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Bitcoin Bull Flag INVALIDATED: The Danger Zone Has Begun
Channel: Verified Investing YouTube
Watch on YouTube · 2026-09-02
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**Summary:**
**Stock Tickers & Price Levels:**
- Bitcoin (BTC): Support at $76,000, Resistance at $64,000 (current resistance after acting as support)
- Ethereum (ETH): Resistance at $4,000 (former support)
- Solana (SOL): Support at $140 (previously mentioned as support)
- XRP: Resistance at $1.30 (top of the bull flag pattern)
**Key Trading Strategy:**
- Focus on Bitcoin's bull pennant pattern, aiming to re-enter the wedge pattern for potential upside
- Consider XRP's bull flag pattern and Wall Street's 11-day inflows into XRP ETFs
**Indicators Used:**
- 4-hour chart for Bitcoin and Ethereum
- Daily chart for Solana
- Liquidation heat map for Bitcoin
- XRP ETF inflows/outflows
**Entry/Exit Rules & Suggested Trades:**
- Bitcoin: No specific entry/exit rules given, but Nick Valdez aims to re-enter the wedge pattern within the pennant for potential upside
- Solana: No specific entry/exit rules given, but mentions a 5% leverage trade with a stop loss at the support level for a potential 10% gain
- XRP: No specific entry/exit rules given, but mentions the bull flag pattern and Wall Street's inflows into XRP ETFs as potential bullish signals
**Timeframes Mentioned:**
- 4-hour chart
- Daily chart
- 15-minute chart (for Solana)
**Risk Management Tips:**
- No specific risk management tips given, but mentions using a stop loss in the Solana trade example
- Nick Valdez mentions not getting "nasty thoughts" when hearing the phrase "short squeeze" regarding the liquidation heat map
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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 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, the true story. Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief crypto strategist at Verified Investing. And today we have to talk about a breakdown in the Bitcoin bull flag chart. And technically, it's a bull pennant and I'm going to tell you the difference between a flag and a pennant. And then we're going to look at some other altcoins as well. And we're going to look at the liquidation heat map on Bitcoin. And folks, we're going to do a little deep dive on XRP and the ETF flows cuz what we're seeing is a lot different than what we're seeing with Bitcoin. Now, if you were wondering, Bitcoin ETF flows yesterday were it was an outflow day, meaning Wall Street ended up selling Bitcoin and they sold to the tune of roughly 220 million dollars. And so now we're starting to see a little bit of a mixed bag. We see an inflow day, then we see an outflow day and basically Wall Street is kind of divided on what's happening with Bitcoin. It looks like Wall Street took some profit after Bitcoin's run-up. Now, we are going to look at Orb, we're going to look at Render. We got a couple charts to show you folks. But first, let's dive into the Bitcoin chart as always. Now, right here you can see on the 4-hour chart a beautiful flag pattern for Bitcoin. And this has a great target as well. You would run from the bottom of the the run here up to here and then you would measure from the breakout assuming it can break out. But what we're seeing here is a bull pennant. Now, a bull flag would look it would look a little bit more Let me go ahead and pull up my parallel channel here. This would be a bull flag. You would see it uh largely flat on the bottom, but on a bull pennant, you see the bottom heading up. Now, bull flags, now you what you want is a 90° to a 45° pattern on a bull flag. This is actually a more bullish pattern than a bull pennant. Bull pennants don't break to the upside as often as bull flags. Now, what we're seeing here is the bottom level that had acted as support is now turned into resistance for Bitcoin, and you see on the 4-hour chart just for the last 12 hours, we have been beating against this range after holding on for about 16 hours. And so, this was support and it's now flipped to resistance. And so, this is what we're seeing with Bitcoin's chart. So, I don't like this, folks. I don't like this at all. I want to get back into this wedge pattern within the pennant, and then we can start feeling a little bit more bullish for Bitcoin. Right now, folks, we need to turn bullish, and we need to turn bullish quickly. Hopefully, Wall Street buys a lot of Bitcoin, and then hopefully that can give a nice momentum push for Bitcoin's level, and then maybe we can start talking about, you know, some some more uh positive price targets when it comes to Bitcoin. Let's look at real quickly at the liquidation heat map, cuz that is giving some hope here. This giving some hopium. So, go ahead, breathe in, breathe in deeply into that brown paper bag, and look at this, folks. Now, you can see here, this is the liquidation heat map. This is where levered Bitcoin longs and shorts get liquidated. But, I'll tell you who's not getting liquidated, me on BitBase. We've been We have a open trade on BitBase. I'm going to give you an uh an upcoming trade on towards the end of the show as well. So, if you want to check out BitBase, go ahead and scan that QR. We have a link down below. All types of awesome bonuses for the verified investing crew here. Now, on the left side, I I added this in. Color scale equals amount liquidated. And the way this pattern is, the high level, the high brightness, the bright yellow means $81 million in longs are going to get liquidated. And so, or shorts, depending on the direction. And so, down here is where the longs will get liquidated. I mean, these are traders who are betting on Bitcoin to go up. They're They're going to get liquidated if it pushes down into the $76,000 range, but there's also shorts looking to get liquidated. And folks, this magnet I like to think of these as magnets. We had a strong magnet very close to the current price action, which is lot, you know, more likely to hit than this far away magnet. And you can see brand new positions opening. These are traders who have just opened these positions recently. And so, we might see a little bit of what they call a short squeeze. Okay? Don't get Get those nasty thoughts out of your mind when you hear that phrase, folks. So, now that's what we're looking at with Bitcoin. What are we seeing with Ethereum? Well, Ethereum, we kind of talked about this level yesterday. We said, "Hey, folks, this is, you know, it's holding a little bit better support for ETH than it is Bitcoin." Right now, it's no longer support. It's the same situation. You can see here also turning into resistance on the chart here. So, we're just going in from the wick low. This is the 23rd of August. And we have a nice little touch here on the 30th of August. And then now you get into today's price action on the 2nd and the 1st of September. And so, this kind of held as support, but now, folks, it is flipped into resistance. What is this long line up here? What's the top portion coming from? Well, this is going pretty far back, folks. This is going all the way back to the wick high right here and to the wick right there. And that takes us into the current price action. So, very fascinating chart on Ethereum. Now, before I show you XRP, let's go ahead and look at Solana. We talked about these wicks right here. We said, "This is going to be support." Support for Solana. And look at this on the daily. Wicked into our level, but then did push above. Now, I can go to the 15-minute chart. Look how clean this was on the 15-minute chart. We gave you this level yesterday. In fact, we've been talking about it for a few days now. Talking about it last week and all of this week. Nice little price price action in this range, and then a nice little push up to the upside here. And if you say you did jump in, yeah, you had a nice little 2.2% pump right there. So, hey, I'm not saying go crazy with the leverage, but you know, say maybe you would have a 5%. That's, you know, somewhat safe compared to a lot of traders out there. That'd be a nice 10% gain, while you only had a limited downside. You could have had a stop loss there. And folks, you would have been fine in that one. Now, let's dive into XRP. Before I show you this chart, look at this. 11 days of inflows for XRP ETFs. And so, what's an ETF? An exchange-traded fund. This is the way big money is going to buy exposure to XRP. They're not going to fire up a crypto account as much as they should use Bitbase or Coinbase or whoever, they're probably not going to do that. What they're going to do is they're going to go to spot XRP ETFs. And this is 11 straight trading days. So, really we're close talking closer to 2 weeks. All the way since August 18th, we've seen nothing but inflows as Wall Street buying a lot of XRP. So, what are they seeing in the charts? I'll tell you what they're seeing in the charts. They may be seeing this bull flag pattern. Now, remember, the flag is a little bit more bullish than the bull pennant here. And so, XRP is knocking on this top door. And so, I established this this parallel channel, going to the wick high here. And essentially, you could go into the wick here, or you could go to the candle body right there. But this establishes our parallel channel. Right now, XRP, what is it doing? Starting to knock. It's knocking on the top side. Knocking on the top side. The more you knock on the top part of the door, the more likely you're going to see a move to the upside. And so, I wouldn't be surprised if XRP And folks, don't hate it. Don't date it. Just trade it, okay? So many people they they just quickly dismiss XRP or they're just way too in love with XRP. You probably know that XRP person. You might be that XRP person. Or if you're at a Thanksgiving event, a family event, kids birthday party, whatever it might be. Oh, you're into crypto? Yeah, yeah, you know, I have a little this, I have a little that. Well, what do you think about XRP? Is it going to $10? Not going to $10 anytime soon. In fact, let's talk about $2 before we can start talking about a three, a five, a $10 price target. But XRP, I I I think Wall Street is maybe showing renewed interest in this one. And I'm looking at your comments, folks. I see all your comments here. Bitcoin needs to hold that 70K level. We are going to look at Orb. XRP rules. Well, we know what camp this person's in, right? That's fine. That's fine. That person, they might be dating their XRP bags. Just take profit. Don't worry. I'll tell you when to take profit here. Uh let's see. Very similar Okay, so some people are getting a little bit bearish on the the long-term trend lines, and that's all right. All right, now you folks had requested a Sui chart in the comments. Go into the comment section down below this video. Uh if you're watching live, you can put in the live chat here. If you want to see a chart, just let me know. And folks, I will cover it. Don't worry. So, looking at Sui here. This is the 4-hour chart. We have a nice little bounce. Uh and then it rejected here. This gave us our trend line. This gave us our descending trend line. And then folks, this actually held as support during the pullback. Held as support yet again. But now, it is chopping around. I do not like this chart. Look at the wicks on these 4-hour candles. You know what I see with this? You know what chart I see? I see a little chop suey, okay? that's chopping pattern that is meant to wreck those traders. So, I'm staying away from that one. Wake up. All right, stay away from this chart, folks. Wake up. All right, let's get into the next I don't I don't know what Why do I do that? Why do I do? Anyways, I'm going to do it anyways. All right, let's go into the near pattern here. Looking at NEAR, we have a couple little levels, you know, one we got this ascending trend line. You got to keep an eye on this one for sure. Pretty far away though. What I'm looking at let's go to the 4-hour. I want to give you this line accurately here. This is a little bit of a parallel pattern. So, let me go ahead and pull this up. It's going to be our parallel channel. We're going to go in from the wick. The wick here. And folks, I'm keeping an eye out on this pattern right here. Let me make a little less translucent. This is going to be basically the bottom level. This is where I would like to enter in on a NEAR long. Until then, I'm trying to stay away from this one. All right, let's look at it a couple more I saw you guys wanting some render charts. All right, I can render up something for you folks. Now, this there's a wick that I'm paying attention to. However, what I'm seeing is a giant wick for October 10th. This is a large large wick. So, what What does this mean when we see this giant wick on October 10th? That lets me know there's not a lot of liquidity in this token. This one it might be one that could potentially want to stay away from. But, let's go into this low from here, February 6th. And we're going to draw this out. This is going to be your support. I would not want to touch it until it comes close to that level. And so, you know, I know it's a little bit far away. That's just what I'm seeing in the charts, folks. I do not like what I see with this render chart. I do not like the length of that October 10th. There is a flash crash in the market. Some blame Binance. Some blame, you know, just over levered positions. Some actually blame a Trump Truth Social post. It all kind of coincided folks and a lot of all coins got nuked. Render is was not immune to that folks. Now let's talk about some trades here. See this is why I don't like I would have maybe trimmed the position. This is Arbitrum I believe. Yeah, so we're oh no sorry Athena. So Athena looking at you know some potential long entries. We got a lower entry where we'd want to add to the position. Athena just got pushed down pushed down hard. So this is a upcoming trade that I'm looking at folks. We've been nailing these trades. Don't worry I'll show you all the trades that we opened today. So I'm kind of liking a long on Athena as wow look at that it's starting to push up right now. Now this is the one minute chart. Why am I looking at this? Well, we're looking at this pattern right here. Let me go to the 4-hour. And so we have this nice ascending trend line. You know this is acting as resistance. And then what did it do? Turned into support. Now maybe trying to turn into support again. If it doesn't hold, you know I do have a couple I have an entry near these wick lows. And then there's going to be another entry right here. I've been looking at the liquidation heat map. And then folks after that we'll cut our losses. You don't want to ride this thing all the way down. You want to keep that win percentage high. Now another trade we did successfully close was Arbitrum. Now I got in and I got out folks. And I have a couple entries up here. Again what why are we looking at this one as a trade? Well, look at this trend line here. So we have this wick low. All right, nice little area of support kind of gives us our line here. Bam, nice little resistance. And folks this is going to be strong resistance for Arbitrum. Look at this pump today Arbitrum is just going nuts folks. So a huge huge pump on Arbitrum. That's what I'm watching. Let's go ahead and reveal the trades here. This is Bitcoin revealed. I'm not trying to hide my trades. I'm showing you my entries. I'm showing you my exits. I'm putting these posts on verifiedinvesting.com. So folks if you want to see some of these trade setups, you know, before the show, you can check them at night, you can check them in the morning. Go ahead, download our app, verified investing app. We have it on Android, we have it on Apple, and we're going to have a little QR code for you right here. So, but let's go ahead and show the trades. Now, I did trim Athena. You can see that's just basically 50 cents. That's That was me just trimming the position there. But, on the second, today September 2nd, we had a nice long on Uniswap, pulled in a couple hundred bucks there. I I just closed these, folks. I just closed these. 12:41, 12:27, right before I went live. I don't like having open trades before I go live. It's a little distracting. I want to set up the charts for you, folks. I want to give you the attention that you folks deserve. And when I'm sitting here, stretching the Y-axis on the one-minute chart, I'm sweating, you know, it's pouring down. It's hard for me to set up the show. So, I do want to set up the show for you, folks, in a in a in an honest way. And what We have time for one more chart. I see you guys saying hyper liquid. We can look at hype, folks. Again, this is one of my favorite altcoins, period. Period. Now, looking at the one-day chart, well, what are we seeing? We're seeing that strong resistance. Seeing that strong resistance. So, this thing is still just kind of chopping along this. Break above this, that's when we can start talking about a $90 hype. We go into the Maybe, let's say, the 4-hour here. Let's expand our chart. A little bit of a trend line, nothing crazy. You know, this is you know, honestly, I wouldn't say the cleanest one. But, maybe you can see a little something there. And I wouldn't be surprised if that Yeah, that's that's also looking pretty decent. So, if you want to open a scalp long, maybe check out the wicks on the 4-hour. Right now, all eyes on this upper trend line here on the daily. That's holding it down here. Have Yeah, we did Solana. Did do Solana, folks. So, keep an eye out on that. That will be showed you that 15-minute chart hit our level perfectly. We go to the one day, you'll see what we were talking about. Hit our level, now starting to try to find support. So, that was your scalp. Yeah, let me know down in the comment section. We don't have any more time to do some altcoins today, but folks, I see your Cardano, I see your Ave. We could do those tomorrow. Uh we can look at Zcash, all of the tokens that you guys want me to follow, I will follow. Thank you sticking around to the end. If you want to go in the comment section, I reply to all of you folks. Don't know how much longer I can do it, but I can definitely do it now. Takes me a little bit of time each morning, but I don't mind. I don't care. I like talking to you folks, and I like seeing like have my ear to the streets, all right? Cuz I'm trying to be agile. I'm trying to stay in tune with the markets. No, great job smashing that like button. And as always, thank you for sticking around to the end. I really do appreciate it. I'll see you folks in the future. Thank you.