even though you did not frame your question very well, you seem to be asking whether the BTC price is going to break out of the "don't wake me up zone," which coiuld be argued to be $25k to $35k, and which way will it break out and will such break up happen by the end of this year.
Part of the reason your framing seems to suck is because largely we have already gone down to pretty damned close to $25k.. which was as low as $25,350 so far. So yeah we are close to the bottom of the range which does give more credibility to the possibility of breaking downward rather than UP, but I am still not sure if the chances are too much greater than 60% for the breaking down rather than either returning into the range or ending up breaking up out of the range to the upside.. but surely if the BTC price does not break down and instead goes somewhere back into the middle of the "don't wake me up" arena, then wouldn't that seem like a BIG SO FUCKING WHAT?
So probably the more interesting scenario would be to break below $25k, but again, I am not even sure if I might be being too optimistic when I end up assigning up to 60% odds for such.
It seems pretty doubtful that we would stay in this DWMU range until the end of the year without breaking one direction or another, but sure we still ONLY have right about 4 months left in the year.. so it would not be out of the question to stay in this DWMU range until the end of the year.
I am quite likely not going to be holding my breath for any of this, even though I do see why some people are getting bored, and maybe they feel that they already accumulated enough BTC in these prices, which maybe it could be the case, but being more than $1k below the 200-week moving average (
at $27,498 right now) does not seem to be a very healthy place in order to have a further break downwardly.. but hey, breaking down (if it is possible) might end up shaking some weak hands, if it does not end up recking some bearwhale twats prior to their ability to be able to buy back the coins that they had ended up selling in such desires to try to get the price of cornz to go downity rather than uppity or sideways.