But let's start digging into this week, should we?
For as much as I would like to start with the onchain data, this week I'll have to retreat to an TA and macro analysis at first, onchain will have to wait I guess.
There a lot of important information to put out before entring the blockchain realm
So this week we saw something changing in the #crypto market, with #Eth approaching the date of the merge, some investor chose to take profit into #BTC as a precautionary measure or just because the profit were so yummy with #Bitcoin that low
In the meantime the #Bitcoin hashrate keeps climbing reaching a new ATH. Paradoxical to say the least that this is happening meanwhile the other large cryptocurrencies is actually approaching a PoS consensus mechanism
In any case today we have other problems to care about, since as always, during the day of the CPI print we had a flush out because the market was not expecting that lower CPI I guess and what the market haven't priced in is going to turn against it
As you see above infact, #bitcoin dropped 8.42%, at the time of writing, in a day, with not so much of a liquidation cascade watching the data.
This means that the spot price drove the run to the downside
By this chart this seems like apossible retest of the 12 EMA at support, but the day is long enought that something could change
Maybe this flushout will lead to another pump thanks to ETH and the merge and the fact that..
Today's CPI prints:
Actual
8.3%
Forecast
8.1%
Previous
8.5%
have let to a drastic change in what the market is actually expecting the FED to react to this inflation level, forecasting a 75bps rate hike at 82% of probability and a whopping 100bps at 18%
On sunday, when I was sharing my view of the market on the live stream linked below (timestamps for argument, since is very long and full of alpha)
The very same tool was all the other way around
Another fact is that the CPI MoM, that we actually use as a momentum indicator for the CPI during the year doesn't seem to retreat, that meaning tha inflation since last month has not decreased in this kind of enviroment
Actual
0.1%
Forecast
-0.1%
Previous
0.0%
With the strong labour market narrative still intact, is likely that the FED will keep up raising interest rates until the YoY will finally come down to a decent level, and thenm, they'll probably just stall for a while, waiting the right opportunity to scale back
75bps incoming
From onchain I have a pair of charts to share with you today
First the MVRV Crosses
TLDR profitabily of Long Term Holders (blue) and Short Term Holders (red)
When the two met and blue goes under red, bottom in place, last part of the bear market
Not seen so far even if close
This is the Short Term Holder Realized Price
TLDR cost basis of <5m holders
as you see in the case of a bear market rally one of the major milestone and resistance is this
the last time we touched it we cam down all over to the current bottom
Now it sits at 24.3k
The same was true for the humpbacks (10k+ BTC holders) realized price
But the thing here to watch for in the case of another dump is the fish realized price. that as you see in the 2nd chart, did well in putting in every single bottom of a bear market, now sitting at 12.5k
I'm not saying that we'll go there. There should be something really catastrophic to do so, I'm only saying that historically, that is the place where the bottom was found.
Now, all we are waiting for this week is the merge, let's see what it'll bring
My thesis about the bottom area still holds tho, since the 14th of June, 20k to 14k, the huge area where we can find strong support and demand from any cohort or investor
I talked about that and why I was so sure about it in the correlated video on my youtube channel here if you want to know more
Do care so, about the merge, and the interest rates. All these events could bring lot of volatility in the markets.
Prepare yourself for a good amount of time spent in the bear market because, if nothing breaks in the economy the FED will not pivot any time soon
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Surprisingly positive numbers on employment in America have been published.
The July unemployment rate drops to 3.5%, the lowest level since the beginning of 2020.
Non-farm payrolls (number of non-farm workers) are 528,000, more than double the expected value (250k).
Nonfarm Payrolls measures the change in the number of people employed during the previous month, excluding the farming industry. Job creation is the foremost indicator of consumer spending, which accounts for the majority of economic activity.
A higher than expected reading should be taken as positive/bullish for the USD, while a lower than expected reading should be taken as negative/bearish for the USD.
DeFi is young and has its problems, but some blockchain doesn't handle the concepts of web3 neither the function of a protocol.
Solana is one of them. A thread 🧵
We saw ourself that in the middle of a crysis Solana can manage to shut down the entire chain in a matter of seconds from a centralized "emergency button".
So as far as decentralization goes, we are not gone far, even with 2k validators.
Multiple shut down of the chain in the last months showed that the chain isn't ready to handle the transactions happening on chain + any other problem coming from a code perspective.
Did you know that there are pairs that should be valued more?
To witness the power of the crypto industry and the money making trading strategies we should first know that using #Bitcoin as the medium of exchange to buy other coins or tokens is the best
Why? 👇
Take into account for a second future expectations and price targets.
Most people in the crypto industry think a 1m #Bitcoin is possible.
So let's take that as it is.
In this case, a 10% made on a #BTC pair is actually worth 50x more (taking a 20k btc or 40x with a 25k one)
Plus, using #Bitcoin as medium of exchange helps us to get an hedge in FIAT debasement.
Doesn't really matter in the short term if the price go down 70% from ATH.
We got many Xs everytime the market rallied again.
Inflation is a costant k in an equation where BTC is the result
#Tesla's #Bitcoin were sold OTC, were sold because they need their money back to hedge against their fear of recession and to appeal to investors in this period.
Do not be confused, that is strategy from a company. A bad one probably.
They invested what they couldn't afford to
lose, buying high and selling low.
They have their terms, obviously they have to mantain positive cash flow, and errors on the accounting and investing side are made more by centralized companies these days than "decentralized" ones.
When investing you shouldn't consider what other people are doing, but only what you should do based on your asset allocation, risk adjustment and investment strategies.
This is not a financial advice obviously
Anyway I don't think those #Bitcoin made any difference