CRYPTO REVEALED | July 27, 2026

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>> Hey folks, Nick Valdez, chief crypto
strategist at Verified Investing and
thank you for joining again at Crypto
Revealed and we have a huge show for you
today. We have another crypto exchange
that has just shut down. We have the
president releasing some very important
comments about interest rates and we
have all coins going to our levels
exactly as predicted and then at the end
I'm going to show you a very special
chart and that is going to be Bitcoin
priced in gold and at the end I'm going
to show you how many ounces of gold each
Bitcoin can buy and just look at the
fluctuations and I found something in
the charts that is maybe suggesting the
bottom is in for Bitcoin at least when
you price it in precious metals. So,
without further ado, let's get into what
is happening everybody. Well, we have
the president, President Trump just came
out minutes ago and saying we need to
lower interest rates. If we have low
interest rates on the two-year yield,
that is going to be good for risk assets
and the reason why is if you can get
good yield risk-free, why would you be
in something risky? But if you can't get
good interest on something that is
risk-free, well, that's when you start
looking for a riskier investment and
then you're going to see Bitcoin
flourish in that type of environment.
Now, we don't know if Kevin Warsh is
going to listen to him on Wednesday, but
all eyes are going to be on that press
conference, the FOMC on Wednesday, but
let's go ahead and jump into the major
movers everybody. We're going to start
with the Bitcoin chart and let me go
ahead and add my screen cuz Bitcoin is
not as exciting as the all coins, which
is why we are going to show mostly all
coins after this chart. So, you look at
Bitcoin,
still in our parallel channel,
but is it really? So, let's look at
that. Look at this recent price action.
We've been pointing out this parallel
channel, I feel like for weeks at this
point, and if we go to the 4-hour, it
looks like Bitcoin, yet again, trying to
break free of this down-sloping
resistance, which is going to act as the
top port of the top part of this
parallel channel. So, Bitcoin, you know,
just not super exciting until it can
make a decisive move. It did bounce off
our support, and you know, we gave you
that support previously, and it looks
like it held up pretty strong there on
Saturday. We were talking about this on
Friday, and you just see, you know, all
the price action interacting with right
there. And we had a nice pivot low right
there on the candle bodies. Let's go
into the other major movers, everybody.
We're going to look at Ethereum.
Ethereum also just kind of paying
attention to that same level. This is
that 1930 level that goes all the way
back to 2021, uh 2022, and it looks like
ETH is trying to retest this range. Now,
we did talk about this latest
resistance. Now, this latest resistance
might be the latest support. So, keep an
eye out on that. Also, we could zoom
into that 4-hour and just see, yeah, ETH
is trying to, you know, maybe
potentially use this as a nice spring to
hit this 2K level. Just a retouch on the
2K level.
ETH likes to wick into that area. Look
at all these daily candles that are
below this 2K level that do wick into
the 2K or wick right above it. And you
just see it happens over and over and
over again. Feel like the Nelly song
there, over and over again. But, uh
what what Tell me your favorite Nelly
song, by the way. Tell me I like Country
Grammar, but, you know, he does have
some good ones. I I did see him live one
time years ago.
Um you know, it's it's Nelly. It's
Nelly. It's hot in here, you know, it's
a popular song. People are going to love
that one. Let's look at Chainlink,
everybody. My my
level played out beautifully. I said
this was a great coin to long, but take
some profit if we as soon as we come
into resistance. Now, I did not take
this trade. I'm kicking myself for not
taking this trade. This is just one of
those ones that it hits the levels when
I'm asleep. This is 4:00 a.m. This is
midnight right there, and that's going
to be 8:00 a.m. So, by the time I saw
it, the trade had already happened.
And I told you last week, I don't like
to open those trades while I'm sleeping
cuz this is crypto, and we gave you the
whole lesson of what happened on October
10th. So, just be a little careful with
that one. I have the RSI pulled up cuz
you can see the RSI is flat, everybody.
We cannot push up higher while the price
is pushing up higher. And this isn't
super bearish divergence, but it is a
hidden bearish divergence. So,
Chainlink, you know, may be looking at
another retest of the support line, this
nice ascending trend line right there.
It is going higher and higher, and
eventually Chainlink is going to have to
choose a direction as it creates this
little bit of a wedge pattern, and it's
almost a clean parallel channel, but not
quite. This high did not touch the top
if you're to measure from here to here,
nor from here. So, that's just what
we're looking at on Chainlink. Let's
keep doing the DeFi deep dive,
everybody. That was Chainlink, the
Oracle. Now, let's go into Aave.
Gave you this Aave descending trend line
last week as well, and we did pump above
it, but now if you look at the 4-hour
candle, looks like we are now coming to
this level to test it for support. Don't
mind a little retrace to the scene of
the crime, but I'm still waiting to, you
know, flip fully bullish, and then we
can start talking about this $125
horizontal resistance line that might
come into play. And to the downside, you
know, this 2020 high, now it's looking
like less and less likely we are going
to come to this level as Aave starts to
find its little bit of a footing, and
you can even make an argument for an
inverse head and shoulders, which is
going to give us a pretty good target as
we break free of the neckline, but I I'm
still waiting for daily confirmation. I
don't want to just look at, you know,
one small bounce on a 4-hour candle with
something like AAVE. AAVE can move very
quickly, very suddenly, and it can leave
those traders in shambles if you try to
over-leverage or, you know, over-bet on
this one.
That right there is a 2-day 22% drop.
And then we have a nice little pump
right over here as well. And let me get
my measuring tool measure from right
here. It's a 3-day 38% pop. So, AAVE
when it likes to move, that thing likes
to party, everybody. So, keep an eye out
on that. Another DeFi coin we're looking
at here is HYPE. We've been staying away
from this one since we took profits at
the top of the parallel channel, and
we're not interested till we come to the
bottom of this parallel channel. Now, we
wrote 4880. That was just the price at
the time. It is going slightly lower,
slightly lower, and it looks like it
dips below $48, potentially the end of
the month. About July 30th is when we
start talking about $47, but this is one
we just got to keep drawing this out.
We're going to keep drawing out this
parallel as it goes, you know, further
and further, just kind of consolidating
within this parallel channel. All right,
let's look at XRP, everybody. I know a
lot of you folks like XRP. XRP did
bounce off this trend line. This we
called this as the first support, and it
hasn't quite retested again to the scene
of the crime, but, you know, if we'll
see what happens with the markets, with
President Trump, with what's happening
in the Middle East, but if we do
continue lower, yeah, I'm looking at
this first support level, and if we do
push higher,
I'm just looking at this nice range.
It's about 118, and you saw a little bit
of activity way, way back there. A nice
little resistance, resistance, kind of
consolidated at that level 1 2 3 4 5 for
about a week before it was able to break
lower, and you can also see this is
where we're consolidating in the middle
of this range during the run-up shortly
after President Trump's victory in 2024.
And so keep now we're just kind of still
trading within this range. We've been
trading in this range recently for the
past 40 days, 40 days. So XRP needs to
make a pretty big move and I do think a
big move is going to be coming. I know
Gareth was talking about this, you know,
this wedge pattern right here.
And the longer the wedge, the deeper the
wedge, the the larger the wedge, the
larger the move is going to be whether
to the upside or whether to the
downside. Let's look at Solana,
everybody. Solana coming up against some
double resistance after a nice little
rally over the past weekend here and it
looks like it is tagging this ascending
trend line and tagging this down sloping
parallel channel. And so I didn't get a
short in, but that would have been a
nice coin to short. Let's look at the
4-hour. Probably pushing up with the
other altcoins as well. Man, look at
that wick. I Actually, I didn't even see
this wick earlier. I was looking at the
charts around 6:00 7:00 a.m. And yeah,
look at that. In fact, I want to go to
the 1-hour.
Yeah, nice little tag into that. God,
that would have been a good short. Uh
when I'm I'm on the road. I'm I was
basically we're in a meeting so I I did
miss that one, but that would have been
a a nice scalp short. Uh you might want
to go ahead and shut that one though
because we do see a lot of bullishness.
We're starting to see some things start
to move to the upside. Now, there's also
a very illiquid coin that we talked
about last week, pump.fun.
We're seeing a lot of funny statistics
come out of pump.fun. The revenue is
skyrocketing. I don't know too many
people that are launching meme coins on
that platform. I don't know too many
people trading meme coins on that
platform. It is raising the possibility
of some, let's just say, manipulation of
the metrics.
You get revenue, the more a coin is
traded when you're a coin launching
platform. There's been allegations and
I'm not saying this is for sure, you
know, I I don't know. I'm I'm not
looking over everyone's shoulder as they
tap on their keyboard, but there's
allegations that they are wash trading
those tokens. So, that means the team is
creating fake trade volume. And again, I
don't know for sure. I'm just I'm just
telling you what I'm hearing. There's a
lot of people saying, "Ah, you know,
it's it's a suspicious pump in revenue."
But, let's go ahead and talk about pump,
no pun intended, pump. fun.
Right at our level again. Uh we gave you
this one. This was right around 2 cents.
Uh psychological level, also the 10 10
wick low. There's There you go. You can
see it right there. And obviously, it's
it's actually 0.2 cents. So, uh 2/10 of
a penny. So, 0.00200000092.
And it's it's just hard to get that
vertical or that horizontal line with
the vertical axis there. But, yeah, this
one has just been pushing down around 2
cents. But, we actually closed the daily
candle right there, perfectly.
You can see the 4-hour candle is just
kind of consolidating in that range and
now starting to make a nice little move
to the upside. And on the 4-hour, I
mean, you can make an army All right, we
have a nice little flag pattern right
there. Move it to the upside, maybe
another little mini flag pattern right
there, and go to the 1-hour and just see
that bullish uh continuation. That is
just a If this was a daily candle, I
would say, "Oh my god, this one of the
cleanest bull flags ever." But, the
smaller the time frame, you know, the
the less credence you should give those
trading setups there. All right. Now,
let's go into the hodlers mentality, all
right? I'm going to show you a chart you
may have never seen before, and that is
Bitcoin priced in gold. And what I mean
by that, I mean, how many ounces of gold
can one Bitcoin buy? And we've seen a
huge run-up for gold lately. So, what
does that mean for Bitcoin? And what
does this chart look like, by the way?
Well, it's almost cyclical, the way you
see this. Now, cyclical, and I'm a It's
a psycho for bringing this to your radar
here.
Like I said, this is gold priced in or
Bitcoin priced in ounces of gold. And
let me go to a log chart real quick so
you could really really see this here.
Bitcoin, I mean, at one point, yeah, it
was a fraction a fraction of an ounce of
gold. And then you can see right there.
In fact, maybe I should just go ahead
and move a little bit. Then eventually
Bitcoin did hit 1 oz of gold. So every
Bitcoin was worth 1 oz of gold. And then
it dipped below, went into a fraction
again, and then hit one again. You can
see it almost kind of consolidating. I
do think early days, you know, 2017, a
lot of traders who did like Bitcoin in
the early days of Bitcoin were precious
metal bulls. They liked their silver,
they liked their gold.
Then you can see Bitcoin rising against
the price of gold. During the bull run
of 2017, one Bitcoin would be worth 15
oz of gold. And then it would draw down,
it would go all the way down to 2 oz of
gold. And if we look here, you can see
that's about 54 bars. And that's second
little pivot low, that's about 60 weeks
later. So 60 weeks later, found a
bottom, nice little pump. You can see it
dipped again. This is going to be March
2020, so that's going to be the little
COVID crash for Bitcoin. Bitcoin would
go as low as 3K there. But then it had
another little run-up. So in 2021,
Bitcoin was worth 36 oz of gold. If you
look at the recent high, Bitcoin was
worth 40 oz of gold. But then we had
consolidation. But look at this pattern.
From the peak to the bottom, that was 62
weeks for Bitcoin. So it found a high
against gold, it found a low against
gold 62 weeks later. Let's look at the
next bull run. From the peak to the
trough, 62 weeks later. And so this is
suggesting maybe potentially when you're
pricing in gold, Bitcoin did find its
bottom.
And I call it hodlers mentality just
because
at the end of the day, they're not going
to stop printing money. That is why I
like Bitcoin. That is why I like
precious metals. Now, Bitcoin, there's
only going to be 21 million Bitcoin
ever. In case you're wondering, they're
not going to be done mining Bitcoin
until the year roughly 2140.
So, we got it more than a century of
miners still being able to mine Bitcoin
from the Bitcoin network.
That's We already have 20 million of the
21 million coins. So, Bitcoin
95% of all the Bitcoin has been created.
Now, gold, little bit of a different
story. They mine more gold every single
year. But, you know what easily beats
those two metrics as far as pace of
inflation? That is cash. Governments are
just cranking out cash. Imagine this is
a money printer machine. They're just
spinning that and spinning that and
spinning that. Feel like Arsenio Hall
for a second. Woo woo woo. They're
creating so much cash. And now, you
know, we can go into the the why.
You know, they do have 2% target
inflation. That That's the the safe
answer. The tough answer is, well, when
it comes to government benefits, and
especially when it comes to wars,
there's two ways to pay for it. You
either tax your citizens or you print
more money. Well, guess what? It's not
that popular to tax your citizens more,
but it isn't as unpopular to print more
and more money, raising the deficit. And
the deficit's getting a little out of
control when you start looking at our
interest payments. And so, that is why
you got to have that hodlers mentality.
I think any good portfolio should have
some portion of gold, some portion of
Bitcoin as part of their strategic
allotment. But, there you go. That's
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