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The analyst sees a dip as a potential accumulation window, but says Bitcoin's hold near its 50-week moving average could shape the broader market outlook.
The bullish forecast rests on his view that Bitcoin's bear market ended this summer and a new cycle is underway.
Per the analyst's risk model, altcoin market-cap risk sits at 16 with a $7T breakout target; every bullish read is conditional on the 20/50-month MAs giving way, which has not happened yet.
The bullish case depends on business-cycle expansion and liquidity, while bearish divergence leaves room for a pullback before any sustained move higher.
With less than 25% of the median coin's supply in profit, the market still sits far from the broad profitability typically associated with cycle tops.
The call points to a stronger but more mature market cycle, with lower upside paired with a less severe downturn.
If Check is right, the playbook that timed every cycle since 2016 retires here, and on-chain signals carry what the halving calendar no longer does.
Zhou called the pullback a normal market-cycle feature rather than a structural break, but named AI as the successor to meme coins and flagged the market as waiting for a catalyst, not retreating.
Fidelity points investors beyond August's price gains to cycle timing, policy, institutional adoption and on-chain activity as the next signals to watch.
Krown's data frames the worst drawdowns as the highest-conviction entry points in any Bitcoin cycle, with two-year returns even stronger.
On-chain risk metrics briefly dipped below the 0.3 DCA threshold in early July, but mixed signals from historical cycle comparisons leave the question of a confirmed low unresolved.
The $100K target is the nearer benchmark, while the $500K scenario depends on Bitcoin's market cycle playing out as usual.
Below the 200-week MA, BTC sits in a band it has occupied only 8% of its history, historically the zone where the strongest forward returns have followed.
August and September average double-digit losses in midterm years, and 2026's apathetic top and current social-risk levels mirror 2018's structure to a fault.
The unresolved question is whether Bitcoin is forming a durable bottom or pausing before the late-year selloff seen after comparable midterm-cycle lows.
YouTube views, subscriber growth, and X follower rates across crypto creators are down 80-95% from the 2021 peak, putting the current social cycle on par with 2018.
The structural thesis was never the problem. The valuations that the thesis lifted got ahead of it, and the digital asset complex is now posting its third straight quarterly loss while capital…
The thesis is built on the four-year cycle and prior midterm-year templates rather than fresh on-chain capitulation.
The same moving-average gap that marked the 2015, 2018 and 2022 cycle bottoms has re-formed after three years, but the analyst still flags room for a deeper retest before any structural reversal.
The Bull Score Index is still in bearish territory despite the July bounce, so the firm reads the move as cyclical mean-reversion within a downtrend, not a structural bottom.
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