BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | September 23, 2026

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I made every mistake chasing hype and
holding coins to nearly zero. I then
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Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And today, we're looking at
Bitcoin and what caused the flush down.
We're going to break down what exactly
is happening with the 10-year yields.
Also, we're going to look at some
altcoin setups. And if you guys really,
really want, I'll show you my upcoming
trades, trades that I'm in right now,
and potential runners on the Solana
chain. I gave you one yesterday and it
is up 50%. It was a little bit of a joke
coin, but you know what? 50% profit,
that is no joke. So, let's go ahead and
talk about what is happening in the
crypto market. Well, we saw a severe
pullback on Bitcoin here. And the level
for Bitcoin, you know, these are the
daily candles that we're looking at. You
can see a a sharp, sharp pullback. I'm
still watching this little bit of
resistance zone. This is from the
November wick into the May highs. And
you can see when we beat against it,
took several days for us to finally
burst through and, you know, break
through the ceiling. And so, I wouldn't
be surprised if we come back down and
retest that ceiling. Let's look at the
one-hour chart here. Yeah, you can see a
very, very sharp pullback. But we did
get a long in. We're in a, you know,
just a smaller position at the moment
here. Uh what is it? Yeah, just 0.4 of a
Bitcoin.
20x leverage. Uh you know, ends up, you
know, not being too, too small there.
Let's go to the one-minute chart here.
And you can see we just missed our
entry. We had a lower entry here. I was
trying to actually, you know, increase
this position cuz this is where we're
you know, this is where we got our long
in.
Saw this area. I was like, all right, I
I like this pivot low. I like this
little bit of area of support. I
actually jumped in over here. I had
another area to add to the Bitcoin long
and I kid you not, this thing missed me
but it felt like pennies. It felt like
it felt like it missed me by 2 cents
there. But might be looking to close
this during the trade here or during the
live stream. I don't want to get uh you
know, stuck in a trade here. But as far
as you know, the long-term macro
environment for Bitcoin, what exactly
caused the pullback? What exactly, you
know, created this
situation where Bitcoin had a severe
flush? Well, you know, we will look at
the liquidation heat map. Don't worry.
It's this right here, folks. It is the
10-year yield. The 10-year yield spiked
up higher and this is a level we have
not seen since 2007.
And so this is the interest rate that
one should expect with a US 10-year
government bond. And we can actually go
to the 3-day cuz I mean, we're going
back a significant amount of time.
You know, we cleared this hurdle from
2023 and we can go back and now we are
not seeing levels that we haven't seen
or we're touching levels we haven't seen
since 2007. But folks, if we just go a
little bit higher from 5.12 to 5. you
know, 28 or so,
we're going to go to a level we haven't
seen since April of 2002. So, we're
talking about an interest rate
environment that is just basically
creating a an environment of risk off.
And this is really bad news for people
trying to buy a house. You know, myself
included. I I am trying to sell my house
in Georgia. I I'm I'm glad I got rid of
it cuz housing prices are heading down.
We are going to look at NEAR. I might be
in a NEAR long. I might be in a NEAR
long and so don't worry, I'm going to
show I'm going to show that. Someone is
asking a pretty funny question. When the
BitBoy movie comes out, who's playing
Deezy?
Uh
you know, Jason Statham, okay? Look
here. All right, that's that's that was
the my one-second Jason Statham comment.
Now, with the yields spiking,
something else changed, and that's
what's happening in October. And so, if
you're not aware, we have another FOMC
meeting. This is where they set the the
benchmark rates. This is for, you know,
what banks charge each other in
overnight. Look at this major move here.
We saw a 25 basis point hike odds go
from 50% all the way up to at one point
69% now 68% little bit of a pullback.
So, the markets now see 25 basis point
hike in October being pretty likely. So,
we end up seeing a little bit of a move
there. Let's look at the liquidation
heat map. I was looking at the one-week.
This right here is essentially the top
of that little rectangle, that yellow
rectangle that we're looking at. Let's
zoom in into the 12-hour on the
liquidation heat map. We came down. We
had a flush these levels. And so, it
wasn't a surprise, you know, with the
10-year yield spiking, Bitcoin fell.
You saw people opening more longs. Well,
they had to get flushed out as well. And
right now, it looks like the shorts it
looks like the shorts might be punished
next. So, that's what I'm going to be
watching out for. Now, what about Wall
Street? Did Wall Street were they
buying? Well, let's just say who said
what?
BlackRock said buy. BlackRock ended up
buying more Bitcoin on behalf of their
clients. This is yesterday's inflows
here. BlackRock bought another 4,000
Bitcoin. Ended up being about 350
million. We saw Fidelity and Morgan
Stanley. I like seeing VanEck and ARK at
the bottom because the smarter money is
going to be trading with BlackRock,
Morgan Stanley, and Fidelity. It's going
to be more of the the degens are going
to be using Grayscale, ARK, 21Shares,
VanEck. And so, this is smart money
still buying Bitcoin. Now, I am going to
be watching tomorrow or today's flows.
I'll give you that data tomorrow.
Because what are they going to do with
those interest rates spiking here? Are
is Wall Street still going to have a
demand for Bitcoin? Uh well, I'll be
honest, I am not so sure on that one.
I'm really wanting to close this Bitcoin
long. It's starting to to pull back a
little bit, but let's uh talk about
Ethereum and we'll talk about the next
trade as well. On the daily, I'm
watching this level right here uh for a
pullback. Ended up kissing this level.
We go to the 1-hour. I kind of show you
exactly what we're looking at here. Uh
we're going to see the spikes here.
Let's pull this uh let's go to the
4-hour real quick here. Yeah, right
here. So, hit this.
This gave us a trend line here.
The trend line also interacted with this
level here. We were kind of talking
about this last week. And if we look at
the recent drawdown, bam, kissed that
level. I didn't have a long at that
point. God, I wish I would have.
But I ended up longing some different
altcoins instead. Uh I ended up longing
ARB. Ended up longing uh Zero as well.
Which also reminds me, that was
yesterday's trade setup. But I am going
to we'll we'll check in. That's right. I
gave a trade setup yesterday. How did it
do? We talked about shorting Layer Zero.
Talked about just long-term. Not bullish
on it cuz they keep losing their
business to Chainlink. So, we'll look at
24 hours ago when we talked about
shorting that. And would that trade play
out? Let's talk about Zcash, everybody.
How is Zcash? Uh we do got some people
sold some houses. Sold uh their house in
ATL in 2024. This person sold their
house in New York there. Uh hey, you
know, there's I'm balding. Balding,
okay? Not bald. There's a difference,
man. There's a difference. Don't play me
like that. Now, let's look at Zcash.
This one. This is another setup. I I
kind of talked about this, you know, I
actually kind of talked myself out of
it. I'm like, I don't want to short
Zcash
overnight, you know, I don't want to go
to bed with a trade set up here, but we
were looking at this ascending trend
line. It's a little bit cleaner on the
4-hour and you can see when we
intersected that, that gave us our trend
line. We wicked above, wicked above,
wicked above four 4-hour candles in a
row. Look at that level right there. So,
I mean, if you were looking at a trade
from midnight to 4:00 a.m., great great
entry on Zcash, but that's just not
something I'm going to do. I'm not going
to be opening trades and going to bed
for Zcash specifically, especially a
short on Zcash. A little bit risky,
folks. A little bit risky. But, I tell
you what's not risky. Checking out
verifiedinvesting.com.
This is a chart setup I gave. And again,
this is free content we put on the
website September 18th. I talked about
the Uniswap short, okay? I gave the
level, I gave the reasons, kind of, you
know, broke it down right there to 786
pullback. It's it's a pivot tops from
September 13th and November 11th. We can
check on it right here. So, that's the
pivot top September, that's the pivot
top in November.
I'll show you how to do the Fibonacci
Fibonacci retrace here. So, if we go on
the left side, you can see it on
TradingView or you can see it on BitBase
here. Go from the You want to go
chronologically. So, you always want to
go from left to the right. So, if we
pull it down to the bottom here, watch
this, folks.
It's not perfectly overlapping, but it
is a very very close overlap. And so, I
was just looking at a 10:25 for a short
level or for a short entry, just a great
level. Again, gave this to you on the
18th, predicted this move, and look at
the severe pullback. Now, we did wick
above, but man oh man, I
honestly I I love how the daily candle
closed right at that level. In fact, if
we zoom in, we need to pull it down a
little bit. We're at 10:26, but uh
basically
kissed our level perfectly and then a
sharp pullback. So, I don't know anybody
had a little order for a Uniswap short,
but if you did, I'm giving these levels
way ahead of time, folks. All right,
let's look at Solana.
Uh I I do have a question. Which one of
you, you know, this was I don't want to
say it was uh you know, the tip of the
day or anything. It was it was more of a
hot take hot take. I said the Solana
ecosystem is waking up. And we're seeing
a lot of those Solana altcoins, meme
coins specifically, that are paying out
in different assets. So, you can hold
something,
um you know, and you get paid in
something else. There are some that are
holding, you know, you you hold
something that it pays you in GameStop.
You hold something it pays you in Zcash.
Uh you hold something
You guys were joking about fart coin.
You said I need to sell my house, go all
in on fart coin. I said, well, you know,
it's funny about that. I bought a coin
called stink that pays in fart coin.
We're going to check I don't know if
some of you maniacs bought that, but I
don't even know if I should tell you
those low cap runners. I mean, there's
some some of these low cap runners that
are like you know, 5 million, 10 million
dollar market cap. I know some that are
like a 100,000 dollar market cap. I
don't even know if you guys even want to
hear about those tokens. You might want
me to just stick it to Bitcoin, stick to
the majors. So, let me know down in the
comment section. Do you want me to go
over some of those low cap runners while
the ecosystem's hot, you know, I'm not
going to be talking about this when
we're in a risk-off environment, when
you know, everything's bearish, but when
things are starting to get bubbly, like
me after I eat the ice cream, I'm
lactose intolerant, you know, when they
start getting bubbly, I you know, I
don't I don't mind giving you those low
cap runners. Just let me know. All
right, I'm getting a lot of yeses.
Um all right, may maybe we'll do it
towards the end of the stream. I might
have a couple for you. Plus, we do need
to look at stink, the coin I gave you
yesterday. All right, now let's look at
Solana. This is the one-day chart.
I'm still watching this trend line here.
Uh Uh we still have a short entry around
126. It's just going to be, you know,
there's a lot of activity on this area.
I want to see Yeah, it goes back to June
of 2025. I like this for a pullback,
125, 126. I might even have a couple
earlier entries there just to get a
little extra exposure, a little bit more
of an aggressive entry. This is set at
126.
But I have this line right here. We got
to zoom in for this one. We got to go to
the one-hour.
Look at it this So, we have our peak
from the 18th.
We wicked into it here on the 20th. That
gives us our trend line.
This might be a good area for a long
entry. I might I might open a long uh if
we do end up pushing down on Bitcoin.
Might be a little potential area for
just a nice little uh entry point there.
Now, we did say I said I was going to
look at zero. This is yesterday.
We're looking at the 22nd. So, we go
live at 1:30. So, it's going to be
13:30,
you know, military time. Talked about
about 10 minutes into the stream. I
said, you know, there's definitely some
extra entries up here. Great great short
entry. I don't know if anybody jumped in
on that one, but uh this ended up
falling about 6 7% there. I didn't mean
to do that, I swear. [clears throat] Uh
but, you know, now it's up. It is up. Uh
and right now just kind of chopping
around. I don't I don't like trading in
that environment. I'm looking at NEAR as
well.
Our NEAR long is doing pretty decent
here. Let's go to the one-day chart. Uh
NEAR, you know, we talked about
talked about this right here.
Let's uh expand the view here. Talked
about
wick to wick.
We're going to continue to expand this.
So, what do we do? We rejected. I think
we might be coming up for the retest,
everybody. Might be coming up for the
retest. Now, I longed this before I went
live, and I had more aggressive entries.
Uh you can see it's after this. So, this
was, you know, this is probably around
1:00 p.m. or so.
I think it went up, then it went down.
Uh, more and more entries there. We're
up you know, not a whole lot. Again,
this was I had more entries down below.
A lot less capital for a near long
versus a Bitcoin long. In fact, I think
I have like eight X the capital in the
Bitcoin long. But right now this one is
up a considerable amount. I might just
close this one. Type in the chat yes or
no. Should I just go ahead and close
this? That's a couple stake dinners. I'm
not going to complain about that. Uh, we
can jump in on the Bitcoin uh, Bitcoin
long also up you know, over 100. You can
see it climbing right there. Just point
four of a Bitcoin, nothing crazy. Uh,
let me know. Yeah, all right. We're
getting some yeses, we're getting some
nos.
I'm going to let it ride. I'm going to
let it ride everybody. All right. Now,
I'm not saying go buy this. In fact, I'm
tacitly telling you not to buy this.
We did look at stink I talked about
stink yesterday. Oh my god, it's up even
more. All right. Now, I almost really
hesitate to even tell you about it.
Uh, stink is up 63% in the last 24
hours. So, I don't know if anyone jumped
in on that one. Hopefully you didn't
because if you did jump in on that one,
you are a Degen. And you know, we want
to practice you know, safer trading
skills here. Uh, multi-factor setups. We
don't want to just oh, it's up. So,
let's short. It's down. So, let's long.
No, we're we're looking for multi-factor
setups. We're looking at liquidation
heat maps. We're using technical
analysis. We're looking at past price
entries. Press past price action there.
But you know, that one did uh, move a
whole lot. I'm not going to tell you the
night is 70k uh, runner here. Uh, I'm
not going to do it. Not going to do it.
But
there is one that uh, is kind of
interesting. Um, again, I'm not saying
it's you guys seem like you want the
Degen.
Uh, everybody's looking at stonk on
soul. That's the pump.fun clone.
It's you know, that's the main platform
that's enabling some of these things
where you own X and you get paid in Y.
So, if you have Z cat, you get Z cash.
Okay. You have cat on I think it's
seeker cat on soul.
You get paid in the seeker token there.
Now,
I I'm not I I have a little stonk, but I
hold knots, which is it spelled
backwards, and then I get paid in stonk.
That one's down 30%. So, might be
something you know, if if you're a
Solana DJ, you got to have self custody.
You're not going to find these on
exchanges. You know, I don't know when
they're going to add it to BitBase. If
they do, that'd be pretty cool. Expect a
huge huge pump then. But, you know,
something to potentially check out. Now,
if you do want to trade on BitBase, we
do have a link down below. I'm I am
going to go ahead and close this Bitcoin
long. I am going to go ahead and close
that near long as well. They're they're
way up. Maybe I'll leave like 20%. Close
80%, you know, or 75%. Let the less rest
ride. Move stop loss into profit. So,
I'll probably go ahead and do that
there. If you do like the
just seeing the show in general, you
like seeing the Bitcoin setups, you like
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really do appreciate it. Especially
everybody who came from the other
channel. I'm seeing some some familiar
names. Some familiar names in the chat
here. So, I really do appreciate. I'm
reading all the comments, by the way.
We looked at ETH already. We Yeah, we
looked at ETH. Yeah, ETH
Do we? Yeah, we did look at ETH. Yeah,
yeah, we looked at the 1-hour chart. So,
came in kissed that level on the daily.
You know, we're still watching 2900 for
a short entry on Ethereum, by the way,
folks. Bitcoin is up. Yeah, so it's time
to go ahead and close those. Smash the
like button. I will see you folks in the
future. I appreciate you guys. I got
nothing but love for you guys and the
audience in general, folks. So, I do
appreciate it. And just thanks for the
support, everybody. I'll see you in the
future. Bye-bye.