CRYPTO REVEALED | July 23, 2026

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>> Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist at Verified Investing,
and welcome to Crypto Revealed. We got a
major show for you today cuz we're
looking at the Bitcoin chart. We're
going to talk about the Clarity Act's
odds, how they changed, how they
fluctuated, and how they affected
Bitcoin's price. Then we're going to
look at some of the major altcoins, and
I have a trade setup that is very
nearing my first entry, and we'll check
in on the sweet trade and see how that
one is going, and I'll tell you my exact
levels for profit taking on that one.
Thank you for joining, and thank you for
leaving those comments down below. I
love replying to you folks. But let's go
ahead and dive into the Bitcoin chart,
everybody. So we had Clarity Act. The
odds went as low as 31% last night. Now,
just 2 days ago, the odds were as high
as 53%, and now they're at currently
37%.
We had a big spike right around 5:00
a.m. at 41%. Now, I don't know if anyone
has inside information cuz to make a
jump from 31% to 41% is a quite large
leap there. And if you're asking, "Well,
where are you seeing these Clarity Act
odds?" It is on the prediction markets
is where you can follow this. I was
looking at Polymarket. Now, Bitcoin
still trading within our parallel range.
Looks like we are now pushed back into
this range, but we still have 6 and 1/2
hours on this daily close, so I wouldn't
say Bitcoin is pushed in, you know, for
sure, but we are starting to run out of
time for this candle. And you just see
the price pushed up and the price pushed
down. This gave us our range. If you
continue to draw out this parallel
channel, well, what do you know? That's
exactly where Bitcoin bounced right here
and right here, and then that's exactly
where Bitcoin would end up getting
pushed down one more time. And the
daily's, they're closing and opening
right at this level as well. But, we did
call out this little bit of resistance.
It's an ascending resistance line here,
and Bitcoin tried to beat against it for
a couple days, but just the bulls were
not able to take control. And I think a
large portion of that push was off that
Clarity Act odds. When they shot above
50%, that's exactly when we saw Bitcoin
start to break out. And now that they're
below 50%, that's exactly where we're
seeing Bitcoin get pushed down. Now,
again, I'm going to show you a upcoming
altcoin trade. We're getting very close.
It's a popular coin. I'll go ahead and
front-run it.
XLM. That's right. Not extra large or
medium. No, that's a altcoin Stellar
Lumens. But, let's look at the ETH
chart. Uh ETH, you know, just rejecting
up our range right here, this 1930
level. We talked about the historical
significance. We haven't checked in on
that in a while. It's just going back to
2021. You can see that the This is the
bottom yellow line is 1930. In 2021,
we got beat down right there, acted as
resistance. In 2022, got beat down,
acted as resistance. Both of those
weekly ranges wicked above $2,000, which
is why we were showing it, uh you know,
right above. So, if we do see some some
nice wicks to the upside, uh keep an eye
out on 2K if you are in a long position.
But, I am not interested in any long
position on Ethereum until we can hit
this little bit of a range. The top part
of the range is the February 6th pivot
low. If you push this out, we slice
right into the top parts right there,
that gives us our range. And look how
often ETH was trying to break above this
range. 1 2 3 candles, 4 5 6 7, 8 9 10
11. The 12th candle was where we were
finally able to to beat through this
ceiling before we could hyper uppercut
into the second story, and it was
currently acting as support. You see the
wick right here, Friday, July 17th. But
again, keep an eye out on the daily
close cuz the bulls might try to push
above this descending trend line. If it
does, that's when we can start talking
about 2K. If it doesn't, that's when
we're going to start looking at this
range below. But again, keep an eye out
on that daily close
cuz we still have a little bit to go.
Now, Solana, again, still just listening
to the parallel range. We have our
candle bodies creating bottom, creating
the top. Wow, look at that. Look exactly
where we ended up finding nice support,
where we found some nice resistance
here. And boy, oh boy, we can even go to
the 4-hour. Look at that right there.
So, this was yesterday's stream. We were
knocking against it. We came up and
retested it last night. Also got pushed
down below. And now we're interacting
with this ascending trend line that is
just catching the bottoms right here.
But this one's a very important candle.
We have 6 hours left. Like I said, if we
go below, yeah, we're going to test this
support. Very, very close. I don't know
if it's going to hold. We're going to
need to see a little bit more price
action. But if the bulls go above,
folks, we're running out of time. We
have one candle here, two candles there,
three candles. That's Friday, Saturday,
Sunday illiquid week- weekend. So, I am
expecting a major move, but I'm waiting
for a confirmation. Folks, you don't
want to chase these trades and just be
very, very careful. We got one more
major mover
of the majors here, and that's going to
be Cardano. Cardano still rejecting off
this resistance line. We talked about
this 15 days. Cardano could not pass
this level. Got beat down again.
Yesterday's stream, we were basically at
the peak right here. We can go to
4-hour. Uh 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24 hours
ago, boom, right here. I mean, we were
flying high. Oh boy, oh boy, Ada gang
was happy. It's like, "Oh, this is
looking good." That's why it's so
important to watch for for daily candle
closes. That can give you that
confirmation you need. It does look like
the bears are going to be winning. I
like a long at the 15 six level. I would
not, you know, be too greedy. I wouldn't
try to draw any trend line right here. I
don't think we have enough data.
Uh plus it's just really not enough
price action for me. But it is, you
know, maybe potentially going to hold
support. And this one, hey, another We
just have two days. We need to find out
a decision very, very soon. But for now,
I'm mostly watching this descending
trend line and this horizontal support.
And we also have the bottoms here and
the psychological level of 15 cents. So,
Cardano looking pretty close to a a nice
long level.
Let's go to Zcash. Zcash is another
token, you know, just respecting the
ranges. If you think of a bouncing ball,
we had a nice little bounce there.
Little bit of a lower bounce. It's
almost like a baseball's curveball or a
forkball or something. And now it looks
like, you know, if it comes down that
that the ball is bouncing a little bit
less, a little bit less. That's going to
increase the probabilities of a move to
the downside. I told you folks, I am not
interested in any kind of long position
until we can see a setup similar to what
we saw before the last major bounce.
This was about a 60%, I believe. Yeah,
60% gain. And we had a nice strong bull
div on the four-hour as well as a bull
div on the daily. Uh maybe not so much a
bull div cuz, you know, the candle body
is slightly higher. But you can see the
RSI shooting a lot higher. Clean bull
div on the four-hour. Right now, the
four-hour is starting to look like it's
turning over. If we put in a lower low
while the RSI is higher, that's when you
can start talking about a long position
on Zcash. But this token is so volatile,
you better not move in before you have
more confirmations. I don't want you to
open a long on Zcash just cuz it's
tagging a trend line. Cuz that thing can
fall 60% in two days. We've seen that
recently. I'm not talking about 2017.
We're talking about in 2026 it's done
that. In fact, it did it just in June.
So, just be very careful trying to trade
Zcash cuz that thing can turn sour just
like that milk when the refrigerator
expires. All right, now let's look at
HyperLiquid. There's really only two
tokens that are up, you know, in the
past 24 hours. It is Zcash and
HyperLiquid. If you go to Zcash and look
at the 4-hour, you know, 1 1 2 3 4 5 6
24 hours ago, we were a little bit
lower. HyperLiquid, same situation. 24
hours ago, we were a little bit lower.
This is right where we are recording our
live yesterday. So, we're we're slightly
higher, but right now the market is
bearish. And you can see the daily is
turning red. But it does look like it is
trying to lose this level, which was the
pivot top here as we keep beating near
this midway point of this parallel
structure. I am not interested in any
kind of long position though until we
get close to the bottom of this range. I
was, you know, maybe potentially
thinking about a scalp with the first
wicks. But now that we've gone up and
came back down, caution. Caution into
the wind, all right? Wait for a nice
little maybe come in near these pivot
lows around 53.
That's still, you know, a decent amount
of downside to the bottom of the range,
you know, that's that's a 10% move to
the downside. So, I might want to wait
till we get closer to this parallel
structure. All right, let's go into XLM.
That's going to be the one that has a
little bit of trade. So, what's
happening with this token?
Well, look at this. We have a nice
little potential double support here. We
have this horizontal pivot top right
here at 18 cents. You can see the price
was trying to pass through here. And
boy, when that thing shot up, it just
went right through. I mean, it just
phased right through the wall like some
sort of future technology. A huge huge
gain for XLM. I know this is probably
why so many of you folks like this
token. It is just so volatile. That's
That's a basically Let me come in from
that candle bottom.
So, we have 1 day, 2 day, 3 days later,
that's 100% gain. That's 100% gain in 3
days. Only in crypto are you going to
see that unless you're trying to trade
those penny stocks. But, look at XLM. It
is, you know, it's now flipped this
resistance potentially into support.
We're pretty close to that level. We're
not quite at the range. I I would want
to wait till we get a little bit lower
below 18 cents. That's when you can
potentially nibble in on a long. And
then, we also have, you know, just just
nice little support there. So, keep an
eye on that. I would exit the long at
this ascending trend line. This has kind
of capped all the rallies that we've
seen for the past couple weeks. But,
folks, you need to have a tight stop
loss on this one, okay? You need to have
good risk reward. Maybe even potentially
below these wicks cuz if we put in a
lower low, then a lower low on the wick,
and then another lower low, that's just
increasing the probabilities we're going
to come down, you know, maybe below 17
cents. And look how fast it moved up. If
it If it can take an elevator up, it can
also fall down that elevator. It can
also fall down that elevator shaft. So,
you don't want to go chasing some of
these trades on some of these altcoins,
especially since tomorrow is Friday.
We're heading to the weekends. And, you
know, just be very careful trying to
trade these tokens on the weekend.
Uh Yeah, World Liberty Fi.
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on a trade, whether or not I'd open a
trade, and just the levels to pay
attention to. All right, let's go ahead
and look at the last token, everybody.
And that's going to give us our tip of
the day that came from you. It came from
you viewers leaving comments on the
videos. Uh someone said, "You always say
you missed uh an early trade. Talking
about, oh, it happened at 2:00 a.m. It
happened at 4:00 a.m. I missed the
trade.
Well, why can't you place a buy order
for your target price so you don't miss
those 4:00 a.m. prices? My answer, I
hesitate to place limit orders on crypto
while sleeping in case a 10/10 event
happens again. Okay, that's when alts
got nuked. We will look at that 10/10
wick in a second. First, let's do the TA
here. Looks like Sui, this is Sui by the
way. It's a layer one altcoin.
Layer ones, that's going to be something
like Ethereum, Cardano, Solana, Near.
Those are layer one altcoins meaning,
you know, it's just an ecosystem that
can kind of do a lot of things. Sui is
almost a beta play to the Clarity Act.
What do I mean by a beta play? If
Bitcoin moves a little off the Clarity
Act, Sui's going to move more cuz it's
[clears throat] going to be more, let's
just say important or more connected to
that Clarity Act. Sui has a lot of
stablecoins. They want to be a
stablecoin
ecosystem. They want to kind of take
over a Visa or a Mastercard. They say,
"Hey, we're faster than Solana. We're
much faster than Cardano. We're cheaper
than Ethereum. You know, bring your
stablecoins over to our ecosystem." So,
you know, this just might be a lot of
the Clarity Act pushing it down. But,
what's the buy the rumor sell the news?
Staking was added to Coinbase today.
That's right. You can now stake Sui on
Coinbase. I'm not recommend you do that
or anything. It's just, you know, that
might have been a buy the rumor sell the
news. Maybe some people, you know, had
some inside information, ran it up ahead
of time.
It's just, I've said it before,
anticipation is the oxygen of an asset.
So, the anticipation of that staking,
you know, created a nice little rally.
Now that it's here, all right, well,
that's why they call it buy the rumor
sell the news. Now, we do have a huge
liquidation flush at 74 cents with
crypto.
You can see where people get liquidated.
and a lot of traders are going to get
liquidated at 74 cents. Often times that
means the price will get pushed down
that low. Now, we are close, 74.5. I did
add to my trade. I saw this wick. Uh
this was earlier, uh yeah, right around
lunchtime. This is 11:00 a.m. This is
12:00 p.m. So, I did add to my trade
here. My average entry is right above 75
cents, about 75.1.
So, we added right here on the trend
line. Uh maybe we actually caught that
wick there and we are now in right
around 75 cents. So, uh we we have a
couple targets that we're looking for
SWE. I'm not afraid to cut and run on
this one.
Talked about lower lows and lower highs.
We can see a a higher low here, a higher
low here, a higher low here. If we fail
to keep having higher lows, well, maybe
that trade's not going to be a good one.
You need to get out of that. So, we need
to make sure we don't close below this
range right here. If we close below
here, we no longer have higher lows.
Now, maybe that might mean, "Well, just
keep adding to that trade." You just
want to be careful adding to losing
positions. Now, my exit targets, you
know, I want to exit a lot of the trade
right here at this descending trend
line.
Uh where you're going to see, you know,
boom, we have a nice little support,
nice little support, push it down for
resistance. That's going to be a nice
move from 75 cents. Uh let's put it
right there perfectly. Yeah, uh that's
about a 6% pump and we have the head and
shoulder target. Head and shoulder
target also hit this wick high, or I'm
sorry, this wick low.
So, that's going to be a 20% gain. So, I
don't want to hold on for the 20% gain.
I want to exit mostly at that 6% pump,
but we could potentially be facing a
slight downward pressure. Let me uh
reopen this. I can show you the risk
reward setup here. 75.1. I'm actually a
little bit higher, so it'd actually be a
little bit better. Yeah, maybe it's it's
really closer to 1.6%, 1.5. So, we have
a close to a 4:1 risk-reward ratio with
a potential moonshot. Let's get into the
tip of the day here. Why don't I place
buy orders while I go to sleep? Well,
crypto can move a lot harder than you
expect. 10 10 was what I was
referencing, and that means October
10th. Let me show you the October I'm
trying not to laugh. I
>> [laughter]
>> I actually did have a order to go to
sleep. I can't remember what altcoin it
was.
Totally got liquidated. Everybody got
liquidated. Look at this 10 10 wick.
This was low liquidity. Uh there was
there was a tweet from the president
that also pushed things lower. This was
a 72%
drawdown in one day. That wick
absolutely wrecked traders. So, say you
did have a buy order. You're like, maybe
you could look at this trend line.
You're like, "Oh, okay. I see a nice
little nice little setup right there.
I'll put in my buy order."
You might have You might have woke up in
the middle of this and just said, "Wait,
what the heck?" You would panic sell,
okay? So, you got to be very very
careful. Now, if you had diamond hands,
yeah, you could have probably got out at
break even, but that wasn't most
people's experience. Let's look at
Cardano's 10 10 wick. I mean, look at
that, right? Geez, we got to fix this
I'm trying not to laugh. It was so much
pain. I'm just numb inside from it. But
yeah, that that was a major major wick
right there. And even Ethereum, the
largest altcoin, Ethereum wasn't even
immune to this one.
Uh let's look at October. Uh we No,
we're in the wrong year. I was about to
say, "Wait a minute, what's happening
here?" Uh October 10th.
Yeah, right there. This one actually
closed a little bit lower. More
liquidity for the larger altcoin. So,
the smaller the altcoin, the crazier the
move. XLM, wow, that one really stung.
That one That one stings right there. Uh
we can even go to Let's just say Solana.
Solana
also beaten down really hard in October.
Uh here we go right there. That one also
closed a little bit higher. So, the
larger the altcoin, the smaller the
wick, but the the weaker the altcoin or
the less liquidity, the crazier that
wick. That means there was just it was
selling and selling and selling and
there weren't enough buyers. There
wasn't enough liquidity. There wasn't
enough in the order book. And so, that
is why I do not go to sleep with an open
order. You never know what you're going
to wake up to in crypto. It's a little
bit different than the stock market. We
could have a major
crypto exchange collapse. We could have
something happen to MicroStrategy. We
could have something happen to the
Bitcoin network. We could have something
happen to Ethereum, for instance. Any
kind of these black swan events are
going to push these altcoins down 70%
like it's nothing. And so, just be very
careful with buy orders while you go to
sleep. You need to monitor the
situation, everybody. But, again, I
appreciate all the comments. I'll see
you guys commenting on the live. Uh we
had a nice little pump. Bitcoin pays a
good dividend. Oh, BTC. Maybe I'll check
that one out for tomorrow's episode.
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