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Market Selloff Dynamics + Bottoming
The goal of this write up is to give you a bit of insight on how I spot HTF pivot points in markets. We want to understand the psychology behind risk unwinding and use that to our advantage to potentially spot bottoms.
1. Low Conviction Sells First
- When uncertainty hits, sellers dump what they least desire i.e., lower conviction coins will top first and bleed early.
- Think about it logically. If you're in a pinch and needed cash irl, you're not going to sell your prized possessions, you're gunna sell the crap you never use.
- Likewise, traders will sell what they’re least emotionally invested in to build cash when uncertain or want to decrease risk.
- It’s not a coincidence that this has happened every HTF top this cycle. Alts don't rally after, they rally during. They also top weeks before BTC even shows an ounce of weakness.
- It’s an early warning. Smart traders de-risk before the crowd even knows what's happening.
2. Risk vs. Quality
- Let's go back to the earlier metaphor. People will hold onto their quality prized possessions for as long as they possibly can. It's not until they're desperate that they will part with them.
- The most desirable coins, more often than not, will attempt to hold their gains for as long as possible. This is why BTC always looks fine and you see dozens of "Why is everyone panicking, BTC looks great" tweets weeks before sell offs.
In selloffs:
a) Junk sells early
b) Quality sells late
c) Everything sells eventually
Watch the order of events. It’s a map of stress flow.
3. Reflexivity Kicks In
- Early weakness causes more weakness.
- Once a whale starts to unload into exhausted demand they begin to induce weakness. Classic signs of distribution, absorption, exhaustion, trend loss etc.
- A character shift in a risk asset will make the first order of experienced traders reassess.
- "I didn't sell top, but the character of the trend has shifted. Time to reduce exposure/close"
- “If this is nuking, what else am I exposed to?”
Suddenly:
Rebalancing triggers more selling
This is reflexivity.
A feedback loop of diminishing risk appetite.
4. Volatility: The Dance
Before many big selloffs in BTC, markets go quiet. Volatility drops. Trends become ranges. Complacency peaks.
Then, boom.
Let's talk a bit about balance and imbalance.
- Balance is achieved once the market begins to agree on what's expensive and what's cheap. It's a dance. Equilibrium.
- Equilibrium is calm. What's known is known. Speculation diminishes. Volatility compresses.
- The dance continues until one party gets bored, tired or wants to go to the bar to get another drink. i.e. buyers or sellers get exhausted; changes to supply/demand.
- Equilibrium is damaged- and once it breaks: Imbalance.
- Price displaces violently. Value becomes unclear; volatility explodes. The market craves balance and will actively seek it.
- Price often returns to areas where recent balance was formed- hvn, orderblock, composite value etc.
- This is where you get the sharpest bounces.
"First test, best test"
- Subsequent tests will provide diminishing reactions. Things become structural. Price accepts its new home. Volatility compresses. Balance is found once again.
5. The Flow of a Selloff & Spotting Bottoms
Capitulation isn’t the beginning of the end; it’s the end of the middle.
a) Alts vs. Bitcoin
- This cycle alts often do the bulk of their selling before BTC capitulates.
- Recent example: Fartcoin sold off 88% from its top before the late February BTC capitulation. Since this is true, we can begin to use it as an edge when looking for exhaustion (bottoming)
- The strongest alts will begin to show relative strength (exhaustion) earlier as BTC is still being hyper-volatile and looking for new balance.
- In order words, look for good alts to begin to achieve balance as BTC is in the later stages of imbalance.
As participants, our goal is to spot these divergences:
“Has momentum shifted?”
“Is volatility compressing?”
"Is the velocity of selling diminishing?"
“Is it holding while BTC makes new lows?”
Signs of bottoming in Q2:
- Momentum loss (Fartcoin)
- SFP/Deviation (Hype/Sui)
- Higher lows vs BTC’s lower lows (Pepe)
In short: alts front-load their pain, then decrease in velocity as BTC bottoms.
Remember this how we spot "good" alts.
The weak stay weak.
The strong start whispering before the market speaks.
b) Bitcoin vs. SPX
Now a little exercise for you all
Combine all the concepts in this thread and maybe the following begins to make sense:
Summer '23: BTC topped before SPX, bottomed earlier
Summer '24: BTC topped before SPX, absorbed the macro related SPX crash at range low
So far in '25: BTC topped before SPX, absorbed a 20% SPX crash at range low
TL;DR
Bottoms are a process, not a moment.
Alts First
Bitcoin Next
SPX Last
Watch for the structure, not just the sentiment.

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on the other hand, setting aside the pessimism, here's what we've got:
- nearly down 80% from the top
- sitting right on the last monthly OB
- retesting a major 11-year diagonal
from my perspective, this 4-year downtrend could very well find its bottom around here. The only catch is that we're dealing with a very htf chart, so some more consolidation might be on the cards before any real move up
that said, they way this chart is shaping up, plus the confluence im seeing with a few other setups, gives me the sense that Q3/Q4 might catch everyone off guard


owen1.6.2025
so far, this cycle has been beyond embarrassing compared to the last two
guess whoever's running this simulation must have had a bad day — it completely ghosted the usual setup
may the second half of the year give us at least a piece of what we've been chasing all along

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i was completely wrong on the Q1 trade — no doubt about it
still, its a trade i would've taken every time. betting on history has shaped entire cycles, and its deeply tied to how i see the market
this time, though, the script didnt play out. the patterns we once trusted are fading, and the games evolving — faster, sharper, harder to read
adapt or be left behind. no other choice
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if you go back to february and check out how memecoins were doing, especially when PEPE was doing well, you'll see there's only one coin that really moves in sync with PEPE, sometimes even performing better
well, this coin is now forming a double-bottom on the daily chart, and from my perspective, poised for round 2
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