CRYPTO REVEALED | August 18, 2026

I grew up with nothing. Success felt
impossible until I found crypto in 2018.
I made every mistake chasing hype and
holding coins to nearly zero. I then
found technical analysis and [music] it
changed everything. My perspective on
this industry and my success within it.
Now, I'm passing that knowledge on to
you. Welcome to Crypto Reveal, the true
story.
Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And thank you so much for
joining today because we have to talk
about what is Wall Street doing with
Bitcoin? And what does that mean for
Bitcoin's price? And if we break out
from this level, what is the next key
level that I'm going to be watching,
everybody? And before we get into it, I
want to give a big shout out to our
sponsor, Bitbase, for today's episode.
But let's go ahead and just jump right
into things, folks. We really need to
look at what is happening. And that is
right. So, today we're going to be
talking about the ETF inflows. So, I
made this graphic up today. We had a lot
of outflows for Bitcoin ETFs. But on the
right side, you can see here $297
million.
That is how much Bitcoin ETFs were
purchased yesterday. Now, if we jump
back to the graphic, you can see number
one was IBIT, which is going to be
BlackRock. So, there's a lot of
dominance with the BlackRock ETFs.
Number two came in as Fidelity, their
key contributor. And we also had some
Arc and some from Morgan Stanley as
well. Now, when I looked at the outflows
of last week, it totaled about $390
million. Sorry, $380 million. And so,
it's just seeing one day, just Monday,
an inflow of $297 million
almost totally negates the total
outflows that we saw for the week
before. But it wasn't just that, folks.
It was also City Group now planning
institutional Bitcoin custody for their
customers because of now new relaxed
rules from the SEC. So, that's what
we're seeing and that's going to be
essentially the major stuff. So, who
said what? I say Wall Street said, let's
go ahead and buy some Bitcoin. Now,
let's jump into the Bitcoin charts,
everybody.
We have a nice little push up into this
$65,000
level right here and you can see wicked
into it earlier today. Let's in fact cut
to the 1-hour chart. Wicked into it and
then a very sharp pullback. So, maybe a
lot of just say leverage traders getting
their positions, uh you know, kind of
filled, open up some shorts and now the
bulls and the bears are fighting. So,
what is the next level? So, we know Wall
Street, they have a renewed appetite for
Bitcoin. What's the next level? I'm
looking at $67,000.
So, if we move this up, uh this is right
around $66,950.
It's going to be this pivot top, this
pivot top, and a pivot low as well, uh
right in this area. So, you can see a
couple candle bodies intersecting,
little bit of rejection, little bit of
rejection. So, that's what I'm looking
at on the Bitcoin chart. And just I just
want to say, thanks everybody for
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At the end of the show, I'll reveal the
story how I got kicked off that golf
course. I'm not even kidding you, folks.
I'm not even kidding. But let's get back
into the charts here. Let's look at
Ethereum. Now, Ethereum
coming into our level, what have we been
talking about for honestly months at
this point since July? Well, the stock
market isn't the only thing that was
breaking in 1929. 1929 is this level
right here and we've just seen Ethereum
reject off this level, reject off this
level again and again and again. And
right now the the daily candle is
struggling to stay green. You can see
the wicks right there. And so, the way
the daily candles work, little lesson
for you here, when it's green, means it
started on the bottom and it ended on
the top. Now, we haven't closed this
candle body yet. We still got about 6
hours, but this one started here, went
all the way down here this morning,
pushed all the way back up. It pushed up
with Bitcoin and is now struggling to
remain green. So, that's what we're
seeing with the ETH levels, but I'm just
mostly watching that 1929 level. We've
just seen that, you know, just be a a
major major level again and again for
Ethereum. Now, we're at the weekly
charts right now. This is 22, 2022
ended up being a key level where ETH
would reject. This is 2021. This was a
key level of support and also a key
level of resistance. So, 1929 has just
been a, you know, a major level for
Ethereum. You can say 1930, but when you
actually like kind of zoom into the
charts, it does look like 1929 a little
bit more importance. Now, go and smash
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XRP. And if you hate XRP,
let me know in the comments as well.
XRP, you know, just basically holding on
to that level of support, but we do have
a level of resistance. We talked about
this level of resistance before. It
tried to hold on as support, but really,
you can see it didn't last long. We had
a, you know, we we closed below, pushed
above the very next day, closed below,
and then we have not been above that
level since. This is going in from the
February 6th wick low. Let me uh shrink
it a little bit. Yeah, so right here,
get it a little bit more on point there.
Into this wick, that creates our trend
line. And then you see it acted as
support here and then failed to act as
support here. So, right now, folks, that
is going to be our level of resistance
on XRP. Now, I do want to give a quick
shout out to BitBase. These are the
BitBase trades that we took today. Let
me hit refresh. I think I have maybe one
more. More winning trades in the books.
We just keep knocking them out of the
park. And you'll see some small profits.
That's just me getting out of the trade.
I didn't like what I saw with Morpheus,
but let's actually talk about that
Morpheus trade. Morpheus,
this is the daily chart. Now, don't
worry, I wasn't trading off the daily
chart. I just noticed a lot of very, you
know, it just kind of rejected here,
rejected there, rejected there, rejected
here. I just I didn't like it. So, you
know what? We stepped up for a short and
closed that one in profit. So, nice
little profit on that one from on the
BitBase platform there. And I don't want
to just do trades that I close. Let's
talk about trades that I'm going to
open. Let's talk about, you know, what
what was my mentality about opening a
trade here. But really, what's the next
trade I might open? Now, this one I did
kind of want to open, but I hate having
open trades when I'm trying to set up
for the show cuz it kind of distracts
me. And if I was in an open trade, I'm,
you know, I'm looking at the camera, I'm
looking at my chart, I'm looking at the
camera, I'm looking at my chart. You
know, I'm I'm going to give myself
whiplash there.
Which is a great movie. That's not my
tempo. Sorry, I had I had to do the
whiplash, you know, reference there, but
let's look at a little bit of a trade
here. And you know what, folks? This
one's a DeFi trade. DeFi deep dive.
Let's do a little deep dive into the
trade setup that I'm looking at. That's
going to be hyper liquid. Now, I'm not
saying open this trade. I'm just saying
this one's kind of hitting my radar.
There's a couple good little areas I'm
kind of paying attention to. This is the
5-minute, and you can see clean bull
divs on the 5-minutes. Now, these aren't
long-term trades. These are scalp
trades. These are trades you get in and
out. You're like a ninja, okay? You drop
from the rafter, you throw your you
throw your shooting What are they
called? Throwing stars? You throw your
throwing star, you whack them in the
head with the nunchucks, and then you
you disappear again, okay? These are
scalp trades. It's a different setup
than a swing trade. So, you know, don't
Don't give me a "Well, you know, on the
daily this, that, the other." These are
just in and out trades. So, I noticed we
came down
kind of hit this area here and it's a
nice little area of support here. So,
you just see a lot of liquidity was
going to be in this level. But, that's
not all, folks. If we keep zooming out,
zooming out here,
uh boom, right there. Look at that nice
little pivot high. And so, this could be
a potential area of support. We wick
below, do you know, close some some
over-levered positions. So, if I were to
open a trade, I don't hate a hyper
liquid long. Now, on us again, uh you
know, there's a lot of factors. You got
to know how to get in and out. So, you
know, don't don't trade especially with
leverage unless you have some
experience, unless you're you know,
you've been doing this for a while. Now,
let's look at Solana. This is the daily
chart here.
You know what I like here? I like a
little bit of a bull flag setup. Now,
you can see the flag pole right here,
and then you can see the flag just you
know, flapping in the wind, now trying
to push up. Now, you might be saying,
well, the flag kind of goes longer than
the pole. Doesn't that mean it's you
know, no longer valid? Not so much and
especially with crypto with you know,
you get a lot more volatility and stuff.
So, I want to show you something from Q4
2023
on the Solana chart.
What do you have here? You have a and
this is kind of maybe what I'm expecting
uh you know, if this bull flag does
break out. We have a nice little move to
the upside. I made a little bit more
vertical to make it a little bit more
clean. So, you have a nice little flag
pole, and then you have your flag. What
do we do? We kind of reject off it at
first, you know, took another second
daily candle to break above. And then
what do we do? We retest, we retest, and
then we're we're retesting the top of
the flag. And the way you would measure
a a bull flag or bear flag breakout is
you would do the length of the pole from
the breakout, and then often times that
gives you a pretty good target. Now,
this one actually went a little bit
higher. This went uh from 116, and looks
like that daily closed around 120. So,
you actually had a little bit of a extra
juice there. But, that might be what I'm
kind of expecting with Solana in the
meantime. So, if you look at the pivot
high, you know, we got to cover this
area. We got to clear $83, $82. And then
I would expect maybe a retest, maybe a
retest, and then you're going to have
some better targets, folks. That's when
we start approaching $95, and then
that's when we start approaching this
pivot high. So, that's what I'm looking
at on the Solana chart.
We also have Zcash. Zcash,
I said this one's going to be dropping.
Now, this went a little bit higher than
I was expecting. Let me get this right
here on the candle bodies.
Boom, right there. All right, it's
pretty clean. Now, did wick a little bit
above, but guess what? I threw this one
out on the website,
verifiedinvesting.com.
We're just looking at the pivot highs
here.
Came into this as rejection.
Rejected right here as well. And I just
said, folks, you know, what I'm seeing
on the RSI, what I'm seeing on the
1-hour RSI, 2-hour RSI, does look like
the RSI is kind of running out of steam,
and what do you know, we are down from
that position. So, the short call
actually played out, and if you end up
adding to that position, or you know,
you're just a maestro with the charts,
yeah, nice little 4% pullback, nice
little 3% pullback on that one. So,
that's what we're seeing with the Zcash.
Let's look at Chainlink here. Chainlink.
All right, what do we have here? June
2025, May 2026. Now, I'm I'm going to
show you what that means in a little
bit. So, May of 2026 is going to be
right in this area. So, this is you
know, this basically this horizontal
area is what we're paying attention to.
Then June of 2025 is going to be the
next area. So, right here. This is the
May high. So, let me get my vertical
line.
Might be blue. Don't get mad at me. All
right, let's throw it right there. In
May, this is May 10th, May 10th of 2025.
So, if we can break above, I'm looking
at the area that we're looking at at
June of 25 and May of 26. Plus, this is
a nice little kind of a bull flag
breakout. You measure the pole, very
close to this target right here, and the
June, bam, look at that nice little
pivot low. So, we got a pivot low to a
pivot high, and if we can break above,
this is the area that I'm going to be
watching for Chainlink. But, I'll give
you a warning, $10 is going to be a
strong psychological level. So, you
know, maybe pay attention to that as
well. Uh you can see it rejected right
here at $10, about $10.02.
And this is going to be about $10.90,
$10.80.
Keep an eye out on that one, it might
try to reject off of there.
That's the trade setups that I'm going
to be looking at, folks. Now, uh I do
want to give a quick shout-out again to
BitBase. Uh you know, if you do want to
you you want to get your your hands
dirty, you know, like me,
cuz I'm trying to reveal it for you,
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I'm reading your comments. Your your
comments are great here. Morpheus
sometimes doesn't make it to 220s. It
happens. Yeah. So, we're in the Morpheus
trade.
>> [laughter]
>> XRP, you folks got a lot of strong
opinions on XRP. Nothing Nothing about
that uh you know, nothing wrong with
that. Nothing wrong with the strong
opinion. I always say strong opinions
loosely held. You did a DOT video uh few
months still think DOT can go to $11.
Not really. And not really. And the DOT
video might have been more than a year
ago, folks. And uh don't forget NEAR and
SWE. Folks, I will look at NEAR and SWE
in tomorrow's episode. Don't you worry
about that, folks. Thank you for
joining. Let me know in the comments
what you thought about the new intro.
Did you like the new intro?
Uh you know, I like shooting it. I did
say I'd tell you the story.
We're on a golf course.
And let's just say someone rolled up on
us in a golf cart, and they did not like
us shooting a little video there. It was
right around the corner. We were just
trying to do it real quickly. It was
during our lunch break. We just needed
some B-roll footage. And you would have
thought I was
taking a shovel to his greens. He was
very upset that I
dared walk on a a walkway for for all of
20 seconds. Well, you know, they had a
little They just got their quick shot
real quick. But yeah, it was a it was an
interesting interesting shoot. Shout out
to the Verified Investing team who is
there. I'm talking about you, Ryan. But
that's all we got for today. Thank you
for joining. Thank you for sticking
around to the end. Check out the link
down below, and see you tomorrow as we
reveal more trade setups and get ready
for that crypto combat on Friday. It's
going to be a spicy one, folks. That's
all I got. Thank you very much.