I tweeted #BTC would hit $51.4K yesterday & it did shortly thereafter. What's next?
TLDR:
Max. price for this rally is ~$73K. Revisit ATH or even set new ATH by 10/31/21
Why?
-Buy & Sell Oscillator & MRGO-14: Buy
-Futures: Bullish w/ some selling
-Options: Bullish
-TA: Bullish
1/ MRGO-14 uses the difference in changes in #BTC's market & realized price to find buy/sell signals for BTC.
Green ➡️ Buy
Red ➡️ Sell
MGRO-14 has flipped green since 10/4/21.
2/ My #BTC Buy & Sell Oscillator has been >1 since 10/5/21.
4/ #BTC's 21D EMA crossed back above its 34D EMA, which is a bullish sign.
CM Super Guppy has flipped green again, showing signs of strength for BTC's price.
5a. CME #BTC futures annualized premium is double digit positive for October 2021, showing the contango trade is on for US institutions (sell BTC futures & buy spot BTC). Bullish!
5b/ The #BTC perpetual futures liquidations for longs are trending down, while shorts are going up. Bullish!
The funding rates at major exchanges are trending negative, indicating traders are net short. Is this a concern?
5b/ Whenever there is a spike in -ve funding rates, #BTC's price will increase sharply. This is happening now. Traders are not convinced of the current BTC rally so they are likely to get rekted! Why?
5d/ Large position of #BTC futures longs usually gets liquidated when funding rates go aping +ve. When that turns -ve, we could see a major correction. This is not happening.
If funding rates continue to trend -ve but no major spikes, BTC's price could see downward pressure.
5e/ #BTC futures OI are building up along with rising BTC's prices. The level to watch is $19B which is the level that lead to the 19% correction in 9/7/21.
But as the funding rates are negative, indicating traders are net short, there's more room for BTC's price to run up.
6a/ $1.6B of Deribit #BTC options are expiring on 10/29/21.
Max Pain= $45K
Put/call Ratio= 0.31!!!
The put call ratio indicates traders are extremely bullish about BTC's price in October 2021.
25 delta skew for 7, 30 & 60 days are showing the same bullish trend.
7a/ Technically, #BTC took out the upper line of repair (LOR) & reached the falling wedge price target of $51.4K. It met resistance & retested the LOR successfully. It should resume up soon. If not trend line #2 should provide good support.
What is the price target?
7b/ Last time, when #BTC had a major run to its ATH from 11/26/2020, it reached between 1.272 & 1.414 Fib extension. If the same price action repeats, BTC's price could go up to $73K.
What is the timeline for hitting that? Not this month, but November 2021 likely.
7c/ Using trendlines & a pitchfork, it is determined that #BTC is likely to revisit or even surpass its ATH by 10/31/21 as it is at the confluence of the trend line 'a' & one of the pitchfork trend lines.
1/ Why is $GBTC trading at a discount?
$GBTC will be in discount when its price is trading lower than its #BTC holdings/share outstanding. Simply, investors are unwilling to buy $GBTC unless its value its lower relative to BTC.
The following🧵is a refresher about the Grayscale #Bitcoin Trust ($GBTC) if you want background information about this closed-end BTC fund. Enjoy!
* +ve: Positive
-ve: Negative
NAV: Net Asset Value
AUM: Assets Under Management
DCG: Digital Currency Group, Grayscale's parent
A/ $GBTC used to be the only game in town if one wants exposure to #BTC, but couldn't invest in it directly or wants to invest in a BTC proxy for their 401(k) for tax reasons or doesn't want the hassle to store their private keys. Investors can trade $GBTC at OTCQX Exchange.
B/ $GBTC is backed 100% by #BTC. Accredited investors can buy Grayscale's privately-placed $GBTC shares at NAV (value of BTC holdings/share). When that happens, Grayscale will buy BTC to back up its shares. Currently, 1 $GBTC share = 0.000935656 BTC.
Using Fed Tapering Signals & #BTC Coin Maturation Waves to Time BTC's Cycle Peak
TLDR: The 2021 BTC bull phase is similar to that of 2013 as they're under similar Fed QE policies. On-chain data show similar patterns.
Cycle peak likely in Dec. 2021. BTC isn't in a bear phase.
1a/ I have tweeted a number of times using TA & on-chain data to show that the 2021 #BTC bull phase has more similar traits to that of 2013 rather than that of 2017. The driving force behind these similar price action could be US Fed monetary policy. Why?
1b/ In 2013, the Fed initiated QE3. Since March 2020, the Fed has launched QE Infinity. In both cases, the markets are awash with lots of liquidity, albeit on a different scale. In 2017, there was no QE & the Fed launched a B/S normalization program- quantitative tightening.
𝟭. 𝗠𝗶𝗻𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘀
a. The mean hash rate for #BTC miners has bottomed & is trending higher. It's forming an ascending channel, which is a bullish pattern.
The hash rate held the upward trend & pierced through the middle of the parallel channel last week. Bullish.
1b (i) The Hash Ribbon is a market indicator that assumes that #BTC's price tends to reach a bottom when miners capitulate & that's when BTC's price momentum switches from negative to positive- a good buying opportunity.
#BTC had a 19% correction from its intraday high of $53K to $43K! What happened?
1. Buy the rumor (El Salvador's law on adopting Bitcoin as legal tender came into effect today), sell the news 2. Miners selling 3. Leverage & fervent speculation, especially Alts
Game over? Not!🧵
1/ Buy the rumor & sell the news. True.
2/ Miners have been selling their #BTC reserves since the end of August. They've sold 1507 BTC on a week-to-week basis, but nothing to cause the correction we've seen today. Miners are probably taking some profits on the strength of BTC.
3a/ The real catalyst for the correction is the leverage built up in the futures market, especially in Altcoins. Don't believe me?
Take a look at #ETH futures OI. It rose to a new ATH of $11.62B today!
Per Jordan's @jclcapital livestream today, this is my read on Will Clemente's Illiquid Supply RSI chart:
1a. The blue & red lines are the respective 365-day fast stochastic indicator (%K) & slow stochastic indicator (%D) over the 30-day net change of #BTC illiquid supply.
1b. Focus on the blue line.
2. The bullish #BTC impulse moves had come when after the blue line crosses from below the purple zone (20) to above the purple zone (80).
3. The vertical green lines mark the start of the bullish price action.
4. The upward price momentum is measured by the slope of the line linking the peak & trough of the crosses. The steeper the slope, the higher the upward price momentum & vice versa.