Key points:
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Bitcoin breaks through its volume-weighted average price (VWAP), echoing the rebound from April’s sub-$75,000 lows.
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Stocks see fresh all-time highs as markets digest the Fed rate cut.
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Liquidity suggests that volatility is incoming as BTC price targets $118,000.
Bitcoin (BTC) eyed $118,000 at Thursday’s Wall Street open as stocks hit new all-time highs.
Bitcoin breakout sets the stage for new all-time highs
Data from Cointelegraph Markets Pro and TradingView showed BTC/USD consolidating daily gains above key resistance.
The first US trading session after the Federal Reserve enacted its first interest-rate cut of 2025 saw both the S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite Index hit fresh records.
Reacting, trading resource The Kobeissi Letter saw the risk-asset uptrend continuing into next year.
“2025 now marks the 3rd year since 1996 where rate cuts have happened with the S&P 500 at record highs. The previous 2 years? 2019 and 2024,” it observed in part of its latest analysis on X.
“When the Fed cuts rates within 2% of all time highs, the S&P 500 has risen an average of +14% in 12 months.”
Gold saw further volatility after beating all-time highs of its own the day prior, with $3,700 the level in focus.
Bitcoin bulls meanwhile attempted to cement $117,000 as support while staring down the final block of resistance before price discovery.
$BTC – #Bitcoin is looking really interesting right now.
It’s trying to reclaim the ~$117K level.
Once we gain this level the way to $120K is open in my opinion.
However: Last time we rejected this level and came all the way back to the light blue zone. pic.twitter.com/zHxQzst0V4
— Crypto Caesar (@CryptoCaesarTA) September 18, 2025
Caleb Franzen, creator of financial research resource Cubic Analytics, saw BTC/USD repeating a bullish pattern from May.
Then, as now, price broke above its volume-weighted average (VWAP) as measured from its latest all-time high.
“It's almost like good things have happened since Bitcoin broke above its anchored volume-weighted average price from the ATHs,” he summarized on X alongside an explanatory chart.
Warning over BTC price “exit pump”
A word of caution came from exchange order-book analysis.
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Trading resource Material Indicators was among those warning that liquidity was building around price, potentially opening the door for volatile moves.
“While I feel like the macro is solidly bullish and the top isn't in yet, this currently feels more like a short term exit pump, than accumulation. Time will tell,” part of accompanying commentary stated.
Earlier, Cointelegraph reported on thickening order-book liquidity, with $116,500 and $119,000 the levels to watch.
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