BITCOIN REVEALED: The True Story | September 28, 2026

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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
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>> Hey folks, Nick Valdez here, chief
crypto strategist for Verified
Investing. And today, we got to talk
about the Bitcoin pullback and what
exactly happening and the key levels
that we're going to be talking about. We
hit a target of support that tagged our
level exactly and ended up bouncing from
there. So, we're going to give you some
of the upcoming levels that I'm paying
attention to, folks. Also, we're going
to look at Quant. Why did that token
surge 140% in a 24-hour period? And not
only that, we're going to look at hype,
Sui, Ethereum, some of your favorite
altcoins and I'll tell you about the
trade that I'm in right now, folks, that
I'm in currently. Is this a fake
channel? It is the real channel and I
really hope you guys smash that like
button, everybody. It really helps us
out in the YouTube algorithm. We really
do appreciate it. So, let's jump into
the Bitcoin chart.
And this is the key level of support
that we've been talking about for a very
long time. This is going into the
November wick into the May high. I don't
know how many times I've been saying
that, but we keep hitting these levels.
And if you look at the recent price
action, in fact, let's zoom into the
1-hour candles on Bitcoin. You can see,
wow, tagged it, bounced off it
perfectly, but I do not like this
action, folks. I do not like the action
as we continue to retest this. And one
of you viewers out there were saying,
"Hey, we got a little bit of a bull
flag." But is that a bear flag within
the bull flag? Uh at this point, it's
it's looking a little negated as we put
in a much lower low around that area.
You want it to be around a 90-degree
angle and a 90-degree angle would look
like this. And since we are kind of
going lower, it makes it slightly
greater than a 90-degree angle. So, I'm
not liking the bear flag, but let's zoom
in a little bit, folks. I am There are a
couple things I want to talk about. One
is going to be the daily RSI. I am
putting a big frown face on this daily
RSI. And what is the RSI? Well, it's the
relative strength index and it just
shows the strength of a market. And you
can see right now that the price is
putting in higher highs, but this daily
RSI is putting in lower highs. And so,
this is a bearish divergence or a
negative divergence on the RSI. And
folks, I'm just going to be honest with
you. Uh this is increasingly odds for a
breakdown. Another thing increasingly
odds for a breakdown is Big shoutout to
Guns N' Roses. We keep knock knock
knocking on heaven's door. The more we
knock on this door, the more likely
we're going to fall through this one.
And I had to throw in the GNR reference.
Uh they're on the VMAs last night.
So, I want to show you that. But
Bitcoin, the more it tests that range,
the more likely it's going to lose that
range. But, I think a slightly more
probable take is it's going to bounce
inside that range. I don't think I'm not
ready to say we're dipping below that
yellow rectangle that I've been pointing
out for a while, but
it's getting [snorts] a little bit
close. Now, let's talk about other
Bitcoin news. MicroStrategy, they bought
Bitcoin. But how did they fund it? And
also, Wall Street. What is Wall Street
doing? Wall Street is buying. They are
buying more ETFs. Uh the ETFs inflows.
And so, this is just, you know, the
IBIT, Fidelity. In this case, Bitwise
sold a little bit.
Wall Street clients are buying Bitcoin.
So, they're having BlackRock buy more
and more Bitcoin. BlackRock ended up
buying around 1,100 Bitcoin on Friday.
What I'm very interested in seeing is
can the 7-day inflow streak continue
with 10-year yields being as high as
they are. Cuz right now we're seeing
shockingly high 10-year yield rates. And
so that's making it more expensive to
finance a car, to finance a home.
Probably going to see a little bit of a
pullback in home prices here. And you
know, it creates a easy way to get risk,
well, relatively risk-free capital. So
you can buy a 10-year bond and get like
5.2%.
If we go to 5.28%,
that is a 25-year high, technically
24-year high. We haven't seen a level
that high since 2002. Right now, we're
at a 19-year high. And so 10-year yields
as being as elevated as they are today,
can Wall Street continue to buy? All
eyes are going to be on that. Let's talk
about MicroStrategy for a little bit,
folks.
Uh MicroStrategy was originally a Bob
Dylan song. I I I guess I am a
youngster. I'm sorry I don't know your
1920s reference. It's 50s, I know. All
right, let's look at strategy strategy.
This is their 13 uh F filing for their
form 8K. So it's a 8K here. Uh you can
see section 13, but let's uh keep
scrolling here. So form 8K, what's
what's their 8K form here? Well, it's
just breaking down what they did. So
they sold stock. They sold over a
million shares here. They got 246
million dollars. So what does this mean
in simple terms? They diluted their
shares to raise their cash. What did
they do with that cash? That's the big
question. Well, they bought 1,600
Bitcoin. So they ended up spending 142
million, average price of $85,000.
Now remember, they got 240 million. They
only spent 140 million on Bitcoin. What
do they do with the rest? Well, they
bought back some of their STRC, but they
spent more than the 100 million, so they
actually dipped into their cash pile.
STRC isn't trading at $100, and they
actually spent an additional 48 million
to buy some back of the STRC stock, and
this is not great, folks. They had to
spend 22 million out of their cash
reserves to fund the dividends on its
preferred stock. So, they have the
MicroStrategy stock, and then they have
another stock that's supposed to be
around $100, that's supposed to pay
around 10%. 10% yield, very close to 1%
a month. And so, every month they have
to come up with money to pay their
shareholders of that STRC. So, you know,
I just not a big fan of them diluting
their stock. I'm not the biggest fan of
MicroStrategy. When Bitcoin goes up,
sure, it goes up higher, but when
Bitcoin falls, it also falls harder. And
so, me, I'd rather just buy the orange
coin. I'd rather just buy Bitcoin.
Did you comment deleted? No, we see your
comments.
Uh Sweet Child o' Mine.
November Rain, November Rain. Put it
down in the comments, what's the best
Guns N' Roses song? Uh shout out to Axl
Rose, you know, before he changed his
face. I shouldn't say that, I shouldn't
say that. Uh let's look at Bitcoin's
liquidation heat map. Now, on the top
right, you can see this is the 3-day
liquidation heat map. So, we're looking
at Bitcoin's price action over the
weekend. And what are the bright lines?
I like, you know, some of you folks, you
know, like, "Hey, I'm not sure what what
this is. Can you kind of explain it to
me?" So, you know, try to do a quick
breakdown here.
You can see the Bitcoin price, right?
That's your normal chart. You see the
prices on the right side. This is just
like a normal chart. You see the dates
on the bottom. Uh today is, you know,
the 28th, so we see Sunday the 27th,
Saturday the 26th, little bit of Friday
the 25th there. So, we're seeing the the
three the past three days.
And so, Bitcoin, when it goes when it
clears these lines, when it cuts into
these colors, those are trades getting
liquidated. And you can see there is you
know, basically a lot of shorts got
liquidated. People were shorting
Bitcoin, price kept pumping, wiped them
out. And you can see that left all these
longs. So this means a lot of traders in
profit. So what ended up happening?
Bitcoin came down, came down on Sunday,
sliced into these liquidation zones on
this liquidation heat map and wiped out
these traders. Now it's going to be
interesting to see who is going to blink
first. Are these little bit of longs
going to get liquidated or are these
shorts going to get liquidated? But
these gave you very good targets for
some trades folks. And so that's why I
just really like looking at this. I
going to hit we can zoom into the 12
hour if you want.
Yeah, we looks like these longs might
have to cut into these longs right above
$82,000. We will check back in on that
tomorrow folks. Let's see if that
liquidation heat map continues to play
out. Let's talk about Ethereum now.
Don't worry, I saw your comments. Hype,
Sui, we'll look at those folks. And I'll
talk about the Quant pump and why
exactly it pumped. Do you need a
subscription? No, you just got to sign
into an account.
It's there are more expensive options
though as well. All right, so this is
ETH on the one day. I've been talking
about this level. I did not have any
trade setups.
But if you go into this wick, into this
wick, it kind of intersects with this
wick and then it ended up being support.
We were kind of lamenting yesterday or
yesterday, Friday. We were lamenting
Friday that we already had this level
set up. This is going to be Friday This
is right when we did our show on Friday,
1:00 p.m. So it's going to be about
right here. This is our This is where
we're at. I was like, man, I had this
level. I didn't put in a long. Well, I
should have put in a long. If we
continue to play this out, look at that
cut right into our level. And so the
question might be, what's the next
level? Uh like look at this though. Look
at this.
We're kind of hitting against some
resistance, folks. We are hitting
against resistance right now as we
speak. I am not quite prepared to put in
a short, but
uh it's it's looking a little bit juicy,
folks. It's looking a little bit juicy
for a short entry, but this wedge is
narrowing, so ETH is going to have to
choose a direction. Let's go into hyper
liquid.
Hyper liquid, the 1-hour RSI starting to
look good. We can see much lower lows
while the RSI is flat. As soon as this
RSI hits oversold,
buyers step in and they push the price
up. And so, right now, you know, I mean,
we could continue to print these though.
We can keep going lower while this RSI
stays flat. It can It can go for days
and days. Don't don't think it has to
reverse right now. But, I am liking uh
you know, I'm liking what I'm seeing on
hyper liquid. Keep an eye out on this
descending trendline. If we go to the
daily,
you know, a little bit of a bull flag.
Little bit of a bull flag. Uh there are
rules. There's rules to the game. Uh
there's rules to bull flags, and it
needs to be a 45°
angle. And I would say this fits that
criteria of a 90° angle for hyper
liquid. Uh just a little bit of a a tip
for you. If it goes above that, uh you
know,
that's that's not a bull flag. That's
not a bull flag. And, you know,
conversely for bear flags as well. So,
little little TA tutelage for you there.
Uh nice alliteration. Now, let's also
look at some other altcoins, folks.
Let's look at Solana. Where are we at on
Solana?
Solana didn't hit our level. This is the
1-day chart. We almost hit it yester- or
yeah, yesterday. This is the level we've
been talking about uh you know, pointed
out the the level from December of 2023.
You can see it acted as support, acted
as support, then turned into resistance.
That's December all the way back in
2023. Came so close. Came so close. I
wouldn't be surprised if we do end up
testing this RSI on the daily, also not
looking great. A much higher high while
the RSI is lower. Looks like Solana
might be heading down. Let's talk about
Quant. Quant, why the heck did Quant
pump? Quant? That dead coin? Quant?
What's my Quant say about it? Well, I'm
your Quant. I'm your crypto Quant.
Quant ended up teaming up with
Clearinghouse. It's a bank consortium.
Bank of America, City, uh tons and tons
of banks. A lot of banks, you know, use
are in this Clearinghouse consortium.
They talk about, you know, common
framework, common rules, common just uh
ways for these banks to communicate to
each other cuz when bank A sends money
to bank B, you know, you can't have one,
you know, say it's in China. Can't have
one speaking Mandarin, one speaking
Cantonese. You know, they they kind of
need to have a common framework. Well,
American banks are doing the same thing
and especially within the Clearinghouse.
So, Quant just signed with the
Clearinghouse to be the de facto
blockchain. And look at this pump,
folks. For uh just basically the online
money markets. Huge. These are daily
candles. Huge. Huge pump, everybody.
Huge pump. Uh suspiciously front ran,
but you know, we're we're not going to
get into all that. All this was front
ran. Look at this move right here. These
are 1-hour candles.
So, this is 18 hours ago. So, if we go
24 hours ago, we are still up. We are
still up over the last 24 hours. But,
this move has almost completely been
wiped out. Now, this was a a magnificent
move to the upside. Basically 24 hours,
I was pretty close there. Uh 200% pump.
That's not a 2x. That's a 3x, okay? 100%
is a 2x, 200% is a 3x. This price
tripled in 1 day. A tripling, okay? Not
a triple witching, a tripling. But, it
did also pull back. Pulled back pretty
considerably. We grab our measuring
tool.
You see, at one point, this fell 40% in
11 hours, 46%. So, major major pull back
on that one. Let's talk about the the
potential,
you know, to me, pretty strong
resistance. I think 426 is going to be
tough to beat. You have this ascending
trend line. You have this prior tip from
September of 2021.
So, just major major moves. It is not
many coins. You see them higher than the
price in 2000 November of 2004 December
of 2004 2024. And so, hey, if you're
holding Quant, and you had Quant, and
you didn't sell your Quant,
congratulations.
Uh you know, take yourself out for some
ice cream, okay? Go get yourself a
milkshake. Good good move. What did we
do? Did we trade it? I traded it. What
did I do? I shorted that thing. I
shorted that stupid coin. Uh major major
profit on that one. I've closed this
position entirely. Let's talk about why
it pumped, everybody.
Uh you know, it has the big bank thing.
So, now we're starting to see other
coins pump. Coins that are within this
ISO 222 or, you know, basically 20,022.
Uh you hear like 222's what a lot of
people call it. The ISO compliant. And
so, when it's this compliant
cryptocurrency, this is just kind of a
framework of how this token communicates
to other oracles, communicates in a
interoperability layer. I don't want to
get too deep into the weeds of crypto.
But, I, you know, we're seeing a HBAR
pump. We saw the Quant pump. We saw XDC
pump. Today, we're also seeing Algorand
pump. Keep an eye out on XRP, XLM, and
Cardano, okay? Keep an eye out on those
three altcoins, folks.
And uh looking at HBAR here, I, you
know, I'm I'm I this is the my current
trade. This is the what I would be
looking at, folks, for a trade. I'm
looking around 13, above 13 cents. But,
you know, if you want to get an
aggressive entry, I'm not going to fault
you for maybe uh you know, shorting HBAR
here. The reason we're looking at HBAR
for a potential short, and specifically
above 13 cents, is this pivot high. I
really really like a short at 134. But,
you can maybe you know, get in a little
bit early on that one. Let's zoom into
the 15-minute chart. Oh, yeah, this
thing's moving. This thing's moving.
It's looking primed. Did it tag 13 while
we're live? It might actually tag 13.
It Oh my god, I want to short this
thing. Let me know in the comments, live
chat, should I put, you know, just a
$1,000 20X short? Should we put a
thousand on a short here? Let me know.
Let me know. I'll do it. I'll do it.
Don't Don't uh
don't tease me with a good time. All
right, let's look at SWE. You guys were
talking about SWE.
SWE on the hourly actually looking kind
of good. Uh you can see, you know, a
little bit of a bull div here. You can
see slightly higher high on the RSI. And
it's going lower. So, we have a lower I
said higher high, higher low, higher low
here, and a lower low. So, we got a nice
little bull div on the hourly. I, you
know, a safer trade is going to be, you
know, wait for this trend line, cuz we
might put in a couple bull uh bull divs
on the hourly. But, above, you know,
definitely uh some levels if it
continues to pump.
I would be looking to short at this
pivot high that we saw back then. So,
keep an eye out on that for SWE,
everybody. Uh it's going to be the level
I'm paying attention to. Also, always
just put in your altcoins. Let me know
what altcoins you want me to cover. I'm
more than happy to look at any
particular altcoin, as long as it has a
decent market cap, folks. A decent
market cap. Not something small, not no
micro cap. Uh the date on that, by the
way, was, if you're wondering chart this
at home, 10th of May, 10th of May 2026.
So, that's the level I'm going to be
paying attention to.
I do have a uh short on Arrow. Uh jumped
in right at that pivot high. Uh put in a
order. I did put in a order here. And
so, this is kind of
kind of in the negative, but yeah, this
RSI is not looking great. Uh this is
looking like it wants to maybe
potentially pull back. And a a safe
entry is going to be right at this pivot
low. We have a nice little trend line
forming. Are we hitting it?
Let's hit this button.
Uh
breaking above. Breaking above. But
yeah, uh come here around 86.
Safe entry uh or aggressive entry around
82.8. So, we'll just say 83 cents. And
then another entry around 85 and 86.
After that, cut your losses and run,
folks. You got to cut those losses. Now,
I asked you last week, are we in a bear
market?
The The results are in. What did you
guys say? We got about I I just put it
here because it's indicative about two
yeses for every one no. So, about one
out of three of you are saying, "Bear
market's not over. We are going lower
than 58k." Two out of three are saying,
"Yes, 58k was the bottom." So, I just
want to put that little bit of data
point on your radar. Something to keep
an eye out on. Uh look at Injective.
I can look at Injective real quick.
Injective, you guys uh often do uh
request that one. So,
Not good. It's not good. Uh losing this
range, where all these wicks are, not
exactly great. Uh coming in lower than
that, that is not what you want to see.
And is this kind of
Yeah, losing that as well.
>> [snorts]
>> That's not good. That's not good. Uh so,
okay. Okay, you got a little bit of
hope. We could just be retesting this
pivot top. That's that's your glimmer of
hope. That's your glimmer of hope. Maybe
you're going to get lucky. Maybe it is
going to bounce. This could potentially
act as support. So, maybe maybe that
could end up holding for you. Zcash is
just kind of boring. It is heading down
slightly. We're kind of predicting a
short on that one.
You know, not moving down as fast as
some people want, especially if you're
trading with a lot of leverage there.
But,
that's I I would keep an eye out on.
Hey, thank God I I got out of watching
the YouTuber actors that really play on
the emotions. Yeah, we like to stay
about facts. We like to look at levels.
We like to look at technicals. And we
like to, you know, maybe impart some
crypto, you know, just say knowledge,
you know, the ISO
narrative. What is an RSI? A little bit
of bull flag tutelage there. So, yeah,
yeah, I I try to keep it I try to get
away from the XRP $2,000.
You know, I'm I'm not I'm never going to
be that guy. Unless you're talking about
Cardano, in which case it's going to do
100. I'm just kidding. It is not going
to go to 100. But, everybody smash the
like button. I do appreciate all of you
guys' support.
I like responding to you folks in the
comment section. So, feel free. I
respond to all of you folks. Sup? Sup?
Holler at all y'all. $1,000 20X. All
right. All right. I'll do it. I'll do
it. I'm I'm a I'm a enter a short. I'm
entering a short. I will see you folks
in the future and we'll check in on that
trade. All right. Bye-bye.