A Bitcoin (BTC) toll metric, which made BTC "look seriously cheap" at $56,000, is at present in rare oversold territory.

In a tweet on Dec. 6, Philip Swift, creator of analytics platform LookIntoBitcoin, returned to potentially bullish signals coming from Bitcoin's Avant-garde NVT Signal.

Advanced NVT deflates in Bitcoin price rout

Advanced NVT calculates whether Bitcoin is overbought or oversold at a certain price point, using market capitalization and network volume.

In tardily November, when BTC/USD had already fallen to $56,000, Swift suggested that a bounce was due.

The metric subsequently connected to fall in line with spot cost thanks to terminal Friday's liquidation cascade. A possible plus, however, lies in the return of "oversold" cues from NVT — something which has only occurred six times since 2022.

"A lot of fear in the market currently, which makes me bullish. Lots of indicators advise we are near a lesser," he said.

"Avant-garde NVT Signal looks at price relative to onchain transactions. It has merely been this oversold a few times earlier, each time resulting in a stiff bounce."
Bitcoin advanced NVT betoken annotated chart. Source: Philip Swift/Twitter

The strength of such a bounce nonetheless may take already faded, with Bitcoin reversing afterward around six% overnight gains to $51,500 on Bitstamp.

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At printing time, $51,000 formed a focus amid heavy indications from commentators that fresh downside could soon enter.

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"Buy in low to mid twoscore'southward. Non go trapped," trader and analyst Pentoshi advised Twitter followers.

As Cointelegraph reported Monday, meanwhile, in that location are plenty of reasons to separate spot price action from underlying strength in Bitcoin.

Among them is the all-time high hash rate, along with a wide lack of selling. Smaller hodlers, by dissimilarity, have been adding to their positions throughout the past week.

Simply whales appear to exist hedging their bets, as evidenced by substitution flow data.