In the chart above, there is a new buy signal from a modified RSI oscillator after an apparent four-year interval, with a smoother output compared to the original. My yearly prediction, which I typically release in January, appears to be consistent with the Kama average levels. The estimated target range for this upward movement is at least around $36,000, with a maximum potential upside of $58,000. As a result, I believe that we will not see a new all time high during this year.

It can be noted that the examined oscillator also gave two bearish signals in 2017 and 2021, at the respective peaks of the four-year bitcoin cycle.

Does the 4-year halving cycle exist or not?

While many people believe in the 4-year cycle of Bitcoin, which is linked to the halving phenomenon, I personally think that this effect is not significant. The price of a commodity, including Bitcoin, is mainly determined by the supply-demand balance and the liquidity of the market, rather than by scarcity or safe-haven properties. Indeed, there are many scarce things in the world that have no value simply because there is no demand for them.

In my view, Bitcoin’s price is affected by liquidity cycles and the interest of investors in the asset for various reasons. When the liquidity provided by central banks decreases, Bitcoin’s price is likely to bottom out as well. However, it may take many years for Bitcoin to overcome the influence of central banks, given their significant impact on the global financial system.

In practice, if we measure it, the long term cycle we can find in Bitcoin is three years and a three months (on average), which surprisingly resembles the liquidity cycle in China observed in its 10-year bond yield, CN10Y.

It is important to acknowledge that the Chinese 10-year bond yield can be influenced by central banks, including the People’s Bank of China. This is because bond yields reflect the expected return for investors who hold them until maturity, and interest rate changes can impact the bond’s value. Central banks have the power to adjust interest rates through various monetary policy tools, such as altering the money supply, setting interest rate targets, and buying or selling assets like bonds.

Therefore, movements in the Chinese 10-year bond yield can serve as an indicator of shifts in monetary policy, which may have a ripple effect on other asset classes, including Bitcoin. It’s worth noting that Bitcoin is known for its high volatility, and any changes in monetary policy could potentially affect its value as well in a dramatic way.

It’s important to keep in mind that the total market capitalization of Bitcoin is currently around half a trillion dollars, while the liquidity being moved by central banks is much larger, estimated at around 100 trillions dollars. The impact of monetary policy decisions by central banks on Bitcoin’s price may be significant at this point, given the relatively small size of the Bitcoin market compared to the global financial system. However, as the market value of all existing Bitcoins grows over time, it may become more resilient to external factors, including monetary policy decisions. Nonetheless, it’s likely that the influence of central banks on Bitcoin will continue for many years to come.

We can observe that in the current cycle, approximately 20 months have passed from the peak in 2021 to the recent bottom. Based on this, we can hypothesize that the current cycle may be 40 months long, which is in line with the previously calculated value of 39 months (3 years and 3 months).

I hope you enjoyed the article, and I would like to invite you to comment and share your opinion. You can comment here or on Twitter. If you are Italian, an italian version of this article is available at bit-reminder.com

LONG TERM
1 unit bought at 22451$

SHORT TERM
No position open

As someone who is interested in long-term investments, I recently made the decision to buy bitcoin at a price of 22451$. I will explain the reasons that led me to make this decision.

The first reason is based on technical analysis. An oscillator indicator, which measures momentum, has recently given a bullish signal on the monthly chart of bitcoin. This is a strong signal indicating that the price of bitcoin is likely to continue rising in the coming months like it did in 2015 and 2019, this oscillator is a modified version of the classic RSI indicator.

The second reason is related to price action analysis. After testing the first resistance of the weekly chart, the price of bitcoin has retreated to the weekly moving average, which has provided strong support. This is a positive sign, and it suggests that the price of bitcoin is likely to continue its upward trend and should reach the $30,000 mark.

The third reason for my decision to invest in bitcoin is based on a longer-term trend analysis. It has been enough time since the top of 2021 to justify a period of consolidation, with a low point slightly above $15,000. This bottom is still quite high compared to the one of 2019, confirming that the overall trend of bitcoin is still strongly upward.

In conclusion, my decision to buy bitcoin at a price of 22451$ is based on a combination of technical analysis, price action analysis, and long-term trend analysis.

Stop loss is wide as usual for long term trades, support is the 2nd price band on weekly chart, if the price of Bitcoin falls below $14,000, I may need to reconsider my position and potentially exit the trade.

On the upside, the first significant resistance level is at $30,000. This means that if Bitcoin is able to break through this level, there could be significant upside potential for the trade, breaking through the $30,000 resistance level could potentially set Bitcoin up for a bullish trend towards the yearly forecasted resistance level of $58,000, which was predicted back in January in my yearly forecast.
More info in the upcoming updates.

Since I published the annual forecast last January ’22, BTCUSD has already tested the lower limit of the forecast twice, at around $30,000.
I don’t know whether to interpret this behaviour as a sign of weakness or not. What is certain is that if the TOP of this halving cycle has been made it is very likely to test at least the 1st lower band of my monthly Kama average (22,700$).
Let’s see in detail the levels that I consider interesting to observe.

I would interpret as a signal of possible weakness a breach of the $29,800 level, certainly we need to consider how long bitcoin will remain below that level.
In times of temporary high volatility it would not be so serious a short permanence there; however a prolonged stay below this level would have long term bearish implications. What does this mean? It means that the games are over for this cycle and we will have to wait for the next halving of 2024, so I would say 2025, to see a new all-time high. This conclusion I guess doesn’t surprise you, by now the 4-year halving cycle of bitcoin is well known to the public.

The question is whether the price will stop at the first level of the Kama band or not. I think so, around $22,000 the support will be very strong and there will be buyers.
I exclude a severe test at the next support, around $14,000, also because bitcoin has never moved below the high of the previous halving cycle, in this case the last one was at around $19,800 in Dec. 2017; furthermore even during the corona crash the price stopped on the first lower band (at that time $3,800)
I wonder what needs to happen to see bitcoin test the second price band at $14k, if any of you have ideas please come forward 🙂

Personally, I will be a buyer again around the first support of the Kama average, around $22,000. Should an extreme level of volatility occur, I will increase the position at $14,000 with a doubled position size (1 unit at 22k$ and 2 units at 14k$) because i’ve to capitalize when volatility is at extreme levels without any fear.
See you at the next update.

In the last update I had pointed out that it was crucial to exceed the monthly kama average (at that time around 40k usd), so bitcoin did and after a very strong bottom in July it resumed the uptrend on the monthly chart. Why a strong bottom? Because it was far above the support price zone defined by the lower bands.

At this point it is obvious that it will do a new top under the push of the ten-year old uptrend, after all bitcoin never entered a prolonged bear market since its inception.
For quite some time now, thanks to the price bands, I have identified the price zone where the next top will happen, that is between 80 and 130 thousand dollars. This is the minimum target IF, and I emphasise IF, the monthly average kama will remain flat.
If you look at the attached chart you will notice that the monthly kama average is no longer flat but is going upwards, albeit slightly.

This fact should be kept in mind because the greater the upward slope of the average the lower the possibility that the bitcoin will stop in the resistance zone, if an asset is trending strongly you should forget the price bands.
You may have noticed in the chart this aspect of the 19 months between the halving of the block and the market high, there are already two times that this market did a top within 19 months from the halving and in this cycle the expiry date is next December, the question then arises, will it work?

I think not, the market is never so symmetrical, we are talking about non-linear dynamics here that almost never lead to a strong symmetry or repetitiveness of price patterns, so I expect it to do something different this time and there are two possibilities, or that the maximum has already been done or that bitcoin will make another even beyond 19 months from halving, I am inclined to the latter possibility with the important implication that it might go above the price resistance zone.

How to translate this into your trading operativity? For the more risk averse you could evaluate a scaling down of the position at a point of your choice in the range 80k-130k usd. For all others you could use a dynamic stop loss like “chandelier exit” to try to exploit as much as possible the current uptrend. Search for “chandelier exit” or “chandelier stop” on tradingview, you will find many versions of this indicator.

LONG TERM
No position open

SHORT TERM
No position open

Trailing Profit at 29,000$ has been caught, now flat. About 20,000$ profit for each btc traded.

We are flat, usually it happens so the market finds a strong point (where the indicator of efficiency of kama average reaches values around 0.80-0.85) and stops, at that point it can go in lateral or bounce noticeably.
In most cases we enter in a lateral phase which is now defined by the usual bands that I use (see chart below).

What i’d like to see is:

• Some consolidation above daily kama average, >38,000$
• A first breakout of the first resistance band at 41,000$
• A test of the 2nd band at 44,000$
• Some healthy retracement back to 41,000$ or so
• Final break-out above 44,000$

This could be a good recipe for a trend reversal on the daily chart.

38,500$ is not only the daily kama average but also the 2nd support band on the hourly chart, i’d like to see bitcoin above it these days during a possible accumulation before to break above 41,000$.

Fix in your head that as long as we stay below $44,000 (by the way it is also the monthly Kama average) my view remains bearish.

I think at this point it is very likely that the TOP of this cycle has been done and to see a next top we will have to wait the next cycle of 2024-2028 with a possible top expected in 2025.
One could say that Bitcoin could repeat what we saw in 2013 with two successive highs, one in March and the other in December but I think it is unlikely that history will always repeat itself with the same patterns.
I don’t think it is negative for bitcoin another 4 years of consolidation spent between the floor price and kama average as we have seen in previous cycles.

As you can see in the below monthly chart the new floor price zone is around 12k-20k usd, will bitcoin go there? I don’t know, honestly I think we can expect something different this time as the intermediate level of low volatility highlighted in the chart may work holding bitcoin above 28k usd.

First test is to see if this intermediate level will work or not, if not then a capitulation might occur around 20k usd that it was also the top (static support now) of the previous cycle (December 2017).

My doubts also include the fact that I was expecting a much stronger top than this one done at around 64000 dollars, if confirmed it would be a weak top for this cycle and I would interpret this as a slowdown of the long term trend; this is also understandable, as an asset grows in size it also becomes slower and more stable with lower and lower volatility and less and less intense bubbles.

For the current trade the trailing profit at $29k remains unchanged, if caught I think I will buy back again if support at 28k will holds in the coming weeks and/or months and eventually i’ll buy again inside the floor price of this cycle.

I’m writing this update to do a clarification to the analysis posted the other day, as I had said the support range of the price bands that I use had contracted a bit giving me an area of support of 36-42 thousand dollars, why this? Because I use 60 periods to calculate volatility and more than 60 periods or weeks have passed since the minimum of March 2020 where there was a correction similar to this one, therefore the volatility peak recorded in that bottom of last year is no longer included in the calculation.

Hence the question “How many period to use?” is legitimate, in some cases is smart to fine tune the indicator parameters to better accommodate what is happening (an increase of volatility).

For those who use my indicator with tradingview can verify what i’m saying by themselves by increasing the setting “rms periods” from 60 to 70 for example.

Having said that, the support zone is thus corrected to around 31-40 thousand dollars and I would say that for now it has worked quite well, this means that we are still in the limits and that a trend reversal on the weekly chart is not yet confirmed, so far we are just seeing volatility at work.

We will have to wait until the end of this week and next week to better evaluate the ongoing correction to check if bitcoin price will remain above 31000$ or not.

BTCUSD Weekly Chart

“…..on the daily chart where there is strong support but again it is a question of which timeframe will prevail and at the moment I would bet on the weekly chart, nonetheless there might be a minor rebounce from here….”

Last Update April 23, ’21

The minor rebound happened, market remained sideways around the daily average and came back down because of an accident (a tesla went off the road)
Let’s broaden the view with a weekly chart.

BTCUSD Weekly Chart – Below Kama Efficiency Ratio

Everything that has been happening since February 2021 which is the the slowdown of the trend on the weekly chart was expected and is the result of a careful observation of the volatility / trend ratio, two elements that characterize the average that I use (Kama)
I expect a further slowdown of the trend until mid-June when Bitcoin will be completely flat, from there on a new trend will emerge on the weekly chart; the future of bitcoin will be decided there should this new incoming trend be positive or negative (i guess positive).
A good idea could be to buy in the next week if bitcoin will test the weekly support zone in the 36,000-42,000 $ price zone, this market is lateral therefore I expect that it will not fall under 36000 dollars.

I think in July, I hypothesize, some liquidity may return to bitcoin from altcoins, also because the bitcoin market share chart (BTC.D on tradingview) has a nice spike in the kama efficiency ratio on the weekly chart (bottom might be near).
If a new trend is expected on the weekly chart for July let’s say, who could fuel this new trend? A return of liquidity from altcoins to bitcoin itself.

As usual if you have any doubts leave a comment, it is well appreciated.

I left you on March 31 saying that bitcoin would probably go up with less intensity, that’s what it did by making a new top around Coinbase’s Nasdaq listing event.
It can happen that such events that catalyze the attention of the entire community can mark what I call “buying climax” remember that the main feature of such an event is when you run out of demand around a highly anticipated news or event like the Coinbase listing.
The situation on the weekly chart has remained unchanged, I’ve been telling you for two months that the Kama efficiency ratio is high and needs to go down and that’s what it keeps doing, today we got to about 0.59 and I think it will continue to go down until the next sideways phase.
This sideways phase should take place between 30K and 40K usd as shown in the chart below but my bet is that 40k usd support will work.

As I told you, the kama efficiency ratio is going down but it’s going to take weeks to get below the 0.30 threshold,so it will presumably take a while before bitcoin will resume the uptrend.
I conclude by commenting on the daily chart where there is strong support but again it is a question of which timeframe will prevail and at the moment I would bet on the weekly chart, nonetheless there might be a minor rebounce from here.

I concluded the previous update saying that it would be critical to see whether or not bitcoin would break through the monthly Kama moving average (51.000$ at that time).
I waited a bit to see the extent of the positive reaction from the value this weekly average had that day, again 51k usd. Exactly like in the previous update bitcoin is again, but this time on the daily chart, on a key point. The price level around 59-60 thousand usd were bitcoin failed to exceed between March 18 and 20 is this new key point and a failure to go above it would probably lead to higher risk to see this thing going below my weekly average.
Let’s be clear, we need to start seeing on the daily chart a sequence of rising highs and lows otherwise there is always an increasing risk that the bearish scenario hypothesized in the previous update comes true.
About this weekly average I note that since this strong trend started bitcoin has never spent too much time below it as you can see in the below chart.

What will happen? Bitcoin is probably going to continue to go up at a lower rate because as I’ve said many times since January the weekly kama efficiency ratio has to go down and it’s going down. Today we are at 0.70 from a high of 0.85 that bitcoin reached on the first Top of January and on the second one of February, I remind everyone that this value represents the ratio between volatility and directionality and varies from zero to one. You can see by yourself that after February we are going up with less intensity.

The strategy about my ongoing long term trade does not change, I continue to leave the trailing profit at $29,000.
It will be interesting for me to see if in the next few days bitcoin can make a new high above $60k.

Take care and see you at the next update.