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🔥 Where We Are in the Cycle: Bull vs Bear Arguments in One Place The market is split again. One side sees a tired uptrend and heavy macro risks. The other sees structural support, improving liquidity and the usual pain that forms cycle lows. Here is the current balance of arguments. 🐻 Bear arguments ⏺ The 107k level on BTC acted as clean resistance ⏺ Price sits below most major trend levels except the weekly one ⏺ Long term holders and classic four year cycle sellers keep unloading ⏺ Crypto continues to underperform traditional markets with weak correlation ⏺ The MSTR premium collapsed from 2.5x to roughly 1.0x and buying from Saylor is far smaller than before ⏺ US labor data keeps softening ⏺ Equity indices look stretched at record highs and can drop fast on weak macro 🐂 Bull arguments ➡️ BTC trades above the 55 week moving average ➡️ Above the yearly vWAP that institutions use for trend entries ➡️ Holding the long weekly trend line from 2022 ➡️ The 90 day gold lag window is close to finishing ➡️ BTC to gold sits near a two year range low ➡️ Copper to gold sits at multi year lows ➡️ Talks of new stimulus checks ➡️ QT has ended ➡️ Rate cuts remain likely ➡️ The US economy still grows ➡️ Liquidity returns after the shutdown ➡️ The Clarity Act improves regulatory clarity ➡️ Stablecoin adoption can attract large new flows ➡️ ETH revenue and burn stay strong with institutional DeFi narratives picking up ➡️ The White House has political interest in crypto performing well ➡️ IWM looks close to breaking a four to five year range ➡️ Many alts already dropped more than seventy five percent ➡️ Sentiment is extremely poor which often appears near cycle lows ➡️ The death cross frequently prints at bottoms ➡️ BTC trades half a standard deviation below the anchor vWAP from the last major bottom 🎯 What this might mean 🟢 Underperformance versus gold can flip into future outperformance 🟢 Four year sellers usually turn into buyers when the market holds long enough 🟢 Most of the MSTR premium collapse is already behind us The signals remain split, but the tension fits the middle of a cycle where both narratives sound convincing and neither gives a clear victory. 🐴Join the White Horse