VanEck: Strategy’s $135M BTC Sale Did Not Count Toward Its $1.25B Monetization Program
VanEck Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel said Strategy’s roughly $135 million Bitcoin sale last week did not count against its previously announced $1.25 billion BTC Monetization Program. According to Strategy’s latest Form 8-K, the program applies only to Bitcoin sales used to fund its USD Reserve, and the full $1.25 billion remained available as of July 5. Sigel said last week’s sale was used to pay preferred stock dividends and therefore fell outside the program, suggesting Strategy’s actual Bitcoin selling capacity may be greater than the $1.25 billion widely assumed by the market.
This is true.
I’m all for the new update. People should stop crying and get on board.
The market will move higher very soon like it always does, and you’ll regret not buying at these prices.
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As someone who loves trading technicals
I think learning about markets via technicals (like I did) is one of the worst ways to start
It’s a rigid framework where grown men argue with each other about the exact Japanese name for a specific candlestick or a box they’ve drawn on an arbitrary time frame
It doesn’t teach you the foundations - why markets move, different types of participants, microstructure, order types and their impact, perps vs spot, and all that stuff - market ‘plumbing’ as a category
One of the biggest issues with being hyperfocused on technicals is that they don’t teach you principles and market effects
Most technical setups can be decomposed into broad buckets which are well-established (trend, mean reversion, momentum, order flow / price impact, vol clustering etc.)
A lot of technical analysis is an often unknowing attempt to map those broad market effects into a recognisable pattern
But even a technical-first view is better served by understanding the underlying market effect first and then decomposing it, as opposed to focusing on the specific pattern without ever looking at what’s happening under the hood
“This type of triangle tends to go up” is a lot less useful than “this type of flow tends to resolve higher over N time frame”, even if you use the same triangle to identify it
Another example: if you’re drawing a support level and buying it, you’re assuming some version of buyers being more aggressive than sellers in that area over a given time frame and predicting a higher price as a result - but what does that mean?
Shorts closing / taking profit, allowing for mean reversion? Aggressive sellers being absorbed by passive buyers? Some price insensitive buyer predictably stepping in at a value area? Sellers getting margin called and forcibly trading at bad prices/causing a dislocation? Clustering of orders creating some sort of imbalance? And so on.
There’s definitely a risk of overthinking this stuff, and you can make money from charts alone
But if you haven’t thought about the underlying market effects and ‘plumbing’ for your setups you’ll likely be stuck in rigid pattern matching that doesn’t generalise and isn’t subject to deeper investigation and more nuanced application
Even if your main lens remains TA-focused, there is no harm in understanding the stuff you’re trading on a product level (eg perp contract specs, OI, funding, mark/last/index etc) and on a foundational level (why and how markets move)
Especially now that you can jam this stuff into an LLM and keep saying “dumb it down” until you get it, no excuse not to do your homework
This is something I really wish I did much earlier in my trading life, so hopefully it resonates with a fellow trader stuck in TA psychosis spending his mum’s credit card on a fourth Udemy candlestick course
Anyway GM
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