# BTC slides to $62K as CPI week opens > Bitcoin slides to ~$62K Monday, giving back the weekend's $63.8K shelf and losing the July 8 trough before Tuesday's June CPI. Fear & Greed still reads 28; last ETF row +$90.4M. - **Source:** https://ptycoin.com/en/posts/2026-07-13-bitcoin-monday-soft-open-cpi-week/ - **Published:** 2026-07-13 - **Category:** Markets - **Author:** Lucía - **Tags:** bitcoin, cpi, etf, fear-greed, ethereum, fed - **Also published in:** [Español](https://ptycoin.com/es/posts/2026-07-13-bitcoin-monday-soft-open-cpi-week/) --- Monday's open did not just soften; it slipped. On Crypto.com Exchange's BTC/USDT pair, Bitcoin last changed hands near **$62,020** as of ~18:10 UTC on July 13 (session low **$61,893**, 24h range up to about **$64,430**), roughly **2.8%** under Sunday's settled close at **$63,786.40** and now beneath the early-July recovery shelf. This is the first full U.S. session of the data week, with **June CPI due Tuesday** and primary-market ETF tables still stuck on Friday's last print, and the tape has spent the session giving back the weekend's mid-$63Ks rather than defending them. ## From Friday's re-bid to a Monday fade The institutional anchor has not updated since Friday. [Farside Investors](https://farside.co.uk/btc/) logged **+$90.4 million** of net inflows into U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs on July 10, almost entirely BlackRock's IBIT at **+$86.8 million**, with VanEck's HODL at **+$3.6 million**. That session ended a two-day redemption stretch (−$84.9M on July 8, −$95.3M on July 9) after the short early-July green arc of July 2 (+$223.5M), July 6 (+$265.7M), and July 7 (+$21.5M). Monday's primary-market day is still forming; the next Farside row will not settle until U.S. equity hours close, and it lands into a spot market that has weakened since the open. Settled spot had told a containment story into the weekend. Crypto.com 1D closes: July 10 **$64,174.59** (best finish of the bounce), July 11 **$63,816.82**, July 12 **$63,786.40**. Monday broke that shelf: price slid through the low-$63Ks, gave up the **$62,286.71** July 8 recovery trough, and tagged a session low near **$61,893** before steadying just above **$62,000**. Ethereum is weaker in parallel, last near **$1,760** on ETH/USDT (about **−3.1%** on the day) at the same Crypto.com snapshot. The weekend shelf is gone for now; the question into Tuesday is whether $62K becomes support or a step on the way lower. ## Chart: price rolls over, the daily mood gauge lags The series pairs settled daily closes (and Monday's still-forming candle) with the [Crypto Fear & Greed Index](https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/). *BTC price vs the Crypto Fear & Greed Index, Jul 6–Jul 13. The July 13 point is an intraday read as of ~18:10 UTC, not a settled close. Price has rolled under the weekend's settled closes while the once-daily gauge still reads 28 (Fear). Source: Crypto.com Exchange 1D candles + alternative.me.* ## What Monday is pricing before Tuesday The split to watch is price versus mood. [Alternative.me](https://alternative.me/crypto/fear-and-greed-index/) still shows **28 (Fear)** for July 13, up from **26** on July 11–12 and **23 (Extreme Fear)** on July 10, but that gauge is a once-daily print and has not yet caught Monday's slide under $62K. So the "sentiment keeps climbing" read that held over the weekend is now stretched: spot has rolled over while the composite still reads its highest in a week. Treat the 28 as a lagging weekend snapshot, not a green light. The calendar is the catalyst, not another re-litigation of Friday's ETF row. The U.S. [Bureau of Labor Statistics](https://www.bls.gov/schedule/news_release/cpi.htm) releases **June CPI on Tuesday, July 14 at 8:30 a.m. ET**. [CNBC's week-ahead](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/07/10/stock-market-next-week-outlook-for-july-13-17-2026.html) put consensus near **3.8% year over year**, down from May's **4.2%**, with Fed Chair **Kevin Warsh** delivering semi-annual monetary-policy testimony the same day and big U.S. banks (JPMorgan, Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, Citigroup) reporting earnings. That stack feeds the path into the **July 28–29 FOMC meeting**. A softer inflation print would test whether spot can reclaim the weekend shelf and pull ETF creations back; a hotter one would test how much further below **$62K** the tape travels when wrappers can flip red as fast as they flipped green on July 8–9. Oil and geopolitics sit in the background of that inflation debate. The same CNBC week-ahead flagged higher crude after a resumption of U.S.–Iran hostilities and a short-lived ceasefire narrative, with markets debating whether energy is a one-time passthrough or a more durable CPI impulse. For Bitcoin, that matters as a **rate-path** input: the early-July bounce partly rode a softer June jobs print and a brief return of ETF creations. Tuesday's data will either reinforce that liquidity-sensitive read or challenge it. ## Takeaway Bitcoin enters the first full session of CPI week under the weekend mid-$63Ks, near **$62,000** intraday after a session low around **$61,893**, having slipped beneath the July 8 trough while Fear & Greed's daily print still reads **28** and the last settled U.S. spot ETF row stays Friday's **+$90.4 million**. The tape is pricing caution ahead of inflation and Warsh, not a new trend leg. This is a structure snapshot, not a call — keep custody decisions separate from the next 24 hours of macro noise. --- ## Keep reading - [How to read a block explorer and verify a transaction](https://ptycoin.com/en/posts/2026-07-07-read-block-explorer-verify-transactions/index.md): A block explorer is the public receipt for every on-chain move. Learn how to look up a transaction ID, read confirmations, and confirm funds arrived at the right address. - [Self-custody without a single point of failure](https://ptycoin.com/en/posts/2026-08-10-self-custody-without-single-point-of-failure/index.md): A hardware wallet can generate a key badly. Build a self-custody setup that survives a vendor bug: verified backups, your own entropy, passphrases, and multi-vendor multisig. - [Self-Custody 101: Moving Your Crypto Off an Exchange Safely](https://ptycoin.com/en/posts/2026-06-05-self-custody-101-moving-crypto-off-exchange/index.md): Take control of your cryptocurrency. This step-by-step guide shows beginners how to safely move crypto from an exchange into a hardware wallet you control, with concrete checks that prevent the most common — and costly — mistakes. --- Source: PTYcoin — https://ptycoin.com/en/posts/2026-07-13-bitcoin-monday-soft-open-cpi-week/. Free to read and cite with attribution to ptycoin.com. 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