Altcoin Charts Flash 2021-Style Breakout Setup

Crypto analyst Kevin (Kev Capital TA) argues that altcoins are replaying the identical structural script that preceded the 2021 “altseason,” this time on the ratio of the altcoin market cap excluding Ethereum and stablecoins versus Bitcoin (typically proxied as “Total3/BTC”). In a video posted late on September 2, he contends that confluence throughout weekly and month-to-month timeframes—on each linear and logarithmic scales—exhibits a Wyckoff-style bottoming course of culminating in a “spring” and vary reclaim, with momentum and breadth indicators lining up the way in which they did forward of the 2021 surge.

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Kevin frames the present second as a direct analogue to the final cycle’s transition from despair to acceleration, emphasizing that the construction, not headlines, got here first then as now. “We’re seeing weekly time-frame, month-to-month time-frame historic setups,” he mentioned, including that the weekly linear chart of Total3/BTC has retraced into an accumulation vary, pierced help in a capitulation-style flush, after which reclaimed the vary—what he calls a “spring part” that “led to the 2021 alt season.” The sequence, he argues, is strikingly just like the 2018–2020 base that in the end exploded increased in 2021 after the market “gave up” on altcoins.

The analyst is express that this setup is conditional on macro “elements” that allow threat to be repriced. “We’re going to have to see decrease inflation or flat inflation, a softening labor market however not a crashing labor market, and softening development however not crashing development,” he mentioned. That blend, in his view, would enable the Federal Reserve to shift the steadiness of threat towards employment, pull down the two-year yield, raise rate-cut expectations, and maybe curtail the “final little bit” of quantitative tightening—“possibly also have a impartial to increasing steadiness sheet.” With “a number of macro knowledge coming over the subsequent three weeks” and the FOMC set for September 17, he argues This fall is the important window. “It’s all lining up proper now… we simply want that final push.”

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On the weekly linear timeframe, Kevin factors to indicator symmetry with the 2021 liftoff. He cites a contemporary weekly purchase on Market Cipher and says its “cash move” profile is tracing the identical contour because the prior cycle’s spring. He provides that “whale cash move bottomed out at the very same stage because it did in 2021,” the MACD “crossed to the upside at the very same stage,” and the stochastic RSI has already surged to 96. In 2021, he notes, “as soon as we broke the 80 stage and stayed above it… you bought your most aggressive worth motion.” The implication is {that a} push towards the “100 stage” may coincide with the interval of most upside impulse, because it did over the past cycle’s early thrust.

He then zooms out to the month-to-month log chart of Total3/BTC, the place he locates what he describes as an eight-year help band round “the 0.27 to 0.24 space,” an extended down-trendline of resistance now assembly “the next low construction,” and a momentum backdrop he characterizes as classically divergent.

On Market Cipher’s month-to-month momentum waves, “increased lows, increased lows, increased lows, whereas worth motion made decrease lows… that may be a bullish divergence,” he mentioned, stressing that this sign is most potent at main historic helps. The month-to-month RSI, he provides, seems to be “peeking our heads out” of a multi-year downtrend channel for the primary time because the 2021 prime. In the meantime, the month-to-month stochastic RSI has carved a “full-blown V-shaped flip” up from close to zero however has “hasn’t even come near breaking the 80 stage but,” which in his framework is exactly when “you’ll not see your most bullish worth motion till you break the 80 stage.”

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Kevin locations specific weight on a double-bottom motif in his month-to-month L-MACD learn, calling it “the identical precise bottoming sample” that fashioned between June and December 2020. “If you double backside and make a mainly a double backside… recreation on,” he mentioned, arguing that the renewed cross echoes the momentum inflection that preceded the altcoin surge into early 2021. He additionally notes that July and June printed a two-step low just like the June/December 2020 pair that marked the prior regime shift.

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The through-line is that breadth is starting to show at a structural stage whereas momentum gauges transition from deeply detrimental to optimistic throughout timeframes. He underscores that the sign is showing in tandem throughout linear weekly and log month-to-month views, which he describes as unprecedented in its alignment. “There’s by no means been a time the place these two charts have seemed the way in which that they appear in tandem on log and linear on the weekly, on the month-to-month,” he mentioned. If that symmetry holds, he expects “the altcoin market cap to begin stealing dominance away from Bitcoin at the next sooner tempo than we’ve seen because the earlier altcoin season.”

Though his thesis facilities on Total3/BTC, Kevin frames it inside his earlier, well-telegraphed Ethereum calls from Could/June, arguing that “ETH… has hit a brand new all-time excessive” and that “the underside is in on ETH versus Bitcoin, ETH dominance, and clearly the ETHUSD chart.” He presents the altcoin rotation as a sequel: “Similar to how ETH versus Bitcoin and ETH dominance and even ETHUSD have been organising earlier than it made its large run in opposition to Bitcoin,” with Total3 now displaying “two months in a row of outperformance” from a serious help band—a mix he had highlighted in Ethereum earlier than its advance.

Even with the technicals aligned, Kevin is cautious to caveat timelines and seasonality. He characterizes September as “normally weak,” with the extra forceful part of any rotation doubtless contingent on macro confirmation into Q4. “The charts can precede the information,” he mentioned, “nevertheless, that’s by no means assured.” For now, he sees a maturing base, a reclaimed vary after a capitulative spring, and momentum constructions that, in prior cycles, marked the boundary between grinding bottoms and impulsive advances. “If there was ever going to be a time that it was going to occur… now’s the time,” he concluded, whereas reiterating the dependency on incoming knowledge: “I don’t know what the macro knowledge goes to appear like, however I do know what this chart appears like… be careful for Total3.”

At press time, TOTAL3 stood at $1.04 trillion.

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