This bearish sell down by investors seems to have exhausted, which gives price a repreive to consolidate sideways for maybe a month, even a rebound to mid 70s, which would likely to be rejected.
This is because the broader regime is heavily bearish with both spot and futures liquidity deteriorating. I've never seen BTC rally when both sources of liquidity are bearish.
If I was to make an educated guess, I'd say Q4 would be good timing for the end of the bearish trend and Q1 or Q2 2027 for bullish momentum to return,.
~45k would be a typical bear market bottom.
BTC has only ever existed in a secular global macro bull market 2009-2026. If global macro breaks down, then 30k is the fall back level of support, 16k as the final line to maintain BTC's bull trend.
I'm seeing crypto folk falling into the trough of dispair after an abysmal bull market with mainly losers and BTC outperforming their "beta".
Let me tell you a story that tells you why you got screwed. It starts with the end of FTX.
When the bankruptcy folk came in to liquidate FTX assets their mandate was to sell everything. This included vast quantities of locked SOL.
They inadvertently invented something new, selling an asset that was locked up on-chain through the magic of a legal sale agreement (pay me now, I deliver later).
The deal got passed around the ecosystem, fund managers bought up the locked SOL at more than 60% discount to compensate for being locked up and exposed to the token price.
Many hedge funds bought the deal. They knew they could hedge the token price on futures markets by shorting SOL pocketing 70-80% yield at near zero risk (staking + basis yield + token discount).
They liked it and asked where can we get more of this?
Herein lies your PROBLEM as a crypto investor in 2023-2025.
Every crypto project has backers (and a foundation) who has great wads locked tokens that have been sold to hedge funds and dumped on you immediately through futures markets.
All your alpha went to market neutral hedge funds pocketing risk free yield.
THAT IS WHY CRYPTO IN 2023-2025 UNDER PERFORMED
You got dumped on prematurely.
On the bright side many of these projects, even though they have "locked up tokens ready to dump" on paper, in reality they have been sold already, so they will logically perform without the expected sell pressure in the next bull market given they have effectively been sold.
Not that I recommend buying crypto, you need to be an insider to get an edge, it works like a casino, the house will take your money. The house in 2023-2025 were the people who understood this trade. Just buy BTC and get on with your life.
Has $BTC topped? Not quite. In this follow-up to the recent analysis by @swissblock__, we present 5 additional data points that help map where we are in the cycle and why caution is warranted in the short term: