CRYPTO REVEALED | July 21, 2026

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>> Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist over here at Verified
Investing. And we have a huge show for
you today because we have Clarity Act
now potentially going to pass and
altcoins are pumping and Bitcoin also
caught a huge rally off this latest
news. And then folks, later on in the
video, I'm going to show you which
altcoin I bought and my thesis and my
exit for that particular coin. Might be
a coin that you folks have been
mentioning down in the comments. And
then we're going to do a little DeFi
deep dive because I think Clarity Act is
going to give out a few winners more so
than other altcoins and I will tell you
what my altcoins that are that I'm
watching for that particular list. But
let's just go ahead and lead things off
with the Bitcoin chart everybody. Now
Bitcoin, look at this nice little pump
and we are potentially hitting a little
bit of resistance and we're going to
zoom in in a second, but there are a
couple targets. And like I said, this is
now pumping off the Clarity Act. The
Clarity Act odds, if you recall from
earlier episode in the week, the odds of
it passing were all the way down to 31%
and then just lately, it is now pumped
up to 53% with a little bit of a
pullback. I checked right before I went
live and right now it's about 49% odds
that we're going to see the Clarity Act
pass. Now the reason there were low odds
before is there is a key provision that
Republicans and Democrats could not
agree on, but it does look like they are
potentially trying to agree, but we have
yet to hear any details on this and that
is going to be on the ethics provision.
The ethics provision particularly says a
president cannot launch or profit from a
altcoin or {slash} meme coin. I know
that doesn't even sound like something
that is real, but you know, with the
Trump meme coin and the Melania meme
coin, this is a key provision in that
legislation. And the Clarity Act is just
going to provide, it's in the name,
clarity for the crypto space with
financial regulators. And so, they're
all hands on deck trying to get this
thing passed. Patrick Witt,
he actually got a deferment for his
military service, so he can help
continue to try to pass this. But, let's
get back into the charts here. What are
we seeing with the Bitcoin chart? Well,
we're hitting this short-term
resistance. Let me zoom in to the 4-hour
chart and look just how clean that
rejection is. You can see, let me move
it down just a little to hit this wick.
Right now, looks like the bears are
trying to push it down into this range,
maybe retest, come back to the scene of
the crime, and then maybe potentially
resume the pump. Let's go back to the
daily here. And so, looking for a
potential bounce from this area, and
then we can start talking about this
ascending trend line, which acted as
support, acted as support, and then just
recently gave us our target for
resistance, gave us our target for a
breakdown, and after Bitcoin hit this,
it would actually fall fairly
significantly. You have about a 14% drop
over the next 10 days. And so, if we
were to fall, you know, maybe find a
nice little support range in the middle
of this parallel channel. Now, let's get
into some other stuff. So, that is your
crypto in politics, by the way.
Again, like I said, we haven't seen any
guarantee that this Clarity Act is going
to pass, but we are starting to see the
signs. Let's get into ETH here.
I want to I changed the color of this
trend line. I gave you this trend line a
while ago, and you can see, yeah, ETH
came down into support. And recall, we
have been talking about this 1930 level
for a long time, and we go to the 4-hour
chart, look where we end up finding our
resistance here. But, it does look like
ETH is trying to bounce off this range.
Let me zoom out and show you, well you
actually see it right here. This was
that descending trend line. What did we
do? We pumped off of this. We came down.
We retested it once. We had a nice
little rally. We hit that overhead
resistance. We retested it a second time
and then we got the larger move up. Now
right now does look like we're trying to
retest it this one time but I'm not you
know particularly feeling super bullish
on this one. I would wait for a larger
pullback or maybe even wait a day or
two. See if it can confirm a candle
above this descending trend line just
like we saw right here and then that's
when we start talking about a larger
rally for Ethereum. And if you're
looking at these horizontal levels this
is just going to be the daily closes.
Found a lot of support here at 1930.
It's also what we saw in 2021 and 2022.
We can see it was it was capping the
rally here, capping the rally here. And
if you look right where we're at right
now it is still capping the rally. So I
want to see this flip you know firmly
into support before I start turning
super bullish on Ethereum. Now let's go
over a hidden gem. This is an altcoin
folks that I actually added to my
position. I totally sold out of this
altcoin but now I'm looking at a
short-term trade so I put in only about
15% of my target here. Uh you know I'm I
I plan on adding to this if it ends up
dropping a little bit lower. Right now I
do just see a little bit of bullishness.
That is going to be Sui. Sui also coming
up to a nice little area of resistance
that should lead to a nice little rally.
If we look here uh let me pull up the
measuring tool here. We have a nice nice
little 4% rally here but if you look to
the downside it's less than 1% so we
have a nice 4:1 risk-reward ratio on
this trade. So I ended up adding to my
Sui position. Had zero Sui but I will
add if we end up dropping a little bit
lower.
And then we have a nicer upside target
so that's about a 2% drop. So, it still
gives us a 2:1, but after that, we have
a nice little head and shoulders target
as well. You can see the left shoulder
here of the inverse head and shoulders.
Left shoulder, we have the head, we have
the right shoulder here, but look at
this target. So, if we do break out from
this neckline, from this descending
neckline,
we have a target right here that woah,
what do you know, perfectly coincides
with this pivot low that we saw this is
going to be the beginning of May. So, if
we draw that out, that's what I'm
potentially looking at for at level four
suite. And then we also have this
descending trend line as another
moonshot target. So, we just have some
pretty good targets for suite. I'm not
saying it has to hit this descending
trend line, or even has to hit this head
and shoulders target, but I do think we
have a very, very strong level of
resistance here at uh this is going to
be right at 80 cents. So, I have a few
targets to take some profit. I would
probably close maybe half my position,
and just see if let that baby ride. Let
that baby ride. See if we can maybe
bounce off this, and then close, you
know, maybe the additional 50% of that
50%, leaving me with 25%. And then you
got a nice little target to the upside.
But honestly, I'll probably close about
90% by the time we get here, and uh 50%
the 90%, and just leave the little moon
bag. But again, this is only if it's
bullish. I would also be taking
aggressive profits if we see any kind of
pullback. This is uh my my little
altcoin target that I'm watching, folks.
Let's go ahead now and do a DeFi deep
dive.
So, do think the Clarity Act, if we
pass, DeFi coins are going to be one of
the bigger gainers here. Now, hyper
liquid, I did not chase this trade. We
talked about this earlier week. This
happened 4:00 a.m. on Friday, 4:00 a.m.
on Saturday for these wicks. I end up
not catching that. I still like it, you
know, a nice entry as we get close to
the bottom of this parallel channel, but
if we do get a nice little bounce, look
at this level for resistance for hyper
liquid. Other DeFi coin that I'm
watching that should benefit strongly
from the Clarity Act passing is going to
be Chainlink. And then I'll tell you the
last DeFi altcoin that I'm also watching
for a nice Clarity Act pump. Well, what
do you know? We have another semi head
and shoulders here. Now, this shoulder's
fairly large. This shoulder's a little
bit smaller, but you can see the clean
structure. Left shoulder, head, right
shoulder, nice inverse head and
shoulders target. And folks, look at
this neckline. We did have a breakout.
We did not hit our target, which would
be from the neckline to the crown of the
head, put it at the breakout target, but
we retraced and we retraced very
strongly. Look at that. Look at that
wick right there. Ended up giving you
the levels that end up coming back to.
But, if we look here,
a nice little breakout might potentially
be able to break this short-term
resistance. So, that's what I'm looking
at when it comes to the Chainlink chart.
If you're holding Chainlink for a long
time, let me know down in the comments.
Are you a Link Marine? Fun story about
Chainlink, Chainlink was one of my first
altcoin winners. This is, I want to say
it was 2020. I loaded up on Chainlink.
What's, you know, I fell for the four
chain memes. They're all talking about,
you know, you got to be that that Link
Marine here. I was a Link Marine. Bought
a whole bunch at $2.
I sold basically all of it at $4.
Chainlink would later go to the $50 in
2021. So, I took way too much profit.
That ended up basically coloring my
trades. I started trading Chainlink with
emotion. Rode it down a little too hard,
so actually trimmed a lot of my
Chainlink. I used to joke about
Chainlink all the time, but let me know,
for real, are you a Link Marine? I I
wonder, do we have the Link Marines
watching this channel? And that's just
what they call it if you're holding that
in in that community there.
But, looking at the inverse head and
shoulders, yeah, we do have a nice
target. It did look like we bounced off
this and this is just, you know, former
support that flipped into resistance.
And then the bulls just said, "Nah, I
don't think so." Shot above, tried to
turn it to resistance again, but now is
looking at a nice little support area.
But I would be expecting this rally to
lose a lot of steam on this descending
trend line. All right, let's go over the
last altcoin here that should gain a
whole bunch from the Clarity Act. And
then I'll give you my tip of the day cuz
I read a comment earlier and it almost
has me angry that people are using their
portfolio for these moonshots and not
taking profits. So, let's go ahead and
jump into that coin. What am I talking
about? It's Aave. Aave was beaten down.
There's a lot of issues with the
protocol.
But it looks like, you know, I don't
know if they've shored that up or not. I
To be honest, it doesn't matter to me.
As long as the the protocol isn't dead,
which it isn't dead, uh it does, you
know, look like a very tradeable asset.
Now, here you could also see a head and
shoulder. So, we're going to talk about
this head and shoulder target, talk
about this April 25 pivot, and then
we'll give you the moonshot target. Now,
the moonshot, there's going to be a lot
of things needed for this moonshot. We
need a few things. Number one, we need
Clarity to pass, we need the Bitcoin
bear market to be over, we're going to
need some rate cuts. But if all those
stars align, we have a moonshot target
for Aave and I'll talk you through that
first. I'll give you that moonshot. But
here you can see another inverse head
and shoulders. We have our left
shoulder, we have our head, we have this
shoulder right here.
And if we look right here, all right,
this is going to be our target. The way
you would measure the head and shoulders
target is from the neckline to the crown
of the head. And then you look at the
breakout there. It's going to give us
this right here. Well, talk about the
April 2025 pivot.
Folks, that's going to be right in this
range right here. So, let me get my
horizontal line,
put it right here at the candle bodies.
And boom, very, very close. So, we got
these two levels, you know, trading at a
fairly close range. So, I'm keeping an
eye out on 125. 125 also nice strong
psychological support or a psychological
level. And if you look, 125 pretty close
to where Aave started to break down as
well. And then that created our
descending trend line that we're looking
at for Aave. But what's the moon shot?
You're wondering, all right, you know
what? I you know, I'm don't worry, Nick.
I'm going to take profits. I'll sell 90%
once I'm in profit, but I want that 10%
for that moon shot target. I want to buy
that Lambo, you know, with those altcoin
profits. Unlikely, but this is crypto
and if the like I said, if the stars
align, we should probably talk about
those levels and I'll give you my tip of
the day, everybody.
And so, look at this chart for Aave
here. This is going to be going way
back, way, way back here. So, this is
all the way and you can really see it on
the weekly.
This target right here. So, this is our
candle body tops. We end up you know,
basically rejecting off that range. And
we have our nice wick high. You see it a
little bit cleaner on the daily, but
we're just talking about, you know, this
is about a year right here. So, we're
zoomed out to the weekly. If you keep on
scrolling, well, what do you know? These
also acted as levels of resistance. Now,
let's flip back to the daily and I'll
show you those two targets. Bam, look at
that strong rejection, strong rejection.
We did try to break above. We had a
whopping one daily close above this
level and then it was pushed down again
and then it was pushed down again. And
then it was pushed down again. And so,
the odds are favoring, you know, hey,
it will be pushed down again. So, if you
hold Aave past this level, I'm coming
for you, folks. I'm going to become a
for you. So, you better take heavy
profits on that. Let's get into the tip
of the day. Don't always wait for a moon
shot.
I put out a SWE chart.
Posted this on my socials. You know,
this the same SWE chart that I'm looking
at you you know, looking at right here.
Gave these targets. I said, you know,
look, take some strong profit at 80
cents. You know what someone said to me?
They said, "No, no. Don't tell me you
think it's only going to 80 cents. I
bought a moon bag at 50 cents and I'm
hoping for much higher." When I went
back to the charts, I realized, oh, they
didn't buy that recently. They bought it
a long time ago. They rode that altcoin
all the way up and they never took
profits. They're waiting for this
moonshot target that never actually hit.
Let me go to the weekly. And so, when
they said, oh, 50 cents, I thought they
bought recently. And then I realized, oh
wait, no, this is 65 cents. That means
they bought 50 cent dip, probably over
here. They probably bought that one. We
can go to the daily, you can see it. You
know, if it's been a few days right here
around 50 cents. When it's low as 45
cents,
they bought in at 50 cents. SWE would go
all the way up. Let's go down to 50. Let
me find it. SWE would go up 900%
and they still hold onto that bag. What
were they waiting for? I don't know what
they're waiting for. Maybe they're
waiting for $10. Maybe they're waiting
for $20. But when they got in at 50
cents and it went to $5, that is a area
you got to take profits. And so, when it
comes to moonshot targets for these
altcoins, don't worry about what that
altcoin did last bull run or the bull
run before that. You know, that coin was
trading at $3 in 2021 like Cardano.
Don't wait for a $3 Cardano. Chainlink,
$50 in 2021. Don't wait for a $50
Chainlink. Today's price is not
yesterday's price. Today's Today's cycle
is not yesteryear's cycle. And so, when
there are technical targets for you to
take profit. You need to take those
profit, folks. I'd want you guys to
trade these all coins responsibly. I
don't want you to wait for these
moonshot targets cuz you're dreaming
about Lamborghinis and you're dreaming
about the mansion on the water and you
know, you're dreaming about changing
your lifestyle. The way to change your
lifestyle is take those small wins and
make sure you have more wins than you
have losses. This is a game of
probabilities. You know, if you have a
trade set up that's going to win 80% of
the time, well, if you take 10 trades,
the odds are you're going to win eight
of those 10 trades. And if you have
strong loss prevention, if you have
strong risk management, that's how
you're going to end up changing your
life. When you see these stories of
well, this guy bought this meme coin and
$100 turn into a million dollars,
that's going to be an anomaly. That's
not something for you to expect. And so,
if you're getting in on some of these
all coins
and you're waiting for that 10x, you're
waiting for that 5x, I would just say,
folks, watch these videos, make sure
you're locked in on the key levels and
take that profit when that profit
presents itself to you. I'm Nick Valdez.
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