How Traders Can Make Money When Bitcoin Trades Sideways: 10x Research
As Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) trades within a narrow range, analysts urge traders to pivot away from momentum-driven strategies and adopt professional-grade trading techniques to profit in a low-volatility environment.
What Happened: A 10x Research report on Monday outlined how Bitcoin’s sharp rallies in 2024 were limited to just two months, February (+44%) and November (+37%), while the rest of the year was characterized by consolidation.
Despite Bitcoin’s strong annual return of +113%, the report emphasizes that most of the gains were compressed into brief windows, and that the current trading environment requires more tactical positioning.
“Bitcoin tends to perform better between October and March and consolidate between April and September,” the analysts stated. “It makes sense to adopt a more conservative, seasonally aware approach during this part of the year.”
The firm notes that retail participation has sharply declined in 2025, as evidenced …
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