{"id":9705,"date":"2026-01-25T19:13:05","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/money-keeps-leaving-bitcoin-etfs-shed-1-72-billion-in-just-5-sessions\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T19:13:05","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T19:13:05","slug":"money-keeps-leaving-bitcoin-etfs-shed-1-72-billion-in-just-5-sessions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/money-keeps-leaving-bitcoin-etfs-shed-1-72-billion-in-just-5-sessions\/","title":{"rendered":"Money Keeps Leaving: Bitcoin ETFs Shed $1.72 Billion In Just 5 Sessions"},"content":{"rendered":"

US-based spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled funds for a fifth straight trading day, and the totals added up quickly. According to Farside data, about $103.5 million left on Friday, bringing the five-day sum to roughly $1.72 billion.<\/p>\n

Bitcoin was trading near $89,160 at the time of these reports \u2014 still well below the $100,000 mark it last reached on November 13. This movement has sent a clear signal: many investors are stepping back right now.<\/p>\n

ETF Flows And Who Is Selling<\/h2>\n

Reports note that ETF flows<\/a> are often on the radar as a quick read on investor mood, but the picture is not always simple. Large outflows can reflect institutional rebalancing or tactical moves by funds, not only mass retail selling.<\/p>\n

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The US market had a four-day trading week because of Martin Luther King Jr. Day<\/a> on Monday, which may have concentrated trades into fewer sessions and amplified the numbers. Still, losing more than a billion dollars in a few days will get attention.<\/p>\n

Market Mood And Metals<\/h2>\n

The wider mood has soured. The Crypto Fear & Greed Index<\/a> registered an Extreme Fear score of 25, and sentiment trackers have been flashing caution. Reports say Santiment believes retail traders are pulling back while attention drifts toward more traditional assets.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, metals have been strong. Reports disclose that with gold trading near $5,000 and silver approaching $100, some market players feel Bitcoin has been left out of a rally that lifted metals, which has weighed on confidence in the crypto market.<\/p>\n

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Bitcoin Price Action<\/p>\n

Bitcoin<\/a> has struggled to find a steady rhythm over the past week. Prices slipped below the $89,000 to $90,000 range as traders reacted to fresh geopolitical tension and renewed trade worries, before stabilizing as nerves eased.<\/p>\n

This was driven higher after some soft political indicators around tariff threats,<\/a> only to substantiate the idea that markets rarely react to conflict but rather to changes in tone and expectations.<\/p>\n


\nSignals That Could Matter<\/p>\n

These movements illustrate how Bitcoin behaves more like a risk asset rather than an asset shelter, falling in tandem with equities when unexpected financial shocks hit the globe, before rebounding when the fever subsides to gather fresh buyers.<\/p>\n

Current price patterns indicate caution, where traders are weighing short-term political risks against medium- and long-term macro patterns, as well as institutional interests.<\/p>\n

There are some quieter indications that the rout could be losing steam. To this effect, there are assertions suggesting that supply distribution on-chain and social chatter can be circumstantial evidence showing there is less selling pressure.<\/p>\n

Featured image from Money; Shutterstock, chart from TradingView<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

US-based spot Bitcoin exchange-traded funds pulled funds for a fifth straight trading day, and the totals added up quickly. According to Farside data, about $103.5 million left on Friday, bringing the five-day sum to roughly $1.72 billion. Bitcoin was trading near $89,160 at the time of these reports \u2014 still well below the $100,000 mark…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[56,55,61,70,36,239,388],"class_list":["post-9705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bitcoin-news","tag-bitcoin","tag-bitcoin-news","tag-btc","tag-btcusd","tag-crypto","tag-digital-currency","tag-etf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coinsvalue.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}