BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | September 18, 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 here, chief
crypto strategist at Verified Investing.
And today we're going to talk is the
bull market over or sorry, starting
because the bare market is giving us a
very rare historical signal. And we're
going to go back and look at the
previous cycles and say, hey, was that
$58,000 the bottom for Bitcoin or are we
going to head a little bit lower? It's
going to shock you. And I'm going to
show you exactly so you could even look
at that indicator yourself. And we're
going to look at basically yesterday's
calls. What did we talk about yesterday?
Talked about three coins. Hyperlid,
Aerodrome, Uniswap. These three tokens
are three of the largest gainers we've
seen in the top 100. Hyperlid hit a
brand new all-time high today. And
Uniswap at one point is up 20%. So all
you had to do is just watch this show.
Make sure you're subscribed. Make sure
you hit that like button. Let's go ahead
and talk about the bull market. Let's
talk about is the bare market over
because this is a very remarkable
indicator I'm going to show you folks.
But first, let's look at the the
near-term price action. You can see on
the daily chart, Bitcoin had a huge huge
pump and we are now hitting the top of
this larger parallel structure. So,
we've been talking about this parallel
structure for a while now. We rejected
off it, you know, fairly recently, the
beginning of September, September 4th,
September 3rd, pushed down, kind of made
a nice little flag pattern, and then
pushing back up and rejecting off that
area. Now, we did get a couple shorts. I
got a good short on Micro Strategy. Lot
was short in iBit, which is going to be
the Black Rockck ETF, and I'm looking at
this green rectangle for potential
rejection. That's going to be the
February 6 low into the May high. We've
been talking about this for a while.
looks like might be rejecting again,
folks. But let's talk about the bare
market. Let's talk about the bull
market. And I'm going to show you
exactly how to find this, folks. So, if
you uh and folks, big shout out to
Bitbase, by the way. I'm going to show
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to potentially get some uh you know,
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super thing. Someone's saying it has
been over. Well, I see you guys arguing
in the comment section. Some are saying,
"No, we are going much lower." Some of
the comments are even saying 30,000,
40,000. Some are saying 58k was
definitely the bottom. That's what makes
Bitcoin great. You know, we can all kind
of have our opinions, but at the end of
the end of the day, Bitcoin's price
action is going to dictate who's right
and who's wrong. And don't worry, I'm
going to reply to every comment from
yesterday's stream. I just haven't got
to it yet. And I'm going to reply to
everybody today as well. So, it is the
three-w weekek MACD that we're going to
be looking at. And what is the MACD,
folks? MACD stands for moving average,
convergence, divergence. And it
basically looks at the difference
between a 12 exponential moving average
and a 26 exponential moving average. And
then there's a line that cuts through
the middle that's a nine, but I don't
want to get too deep into what it means.
Now, it is MAC D moving average
convergence divergence. And we're going
to look at the 3-w weekek chart. Now,
you might have to pay a little extra on
Trading View to to get this indicator or
get this time frame here, but you see it
on the 3 week. So, we're going to talk
about this blue line crossing above this
orange line. And does this mean the bare
market is over? Because I'm going to
show you something pretty remark
remarkable here because you see, well,
we haven't crossed yet and the low is
behind us. So, what does this mean?
Well, let's go back to the previous bare
market and you're going to see a pattern
start to emerge. So, you see when the
blue line crosses above the orange line,
the bottom was a few candles before and
you know, you could say the little wick
there. So, several candles before is
where you actually see a bottom. Now,
that's the 22 bare market bottom. the
after the 2021 high where we peaked uh
this is going to be technically it
peaked in November although it says the
3-week candle there is in October so we
peaked November of 2021 well in 2017 we
peaked in December of 2017 so let's go
back all right so you see the blue line
cross above the orange line and what do
you know the bottom it's about five
candles beforehand yet again so we see
the bottom happen and then we go up for
a few three-week candles and then we
have this MAC D crossover. Now, let's go
back to where we're at today. You can
see the MACD crossover looks like it's
about to happen. In fact, you can even
go to another bare market bottom. This
is going to be the, you know, the 2014
technically uh December 2013 2014 peak
to the 2014 uh bottom. And then it kind
of triggers, keeps going, keeps going.
What do you know? We have another
crossover and the bottom wick. You
really have to stretch this one.
we technically go lower right there.
That technically is the bottom right
there. And yet again, it's just a few
candles before. And so, folks, if you
look at this MACD indicator, it is
suggesting 58K was the bottom. And so
just a little bit of a a feather in your
hat there if you're, you know, so
convinced that no, no, no, the bottom
has to happen in October because the top
happened in October and typically the
bottom happens 12 months later or even
52 weeks later. That might not be the
case, folks. The MACD indicator on that
3-week time frame is telling us
something different. So let me know down
in the comments. Was 58K the bottom? I I
want to see you guys get to arguing. I
want to see you guys argue even more,
folks. All right, let's look at the
Bitcoin liquidation heat map. We had a
nice pump today. Very, very good pump. I
think a lot of this is just off the back
of the SEC news from yesterday. I think
Wall Street is starting to digest that
news, folks. And you can see nice little
pump. But what do you know? People after
the pump right here, this candle, people
are like, "All right, well, I got to
short the pump." They got liquidated.
All right. Well, guess what? I'm going
to revenge trade. I'm This is a a This
bright line is indicating another short
position. Well, what do you know? They
got liquidated. Nice little wick there.
Hits the liquidation zone, pulls back.
People revenge trade even more. Hits the
liquidation zone, pulls back. And right
now, Bitcoin is just chopping along.
Chopping along. But there's a lot of
longs starting to pile up. You're
starting to see, and I like to think of
these as magnets. You're seeing more
magnets to the downside than you're
seeing magnets to the top side. That
doesn't mean this person or these people
right here, these whales don't have to
get liquidated, but at the end of the
day, you got to respect the magnets.
Sometimes it will start pulling it to
that price zone, folks. But it seems to
be a little bit of a short squeeze,
everybody. How much got liquidated?
$371
million in a 12-hour time period. And
so, you can see even some longs get
wrecked. I don't know. How are you
longing this market and getting
liquidated? I I don't know. Maybe maybe
they're just jumping in at the wrong
time. Going a little bit too much heavy
leverage there. But almost $400 million
were wrecked. Wrecked in a very short
amount of time. So definitely a little
bit of credence to a short squeeze. Uh
and everybody smash the like button.
It's It's casual Friday. I don't have a
I don't have the tie on. All right.
Don't don't yell at me. Hey, man. I I
like to let the neck breathe every now
and then. All right. Let's talk about
Hyperlid.
nice little uh potential inverse head
and shoulders. And this is a bullish
chart pattern. And the way you would
measure this is you would go from the
neckline to the crown of the head on
hyperlquid. I'll go ahead and tell you I
did take some profit literally a couple
hours ago. I am trying to sell my house
in Georgia. I got to pay some I got to
pay an appraiser. I got to I had to I'm
I'm out over I'm out five figures. I'm
not going to give the amount. I've had
to pay five figures. and uh construction
repair. So, I had to take some profit.
You know, we're we're jumped in on this
one super super early. I hate selling my
Hyperlid, but there you go. Anyways, uh
the the target for this is going to be
around $123 $124
for Hyperlid. Let's zoom out. What's a
shorter term uh price action? Well, or
near term, I should say. If you look at
the the peak in December of 2024, we
then rejected right here in September.
That gives us our trend line. Well, what
do you know? That's where we hit, folks.
Now, we did get a short entry in. Have
closed it already, but I did get a nice
short into Hyperlid pulling back. So,
end up shorting it. Ended up taking some
profit. And now we are starting to see a
little bit of a pullback. So, don't feel
too bad about that one. And look at
that. Just kissing that level and then
pushing down. Now, we did talk about
Uniswap. Uniswap also one of the major
gainers off that SEC news yesterday. the
largest DEX decentralized exchange by
volume. Uh liquidity infrastructure,
tokenized stock venue there. What are we
looking at on the unis swap chart? Well,
another potential inverse head and
shoulders. So, you can say we got a nice
shoulder here and then we got a nice
head starting to come back to the
neckline. But what's this 786? What are
we talking about? 786. Well, we got to
go from the high to the low. And the way
you would do this, you go on the left
side, and we're using BitBase for this,
but you can also see a regular trading
view. Uh, go to the fib retracement tool
right here. And we're going to click
right here. And if you're wondering how
to use the fib, do I start at the top?
Do I start at the bottom? How does it
work? You have to go chronologically.
So, whatever happens on the left side,
whether it's on the bottom or the top,
that's where you start your fib
retracement tool. I hate seeing
influencers out there. They don't even
know how to use this tool. I don't even
know how to use Trading View, uh, or,
you know, Bitbase in this case here. But
we're going to go ahead and move it
down. And we're going to move it to the
bottom right there. What do we see?
Look at that, folks. Nice. Nice little
set. Wait a minute. Hold on. Hold on.
Don't listen to me. Don't listen to me.
All right, here we go. Right there. 786.
They're like, he he's talking trash.
They don't know how to use it. Then he
started at the wrong point. Uh, it's
right here, folks. Pull it down. 786
intersects with this move right here.
So, I'm liking a strong strong odds for
a rejection on Uniswap right above $10
right now. Trading around 8.82.
We wicked all the way up to 936. Uh I
was I did short that. It was it was a
little hairy, folks. It was a little
hairy. I I'll show my trades towards the
end. Uh and then this is going to be
10:25 10:23 or so. So, keep an eye out
on that for a short on Uniswap. I I do
think we're going to just pull back a
little at that point. And then what what
should we do? Well, let me get our
brush. We should make our shoulder. We
got our head pattern. Should make
another shoulder. And then like we said,
this is a bullish uh chart setup. Maybe
nice little move to the upside. Probably
retest and then move. But uh keep an eye
out on that for the unis swap chart,
everybody. Let's go to the next one.
Let's look at Ethereum. What are we
seeing with the Ethereum chart? Well, we
finally, you know, looks like we might
try to have our highest daily close. I
don't know how long, folks. We are uh,
you know, about four hours away, I
believe. So, let's get our measuring
tool. We haven't seen a daily close this
high in 231 days. It's been all the way
since January 31st. Uh, actually,
technically, it'd be January 30th
because this daily close there. So, we
haven't seen a high uh daily close like
this in a long, long time. But, there's
still time. you know, it could still
pull back. Uh, but still looking pretty
positive here. What's the next level of
resistance I'm watching? I think it's
going to be peakto peak. Got a nice
little area here. And what do we see? We
see another inverse head and shoulder.
So, crypto starting to wake up,
everybody. Crypto is starting to wake
up. We did look at the last uh, you
know, this one took a while. Finally
broke out of it. Let's get this actually
where it touches. Should be a little bit
higher actually. About right there. Uh
yeah, you know, we chopped around,
consolidated, consolidated,
consolidated, now finally start to wake
out of its slumber. Let me know if you
jumped in ETH. And did you not take
profit? I sold the majority of my ETH in
2021 in uh December.
So, I got out a great time. Actually put
some of it into gold. I I might wear my
I have this insane gold bracelet. It's a
little bit of a side story. Cryptoface
hooked me up with that. He had a gold
guy. literally had a gold guy. I met up
with him in Vegas. I I felt like I was
in a movie or something, but I sent him
some ETH. Uh he got me he got me a nice
little gold bracelet. I I'll wear it.
I'll wear it one day. But this gold
bracelet is one ETH at the time. And now
I couldn't even tell you how many ETH
it's worth with gold going up, ETH going
down. End up being a great trade there.
Uh you want to do H bar? Might do a
little H bar there. I did see the news.
In fact, we put this out on
verified.com. Saudi announced they're
not shipping crude oil to the EU next
month said hey you know if we promise
you some deliveries not going to happen
that east west pipeline that is in my
you know what I'm seeing you know boots
on the ground I follow a lot of
interesting accounts there's saying it
was pump station 8 9 and 11 and the
reason those were targeted of the Saudi
pump stations you know one through I
think there's you know there's a lot
there's more more than uh those three of
course they were targeted because
they're so hard to get to it's not like
it's not like off the side of a highway.
Some of these they actually had the
Saudis had to build their own runway and
they have to like land cargo planes with
not only jeeps but also like excavating
equipment and they got to like load it
up and they don't even have uh the good
enough rows to to move a lot of this
equipment over there. So, might have
been uh you know might have been a
little inside info on that one. Uh let's
look at Salana. talked about Salana and
XRP and I said I'm liking what I see
with the Salana. And if you watch
yesterday's episode, I said I don't like
how XRP is not moving a lot, folks. Look
at Salana breaking out of its bull flag.
I'm keeping an eye out on this 117
level. And that's going to be this wick
low right here. Keep an eye out on that,
folks. Uh XRP, I told you, you know,
like ah this one's just not feeling as
bullish. Look, it looks like it's not
even going to break out of its bull
flag. And so if you're, you know,
holding Salana versus XRP, you're
feeling a lot happier today, folks. I I
I do want to just say that. But don't
get me wrong, XRP can pump. It can pump
like crazy. I am looking at near as
well. Near also a very interesting chart
here. I'll pull that up in a second. Uh
we're looking at the 382 fib on this
one. Near, this is going all the way
back to January. Nice little pump.
Rejected. Rejected. might be rejected
again, folks. If uh history is in the
indication, it's going to be a little
under $4, about 393.
I believe it was this level right here.
And the 382
is
uh wait, no, he did it again, folks. He
did it again. Uh this is going to the
basically the the cycle high here. 382
intersecting with that level. Keep an
eye out on that for the near chart,
everybody. So, that's what we're looking
at for the short-term plays. You said
you want to see H bar. The barbarians,
they're just a loud community. It's uh
maybe maybe it's in the name, man.
You're just barbarians. You're you're so
barbaric. All right, let's see. Go back
to the Barbar Coast. That's what I say.
Uh Hart's got that trend line. I believe
we talked about this, but I didn't think
we were going to be testing it so soon.
This is looking pretty juicy, folks. uh
for a potential short, but might keep
pumping to about 8 cents. Uh 8 point 06,
maybe 8.1. It's keeping out on that. So,
we're we're getting pretty close to that
one there. Getting pretty close. Uh
paid. Oh, don't careful careful about
the scammers. I saw someone not even me.
They weren't even me and they're like
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pretending to be me. I will not message
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close all the entries. I had to do some
other we had like a basically another
video for me to do if if you check out
some of the other things on the channel,
but we've closed all the trades. Uh we
got a nice little streak. The streak
kill still continues. Uh we did short
near made a couple hundred bucks. Hype
XRP. I I just closed all those before I
went live. I didn't want to have an open
trade while I was live. But keep an eye
on those setups that I did give you. We
are heading into the weekend. Keep a
close eye on that Bitcoin liquidation
heat map. wouldn't be surprised to see
these levels get targeted if we continue
to pump. It looks like right below 82
and right around 80. I think this is
about 82800.
And uh stay tuned for this channel for
Oh, wait a minute. Let me show it to
you. Yeah, right here right below 82. So
that's that's what I'm watching on the
Bitcoin liquidation heat map. I do think
it might get targeted. Your XRP comments
are always funny. That is not the real
Salana account. Uh, obviously there is
XRP a stable coin. It's Hey, it pumped
to $3 out of nowhere and no one thought
it was going to pump to at $3. And what
do you know? It did. I did cover Zcash
yesterday. I I did give some Zcash
levels, but you know, it is a major
mover. It's a major mover. I I can
probably stand to, you know, give it to
you folks yet again here.
Zcash is just going bananas. Uh, this
one I'm I'm not exactly
sure when the pump's going to end
because the bull flags keep playing out.
So, we had a bull flag. The way you
measure it, you you go from the breakout
of the flag and it gives you your next
target. I mean, it basically hit to
like, you know, just a couple bucks
away. Well, we got a Oh, crap. What am I
doing here? Uh, then we have another
bull flag and then you measure it again
from the breakout. It's going to be
right around,568.
I did see some liquidations right below
1,600 on Zcash. So, those might get
targeted. Zcash is kind of like that.
It's that insider cabal. A lot of Koss,
you know, pumping that one, you know.
So, I don't know. Be careful. I can do
Onondo because it is related to the SEC
pump that we're seeing. But I told you
to sell that a long time ago, folks. And
I do appreciate all you guys who uh
found me from the other uh channel, by
the way. Ono. I mean, yeah, it's a nice
little pump, but this thing's just been
chopping sideways. Ono has a lot of sell
pressure and the value of doesn't really
acrue to the token holders. So, that's
why I'm not just a big fan. You say,
"Well, Black Rockck's involved." Okay,
but they're not give Black Rockck. You
think Black Rockck wants to give the
token holders money? No, they want to
keep the money, folks. They want to keep
the money. Uh, telling retail it's
bullish at 2500. Zcash ain't the next
Bitcoin, folks. It's it's private
Bitcoin.
And there's rumors of Zcash that was
spun up out of thin air, but the Naval
Raven Chamas Polyhapatz
Bologies, they all like it. Miami Vice
look on a Friday. Hey, I appreciate it
folks. Thank you for sticking around to
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