As you can tell by the new flashy title, I’m going to start numbering these ‘issues’ to align with my original reports which I did exclusively on Youtube. Hopefully this will make it easier to follow along chronologically. OK anyway, let’s get into it because it was a big week.
Executive Summary & Important Highlights
While the timeline is in absolute capitulation mode, the War Room is calm.
Key Takeaways form the War Room:
The Nuke: Bitcoin has retraced significantly, but we are currently flat (no position).
The Divergence: Stocks and Gold remain in a bullish structure, decoupling from Crypto.
The Trap: The ISM PMI print hit its highest level in 2 years (52.6), and the market treated it as a massive “sell the news” event.
The Thesis: We need to have an uncomfortable conversation about “Synthetic Supply” and why the 21M hard cap doesn’t matter like it used to.
Below is my current portfolio since I enjoy posting receipts. I’m not some hand-waving guru making ‘calls’ or selling ‘signals’, I’m running my liquid net-worth using the same concepts & systems I post about every week.
The Signal: Risk On or Risk Off (Current Regime)
Despite the carnage in crypto, the broader equity market is still technically in a Risk On (Goldilocks) environment. However, the internal strength is bleeding out.
Earlier this week, the Macro Regime Engine showed over 30 bullish votes. As of this morning, we are down to 27 Bullish / 12 Bearish.
We are seeing a deterioration in the signal strength. It hasn’t flipped yet.. we are still long SPY and Gold but things are slowly degrading. It will be important to watch these vote counts on Monday next week when the lagging weekly macro data hits the tape.
Current Stance: 100% Allocated (in allocation).
Bitcoin Trend: Bearish
There is no ambiguity here. The system is Bearish.
Both the Fast and Slow trend inputs on the Gaussian overlay are flashing red. The slow indicator flipped red back at $108k, and the fast indicator caught the recent breakdown perfectly.
We are currently seeing a “dead cat bounce” or short-covering rally into the weekend, but do not mistake this for a reversal. Until the system prints a confirmed entry signal, we sit on our hands. The goal isn’t to catch the absolute bottom tick; the goal is to capture the meat of the move and avoid the ruinous drawdowns we just witnessed.
Current Stance: 100% Cash (in $BTC allocation). Waiting for the flip. Here is the current chart as of this writing.
Additional Data: The “Synthetic Supply” Problem
I want to expand on a thesis that might upset the purists. We need to talk about why Bitcoin is crashing despite the ETF inflows.
The narrative of the 21 Million Hard Cap is on life support & has been since TradFi took over the ecosystem last year.
Technically, the on-chain supply is capped. But financially? The supply is now theoretically infinite. Between ETFs, cash-settled futures (CME), options, and perpetual swaps, Wall Street has successfully layered a massive “Synthetic Float” on top of the asset.
The Reality Check:
Once you can synthetically manufacture supply (via paper derivatives), the asset is no longer scarce. When scarcity is masked, price becomes a derivatives game, not a supply-and-demand market.
See this tweet for a dive into the thinking:
This is exactly what happened to Gold and Silver. The “paper claims” absorbed the demand, suppressing the physical price discovery. Bitcoin is now facing that same structural break. If 10M people want exposure to Bitcoin, but 9M of them buy “Paper Bitcoin” (options/futures), the physical supply shock never happens.
On-Chain Silver Lining: Despite the derivatives mess, On-Chain data is signaling deep value.
Long-Term Holders are net buyers.
Short-Term Holders are capitulating.
Block PNL is signaling generational bottom zones.
If you are a 10-year horizon investor, these levels are historically attractive. But as systematic investors, we respect the trend first.
Final Thoughts
This week was a perfect case study in Systems > Emotion.
If I were “vibe trading,” I might have bought the dip at $80k, or $75k, thinking the <insert current bullish narrative> would save us. Instead, the system kept us out of harm’s way.
The portfolio is marginally even +0.5% YTD. In a week where Bitcoin nuked ~30% & the $VIX spiked above 20, I consider that a massive victory. Preserving capital is the only way you survive long enough to catch the next parabolic run.
Stay disciplined. Let the liquidity come to you.
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