Bitcoin has had a mixed-price performance over the last seven days. In what seemed like a continuation of the recent downturn, the world’s largest cryptocurrency saw its value fall below $40,000 for the first time since December 2023. 

However, BTC’s price seems to be recovering nicely after reaching above $41,000 and even momentarily reaching $42,000 on Friday, January 26. Recent data shows that the premier cryptocurrency might follow the steps of the stock market index S&P 500, which recently attained a new all-time high.

BTC Playing Catch-Up With The Stock Market?

In a new post on the X platform, data analytics site Santiment highlighted how Bitcoin might try to regain its correlation with the S&P 500, one of the most popular stock market indexes. This index tracks the performance of 500 of the largest exchange-listed companies in the United States.

According to the on-chain analytics platform, investor sentiment around Bitcoin reached peak euphoria on January 11, the day after 11 spot BTC exchange-traded funds were approved in the US. This development has seen the flagship cryptocurrency face significant downward pressure and substantial price decline.

BTC attempting to regain correlation with S&P 500 | Source: Santiment/X

S&P 500, on the other hand, has been putting in a strong performance in the past few weeks, exhibiting a deviation in its correlation with crypto’s market leader. According to Santiment’s report, the stock market index printed a new all-time high on Thursday, January 25.

Following Bitcoin’s recent resurgence, Santiment noted that Bitcoin and other large-cap assets may “regress to the mean and play catch-up with the equities markets.” This essentially means that there is a likelihood for the cryptocurrencies to move back in line with the performance of traditional equities.

The relationship between the stock market and cryptocurrencies has been an interesting one to watch for many investors. A weak correlation between the two asset classes is often deemed to provide diversification avenues for investors.

Bitcoin Price Overview

As of this writing, Bitcoin’s price is $41,824, reflecting an almost 5% increase in the past 24 hours. Even though BTC is quite some distance from its 2024 high of about $49,000, the recent upswing has helped the premier cryptocurrency erase most of its loss in the past week.

According to data from CoinGecko, BTC is up by a mere 0.5% in the last seven days. Meanwhile, it continues to rank as the largest asset in the cryptocurrency sector, with a market capitalization of more than $820 billion.

Bitcoin price hovers around $42,000 on the daily timeframe | Source: BTCUSDT chart on TradingView

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