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🧠 Welcome to The Macro War Room

If you’ve ever watched Bitcoin rip 40% in two weeks and thought “wait… what just happened?” — this is the newsletter that explains it before it happens.

July 4, 2025by @DurdenBTC

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This is my Bitcoin Macro War Room — your weekly signal center for Bitcoin, macro cycles, liquidity flows, and risk-on pivots the Fed doesn’t want you to notice.

Every Friday, I break down:

Let’s get into this week’s setup 👇


📊 This Week in Macro: July 4th Recap

🚨 TL;DR:
ISM is turning. Labor is cracking. Bitcoin is sniffing it first — as usual. All systems point to continued Risk On macro regime.


🏭 ISM Manufacturing PMI: Still Under 50, But Climbing

Print: 49 (vs forecast 48.5)
Manufacturing leads the business cycle. If this breaks back above 50, Bitcoin doesn’t just rise — it erupts.

ISM Manufacturing PMI Chart (MoM)

📉 ADP Employment: Major Miss

Forecast: +99k
Actual: –33k 😬
A real-time crack in the soft-landing illusion. This kind of contraction is historically a rate-cut precursor.

ADP Employment Chart (MoM)

💼 Non-Farm Payrolls: Holding Up… For Now

NFP came in slightly hot — but with unemployment starting to tick up, we’re on thin ice. The Fed gets to “pretend” while liquidity quietly rotates.


📉 Fed Rate Cut Expectations: Collapsing Fast

July cut odds? Down to 4.7%.
September? Maybe. October? Probably.
But Bitcoin isn’t waiting for a press release.

Fed Rate Cut expectations through 2026.

🔄 The Bitcoin Macro Regime Score: Still Risk-On

Using my custom Macro Regime spreadsheet, we score the macro regime weekly. This week’s reading?
🔹 98%: Risk-On (Bullish)
Long-term holders are buying heavy. Retail is panicking.


🟠 On-Chain Says: Smart Money Is Stacking

Long-term holder net accumulation is at the highest since 2018. This is when you want to listen.

LTH (Left) on a buying spree not seen since 2018. LTH is generally considered to be “Smart Money”, STH (Right) is generally retail and meant to be faded.


🎥 Macro War Room Clip of the Week

Here’s a quick clip from today’s Macro War Room video — a snapshot of how I break down real macro data and connect it to Bitcoin’s position in the cycle:

Want the full breakdown with all the charts, signals, and macro context?
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🚀 What’s Next?

This is a textbook pre-liquidity phase.
You don’t wait for Powell. You don’t wait for CNBC.
Bitcoin front-runs the turn.
If you’re still waiting for a green light — it already flashed.


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Thanks for being here. Let’s ride this cycle the right way.
— Leon


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