TBL Liquidity, US Rates, Employment, & AI: TBL Weekly #155
Dear Readers,
At the start of July, we brought up a technical indicator, wherein a 50-day moving average crosses above a 200-day moving average—famously known as the Golden Cross. We mentioned how buying bitcoin at the start of a Golden Cross scenario has historically proven to be a solid opportunity, yielding positive returns on average over the past 10 years after 150 days of the cross.
As you can see from the chart, however, bitcoin has barely made par since the most recent Golden Cross on May 22nd of this year.
This rather weak performance showcases how bitcoin has fallen victim to its own seasonal patterns.
Over the past 10 years, June, August, and September have been the worst-performing months for bitcoin, with median monthly returns at 2.49%, -7.88%, and -3.08%, respectively. July, on the other hand, has been one of the best, with a median return of nearly 10%. Take a look at bitcoin’s performance this year throughout June, July, and August - the months following the Golden Cross. June was relatively flat, July was great, and August in the red:
Thus, the repetition of these historical patterns would suggest that September will continue to be slow (perhaps even negative) before the happy months of October and November, which have historically yielded median returns of 15% and 11.61%, respectively. We can’t just assume that history will repeat, but this just helps to anchor expectations. These slow expectations ultimately bring us back to our TBL Liquidity Quarterly Cycle.
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“By the time you read about it in the Wall Street Journal, it’s already too late.” - The Wolf of Wall Street
Earlier this year, our TBL Liquidity Quarterly Cycle told us that the next market trough would take place sometime between July and August. We initially thought it would take place around mid-July using statistical analysis, but suppressed bond volatility and a weak dollar kept pushing our forecast further out into the year. By July 25, we made the call to push our next liquidity trough to mid-August. We made the right call, because as soon as August started, we got the long-awaited trough in our cycle:
