BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | August 27, 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 [music] zero. I
then found technical analysis and it
changed everything. My perspective on
this industry and my success within it.
Now, I'm passing that knowledge on to
you. Welcome to Bitcoin Revealed,
[music] the true story.
Hey folks, Nick Valdez, chief crypto
strategist at Verified Investing. And
today, we're going to focus on Bitcoin
in a key moving average that Bitcoin is
testing right now. And we're going to go
back in time and we're going to look at
historically, what does this mean for
Bitcoin? And that might give us a good
idea to let us know, is this the bottom
of the bear market? And of course, we'll
check the liquidation heat map and we'll
look at some of your favorite altcoins
as well. And if you want, go ahead, type
in the chat. Let me know what charts you
want me to cover and if we have time at
the end, we'll go ahead and throw them
up on the screen. But first, let's start
with the Bitcoin chart, everybody. We
have Bitcoin coming into our resistance
zone. And this is the bottom of the
February 6th wick right here. Move so
you can see it. Right here in the top
part of the zone is this May peak. And
so, this is established just a little
bit of a barrier, a speed bump for
Bitcoin. And remember folks, you don't
want to hit those speed bumps too fast.
You got to be careful around the speed
bumps. But look at Bitcoin pushing into
this area as we speak. Now, I do want to
show the uh RSI here. So, we're going to
go to the 4-hour.
And Bitcoin's RSI, if it turns around
pretty quickly, especially if we wick a
little bit higher, we're going to have
some very strong bearish divergences on
Bitcoin. Let's go ahead and look at some
of the other metrics here. Number one,
we're going to be looking at the
leverage longs and shorts. This is where
Bitcoin traders are going to get
liquidated, everybody. Very important
number. Because you can see, often times
when we clear these areas, Bitcoin will
then go into a reversal period. So, we
cleared this liquidation cluster, we
cleared this liquidation cluster, and
then we cleared another liquidation
cluster shortly. This is pretty close to
78k, about 79 and some change. But then,
look what happened here. Traders are
getting greedy, and they're starting to
open up some more trades. And so, that's
what we're seeing here. And Bitcoin now
pushing up into some other clusters to
the upside. And folks, this is going to
basically hit the top of our area that
we are paying attention to, everyone.
So, keep a key eye out on this one. You
can see here, this is going to be
roughly around 81,400.
And it gives us pretty a room, a little
bit of wiggle room here, cuz the top of
the resistance barrier is going to be
around 82,500.
So, keep an eye out on that when it
comes to Bitcoin. But let's talk about
that key moving average. The key moving
average for Bitcoin is the 50-week
moving average. And so, what does this
50-week moving average mean for Bitcoin
when you're looking at at the lens of
history, folks? And so, we're going to
be putting the binoculars on and looking
back into the past here. A little little
I was going to say a flash to the back
flash to the back to the future. That's
what I You know what I'm trying to say
here. A flash a flash to the past
a look to the past here. Bitcoin tagging
the 50-week moving average. So,
this is what we're seeing here.
And Bitcoin right now at that 50-week
moving average. And so, this is very
important when you look at what happened
last time. And so, this is the run-up
for the previous bull market. This is
going to be the October 6 high, and
these are weekly candles that we're
looking at here. And so, the 50-week
moving average acted as support. 50-week
moving average also acted as support.
Now, remember, these are weekly candles,
so it's not a surprise when you see some
wicks down here. So, that means one or
two days it was below, a little bit
scary here. And so, again, this is when
it's good to have a What do we call it?
Hodlers mentality.
But now we're kind of looking at a
different scenario. Now we're looking at
it not as support, but as resistance.
And so, to really understand what's
going to be happening here, we need to
go back in history. We need to look at
the previous bear market, and that's
going to give us just a good idea of
what might potentially happen, folks.
So, let's go ahead and share 22 into
2023.
So, this is the 2022 bear market bottom.
And if you look right here, you can see
one weekly candle above that 50-week
moving average. This to me was to fake
people out that that was the bottom, and
what do you know, we would push down
even lower. And then we would basically
have our bottom, this giant red candle
right here. This is the FTX collapse.
All of these red candles right here,
especially this one, this is Celsius
collapse when Alex Mashinsky essentially
stole a lot of people's crypto. We also
have the Terra Luna collapse. So, just a
lot of exchanges going down in this
period. But then, what happens here? We
have this 50-week moving average, and we
reject off of it. But then, 1 2 3 weeks
later, we shoot right past it,
a starship skyrocket, you know, right
above. And then what happens? Then it
turns into support. And we already
looked at this at the previous graphic,
but I wanted to go back and show you.
And then essentially pretty much a
retest right here. So, the question is,
are we going to be shooting above, or is
this going to lead to a rejection?
To me, this is maybe a potential sign
that the bottom is behind us. Now, no
one knows for sure, of course, because
if they did, well, if they if they knew
everything, they'd be a trillionaire,
okay? They they'd have more wealth than
Elon Musk. And so, we're kind of just
kind of using the data points that we
have, the data points that are
available, and then trying to make the
best decisions. But in my prediction, I
think we are going to see a little bit
of a pullback. I think we have to, you
know, clear some of that leverage that I
showed you earlier, and then maybe
reject off of that resistance zone. And
so just keep an eye out on that, and you
know, you have people saying up, bull
market's here, you know, it says up
only. I think those traders are going to
get trapped, folks. And you just don't
want to be trapped. You don't want to be
the the bear with his foot in the in the
claw thing.
You want to be agile. You want to be
like the fox, okay? You want to be
setting that thing off, and then you
know, pull it pull your hand out before
it hits you, before you get stuck,
essentially. Now let's look at some
other charts. Let's look at Ethereum
here.
Ethereum uh trying to break this
resistance. Now you can see on the daily
candle we are pulling back. So this is
maybe suggesting that the bulls are
running out of steam. And if you're
wondering, you know, what is this
resistance? This is the November high
and to the January high, and you draw
this trend line, it gives us this little
level right here. But what flag or I
already said it. What pattern do we have
right here? It's it's kind of looking
like uh you know, somewhat of a broken
flag pattern, and it would break to the
upside. That's what would break it right
here. You can see the nice pole, and
then you have the little uh chopping
range right there. You do have ways of
measuring this. Now normally, especially
in crypto, I I would like the flag to to
potentially move a little bit more to
the right. I don't want just a a very
very short flag. That's a That's a
weird-looking flag. You You ever look at
the flag chart and then there's like not
all of them are rectangles. There's like
a one or two weird ones. This is a
little bit of a weird flag, everybody.
But we do have targets.
I'm not saying this is the breakout. I'm
very suspicious, okay? They say don't be
suspicious. I'm suspicious. And if you
move straight across, it's going to kind
of take us in the zone that we saw in
December of last year. All right, let's
look at a couple other charts. Folks, we
nailed this one, and I gave this
information out on the website. It's
verifiedinvesting.com.
We do have an app. Uh maybe perhaps put
a little QR code for you. So, if you're
on the App Store with Apple or if you're
on Google Play, you can check that out.
And I'll I will show you the article,
folks. I'm I'm not going back in a time
machine to throw these charts up. Now,
it didn't exactly hit our level, but
folks, we got about as close as
possible. And so, hey, I'm just looking
at the probabilities. We have a nice
little ascending trend line from the
wicks that we had seen in April and in
May. And then, what do you know? That's
exactly where we rejected. But, I felt
like it pulled back way too hard. And I
saw a little area of support. And where
did I put this? I put this on our daily
charts. Folks, this is all free. All you
got to do is just sign up, folks. So, we
don't charge you for any of this. XRP
falls towards double support at $1.35. I
gave you this on August 26th. You can
see right there. We hadn't hit it yet.
Folks, we were so close. We were so
close. I gave you that one ahead of
time. There's another trade. And don't
worry. I'm going to show you one more
trade that we executed.
And then I'm going to show you an
upcoming trade. And I'll show you the
trades that we closed today. Now, this
is
the story of Sorry. This is Polygon.
Polygon, I predicted the pullback,
everybody. This is also on verified
investing free trading analysis. This
was under technical analysis and
insight. I saw some resistance from the
the peaks that we'd seen here in
November and in January. I think this is
actually technically late October. This
was clear resistance. We hit that area.
So, boom. One factor of resistance. So,
this is, you know, we got a little bit
of a probability here. Then we're adding
to the probabilities. We added by seeing
a 50% fib retrace. Now, I say "Fin."
Maybe I was just talking about a French
movie when it ends there. But, from the
high to the low, boom. Little Fibonacci
retrace right there. Now, let's go into
the chart. and uh this is also another
trend line that I saw. So, just had some
key levels that we are identifying. We
had the trend line. We had the 50%
retrace, and I kind of want to measure
this. What are we looking at for the
Polygon correction? We're going to go to
our measuring tool. Uh and this is all
on BitBase, by the way. Big big shoutout
to BitBase. So, if you do want to
execute on some of these trades, I
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But let's talk about the upcoming trade.
What are we looking at upcoming? Now,
>> [sighs]
>> I'm probably going to regret this, but I
closed this one, but I think there's
still room. I think there's still room.
In fact, it did end up shooting up a
little bit higher. So, you might be able
to get a pretty good entry. I already
closed in profit here. But look at
Solana. Solana, overbought. All right?
This is one of the overbought oversold.
We got overbought on this thing right
here, folks. So, we got a nice ascending
trend line, and it's wicking above, and
I checked that liquidation heat map. It
is clearing the liquidations here,
folks. So, uh this is, you know, maybe a
potential trade. Now, this I I would add
into it. Let's Let's look. What else do
we have? We go to the 4-hour.
Similar to what we saw on Bitcoin, but
Oh man, I don't like this, folks. I was
looking at this, you know, a couple
hours ago. I don't like that this RSI
might be shooting a little bit higher,
but if it does turn around, even if it
goes to where this one is, that would
still be hidden bearish divergence. Cuz
the price is much much higher, while the
relative strength index is not higher.
In fact, it's potentially lower, and
maybe even equal if it does continue to
push up. But if we can continue to turn
around here, let's go to the 1-hour
here. What do we have on the 1-hour?
Give it a second. It's just a lot of
candles that we're looking at.
Uh
the 1-hour is higher. So, now, this
one's uh you know, not as high
probability.
But like I said, I closed it before I
went live. Uh we you know, we're able to
pull off a little bit of funds here.
Nothing crazy, mostly small trades. I
had some meetings.
Uh we had
We had people storm into our office. I
felt like I was under siege for a while.
We might be moving locations, folks, to
a bigger and better uh let's just say
trading arena. And there's people like
looking to to rent this place. So, we're
about to go into a VI command console at
some point. And so, as we're getting
ready to move out of this office
building, uh there's people like
checking this Dude, these people came in
here. They were loud. They're in the
live day trading room. They're like
looking at everyone's computer screens.
And so, we we had a lot of meetings. We
just had a lot of distractions. So,
didn't end up closing some of those.
Now, I see your comments here.
Solana better uh flag there. Yeah, there
is definitely some upside targets, but
it might be overbought, everybody. Do
you think ETH will go ETH will go back
to 2K?
That's a That's a $2,500 question. ETH
does have a uh a nice little bull flag
there. You know, not as good as
Solana's, maybe. 2K?
I don't know if it'll go that low. I'm
I'm kind of looking It could So, here's
Here's the thing. ETH has support at
2012. All right? 2012.
Uh if you look right there, uh that's
actually about 1969. Okay, what was
that? 1973. You know what? Maybe. It
might It might actually go uh to 2K if
it does reject there. I could
potentially see that in the cards,
folks. Glad to catch you live. I'm glad
you're able to watch live, everybody.
That Solana trade was wild. Uh hey,
imagine trying to go live. You're in
meetings. I'm like setting limit orders,
you know? Hey, trading can be a little
bit wild.
Do not trade with leverage unless you
are experienced, folks. I say stay away.
I demand you stay away. All right? And
then so I'll throw in one more chart for
you, folks. I see you requesting it
here. It's going to be XLM.
XLM
Uh this one was the uh yeah, this is all
the wicks that we were looking at
earlier here. This one's going to be has
some pretty nice support. Let me share
my chart here. We go to the horizontal
line, kind of just go to where we see it
just reject, reject, reject, reject.
It's like, you know, Young Jeezy at the
club. That was me at the club.
Rejection, rejection, rejection,
rejection. Then we also have some nice
support, nice support, nice support. And
so right now it is it is support, but if
we continue to knock on this door, well,
that's where it's going to start, uh,
you know, maybe potentially looking like
a loss right there. I don't want to see
it reject. All right, but that's our
show for today. I do appreciate you guys
hanging around, sticking around to the
end as always. Bitcoin Revealed, we're
not going to be back till Monday because
we have Crypto Combat. All right, it's
where we have the traders here.
We got a first-time trader on tomorrow's
episode. You're going to see Drew.
Lawton's going to be back from vacation.
He might be more tanned than usual.
Where they trade with up to 200x
leverage and we would never never ever
recommend that. That is for
entertainment purposes only, but make
sure you check that show out. It's It's
pretty interesting, folks. Oh, Hype, I
did actually want to share the Hype
chart. I'm so glad you said that. Uh,
Hype, all-time high today. Now, I
remember I've told you this is actually
a top two crypto holding for me. I love
love HyperLiquid. In fact, you know, I
don't know if I love it more than
Bitcoin,
but Hype is, uh, you know, really really
good asset in my opinion. Check out this
Hype chart here. And then I have another
key level I want to show you on Hype.
And so kind of, uh, you know, trying to
shoot past this area right here. And if
it does, I have a target for you. I have
another target. This is going to be the
other target. So let's pull up our trend
line.
And no, wait, wait, wait, wait. Give me
1 second here. Here we go. Here we go.
This one right here. So this is, oh man,
look at this. This is just hitting all
of our areas, folks.
HyperLiquid's looking pretty good. Now,
I have a worry. All right, some of you
might be seeing it. This could
potentially turn to an inverse head and
shoulders. And if we do have a right
shoulder, I expect this peak right here
to maybe potentially act as support.
As far as other targets here,
HyperLiquid is just it's a very, very
fast-moving horse. You got to be a
little bit careful. Here we go, folks.
Now, this one's a moonshot target.
Moonshot target. And I'm going to tell
you why I'm
a little bit suspicious of it heading
this way. I think $100, people are going
to sell their HyperLiquid. I think
people are going to try to front-run the
move to $100. So, I wouldn't be
surprised if we start seeing major sell
walls right around $95, and then
especially around $100. Retail traders
are going to want to get rid of that at
100 bucks, folks. So, that's what I'm
watching on the HyperLiquid chart.
Thanks for throwing that one on my
radar. I love some HyperLiquid. They use
What is it? First, what is it? It's a
decentralized exchange. They call it a
DEX. Okay, not Dexter's Laboratory, not
Dexter, the guy that's going after, you
know, what. I don't want to say it here.
DEXes essentially have a lot of fees
that they make. And so, you trade on it,
there's going to be a fee. They then
apply that fee that they make from
people using it, they apply it to buying
the token, and then they burn those
tokens, okay? They throw it in a fire,
they get rid of those tokens forever.
Now, there are going to be more tokens
released, but overall, it is
deflationary.
The opposite of your dollar, which is
inflationary. So, there's always more
dollars being printed, but HyperLiquid
is the opposite. They are shrinking the
amount of HyperLiquid. It is one of my
favorite ones. But, we're going a little
long, folks. I do appreciate you
sticking around to the end. Smash the
like button on the way out. I love
reading all your comments here.
Chainlink looking good monthly. All
right, we got the LINK Marines in here.
Why not use a stop loss next time?
I'm agile, and I try I'll use stop
losses if I'm walking away from the
charts. I tried to watch it, folks. I
try to stay in tune when I'm trading
these assets. That's all we have for
today. Thank you for sticking around to
the end, as always.
I'll see you in the future. Appreciate
it.