Published 22 Aug 2026, 00:50 UTC · fetched 3 Nov 2026, 10:58 UTC
Kevin Svenson
@KevinSvenson_
We just printed a 20%+ weekly candle and tore through every meaningful resistance that had contained price for weeks. $BTC $ETH #CRYPTO In a real bear market, retests are managed. They’re shallow. They’re designed to keep short exposure intact and even encourage more of it. This did the opposite — it wiped the short book clean. That is precisely why the probability of making a new low in Q4 just became extremely low. Incentive structure, positioning, and market mechanics all say the same thing. A lot of people who just got carried out will try to revenge short. It happens every cycle. They’ll tell themselves this was “just another bear market bounce” because accepting a structural shift is harder than fighting it. Ignore anyone still preaching caution as if nothing changed. Structure already confirmed the transition. Positioning got reset. Shorts were forced out of the market in size. You don’t do that if the goal is to keep the downtrend alive. In a sustained bear you protect the shorts, let them get more aggressive, and grind lower. Here the opposite happened: Shorts were invited in. Delta got extremely skewed. Price broke higher. Then the entire structure got squeezed into oblivion. That is not bear market behavior. That is how a trend change begins.View original on X ↗
Deterministic: the same prices and policy always give the same result
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Only the end-of-horizon price counts. A brief move followed by a reversal is not a success. Read the methodology
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