BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | August 26, 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. [music]
I then found technical analysis and it
changed everything. My perspective on
[music] this industry and my success
within it. Now, I'm passing that
knowledge on to you. Welcome to Bitcoin
Reveal,
>> [music]
>> the true story.
Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And today we have a major
show for you today cuz I have an XRP
chart. And folks, we have a long setup
that I gave you in the morning on
verifiedinvesting.com.
We're going to look at Bitcoin. We're
going to look at the liquidation levels.
And we're going to look, of course, at
my open trades, everybody. So just thank
you for joining in. I see your comments
there. Let me know what altcoins you
want me to cover. And if we have time at
the end of the show, I'll go ahead and
throw on one or two more charts for you
folks. And uh just again, I just love
working here, folks. Love, you know,
moving to Florida, but man, the weather
down here is insane. We have some
potential uh scary situations there. Let
me get my charts ready, everybody, cuz
this Bitcoin chart is going to shock you
because, folks, it just keeps going to
our levels, but I do want to talk about
the next level of support. So this is
the little bit of a resistance band that
we pointed out. It kind of goes into the
bottom of this wick. So I want to slide
that so you can see right there. And the
top goes into this candle wick right
there. And we're going to move this
down. It just hit perfectly hit that.
And we wicked into this yesterday. And
now, little bit of a, you know, a not
quite a topping tail, but little bit of
a topping tail in this little brief time
period. Now, you do want a topping tail,
you know, closer to an all-time high or
at least, you know, more than just
looking at a couple days worth of data
here, but nonetheless, little bit of
some bearish signals. So, if we continue
to push down and we continue to look a
little bit bearish, I'm looking at this
horizontal yellow line as a potential
area for support. That's just going to
be where we saw a little bit of support
right there, a little bit of support
right there, and you can see the candle
wicks obviously, you know, stopped it
right there. So, maybe it can, you know,
stop the momentum to the downside yet
again. Now, we are going to look at some
other major movers. So, we're going to
look at the XRP chart.
But before we look at the other
uh altcoins, I do want to tell you what
we're seeing basically in the ETF data.
What is Wall Street doing when it comes
to Bitcoin? So, let me go ahead and show
you that as well. Let me share my screen
here. IBIT smoked the competition. They
looked at that competition like it was a
brisket, and they're in a competition in
some barbecue cook-off there. By the
way, who has the best barbecue and why
is it Texas? It is definitely Texas.
Take that Kansas City, take that
Carolinas. But you can see IBIT
284
million dollars. And when you look at
the competition, paltry returns. Very,
very small returns. In fact, IBIT, aka
BlackRock, on behalf of their clients,
bought 90% plus over 90% of all the ETF
data for their clients there. So, the
BlackRock
let's just say the BlackRock whales,
they're buying a lot of Bitcoin. But are
they going to continue to buy Bitcoin?
That's going to be the key. We have
several days now. We're looking at six
days in a row, market days, so over a
week. Is tomorrow going to be or today's
data, is that going to make it seven
days in a row? Now, I do want to share
the liquidation heat map as well.
Let me know down below if you like me
pulling this data for you folks. So,
this is Look at this right here. So,
this is the past 12 hours of Bitcoin,
and this quick drawdown, this was right
near the PCE numbers. That's right, we
got the inflation data. The inflation
data is here and really
I'm I'm going to give you basically a
tip of the day here. The tip of the day,
do not trade when there's inflation
data, when there's jobs numbers, when
there's Jerome or Kevin Warsh speaking,
when there's these large macro events
where you have a government official or
some government data,
you will get hunted out for your
positions. In fact, I did open a trade.
I closed some profit,
but I'm still in the trade. The trade is
actually a little bit under at the
moment, but we're still going to try to
keep that streak alive and don't worry,
I am going to reveal my trades at the
end. But you can see right here, the
brighter the color, the more
liquidations there's going to be. And
what do you know? Where would it bounce?
Exactly at the bright zone. Now, to the
upside, I I did, you know, dive in a
little bit deeper. This is right at
79,250
dollars, give or take. It's actually
like 247. We're just going to say 250.
So, right around 79,200,
some longs, I'm sorry, some shorts are
going to get liquidated. These are going
to be people who get liquidated. Often
time, they get hunted down. So, this is
just what we're seeing with the Bitcoin
data.
Again, if you like seeing this, I'll
I'll keep pulling up this data and I'll,
you know, end up I'm not drawing it
myself. I'm I'm using tools, everybody,
but I I do like trying to share this.
Crypto pumping right now. Yeah, we are
getting some nice little moves here.
Everybody, reverse head and shoulders
forming on that. So, yeah, we'll we'll
look at that as well. Yeah, there's a
massive, massive, very angular, uh
inverse head and shoulders on the
Bitcoin chart. I'll just show you a real
quickly here since you guys are talking
about it. I do like my head and
shoulders to have a little bit more
of
uh essentially just structure.
But if this does play out, I mean, we
got some awesome targets, of course.
Now, you can go from the top of the head
to the wick. This one's a little bit
dubious. We're just going to keep it at
an angle. Now, you know, there's going
to be people say, "Now you got to come
in straight from here. You got to head
down." Because is that such a strong
angle? I'm not particularly, you know,
too inclined to do it that way. I like
keeping it at a 90° angle when you're
measuring the head here.
And so, looking here, bam, that's going
to be woo, little bit short of a
$100,000 Bitcoin. So, maybe something to
just pay attention to, folks. All right,
let's look at that XRP chart. I said I
was going to show you XRP.
I gave you this trade setup on
verifiedinvesting.com.
We have an app.
So, if you want to check that out.
>> [clears throat]
>> And of course, we're trading on BitBase
here.
I give a big shout out to BitBase. We're
looking at BitBase right here. So, this
is XRP. XRP has a nice little horizontal
pivot here. So, you can see, bam, acted
as support right here, came down, and
then when it, you know, kind of chopped
around for a few days, and then when it
pushed down, and try to push back up,
got rejected at that area as well. You
can see the daily close is right at that
level. This gives us just a little bit
of a pivot.
But watch this Fibonacci. So, we're
going to pull from the bottom. And the
if you want to pull up Fibonacci on
TradingView, you can also do it on
BitBase. Big shout out here. There's a
fib retracement tool. So, you hit this.
Now, I took out the 618, the 236. I just
want to give you some pretty clean data
here. We're going to go from the bottom.
Move it up to the top of the wick.
And look at that, folks. Nice little
intersection that we're seeing here. So,
we have a nice little area of support
for XRP, about 135, 134. And if you
jumped in a little bit early, yeah, we
are now starting to pull away. XRP with
a nice little move on the 1-hour
candles. So, that's what we're seeing on
XRP. Let me know if you want to see any
other altcoins yet again, folks. I do
like sharing, you know, other charts
that you guys want me to check out.
Let's look at Ethereum. Ethereum still
just rejecting from our zone. We have a
descending trend line.
That's where it end up hitting. But, you
know, this first strong support
it's it's kind of, you know, actually
using this first area. This is the first
major pivot that we've seen. Looks like
it's actually right at that level. So,
right now it's actually acting as
resistance. First major support I'm
looking at, I mean, you could pull up
these other pivot tops here. Maybe it
gets a little bit dubious. I I'm I don't
know if I would go that far. I like this
pivot low right here. You go straight
across. It's going to be right around a
psychological level as well. And since
I'm a psycho, I like looking at them.
2100.
Technically, 2104.
So, that's what we're seeing on the
Ethereum charts. Uh let's look at
Solana.
You know, since we're going to look at
some of the majors here. Solana, kind of
interesting interesting little chart
here. We've got a nice little ascending
trend line. I'm maybe potentially keep
an eye out on that. Uh right now,
similar situation to Ethereum where we
have this previous pivot top essentially
acting as resistance. And so, right now
this was a line in the sand that, you
know, we were talking about a while ago.
This is This is months ago at this
point.
Right now, this is going to be a key
area to pay attention to. So, keep an
eye out on that for Solana. And if we
were to fall to this ascending trend
line, it's going to be all the way down
to $84. So, just a little uh area of
support that I'm keeping it uh paying
attention to. You also have this pivot
area right around 88. So, $88, $84.
That's what we're looking at. Now, let's
talk about XLM. I know I I read your
comments. I've been replying to your
comments, folks. XLM is one of those
coins a lot of you been asking for.
Looked at SWE, we looked at NEAR. I see
you talking about Virtuals. We're
probably talk uh I could throw that in
as well. Let's go ahead and look at the
XLM chart. XLM, very very strong pivot
level. Now, we talked about this when it
acted as support. But remember, we were
talking about knocking on the door,
knocking on the door. Knocked on the
door too many times and that door
opened.
Gareth calls it banging on the door
where you kind of shoulder ramming it,
but that's just rude. I knock on the
door, folks. Right now this is trying to
act as support for XLM. So XLM bulls,
you got a little bit of hope. But
remember, if we bounce and then knock on
the door again, well maybe that is when
we're going to start ramming that door
instead, folks. All right, you said it,
virtuals.
Uh the what? So we can look at virtual
real quickly here. Virtual. This one has
been making some major moves. You go to
the daily chart here.
Pretty strong pullback, just like all
the other altcoins.
And if we were to measure this, virtuals
has pulled back 14%. So fairly
significant move that we're seeing here
on virtuals. I do like these pivot tops.
Right around here.
Oh man, what do you know? Look at that.
So we're pretty close to some pretty
decent support. Uh you could
potentially, you know, maybe even move
it to that one right there. That's going
to lower this area. So for virtuals,
currently 72 cents. I would be keeping
an eye out right around 69, 69 cents.
Did you plan that? Did you mess with me
on that one?
Uh someone says chainlink. We'll look at
one more.
We can look at some chainlink. Where's
my link marines, everybody?
Uh Jake Sweeney, we did a little
practice run for a crypto combat. He
said people calling themselves link
marines is cringe. I asked him one out
of 10. He said 11. So let me know in the
comments section are link marines, is
that cringe term? Do we got to stop
saying that?
Uh link
got I would just keep an eye out on this
pivot top right here. This to me is
going to be the line in the sand. It's
going to be right around 1086. It's
11:29, not a.m. Well, it's 11:29
somewhere. So keep an eye out on that.
So 1086 is the level.
And let's look at sui. Sui, also similar
situation where, you know, we got these
pivot tops. So this is a descending
trendline. This one has running out of
steam. And then Sui had a major move. In
fact, if you're in the woods and someone
had a lot of Sui, you heard them go,
"Sui!"
Hopefully, it wasn't like the other
scene, but that was a 50% pump.
Suspiciously round number. I don't like
those suspiciously round numbers. Looks
like people were looking for that pump,
and then they started to dump. This
one's also got a pretty significant
pullback.
We're looking at a 14-17%.
This is a 24% pullback for Sui. So,
pretty significant move right there.
Now, we are in a trade. Let me go ahead
and show you. Uh only have open one
trade today. It's still open, but we did
pull some profits. We pulled about 270
bucks. Still got the streak alive,
everybody. But, I'm still in it. I'm
still in it. So, we might lose the
streak, everyone. We might lose the
streak. I'll show you my levels. Uh
yeah, man, it just missed my extra order
right there. So, it was going to push
our average entry down. And now looks
like maybe trying to run out of steam on
Pith. I was trading Pith, and I'm pissed
off on this one. That was my Mike Tyson
impression. Uh let me know what you
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Folks, of course, we're doing all these
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everybody working with crypto. And we
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AVAX. It was painful journey. Athena's
where we deployed. Don't be afraid to
deploy just in Bitcoin. What we're
seeing with the economy right now, they
have to print their way out of this
mess, which in turn is going to make
that mess even worse. And so, I think
all roads lead to Bitcoin when you're
looking at that type of scenario. In my
opinion, it's going to be the fastest
horse in the race. Of course, you can
have your gold, you can have your
silver. Heck, maybe even get some
palladium or some platinum.
But, I think Bitcoin, you know, if you
fast forward 10 years, 20 years, even 5
years, even 1 year, I think Bitcoin is
going to be, you know, maybe the apex
asset when it comes to some gains there.
Any bears hopium for those sideline.
Hey, it's never too late to DCA in
Bitcoin, even if it takes you several
years. But, go ahead smash that like
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It's very entertaining, very interesting
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And as always, I'll see you in the
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