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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