Bitcoin price drops 5.26% as risk-off selling returns
Published on 11/05/2026 at 18:40 | Editorial responsibility: Rafael Müller, Editor-in-Chief AD HOC NEWSWhat Bitcoin's latest drop signals
- Bitcoin traded at USD 76,222.5 at 18:02:49 Berlin time on November 5, 2026.
- The price was 5.26% below CoinGecko's verified UTC close of USD 80,443 for November 4.
- U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs recorded USD 74.57 million of inflows on November 4 after three sessions of withdrawals.
- A broad risk-off move in U.S. equities and unresolved regulatory questions are keeping the market volatile.
Bitcoin price fell back below USD 77,000 on November 5 as a broad sell-off in U.S. equities spread across risk assets. Investing.com displayed Bitcoin at USD 76,222.5 at 18:02:49 Berlin time, with a 24-hour volume of USD 43.71 billion and a market capitalization of USD 1.54 trillion. The displayed 52-week range was USD 57,832.5 to USD 107,461.3, according to the Investing.com Bitcoin market page.
Using the verified UTC close of USD 80,443 for November 4 reported by CoinGecko, the November 5 reading represented a decline of 5.26%. This is a UTC daily comparison, not a rolling 24-hour change. The move therefore qualified as a significant daily shift, although the quoted prices came from different market-data pages tracking the same BTC/USD instrument.
Risk appetite reverses after elections
The immediate backdrop was a reversal in U.S. stocks after the post-election rally. Yahoo Finance reported that Bitcoin dropped below USD 77,000 as investors moved out of riskier assets and major U.S. indexes gave back gains from the previous session. The report also cited lingering market fragility after the USD 6.3 billion Binance hack and renewed questions about the future of the Clarity Act under a Democratic-controlled Congress.
ETF demand offers a mixed signal
Institutional demand was not uniformly negative. TokenPost, citing SoSoValue data, reported that U.S. spot Bitcoin ETFs attracted USD 74.57 million on November 4 after three consecutive sessions of withdrawals. Fidelity's FBTC recorded USD 236.72 million of inflows, while BlackRock's IBIT posted USD 201.24 million of outflows. The figures show that ETF demand can recover even while flows remain concentrated and uneven across issuers.
For investors, the combination of a sharp daily decline, renewed equity-market pressure and mixed ETF flows argues for caution rather than treating one rebound or one sell-off as a durable trend. Bitcoin's next direction will remain sensitive to liquidity, institutional allocations, regulatory expectations and broader risk appetite. Follow further coverage on the Bitcoin topic page.
