This pause isn’t random. It’s a rotation phase markets repeat every cycle.
The sequence is always the same: – Uncertainty peaks → capital runs to gold – Gold breaks out → then ranges – Early profits look for higher beta – Bitcoin gets tested next
Gold already made its move. Now momentum is stalling, not reversing.
Bitcoin is sitting in the transfer window: - Too strong to ignore. - Too early for comfort.
If rotation follows through, expansion comes next. If it delays, defense holds briefly.
These zones never announce themselves. Price makes them obvious later.
Roughly $300bn fall in $ liq over past few weeks driven mostly by $200bn rise in TGA, gov could be raising cash balances to fund spending in case of shutdown. $BTC falling not a surprise given the fall in $ liquidity.
$BTC Looking at this chart, it is quite clear that the market no longer moves spontaneously. Nowadays, the price is accompanied, pushed, stopped and then thrown back in the same way. @binance sets the pace, and the others follow.
These sharp movements are not fear or sudden enthusiasm: they are cleansing. It is necessary to get rid of those who are too exposed, tire those who are waiting, and then immediately bring in those who arrive late, convinced that 'this time it's different'.
And this is where it becomes almost amusing: manipulation is not a bug in the system, it is the system itself. Without these phases, the market would not even be able to restart, because someone has to lose in order for the game to continue.
First, they scare away the inexperienced, then they attract the newcomers, then they put them under pressure again... and the cycle starts all over again. Always the same, always effective.
In the meantime, those who really trade are not looking for heroes or epic predictions: they observe, wait, reduce risk and let others fuel the fire.
The market is not manipulated against you. It is simply indifferent. It is up to you to decide whether to be a spectator... or part of the mechanism.