Getting chopped up? Read this.Bitcoin / TetherKUCOIN:BTCUSDTh456459This is the current framework I’m working with on BTC from a higher timeframe perspective. The weekly structure is no longer trending. The prior uptrend has clearly stalled and transitioned into a distribution phase at the highs. That range at the top was supply being absorbed and offloaded. The breakdown that followed was impulsive and structurally clean, which confirms that the market shifted from expansion to distribution, and then into markdown. Where we are now is the more interesting part. Price has reached the lower end of the broader weekly range, around the 60k/70k region, and instead of continuing lower with momentum, it has started to compress. The current structure is a tightening range, effectively a triangle forming at the lows. This is a balance point. Neither buyers nor sellers are in control on the higher timeframe. That type of compression typically precedes a resolution event, and in this context, the key question is how the market interacts with the liquidity sitting just below the range. My current bias is that the market is likely to take that liquidity first. There is a clean pool sitting below the weekly low. It’s obvious, it’s visible, and it hasn’t been taken. In this kind of structure, that usually acts as a magnet. The expectation is a relatively fast move once the market commits. Compression builds energy, and when it resolves, it tends to do so with displacement. The important nuance is how that move occurs. The idea is a sweep. A move that pushes below the band, triggers stops, pulls in late shorts, and taps into that liquidity. That likely prints as a wick through the lower boundary rather than clean acceptance below it. That wick, or deviation, is the event. What matters next is the reaction. If price reclaims the range quickly and holds back above the prior low, that shifts the context. The sweep becomes a liquidity grab rather than the start of continuation. In that scenario, the market has effectively cleared the downside inefficiency and is free to rotate back into the range, and potentially expand higher toward prior value. If, on the other hand, price accepts below that band and builds value there, then the thesis fails. At that point it is no longer a sweep, it is continuation, and the lower range opens up. So the thesis is simple in structure, even if the execution requires patience. Sweep below the weekly low, deviation through the band, reclaim, and then expansion back upward. Until that happens, this remains an idea, not a trade. The market is still in equilibrium on the higher timeframe, and without resolution, there is no edge. The focus is on the reaction at the extremes, not anticipation in the middle. If you want to avoid getting chopped within this unresolved lower timeframe range, do not trade until the compression resolves at a minimum.