🚨 WHY BITCOIN IS STUCK AND WHY IT WON’T LAST
If you’re wondering why $BTC keeps orbiting the $85K–$90K zone despite constant attempts to break out, here’s the real reason.
This isn’t trader indecision. It’s options mechanics.
Bitcoin is pinned near a key options pivot around $88K.
Above ~$88K
Market makers are forced to sell into strength and buy pullbacks.
Rallies get suppressed and dragged back toward equilibrium.
Below ~$88K
The dynamic flips. Selling amplifies volatility instead of absorbing it, making downside moves sharper.
That’s why price keeps snapping back to the same area.
Now look at $90K.
There’s a dense cluster of call options there. Dealers are short those calls, so every push toward $90K forces them to hedge by selling spot BTC. What looks like organic selling is actually mechanical supply right where momentum traders expect a breakout.
On the flip side, $85K is packed with puts. As price dips, dealers hedge by buying spot, causing fast rebounds.
Result: a tight, artificial range that feels stable but isn’t.
The key is timing.
A large portion of this options exposure expires on January 30, 2026. Once that expiry passes, the pin disappears not because sentiment changes, but because the forces holding price in place vanish.
Price Illusion vs. True Value… Is Gold Really “Expensive”?
While screens are fixated on the $5,000 per ounce headline and calling it “price madness,”
this chart tells a completely different story one that only appears if you look beyond nominal numbers.
Yes, gold is approaching the $5,000 level.
But the shocking truth is that, historically, it is still very cheap.
How is that possible?
Because this chart does not measure gold in U.S. dollars (a currency that has lost much of its purchasing power).
It measures gold against financial assets, stocks and bonds.
Back in 1980, gold exploded and massively outperformed everything else.
Today?
We are still near the bottom.
Gold has not yet caught up with the enormous inflation that occurred in equity markets (S&P 500) and in government debt.
What we are seeing now is not “expensive gold.”
It is the early stage of a historic correction between illusion and reality.
Smart money is beginning to realize that the traditional 50/50 portfolio no longer offers real protection,
and that the true “safe haven” is still at the beginning of its major cycle.
Don’t be fooled by nominal prices.
We are not buying gold because it went up we are buying it because everything else is a bubble waiting to be repriced.
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