Bitcoin's First Green Candle Since September 2025 Walks Into April Volatility Like 'What Could Go Wrong?'

Bitcoin (BTC) closed March with a 1.8% gain. This marked its first positive month since September 2025 and a break from five consecutive red monthly candles. For those keeping score at home, that's five months of watching your portfolio slowly bleed out while Telegram groups filled with people insisting "we're so back" — only to be met with more red. April has started on a volatile note with the largest cryptocurrency experiencing modest losses, because apparently one green candle wasn't enough to convince the market that we're not living in a crypto horror movie.

Seasonality Versus Reality

BeInCrypto Markets data showed that the cryptocurrency traded at $67,630 at press time in early Asian trading hours. That's up from where it was languishing in March, but let's not get ahead of ourselves with the victory laps.

Now, April has historically been a positive month for BTC, with an average return of 12.1% and a median of 5.04%. Sweet, sweet historical data — if only Bitcoin had gotten the memo about following trends. Yet the asset has consistently diverged from those trends since late 202