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Bitcoin’s Moment? Analyst Urges Traders To Swap Gold For Crypto

A well-known crypto analyst is urging investors to rethink the old trade of gold for Bitcoin, calling current market signals a rare buying ￰0￱ Reading: Biggest Shiba Inu Burn In Months — And It Came From A Coinbase Account According to CryptoQuant author Joao Wedson, a set of bottom signals in the BTC/Gold ratio are flashing, and that could mark a turning point in how the two assets move against each ￰1￱ Signals Point Toward Bitcoin Wedson’s chart shows two tags — one blue and one green — that line up with a normalized oscillator he says is at a ￰2￱ to him, the blue tag marks a bottom in the BTC/Gold ratio while the green tag appears when both indicators reach lows ￰3￱ that has happened before, it often came at times of steep Bitcoin drops and big swings in market ￰4￱ to Wedson, today is a “historic opportunity” and that investors should now “trade gold for Bitcoin.” Historic Opportunity: Trade Gold for Bitcoin. 🟡⮕₿ Bottom signals in the BTC/Gold ratio are extremely rare, and they tend to appear during high-volatility moments and sharp BTC drawdowns.

Well, we’re exactly there right ￰5￱ blue signal marks the current bottom, revealed… ￰6￱ — Joao Wedson (@joao_wedson) October 18, 2025 Arthur Hayes, the former BitMEX CEO, has echoed a similar view: “We’re exactly there right now,” he said, calling the setup one of the most compelling in recent ￰7￱ message from both analysts is clear: look closely at this ￰8￱ Seen At A Deep Value Zone Other market watchers find Bitcoin trading two standard deviations below its ideal ￰9￱ type of reading has in the past lined up with accumulation phases, not market ￰10￱ on CoinMarketCap data, BTC was trading near $107,400 at press time and had risen 0.45% in the previous 24 hours.

Year-to-date gains stood at 15%, and Bitcoin had gained nearly 55% over the last ￰11￱ figures were cited to show that the currency has already moved a lot this year, but that some measures still point to cheaper-than-usual ￰12￱ Shifts May Be Underway Wedson specifically urged institutional players who have been buying up gold to rethink ￰13￱ BTC/Gold ratio has long been used as a gauge of confidence between the two stores of ￰14￱ it hits a bottom, some market cycles have followed with Bitcoin regaining ground quickly and, in some cases, moving toward fresh highs within ￰15￱ is the historical pattern his signal is tied ￰16￱ of the language used by analysts was blunt; the oscillator was described as “basically screaming: time to sell gold and buy Bitcoin,” a phrase that underlines how strong the signal appears to those calling ￰17￱ Reading: Bitcoin Plunges To $105k As Investors Shift To Gold After Crypto Carnage Retail Losses Hit Billions While the ratio story points to upside, a separate disclosure shows a different risk for ordinary ￰18￱ from 10X Research say retail buyers lost around $17 billion after piling into public Bitcoin treasury firms that traded at ￰19￱ companies — including MicroStrategy (now Strategy) and Metaplanet — issued shares and used the cash to buy Bitcoin, but the equity premiums collapsed as Bitcoin’s run ￰20￱ report added that investors overpaid by about $20 billion in inflated equity premiums, leaving many with losses while insiders and executives benefited earlier in the ￰21￱ image from Unsplash, chart from TradingView

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