7 Signals Bitcoin Hasn’t Bottomed Yet (Here's When To Buy)

Added: 2026-05-30

[00:00:00]Bitcoin just printed the same exact setup that preceded with the 84% drawdown in 2018. The same setup that preceded a 77% drawdown in 2022. And the chart pattern playing out right now says we are about 4 months away from the bottom. And I'm going to show you my exact zones where I'm buying, the on-chain triggers that I'm waiting for, and why everyone going all in on this dip is about to get wrecked. The 200-day moving average that keeps rejecting price like a brick wall. The bull market support band that just flipped from support to resistance in textbook fashion. The Elliott wave structure pointing to a bottom in a very specific window. And the fear and greed reading that has historically marked the exact zone where smart money loads up for the very next cycle. By the end of this video, you're going to understand why seven completely independent signals are all pointing towards the exact same Bitcoin bottom zone. I'm Crux, and this is about to be the most important video that you can watch this year on when to buy Bitcoin. Now, before we dive in, nothing that I say in this video is financial advice. This is technical analysis, historical pattern recognition, and my personal read on the market. Markets can flip on a single headline. With that out the way, let's go ahead and get into it. Let's start with the signal that's flashing right now in real time. Bitcoin is currently trading around $77,500, sitting 7% below the 200-day moving average. And that 200-day moving average, it's clustered around $82,000.

[00:01:19]And here's why it matters. In the last 16 days alone, Bitcoin has pushed up to test that $82,000 zone, the confluence of the 200-day SMA and the 200-day EMA, and failed to close above it. Not once, but multiple times. Each attempt left a clean rejection wick and shoved price right back down into the mid-75K range.

[00:01:38]The 200-day moving average is one of the most long-term trend filters in all of finance. Bitcoin hasn't convincingly closed above it since January of 2026.

[00:01:48]In past cycles, repeated failures at this level have preceded year-long bear winters. And right now, the volume on the upside attempts is thinning. Now, the sellers are stepping in. The next level down, the 50-day moving average sitting around $75,000. Hold the 50-day moving average and we keep the near-term damage contained. But, if we break it, the door opens to the 200-week moving average around $62,000.

[00:02:14]That 200-week moving average is the next step in the near term, but I still think lower. We are just getting started.

[00:02:20]Here's why this matters. We've seen this exact movie before. Last cycle, Bitcoin topped at $69,000 in November of 2021.

[00:02:28]After the initial crash, price bounced back up and tagged the 200-day SMA at about $48,000 in March of 2022 and got violently rejected. That rejection marked the exact top of the mid bear market bounce before Bitcoin lost another 60%. Same setup, same rejection, same level. The structure is rhyming.

[00:02:48]Now, let me show you something that should have every Bitcoin bull paying attention. The bull market support band, which is the 20-week SMA and the 21-week EMA. For many, this is the line in the sand. Price above it equals a sustained bull trend. Price inside or below it equals correction or a transition phase.

[00:03:06]And here's where it gets bearish. Earlier this month, Bitcoin reclaimed the entire band. The 21-week EMA crossed back above the 20-week SMA, a structurally bullish flip. Price pushed up and tagged $82,000, which had many analysts call the end of the post all-time high correction, and then it failed. Bitcoin got rejected at the 200-day moving average that we just talked about. It rolled over and is now just sitting right back below the entire band. This is a textbook bull trap. The reclaim, the optimism, the rejection, and now the loss of structure. We've seen this exact setup multiple times in past cycles and has consistently preceded deeper pullbacks. Now, here's why this matters historically. Losing this band has triggered every major Bitcoin bear market on record. And I want to keep this balanced. Here's what would invalidate a large part of this bearish thesis. If Bitcoin can reclaim the 200-day moving average with strong weekly closes, reclaim the bull market support band, and push above $82,000 with real volume behind it, then it starts to look less like the continuation of a bear market and more like an extended post all-time high correction. I want to be clear about that because these markets, they're dynamic. I'm leaning bearish based off of the current data, but if the structure changes, I will change with it. I'm not calling for another 70% wipeout, but a 40% wipeout from here, that is well within the historical range since we cracked $77,000, putting Bitcoin in the $48,000 to the $60,000 zone. Now, here's the signal that I have the most conviction in that tells me where the best accumulation range is. The long-term holder realized price is currently sitting at just under $50,000. And here's the historical pattern that almost nobody is talking about. Every single major Bitcoin bear market has pushed the price at least 20% below the long-term holder realized price. Let that land for a second. If history repeats, and typically it does rhyme, then we are looking more at a bottom around $40,000. Check this out.

[00:05:03]Each bull market, long-term holders hold for about 3 years while retail buys, driving up the price, then they sell, which dumps the price back towards their realized price. Eventually, the price of Bitcoin goes under the long-term holder realized price and has consistently been the best 4-month accumulation window every single bear winter. Now, let's do a quick recap before we keep going.

[00:05:25]Three signals down. The 200-day moving average is rejected. The bull market support band just failed. And the long-term holder realized price points to a bottom around 40K. So, we still got four more signals to go, and they all point at the exact same zone. If you want this type of analysis daily, I drop it real time inside of WAP, which gives you access to my private Discord server.

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[00:05:58]Every Bitcoin bear market has historically retraced less than the cycle before it. As the asset matures, as institutional capital grows, and as ETFs put in a new floor for the price.

[00:06:08]Here is the data. In 2014, Bitcoin collapsed over 85% from its peak. In 2018, the drawdown was 82%. By 2022, Bitcoin retraced roughly 77%. If this pattern continues, this bear winter should have a retracement of about 70% from the peak. Bitcoin topped at roughly $126,000 in October of 2025. A 70% drawdown from there puts us right around, well, you guessed it, $38,000 to 41K. A lot of people called me crazy last October when I called the peak. And then I said we're going to drop to $40,000.

[00:06:44]It is Q4 2026, 1 year from today.

[00:06:48]Bitcoin just crashed from $126,000 down to 40K. And like clockwork, the bear market came and took everything we built. I was able to pinpoint the peak based off of Bitcoin's four-year cycles.

[00:07:00]And I'm on track to possibly pinpoint the bottom, too. Bitcoin bear markets have historically lasted right around 1 year from the peak to the bottom. The 2013 cycle peaked on December 4th, 2013, and bottomed on January 14th, 2015, roughly 13 months later. The 2017 cycle peaked on December 17th, 2017, and bottomed on December 15th, 2018, almost exactly 1 year to the day. The most recent cycle peaked on November 10th, 2021, and bottomed on November 21st, 2022. Once again, right around a 1-year bear market. Three for three. And since this last cycle peaked in October, let's go ahead and do the math. If history rhymes the way it has for over a decade, We're looking at a bottom somewhere in October of 2026. Plenty of time to plan, not panic. And trust me, I know emotionally how hard these environments can get. Every bear market feels like crypto is finished forever. That is why most people actually sell the bottom, or they're just too scared to buy. Now, here's where it gets uncanny because Elliott Wave Theory is pointing at almost the exact same window, completely independently. Shout out Rufio, one of our pro traders inside our VIP trading group, who mapped this out. Bitcoin topped at $126,000 in October of 2025.

[00:08:15]From that high, we've already completed a clean five-wave decline down to roughly $60,000 in February. That is the first impulsive leg of the correction.

[00:08:24]Since then, Bitcoin has been grinding sideways and slightly up in what the Elliott Wave calls a complex corrective bounce, an ABC structure topping out right about $80,000 earlier this month.

[00:08:35]There are two scenarios I can play out from here. Scenario one, the corrective bounce is already complete. Bitcoin is now setting up for the next major leg down, and it's projected to play out in a clean five-wave move. Scenario two, Bitcoin runs up one more time to the $84 to $85,000 zone to complete the C wave before the real leg lower kicks in. The invalidation level for scenario two, a dip below 75K. If Bitcoin breaks $75,000 before tagging 85K, then 85K is off the table, and that recent 82.8K high almost certainly marked the local top. But, before the real leg lower kicks in, the chart is showing one more potential trap, a wave two retest back up towards $80,000. So, if Bitcoin bounces from the current levels and pushes back up towards 80K over the next couple weeks, don't get faked out. The path from there gets ugly. Wave three, typically the longest and most aggressive wave, projects down to around $48,000.

[00:09:34]That is the 0.5 Fibonacci retracement of the entire bull cycle. Wave four gives a relief bounce back into the low 60k's and then wave five, the capitulation flush, completes the structure with a final low somewhere between $36,000 and $42,000.

[00:09:51]So, if this Elliott Wave Theory pattern plays out, 41k to 58k is the accumulation zone with a potential capitulation wick down to $36,000. And here's the timing piece that made me double take the second I saw it. This entire structure plays out across the next three to four months, projecting a bottom window between mid-September and early October. Now, here's the final signal. And this is the one for the ones who don't have the patience or risk tolerance for those other signals to hit. The Bitcoin Fear and Greed Index measures the market sentiment on a scale from 0 to 100. Extreme fear is officially anything below 25, but the real capitulation zone, the one I'm waiting for, is below 15. That is where the panic gets so severe smart money historically backs up the truck. Here is the data. In the last 10 years, Bitcoin has spent only 65 days with a fear and greed reading below 10. That is it. 65 days out of thousands. And every one of those clusters was marked by major capitulation events. The April 2020 COVID dump, the 2022 Terra Luna collapse, which was 30 consecutive days below 10, and the FTX collapse, which was 15 consecutive days below 10. Now, earlier this year, January through March, we've seen the longest streak recorded in history, over 60 consecutive days below 10 during the macro and tariff driven panic. Right now, we're sitting about 40% off from the previous all-time high, and rightfully fear is starting to creep back in after bouncing off the 200-day SMA. And real quick, before I show you exactly how I'm playing this, if this video has brought you any clarity so far, consider subscribing for more deep dives like this and smash that like for Pup Talks.

[00:11:27]He said his Elliott Wave structure is simple. Wave one, eat. Wave two, sleep.

[00:11:32]Wave three, repeat. All right, you've woken back up. Now, as somebody who bought 90% of my portfolio sub 25k Bitcoin last bear winter, having patience and a plan is key. I've built a tiered DCA plan around the signals we just went through, and you can use it to how you see fit. First tier, light accumulation zone between 70k and 74k.

[00:11:53]That is the 50-day moving average and the prior swing low zone. If we hold there, the damage stays contained.

[00:11:59]Second tier, accumulation starts to pick up between 58k and 65k. That is the 200-week moving average zone and the upper bound of the Elliott Wave target.

[00:12:08]Third tier, and this is where I get aggressive, between 40k and 50k. That is the long-term holder realized price minus 20%. The 70% diminishing drawdown level and the lower Elliott Wave target all converging. If we get there and the Fear & Greed Index is below 15 within the October window, that is a zone where I become extremely aggressive with the accumulation. Seven independent signals pointing to the same zone in the same window. That is not coincidence. That is confluence. I did call the October top and I think we're approaching the best accumulation window in this bear winter.

[00:12:43]So, make sure you mark this video so we can come back and watch it in October.

[00:12:47]If this video saved you from buying the wrong dips, smash that like button. I dropped a video showing exactly why I think Bitcoin will reclaim over $250,000 by 2029 and I'll link it right here. I'm curious, do you think that Bitcoin has already bottomed or the massive capitulation event hasn't even started?

[00:13:04]Let me know in the comments below. I'll see you in the next deep dive.