Context and references.
The March 2024 BTC price action provides a clean case study for RSI timeframe alignment. BTC printed a new all-time high of $73,777 on March 14, 2024 (Binance intraday). The daily RSI peaked at 88 — the third-highest reading of the cycle. The 4-hour RSI peaked at 84 the same day. Both timeframes showed extreme overbought conditions simultaneously.
The textbook signal was the daily RSI bearish divergence that formed across the March 8-14 window. Price made higher highs ($68,000 to $73,777); RSI made lower highs (88 down to 84). CoinDesk and TradingView both retain the charts for verification. The Block covered the divergence in its mid-March market structure summary.
Trade execution lessons from the case: the daily RSI divergence formed first; the 4-hour divergence followed 8-12 hours later; the 1-hour confirmation arrived another 4 hours after. Traders watching only the 1-hour timeframe missed the warning by 16+ hours. Multi-timeframe alignment matters most at cycle turning points, less so during steady trending regimes.
Outcome: BTC pulled back from $73,777 to $61,937 by March 19 (a 16% drawdown), then to $56,500 by mid-May (a 23% drawdown from the ATH). The full pullback played out over six weeks, which is the typical pattern after a confirmed multi-timeframe RSI divergence at a cycle high. Glassnode's daily RSI archive confirms the readings.
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