BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | August 31, 2026

I grew up with nothing. Success felt
impossible until I found crypto in 2018.
I made every mistake chasing height and
holding coins to nearly zero. I then
found technical analysis and it changed
[music] 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 here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And today we have to talk
about Wall Street selling Bitcoin while
MicroStrategy is buying Bitcoin. And
we're going to look at those figures and
of course we're going to look at some
key setups and look at some past trades,
see how they have done. And then I have
one more trade that I'm about to enter
right now and I will tell you the exact
levels for this major major altcoin.
I'll go ahead and tell you it is hyper
liquid, but today we're mostly going to
be talking about Bitcoin. So go ahead
and smash that like button everybody as
you come in. And let's just go ahead and
see what is happening in the markets.
And we're going to start with the ETF
net flow. So we broke the streak. We had
nine days of ETF inflows in a row but
could not make it 10 days in a row and
then Friday's market data is in and
there's a net outflow of 201.8
million dollars. In fact, most funds had
shown um you know, we had one of them a
little bit of a gain, Morgan Stanley,
but across the board a lot of outflows
including BlackRock. BlackRock coming in
number three here sold 33 million
dollars worth of Bitcoin, but mostly ARK
and 21 shares sold 1,480
Bitcoin totaling 114 million dollars. So
folks, that is a 200 million dollar net
outflow. So we're seeing some major
selling by Wall Street, but that's not
all that we're seeing here. We're also
seeing strategy. Strategy bought the
top. It is no surprise here.
They They just honestly always buy the
top. And so, this is just kind of one of
the things that you're always seeing.
And who said what? Well, we're talking
about Michael Saylor here. And what did
he say? He said, "I'm buying more
Bitcoin." Now, this is about 6 weeks,
almost 2 months actually. Uh this is
technically seven if you count this week
here. Bought some Bitcoin. Now, however,
they came at a price. So, right here you
can see they bought $369
million worth of Bitcoin. Don't worry,
folks. After this, we'll go to the
charts here. 4,600
Bitcoin. They also bought some of their
STRC share. This is going to be the
dividend-paying instrument. They wanted
to be $100. It's not quite $100. And
they continue to buy more and more. But
where did the money come from? Where did
Strategy get the money to buy all this
Bitcoin, to buy all that STRC, to add to
their cash reserve, and to add to their
dividend payment fund here. This is
going to be 50 million set aside for
their preferred dividend obligations.
Well, they sold shares. $602 million
worth of MicroStrategy or Strategy
shares have been sold. That's going to
add 4 and 1/2 million shares to the
market. So, essentially, they're
diluting their stock, coming up with
cash, and using some of that cash to buy
Bitcoin. Now, not all of it is going to
Bitcoin. Some of it is going to go into
a little bit of a cash pile, and a
little bit of for their STRC here. So,
the market's not the biggest fan of
that, folks.
Michael Saylor, he tends to sell at
bottoms and then buy at local tops. You
often see the price decline. Let's go
ahead and jump into the charts here,
folks. So, what are we seeing with
Bitcoin? Well, we're still rejecting off
this resistance barrier that we pointed
out a couple week or a week ago or so.
Where you see the wick low here, and to
the tops right there, that creates our
area of resistance. Bitcoin has to, you
know, basically get through this before
I am turning bullish, before I'm saying
this was the bottom where we dipped
below 60k for Bitcoin. Now, you can see
we have a nice little ascending trend
line here. We established a nice little
toehold again, so acted as support,
acted as support, and then now folks, it
is acting as resistance. In fact, look
at the wick that we saw on Thursday.
And you see Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
here. Sorry, rather that was Friday, and
now this is going to be basically a
barrier for Bitcoin. But, what do we
always say? The more you knock on a
door, the more likely you're going to
smash through that door. And folks, now
we're starting to knock on that door.
Now, the first time we came to the door,
slammed in our face. It was like a angry
ex, and you showed up, you know, after a
little bit of a cocktail or two. Guess
what? That door's going to slam on your
in your face. But, if you come again,
you know, you get now you got flowers,
you're knocking gently, you know, you're
back again next Tuesday. Well, that's
when that door might open. And hopefully
folks, that's not you. You know what I'm
talking about though, or you know,
hopefully you don't actually. But, let's
uh talk about the Bitcoin liquidation
heat map. This is giving us a good
blueprint for Bitcoin is heading. This
is basically uh kind of a cheat guide,
essentially folks. This is a cheat guide
for price action. And I see your
comments here. I I like your comments
here. Uh Solana, don't worry, we're
going to look at Solana as well.
But, this is where leverage Bitcoin
longs and shorts get liquidated. This is
the freshest data. I I basically I made
this right before I went live here. And
let me kind of just explain this a
little bit. Uh some of you folks are
wondering, you know, like, "Well, just
kind of tell me exactly what I'm looking
at here." Now, the bottom is time. And
you can think of this as a chart. You
can see the candles. This is kind of
your your traditional Bitcoin chart. And
this is a 48-hour period. And so, I I I
believe these are 15-minute So, you can
see Bitcoin's price action as, you know,
went through the weekend, August 29th,
August 30th, going into today, August
31st. But then you see these bright
lines. What are these bright lines?
Well, you can see it right here. The
brighter equals more liquidations. And
so when you're trading on a platform
like Bitbase, big shout out to Bitbase,
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below. But when there's leverage
positions and they're over leveraged,
right? They're They're using too much
leverage, they get liquidated at those
levels. And when you see a lot of
liquidations pile up or a level of a lot
of liquidations, often time the price
finds that area. And so you can see it
right here. People basically started
shorting. They started shorting, you can
see as it got brighter. What did price
do? It teleported to that area and
liquidated those traders. Well, almost
like as right when it started to happen,
you can also see people opening longs.
That's the brighter yellows right here.
So you can see as they open these longs,
you can see it kind of, you know, turns
yellow, folks. What did price then do?
It teleported to that area and then it
liquidated those traders. And then you
can see we had some shorts open up
again. It liquidated those traders. But
now, folks, we have people on both
sides. Now, keep an eye out for that
previous high for Bitcoin.
I do think we are going to see some more
liquidations. You can see the the level
right here. It's actually folks, do not
get fooled by the color. It doesn't have
to be bright just to teleport to that
area. But right now, it does look like
some shorts are looking to get
liquidated. Right now, I look at it as
magnets. We're kind of closer to this
magnet than we are to this magnet, but
there's more magnets to the downside. So
these are just going to be magnets for
price action. And do not, you know,
basically right above this level more
liquidations. This would be the final
level of liquidations right above here.
It's going to be right above $83,000.
So if we hit 83 and then there's a sharp
pullback, well, guess what folks? We
might get pulled down into the nether
regions yet again. And so just keep an
eye out on that liquidation heat map. It
kind of gives you a good idea of where
Bitcoin's heading. And don't worry, I'm
going to show you my trades
and show you the upcoming trade that we
have going on here. Now, this is
Ethereum. Ethereum still beating against
this resistance line here. We have the
tops here, the tops here. This is
January. This is going to be November of
last year. And right now we are still
struggling with this area. In fact, look
at yesterday's wick. We hit right into
that area, but then got rejected.
And we go to the 4-hour, you can see
just how clean that is. Basically,
people had some trades open. It's going
to wipe them out. And then it's going to
push lower. And right now we're just
still knocking on this door. But this is
another door that we're continuing to
knock on. Basically knocked on it once.
Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. We're just
hitting it. We're kicking it at this
point. And then now we're coming in and
yet another knock. All right, who's the
one that knocks? I know it was Walter
White, but in that case it's Ethereum.
Now, let me give you a nice little
support level for Solana. You want to
see some Solana charts? This is a a
little key area that I'm going to be
paying attention to. We have the wick
here. We have the wick there.
You see, you know, it took a couple of
times for us to burst through on the
daily.
But now I think this is going to act as
support. We haven't came down this low,
but it looks like we're coming pretty
close. It's $99.72.
But this is going to go a little bit
higher, a little bit higher, a little
bit higher. And eventually it will be
right around $100.
This is September 26th. So a ways away.
This is pretty flat. But also, you know,
you can could look at it as a little bit
of a psychological level. $100 is going
to be a strong level for Solana as
support and we have been getting in some
awesome Solana trades. Now, let's talk
about XRP.
I gave you this setup on
verifiedinvesting.com.
You see the date right here, August
26th. I put out free charts every single
day on this website. Sometimes it's
stocks, a lot of the time it is your
crypto setups. Now, I I basically had a
an idea where we're heading from the
wick low or from the bottom here to the
wick high of 0.5 Fibonacci retrace.
Let's go into the chart. What do we see?
Now, let's go into the bottom.
Let's go into the high.
A 0.5 Fibonacci retrace. Look at that,
folks. We gave you the setup, gave you
the key level, and if you got in on a
long, congrats to you. Now, me, I missed
this one. This was This was at night.
Folks, I'm I'm not trading at 10:00
p.m., 2:00 a.m. I wish I was. I wish I
was cool like that, but I'm a oldie but
goodie, folks. I go to sleep a little
bit earlier than that, and then XRP hit
our level and then a nice little bounce.
I'm giving you these setups. Here's one
more, Polygon. Gave you this one on the
24th
fifth, 25th here. Gave you the setup
August 25th. Look how clean this chart
is. I'm like, all right, this is the
target. This is where you're going to
see a retrace. This is where the
resistance is.
Man, look at that. 125 is where we had
it. It shot a little bit higher, but now
a severe pullback. So, if you if you
jumped in on that Polygon trade, if
you're following me on
verifiedinvesting.com,
congrats that one. Nice nice correction
there, folks.
All right, what's the next setup? Let's
talk about some upcoming setups. So,
let's not keep looking into the past. I
don't want to keep looking at that
rearview mirror. I want to look into the
future. I got my hands on the wheel. All
right, I got the the Drive soundtrack
going. I got the toothpick. I'm looking
and I'm heading into the horizon, and
you know what? It's looking bright, it's
looking shiny sunny. So get your shades
everybody because this is two setups I'm
going to give you here. Pump.fun falling
to some double support. I would keep an
eye out on this. We have this resistance
that has flipped into support here. Uh
these are I want to say these are four
no one day candles so even more weight.
Rejected, rejected, rejected.
I think this is going to be support
folks. And then we also have this 382
fib retrace from this low to this high.
This is the 382 Fibonacci level. So keep
an eye out on this three point or point
three eight cents. Uh right now it's
trading around four point or zero point
four three. So this one could really
really move very quickly. So be a little
bit careful on that one. But what setups
did we do? What trades did we open?
What's the next trade I have on my
radar? This one's a lot closer. This
one's not you know kind of waiting a day
or two. This one you got to wait minutes
for folks. All right, let's let's get
into this one. Now this
This is the screen show just today's
trades. Nothing big. Uh all small
basically but we we keep getting wins.
We had nothing but wins on the 27th. Now
we got nothing but wins on the 31st.
This is the area that I'm paying
attention to on hyper liquid. I'm
looking at hyper liquid. There's a lot
of liquidations as we get close to this
ascending trend line here. We go to the
daily. Uh it's just from the top here to
the top there.
And if you look this is the area so I
would maybe look for a scalp short on
that trend line. And so this is you know
let's zoom in a little bit. Let's go to
the 15 minute. You can see the RSI
starting to get a little oversold.
Starting to get a little heated here
folks. Okay and what do we We don't want
to buy when it's you know overbought. We
don't want to sell when it's oversold.
We want to do the opposite of that
folks. And so the RSI is getting a
little heated there. So I'm watching
this area right here. I would jump in a
little bit before this wick and a couple
levels above that wick and I would be
looking to get a short in on that area.
So, that's what I'm watching on hyper
liquid. So, that's your Bitcoin setup.
Those are your altcoin setups. We're
nailing these setups. We're putting
everything on verifiedinvesting.com. So,
I can't hide, okay? I can't hide behind
the bushes. I can't pull the Homer
Simpson. I'm just exposed, folks. I'll
I'd rip my shirt if I had enough muscles
or if it wasn't so embarrassing under
there. But, I do appreciate you guys
hanging out until the end as always.
We're going to be doing the show Monday
through Thursday. Stick around on Friday
though, cuz we do crypto combat. Awesome
show as well.
Very special episode this Friday. We're
going to be doing some stocks. Really
looking forward to that one, folks. But,
as always, appreciate you sticking
around to the end.
And folks, I'll see you in the future.
Appreciate it. Bye-bye.