Things Could Get Weird

May 26, 2022 • 8 Min Read

Moving Sideways

To the relief of many crypto investors, the market has mostly churned sideways this week. Volumes have receded following the large selloff a couple of weeks ago as Bitcoin fights to avoid its ninth consecutive red weekly candle.

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As we have been discussing, altcoins have not found much respite amid the market tumult either, as bitcoin dominance continues to show strength, surpassing 46% again this week. This is an effective demonstration of bitcoin’s safer risk profile relative to altcoins.

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The Global Picture

If you follow our research regularly, you are well-versed in bitcoin’s risk profile among traditional macro assets and understand that bitcoin, despite being designed as a form of “macro insurance,” trades in lockstep with earnings-deprived tech stocks. Following the trend of $QQQ during US market hours will provide reliable direction on how bitcoin is trading on any given day. This is important to understand and appreciate because it presents a framework for how to trade this asset amidst tightening monetary conditions, however, bitcoin is a global asset that is traded 24/7 and therefore is unable to follow QQQ every hour of the day.

Thus, we considered it relevant to examine – how does bitcoin (and by extension, the...

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