What This Chart Shows
The "Trend Ladder" stacks Bitcoin's most-watched moving averages on a single log-scaled chart so you can read the trend regime at a glance. Each line is a trailing average of the daily closing price over a different window, and each has, at various points in Bitcoin's history, acted as a clean support level in uptrends or a ceiling in downtrends.
- 128-day moving average — a fast, roughly half-year trend line. It tracks price closely and is often the first line reclaimed (or lost) when momentum turns.
- 200-day moving average — the classic bull/bear divider used across all markets. Bitcoin trading above its 200DMA is broadly a bull-trend regime; below it, a bear-trend regime.
- 365-day moving average — the one-year trend. It has repeatedly marked the floor of mid-bull-market corrections, smoothing through the noise the 200DMA still catches.
- 200-week moving average — Bitcoin's macro floor. Price has only briefly closed below this line at the very bottom of each bear market, making those rare touches historically generational accumulation zones.
How to Read It
Stack the lines from fast to slow. When price and the 128DMA sit above the 200DMA, which sits above the 365DMA — all of them rising — Bitcoin is in a clean uptrend regime. When that order inverts and the fast lines roll under the slow ones, the trend has turned. The distance between price and the 200-week line tells you how stretched the cycle is: far above it is late-cycle; touching it is capitulation.
Use the range buttons above the chart to zoom from the last year out to the full history, and hover anywhere to read every line's value on that date. The y-axis is logarithmic, so equal vertical distances represent equal percentage moves.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the Bitcoin Trend Ladder?
The Trend Ladder is Bitcoin's key moving averages plotted together: the 128-day, 200-day and 365-day moving averages, plus the 200-week moving average. Seeing all four against price shows which trend regime Bitcoin is in without needing four separate charts.
What is the Bitcoin 200-week moving average?
The 200-week moving average is the average weekly close over the last 200 weeks (about 1,400 days). It is Bitcoin's slowest, most stable trend line and has acted as a macro floor — price has historically only dipped below it briefly at major bear-market bottoms.
Is Bitcoin above or below its 200-day moving average?
The live chart above shows today's price against the 200-day moving average and the three other lines. The reading updates daily. Trading above the 200DMA is generally read as a bull-trend regime; below it, a bear-trend regime.