BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | September 25, 2026

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Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And today we got a huge show
for you because we are starting to see
altcoins wake up. Now, I'm going to tell
you exactly the chart that I'm watching
that is signaling a potential bounce for
some of your favorite altcoins. We're
going to look at XRP. I've been reading
your comments. Salana, Ethereum, Zcash,
Near, even Cardano. I know there's a lot
of Cardano haters out there, but first
let's talk about what is Wall Street
doing because we saw the SEC give a
green light for certain stable coin
regulations and we talked about the big
effect that had on altcoins, especially
DeFi altcoins. And I do want to give a
quick shout out to Bitbase. We're going
to talk about a live trade that I am in
right now and some potential setups for
some other trades, folks. So, don't you
worry about that. Now, let's go ahead
and dive into this ETF data. There's
another inflow. And who was number one
with the massive $162 million in net
inflows? It's no surprise. It has been
Black Rockck leading the charge day
after day after day on behalf of their
clients, buying massive amounts of
Bitcoin, roughly almost about 10,000
Bitcoin when you look at the weekly
total everybody. But there was major
news in the crypto space. There was a
bit get hacked. A major exchange got
hacked for $350 million. They are
suspecting the Lazarus group, but uh you
know they lost 350 million. They have
464 million in their user protection
fund mostly held in Bitcoin. So it does
look like you know things are going to
be fine but they did pause withdrawals.
So uh all the more reason to give a big
shout out to Bitbase here. 76% of the
protection fund uh is look what it looks
like was drained if they do end up
paying off all of these people. But
let's go ahead and jump into the Bitcoin
chart. What are we seeing here? Well,
we're going to zoom in a little bit, but
we are still watching this level of
support. Now, if we go back, you can see
why we have this level of support. It is
the wick down in November, and it is the
peak that we saw here in May, and that's
given us this little bit of a level
right here. Level of support, if you
will. Let's go to the 4our chart. I'm
kind of watching this chart right here,
and let me get this out of the way. So,
we're going to zoom in. We're going to
expand the view here. Kind of watching
this. So, we had our nice little peak.
This is the local high. We haven't seen
a a price this high in, you know, many,
many months. Many moons, folks. Many
moons. Uh, you know, eight or nine or
so. And then comes down. This basically
gives us our little bit of a range. And
if we continue to kind of chop around in
there, and you can kind of play with it,
but that's about as clean as I can make
it right there. You can see. All right.
Well, this did act as support and really
came down to the penny and didn't quite
push that low. Now, remember, we had our
entry on a long, folks. What was that?
Some of you guys, we were looking at the
price. It felt like it was like 8 cents
away, closer to like 20 bucks or 50
bucks really. But, uh, came very, very
close to a long entry triggering right
there. But, we did end up missing that
entry point though. I am looking at this
though and you know what I'm seeing?
seen a little bit of a bull flag setup
on this 4hour chart. Now, there's no,
you know, guarantee bull flags have to
break to the upside uh along this
target, but it does play out a little
bit more often than you might suspect.
In fact, if we look at this one and go
from the high into the low and then we
look at where we broke out, well, you
can see, well, this bull flag target did
play out. So, what does this bull flag
one look like then? So, I think there's
an argument for it to start here. You
could say, "Well, I like it there." No,
I I like it starting from right here.
Let's say we break out of this parallel
channel. Let's say we do it a few days
from now. These are 4hour candles.
That's giving us a nice target of
93,500.
Now, let's go back. Let's run that. Go
ahead and run it. Turbo, when's the last
time price has been around this 93,500
level?
It's longer than I thought. Longer than
I thought, folks. We haven't seen this
price since January 18th of this year.
So, it wouldn't be the complete high for
the year, but it would come pretty
close. And if you go back, you know, if
we wick above this, that's a price we
haven't seen since November of last
year. But what happened in November of
24 is really the question. Now, we had
an election.
Pro crypto president won the election
and Bitcoin had a surge. But do you guys
know what surged more than Bitcoin? I'll
tell you what surged more in Bitcoin.
Altcoins surged. And so let's kind of
talk about uh you know a little hot take
here folks. You must be prepared for alt
season. I am saying we might be looking
down the barrel of a major alt season.
You can say well look feels like an alt
season right now. This is nothing
compared to past alt seasons. Alt season
is where you look at your portfolio and
some of those top altcoins are moving
double digits day after day. If Bitcoin
pumps 5%, your favorite altcoins pumping
10%, 15%. So, let's look at the only
chart that really matters when we're
talking about alt season. It's not the
ETH chart. You could say Tether
dominance is an important chart, but
this one to me is the most important
chart, and that is Bitcoin dominance.
And right now, we're looking at Bitcoin
dominance on the daily chart. This is
that November level that I was talking
about. Bitcoin went from about 61.5% of
the market all the way down to roughly
55% of the market. So a major draw down
for the percentage the market cap
percentage of Bitcoin. And so just think
of this as a as a you know the number of
all the dollars in crypto. So Bitcoin
was 61 a.5% of all the value of crypto.
Let's go into today's price action here.
Well, what do we see now? This was a
nice little runup. What's funny about
this one is this was kind of driven by
Zcash. Zcash ended up just growing so
much. Also, Hyperliquid. You combine
those two altcoins, they end up just
taking a lot of market share. They end
up climbing a decent amount. But now, it
looks like we're trying to break below
this parallel channel. So, we have the
bottom here all the way back in June. We
established the top June 15th. That's
the June 3rd, June 15th. And if you
extend this parallel, you know, because
this gives you your range, you know, you
kind of stick with that. Well, what do
you know? It then act as support in
July. Let's keep going. Let's keep
going. Tried to wick above. We could not
close a daily above this level. You can
see we tried several times. One, two,
three, four, five different distinct
times. Could not happen. That's kind of
what you saw right here. It looks like,
and let me make sure, you know, yeah, we
still got our parallel still looking
good here. We tried to break below uh
you know, several days in a row. This is
five days in a row. Could not happen.
Now, today's daily candle, I'm not
saying this is going to be confirmed
because what do we need to do? We need
to close a daily candle below this, open
a new one below this and then close that
one below this range. And if we do, we
might have a potential bearish flag set
up here. And yes, the flag can go
further than the pole is long. Uh but
right now, we only have six hours and 22
minutes before this daily closes. And so
if we were to look at this, you know, we
can go we could potentially see
something where Bitcoin goes from 60% of
the crypto market cap, 60.4
all the way down to 56%. Now, that is
going to be fantastic for your altcoins.
Typically, what happens or what creates
these setups is when Bitcoin kind of
goes sideways. It kind of just chops,
acts a little bit boring, you know, and
then Bitcoin goes up 2%, your altcoin
goes up 5%. Bitcoin goes up 5%, your
altcoin goes up 10%. And so that might
be what we're looking at. Speaking of
altcoins, well, let's look what are the
major movers that we're looking at
today. We're going to start with ETH.
ETH really isn't doing too much. When we
look at the chart here, you can see, you
know, we we kind of talked about this
level of support. Wish I had that long
setup. You know, we're talking about
this level, talking about the retest,
and did we come retest it? We did. We
knocked on the door. We knocked on the
door again. Might be coming down to
knock on the door again. And so if
Bitcoin does break down, I do expect ETH
to test this level and then potentially
a move lower. I was looking at this
trend line as well. This might give us a
little bit. I think if you hit this
wick, it hits the other one. Uh not
quite kind of. Pretty close there. Uh so
this might be a level that we're going
to be watching for ETH as ETH kind of
runs out of time within these two
trending lines here. And so little bit
of a wedge pattern right there for
Ethereum. Let's look at Salana. Salana,
this trend line, you got to go into a
smaller time frame. Now, what do we see
here? See a nice little bull flag setup.
This bull flag setup is kind of coming
to an end right here at this 126 level.
I've been watching this 126 level for a
while. You can see, you know, price
bucked up against it here. Acted as nice
support right there. Also acted as a
nice support here in June of uh June of
2025. That's June 22nd. So, let's zoom
in. Oh, yeah. Also, you can actually go
all the way back to 2023. December of
2023. Gone till November. No, this one
has been gone since December of 23. That
is where it acted as resistance. Now,
let's zoom in like we were saying here.
Yeah, this is the one hour candle. If we
end up aligning these two points where
Salana is knocking against this trend
line, knocking against this trend line,
that's going to be a double factor
resistance and we're definitely going to
be watching that level for a potential
short opportunity for Salana. Don't
worry, I am going to give you the short
setup. I am shorting a DeFi altcoin
right now. Uh some are saying the bare
market not over. That's what I love
about crypto. There's a lot of people
disagreeing right now. Some people are
saying 58K definitely the bottom. Other
people like Justin Slaw Slaw7, but he
doesn't like Cole Slaw on his barbecue
sandwiches. By the way, Justin, you told
me that, right? I don't know. Maybe I'm
just making it up. I'm making it up. But
Justin saying the bare market is not
over. Saying we are going below 58K. Let
me know down, especially if you're
watching live or if you're watching
later. I I reply to every comment. Is
the bare market over? Type in Y or type
in N in N. Yes, the bare market is over
or in? No, the bare market is not low.
Uh over. We are going lower. So, type in
yes. Type in no. Uh Ben Cowan is on to
something. He's not wrong. Which is
funny is because Ben Cowan had his most
viral post in history where he says I
was wrong. I think he got over a million
views on that. It might be 1.4 million.
All right. So, right now people are
saying no, the bare market's not over.
Some are saying yes, the bare market is
over. Uh mixed mixed reviews here,
folks. mixed reviews. That's why I love
crypto. That's why I love trading.
That's why I love markets because at the
end of the day, the price is going to
dictate. And Chachi, don't be doing this
half half thing, man. You're sitting
here. No, no fence riding. No fence
riding. We're saying yes or no here,
folks. All right. Now, let's look at
XRP. Want me to look at it? I saw it in
the comment section. XRP is still kind
of just looking boring. Kind of waiting
for something to to wake up here. Wake
up in the charts. We did have that nice
bull flag setup. And you know, we kind
of got rejected uh right a little bit
lower than this wick. If you look, this
is from three days ago. So, we didn't
put in a local higher high. If we do
push up higher, I'm watching this trend
line here, folks. And so, let me get my
horizontal line. This is the area that
I'm going to be watching for a potential
bounce. And it's pretty close. Let's
just say, you know, we broke out right
here. If we don't measure the wick,
the John wick, shout out to his dog. It
does go a little bit higher, this is
going to be strong resistance
nonetheless. If we zoom in a little bit
to the 4 hour, you're going to see, you
know, just a lot of chopping. What I do
like though, uh, adding a little
credence to this was the perfect retest.
We have our top, we have our bottoms, we
hit the top again, we hit the top again,
we hit the top again. Where do we
retest? We come back to the scene of the
crime. I I'm not going to do a arson
reference here. Uh it's like what what
should I do? It's like um No, I don't
want to go there. I don't want to go
there. Let's keep it PG, folks. Let's
keep it PG. Let's look at Cardono,
everybody. Uh all right. 70 50K. 50K is
pretty low, by the way. 50K. We're going
to go up to 175, then back down to 80. I
don't hate that. I don't hate that
prediction. All right, let's look at
Cardano. We took a blast from the past
here. All right. Uh we're we're looking
at inino man prices here. This is it's
not from the 90s. I know. Shout out to
Brendan Frasier, but looking at this
whatever happened to Poly Shore.
Anyways, this is 2022. December of 2022.
It's basically the end of the year. You
could say, you know, the very beginning
of 2023, but the end of December, I
believe the low is actually the 30th if
I'm not mistaken. Uh looks like Yeah,
that's the 30th right there. So, we we
crashed down December 30th of 22, gave
us this nice basically level of support
for Cardano. We chopped along it. We
chopped along it. A lot of people, you
know what? I was kind of in the camp
until things started really looking
ugly. I was like, "Yeah, we're not going
lower than that. We'll never go lower
than 23 cents that Cardano fans fandom
said." And you know what? It looked like
it was right because it did hold as
support. What did it do? It ended up
crashing through, putting a new uh
multicycle low for Cardano.
But folks, I kind of like this. I kind
of like this in a weird way. What are we
doing? We're coming back what? To the
scene of the crime. All right. Coming
back to the scene of the crime. Just
like that. Um just like that guy that
stole all the Legos. You know what I
mean? You know what I'm talking about
with the bricks and minifig? What What
did he do? He's He's in sitting there
following the He's probably looking at
those Star Wars sets through the window.
Such a tragic story, by the way. Yeah,
people people like the XRP stuff. A lot
of people hate it, but you know, we're
if you guys request it enough, I I will
cover about any altcoin as long as it
has a decent market cap. Let's go from
XRP to Zcash. This is the one day chart.
Let's go to the 4 hour. This is just a
clean setup in my opinion here. I did
have a short, but my short did not fill.
I should have had it a little bit more
aggressive. I had it right below this
wick. So, I noticed this wick and then
this wick I had it. Yeah, it's right
there. I didn't even realize it was
still up. This did not fill. I did have
a short order. I I was It's risky
shorting Zcash, but the short did not
fill at 1635. If I would have had it at
1625
maybe. Yeah, 1624 would have hit then,
but didn't hit. But, uh, if we come back
and retest this trend line, I am
definitely looking at a Zcash short. One
of the things we talked about with
Zcash, major major bearish RSI, uh,
bearish divergences in this one. This
one is not looking great on a longer
time scale. Now, a bare div doesn't just
stop after three every single time. A
lot of times you just see two. You see
one and then it really starts to head
down, right? Well, this one, it gave us
a third one almost like a 3.5.
And, you know, it does look like the
price wants to head down, but it might
do this. it might put in a fourth one
before it really starts to head down.
And so just be careful trying to play
solely off bear divs because it can bear
div longer than you can be solvent. I
will say that. Now let's look at Near.
Near is nearly rocketing off the screen
here, folks. Near is looking really,
really good. Near's kind of, you know,
upgrading a lot of their tech. They're
integrating with Hyperlid. They're
integrating, uh, you know, with a lot of
DeFi protocols, doing a lot of cool
stuff. I actually got a little exposure.
Maybe I I'll share a a low cap runner at
the end. I've been talking about these
coins on Salana that pay you underlying
assets. I'm holding an altcoin that has
a sale tax of 3%. Every time someone
trades this or sells this, I get given
near like every couple hours. As long as
the wallet only has 20 bucks worth, you
get paid in near. And that altcoin is
down. So maybe uh you know, maybe
something to to look at, folks. So let's
look at and I'll go ahead and say this.
It has the same name as my wife. So, uh,
you know, it maybe I'm a little bit
biased with that altcoin. But look at
this 4hour chart on near. Should have
shorted this one. I didn't get a short
entry in, but that would have been just
a nice nice level to short there. Near
though is still starting to run. But
also, if we go up a little bit here to
the 4 hour, what are we seeing? Seeing
some bearish divergence. So, you know,
this one can keep putting in the bare
divs. The daily though is looking a
little overheated. All right, so you can
see where the daily RSI is. The daily
RSI is at 85. Last time we were at 85,
we went higher. So you got to be careful
and go a little bit higher. And what did
it do? It did a bear div. And so if you
really want to do like a long-term
short, you might want to wait for a bear
div on the daily. We see the bear div on
the daily where the price is higher, but
the RSI is not higher. It's a lower
high. That's just a good opportunity for
a short position. And near would fall a
whopping whopping 40% in four days.
Really three days, huh? Uh yeah, that's
a huge huge huge decline there. So
that's what we're watching on the near
chart. Uh let's go to the next one. What
do we got? This is a potential short
that I am looking at, folks. I might be
uh looking to open a position in a
little bit. I might be looking to open
something here. This one little bit of a
inverse head and shoulders. Now you
could say, "All right, we got a left
shoulder here. We got a head. We got a
right shoulder. Little bit of a
elongated left shoulder here. It's a
little bit of a double double shoulder.
I don't think this is going to play out
the target. So an inverse head and
shoulders. You go from the crown to the
neckline. I would be uh flabbergasted if
this just goes straight up without a
pullback. Typically, you are going to
see some red candles like on the 10
minute, on the one hour before, you
know, you do see a pullback. It's not
going to be just a straight line, but uh
arrow. Yeah, arrow. I bet this one is
look, yeah, this this RSI is definitely
rolling over on the smaller time frames.
Nice bear div on the five. So, might be
a scalp opportunity. All right, that is
your live trade setup, folks. I'm
looking at that one now. I am in uh
basically break even on this trade right
here. looking at uh a also looking like
a potential short for me here the 4
hour.
I want a wick uh right above this. You
can see we have extra entries. We have
additional entries on an a. So I just
wanted to get in on the a short. We're
slightly in profit. Uh it's just a 50 a
trade. I did a 20 and a 30. The 30
filled. We got another 30. Another 30 a
that we're going to short here. What's
AV at? A's at 150 bucks. So, looking at
a uh potential pullback right around
this range. I am okay if this trade goes
slightly negative and it fills these
other orders. These are the better
entries. This is an aggressive entry as
this trade is starting to turn green.
Starting to turn green, folks. This is
You know what I should do? I should
start saying the trades in the
beginning. And a lot of times I do, but
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