2/ If you have followed me for long time, you would know I use Futures market signals like Open Interest, Funding rate & Premiums to analyze the market sentiment & the probable direction we're going to go next. Here, we will use funding & OI for our analysis.
3/ If you take a close look at the below chart, there are red & green lines. Red are regions where price dumped soon after and green are when price pumped soon after.
Green lines are also those lines which have very low or negative funding. Red have very high positive funding
4/ Now take a closer look at the bottom Aggregated Open Interest chart (sum total OI of all big exchanges like Binance, Bybit, FTX, Okex, Huobi)
You'll see that price makes a big move after OI reaches 100K BTC. OI reduces after this move & then it goes up again.
5/ As soon as price hovers around 100K, there's a big dump or big pump
Dump: Price dumps when OI stays > 100K BTC & funding rate is high. This makes sense as the market is now highly leveraged in the LONG trade
Pump: Price pumps when OI > 100K & funding rate is 0 or negative
6/ This makes sense as market is increasingly getting leveraged in the SHORT trade, so price pumps to liquidate the Shorters & reduce OI
If you look at the current OI, its around 94K which means there's still time for the market to get more levered in the short trade,
7/ which means price could stay at these levels or could correct a bit more to trap more shorts.
Its pretty obvious that funding will remain negative throughout getting more levered shorts.
When this happens , OI will slowly move towards 100K.
8/ After staying a few days around 100K, market needs to go in the direction in which OI will reduce, which is the UPSIDE.
This will mean a big pump is coming soon to liquidate majority of leveraged shorts. Whether this will be a relief rally or beginning of the next phase of
9/ the bullrun is a different question & I will analyze it separately
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Before we begin our analysis, lets understand what's happening currently.
After hitting 42K, BTC has entered a HTF triangle with a 30% drawdown. This was the first major dip of this bullrun. Right now we've broken out $BTC #Bitcoin
2/ of this triangle & price is steadily rising. So whats next?
In order to understand this, we'll compare the 2021 bullrun with 2017 & 2013
1st metric for comparison is : UTXO count. UTXO counts are one of the major determiners of HODLing behavior of investors. If UTXO counts
3/ keep rising, it usually means people are HODLing rather than spending or selling their BTC. During a bullrun, UTXOs in general would rise but we can try to break it down further to check if anything peculiar is happening in 2021 which was similar to 2013 or 2017.
1/ In my previous thread in June, I talked about how we are close to a blast-off. We got that blast-off last weekend. BTC reclaimed 10K, & now is trending towards 11.5K. Now what next?
2/ If u look closely at this below fractal from Jan to June' 2016, you can see the similarities with Mar- July'2020. This fractal led into 2016 Halving. There was a 133 day long price recovery & consolidation before the Blast-off to 800$. We're close to where $BTC was in June'16
3/ We are at a similar stage. Price has recovered & consolidated for 137 days before pumping to 11.4K this week. Next is 2nd Leg of Blast-off to a "Price peak". Going by the 2016 fractal, this "price peak" should be achieved within August. All dips will be for buying! #BTFD#HODL
2/ Bitcoin Halving is the most significant event that determines long term price movement. One cycle runs from halving to halving. Current cycle is 2016 halving to 2020 halving (2020 Halving still not priced in). Previous cycle was 2012 -2016 halving.
3/ Huge returns can be made if one buys during accumulation & sells during distribution.
Now how to identify the phase?
As seen in below picture, during accumulation, funding rate turns largely negative or slightly positive. Spread (Futures price - Spot price) remains negative,