BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | September 17, 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 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 here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And thank you for joining
today because we have a huge show in
store. The SEC just changed everything
when it comes to tokenized stocks on the
blockchain, just giving the green light
for 5 years. And this is going to have a
major effect on certain altcoins, and
we're already seeing it in the charts.
And of course, we're going to talk about
Bitcoin, look at the liquidation heat
map, and also check out what the heck is
going on with Zcash. That token has
taken off like a rocket lately. And go
ahead, smash the like button. I see some
Floridians here, and I'm glad some of
you folks found me from my old channel
onto the new one. I moved to Florida
recently, working over here. And also, I
want to give a quick shout out to
BitBase. We're going to talk about some
trades as well, uh some open trades that
we are in. But first, let's start with
the Bitcoin chart. Now, we talked about
this larger parallel that Bitcoin is
trading in. And if you include, you
know, starting establishing with the
down here in December,
created the top of the parallel. That is
December of 2025, but really establishes
parallel with these two pivots. You can
see we acted as rejection point, and
then we found support. Then we also
rejected here earlier, and now we're
trading within this smaller parallel.
So, let's zoom in a little bit. We're on
the 4-hour
time frame here. And you can see we had
a major flush down yesterday with the
FOMC meeting. A lot of people didn't
like what I uh Kevin Warsh signaled to
the markets. He signaled he is willing
to raise rates
more than once. And if people would have
said, "Hey, uh there's this guy, he's
going to come in, he's a Trump
appointee, he's going to raise rates
three times in 1 year." I would have
called that person crazy, but now that
is actually looking that is a a real
possibility, folks. And so now we're
starting to see major movement within
the crypto world and stock world as
well. But we talked about the midway
point of this parallel yesterday.
Yesterday we were talking about it and
now it looks like we are trying to beat
against it on the 4-hour candle. You see
we wicked above, got pushed down lower,
and now we are fighting with it as we
speak. But the next level of resistance
past this that we already gave you is
going to be the top of the parallel
right around 79,100,
give or take a few dollars depending on
where you're looking at on this time
frame. But let's go ahead and jump into
the liquidation heat map.
We are seeing some serious flush outs
here. So this is a 2-day liquidation
heat map. And you can see a normal price
chart, and this is covering the 15th,
the 16th, and today on the 17th. And you
see the price on the right, uh 78K, 76K.
Right now we're trading around 77K, real
close. And yesterday's FOMC meeting,
look at all that volatility. I had to
wipe out these leverage trades. We
talked about who's going to get cut out.
Is it going to be the longs getting
wiped out, or is it going to be the
shorts getting wiped out? Well, guess
what? The longs got liquidated. When you
see the price pushed down this low, and
you see the the highlighted portion
disappear, that means long positions got
wiped out. But then what do you know? A
slow climb upward. These shorts were in
the money. A lot of people didn't close
these shorts, and you can see the shorts
started getting liquidated. But there's
more leverage to come, and you can see
fresh trades opening up here. And so
that might act as a magnet for Bitcoin's
price as we push a little bit closer to
78k. But, since a lot of shorts or I'm
sorry, a lot of longs got liquidated
here, they started piling up, and now we
have a lot of leverage to the downside
as well, uh kind of starting around
74,800.
We have a lot around 75,000, 75,100. So,
keep an eye out on these zones when it
comes to Bitcoin.
Now, I said we want to talk about Zcash
as well. Zcash, huge major pump on Zcash
today. In fact, if we look at the prices
the major coins moving today, Uniswap up
23%, Near Protocol 22%, Zcash up 20%.
So, we're seeing some major moves, and a
lot of this was leverage driven. Now,
this is also the FOMC meeting, and look
at all the trades getting liquidated. I
mean, this is just people getting wiped
out left and right. That is why I
typically do not leverage trade Zcash
cuz this one can act irrationally. Uh
there's not analysis when it comes to
Zcash, but what we can do is look where
trades are going to get liquidated, and
right now this highlighted portion is
around 1509.
So, if you're looking at Zcash, it's
going to be a pretty good target for
you.
And we talked about this bull flag. I
did not think we would be printing bull
flags like it's
I mean, we're printing these like it was
a newspaper in the 1990s. So, right here
we can see a bull flag. We have our nice
flag pole. How do you measure a bull
flag target breakout? Well, you have
your your flag. Let me get my parallel
channel.
You see it right here. This is going to
be your flag pole. Let me make this a
little bit thicker here so you can see
it. And the breakout target would be
where we break out of the flag gives us
our next target. What do you know? This
played out very well, very well. Now,
let's do it again.
Let's move this down.
And then we have another target for our
bull flag. And so that might be a
potential area. Now, what I find
interesting for Zcash kind of coincides
with this ascending trend line here. So,
where would I close? Well, I would
probably close
uh if you're in a long I I wouldn't
recommend opening a long at this point.
I mean, you're you're buying when all of
the movement's out of it, right? You
don't want You don't want to jump in on
a long here. The time to jump in on a
long was the retest of the flag. But, if
you're in a long already, you're in the
money or you're looking to maybe open a
short,
I would be looking to close my trade on
this trend line right here. So, you see
the wicks. Move it down again. And so,
we might come down and retest this trend
line if you're in a Zcash right. But
again, I would not recommend jumping in
right now. Zcash and Near are best
friends. Yeah, we're going to look at
Near as well. Near also having some
major movement. Now, we did give a trade
yesterday
uh right before the FOMC. Big shout-out
to the people in the live day trading
room. We have a website,
verifiedinvesting.com.
We have an app on Apple. We have an app
on Android as well. And there were
people in the live day trading room let
me know, "Hey, I actually jumped in that
Solana long." Remember, we were live
when this happened. And I I almost full
I almost ported in a 20K position, 20X
on a $1,000 position. But, I was live. I
couldn't check the liquidation heat map.
I wasn't I wasn't ready, folks. I wasn't
ready. But, this is the wick right
there. That's yesterday's call. And if
you did jump in on that long, hopefully
you, you know, practiced uh you know,
you took some profits. If you're still
in it, you're a maniac. But, if you're
still in it, my hat's off to you. You
got a lot of conviction. But right now,
yeah, you can see Solana
pushing up pretty strongly on these
1-hour candles. We go the 4-hour. I do
want to show you this right here. Watch
this. Extend it. Extend it. Extend it.
I'm looking at this area for potential
rejection of a potential slowdown for
Solana. that's going to be right around
103.69.
Just keep an eye out on that range for
Solana. Now, let's talk about the news
here. This is straight from the
government here, sec.gov. SEC issues an
innovation exemption facilitate trading
of tokenized stocks. So, a little crypto
and politics. What does all that mean?
It's a lot of gobbledygook. I I know
that. It essentially is giving the green
light for these exchanges to list stocks
on a blockchain, on in in crypto. But,
there are certain rules. Number one, you
have to facilitate voting rights. It's
going to be real tough. You're not going
to see a lot of smaller companies be
able to do this. But, who can do this?
Robinhood. And we actually saw a huge
pump in the Robinhood stock. Also, you
have to be able to pay dividends. So, if
you could do voting, you could do
dividends, you can then tokenize stocks.
And that's why we're seeing major
movement
for Aerodrome, for Uniswap, and for some
of these top tokens. Now, I did open a
trade, and we're in the money. We are in
the money on Uniswap here. I almost want
to just close this in profit. Uh you
know, saw this.
I was out of the money for a little bit.
We actually uh added around here, added.
So, moved up our average entry. We got
some more entries up here. So, I'm in a
live trade. It is starting to move down.
Uh I like this RSI moving to the
downside. This is the 1-minute chart
that we're looking at. Uh right now, you
know, it's only about 50 bucks in. I'm
not sure how large this position is. Uh
what are we looking at here? We're
looking at a 800 So, about a $1,000
position. I'm going to monitor that as
we uh continue to move forward here.
Let's talk about what happens here,
though. So, they're giving the green
light for these tokenized stocks, equal
rights. You got to have the dividends.
You got to have the voting. You got to
have the 30-day opt-out. Uh companies
can block their own shares from being
tokenized after notice. So, maybe they
don't want to to tokenized. Why would
they not want to get tokenized? Because
they allow the Wall Street cabal, the
that cigar-smoke-filled room where the
fat cats are laughing, you know, they're
almost like caricatures of pigs in
suits.
They might not want you to be able to
tokenize a stock cuz look at what
happened with GameStop.
Look what happened with some of the AMC.
Look what happened to these meme stocks
where these Wall Street banks, these
hedge funds, they're shorting. Sometimes
they short more than their shares
floating around. Don't even ask me why
that's legal or how that's legal.
Citadel Securities, BlackRock, they want
to manipulate the market.
They don't want to democratize these
altcoins or Bitcoin. And so, they they
that's just going to be one of the rules
right there that you're seeing. That's
why we're seeing a lot of movement with
Aero, Uni, and Hype. So, keep an eye out
on those ones as well. In fact, let's
look at Aero right now. If you don't
know what Aerodrome is, it is a base
layer decentralized exchange. Base is
backed by Coinbase. Oh, that's where the
name comes from. And the team, uh Jesse,
he was just posting this today actually,
they want to all stocks on the platform.
And right now, what do we have?
Beginning stages of a rising wedge. Now,
rising wedge is a bearish pattern, but
we got plenty of time before this is
going to run out of room. Now, I'm not
saying it has It's not going to hit the
tip. It never really does. Uh but, this
will, you know, run out of time around
November, beginning of November. That's
really not that much time though if you
start thinking about it. But, right now,
I'm starting to watch this rising wedge
on Aerodrome. So, keep an eye out on
this. This will probably be a good place
to take some profit if you're in a trade
on that one. Uh let's also look at
Uniswap here. Uniswap, uh on the larger
time frames,
let's see. Are we still in the money? Oh
my god, just like that, we went from
profit to ne- All right, so we're we're
monitoring the trade here. We're
monitoring the situation. I'm watching
this area right here. This is all the
way back August 2025 and then you see
October of 2025. So this acted as
support then it turned into resistance
and that might be a breakout level for
Uniswap but we are in the swing trade
right now.
Probably going to close that by the time
we end the stream.
Let's look at some of the major movers
here. What do we got? Well, we got
Ethereum.
Ethereum came very close. I gave a stink
bid order yesterday. I said, you know,
hey, if you do want a long, I'm looking
at this range right here. That's 2358.
We went to 2365,
64. So missed our target by like $7.
Really, really close to our our target
for a long yesterday. But man, that
would have been a good trade if that
would have triggered there. We were just
looking at the basically the nice
support floor that we have right here
and I think there's too many trades
we're going to open. They were going to
facilitate at this level. So the market
makers, the exchanges, they had to push
it up before them. Where's the
resistance? Well, the resistance, it's
on Hoth right now. They're battling the
Imperium. I'm sorry. I had to
I'm I'm just a weirdo. I'm a dork. But
yeah, I'm looking at this descending
trend line
right now for Ethereum. So that's going
to be right around today, 2560,
tomorrow, 2547,
the day after that, 2534. So maybe look
at the 4-hour chart there. Might get a
little bit of a cleaner read. That's why
we had it kind of angled up initially.
So right now ETH kind of just trading
within this range here. What else do we
got? We also got XRP.
Try to break out of its bull flag 2 days
ago. Didn't quite make it or 3 days ago.
Got pulled back 2 days ago. Right now
also trading within this range. So XRP a
little bit boring today which worries
me. All right. Maybe maybe it's the hot
take, folks.
XRP was supposed to replace traditional
banking. It was going to be, you know,
the way banks move money from two and
fro. Everybody's going to want to use
XRP. The grandma in the Philippines
sends the money to her daughter in
China, you know, they're going to use
XRP. XRP at the banks. XRP everywhere.
Grocery store. Everyone's using XRP.
It's in your paycheck.
The fact that the SEC did this today,
and there's very little movement for
XRP, maybe makes me think, at least when
it comes to tokenizing real-world
assets,
maybe XRP's missing the boat. And so, I
know I I know I'm I'm sorry if you're a
huge XRP fan. Maybe I'm I'm
making you upset, but that's just That's
just how I see it, folks. That's how I
see it. I see some of your comments
here. You want me to look at Chainlink.
We can look at Chainlink cuz there's
definitely a connection
with tokenized stocks when you talk
about Chainlink. What is Chainlink?
Chainlink is an oracle. And oracles
bring data off-chain on-chain. And so,
you're going to need oracles, and
they're probably going to use Chainlink
cuz they're not using layer zero. A lot
of people are ditching layer zero.
That's a competitor of them.
So, when you have a Nasdaq-listed stock,
New York Stock Exchange-listed stock,
they're going to need Chainlink, at
least on some level, to tokenize that
stock. Now, doesn't mean it's a a lot's
being used. I mean, they they pay in
Chainlink.
But, it is a interesting narrative
nonetheless. Now, Chainlink also has
this really good support level right
here. Great, great support level. But,
it's also running out of time here. I'm
looking at Almost pushed up into it
today.
And let me get my trend line here.
Looking at this right here. So, a little
bit of a falling wedge. Now, this one's
very close to flat. See, I mean, you
could barely say it's falling. It's I
mean, it's it's like when you slip, but
then you catch yourself, and you look to
see if anyone noticed. You You're barely
falling here. Like, might not even say
it's falling. Technically, this would be
slightly bullish lean here. Slightly
higher probability to the upside. But I
would just watch this area for some
strong resistance. And I mean if you
really want to be aggressive, you could
say, "All right. Well, maybe we're at
resistance right now and we're going to
start falling."
Potentially, I do like a long at this
range right here. So, I might keep an
eye out on that level. Maybe have to get
an entry in there.
Uh Solana, we already did talk about
Solana. Watch that area. That's going to
be a major major pivot point for you
there. And that's our trades for today,
folks. Hopefully, you enjoyed the show.
I do appreciate you guys sticking around
to the end. I appreciate the comments.
Appreciate all the support, especially
if you followed me from the old channel.
In fact, let me know down in the
comments cuz I reply to everybody. Let
me know down in the comments if you
found me from my old channel. If you're
looking for me, I I don't even think
they talk about me over there. And
that's okay, folks. I'm not going to
talk about Toshi. Uh
it's hey, but when Bitcoin starts
moving, I do think altcoins and meme
coins are going to do very well. Uh
laptop is not the one to put all your
money in. Stay away from Hunter Biden's
altcoin. That clearly did not have
enough liquidity there.
Maybe Hood will remove the buy field
like it did with GameStop. Yeah, that
was uh they had to because basically
Citadel was going to revoke their
access. So, they actually didn't really
have a choice there. And you know what's
funny? I actually had an entry for Arb
and it triggered while we were live. I I
meant to take this off on Arb. So, I am
accidentally
I'm I'm I'm trying to get the show
ready. I'm trying to do all these other
things. I I am accidentally in an Arb
short. And of course, it's because I
wasn't watching it. Uh I'll have to
check the liquidation heat map. This
thing's starting to move. But I do think
this is going to pull back, folks. Arb
had a huge huge pump.
Pumped a little too hard in my opinion.
And what do we have here?
Oh yeah, I like that's the safer entry.
Keep an eye out on this trend line.
That's that's the good entry. Don't be
aggressive. Don't be aggressive like me.
But if you are going to trade, big shout
out to BitBase. We've been nailing these
trades lately. We got a nice string of
wins. I did close one at basically break
even right before the FOMC. You don't
want to be trading low liquidity
altcoins heading into a big data print
like the FOMC. So I think that was
Radium.
But that's all we got for today. Thank
you for sticking around to the end. And
I'll see you at the top. They don't talk
about me there, huh? That's all right,
folks. I got nothing but good things to
say about everybody. I will see you all
in the future. Appreciate you sticking
around. Thank you.