What Is the RSI? The Relative Strength Index (RSI) is a momentum oscillator developed by J. Welles Wilder Jr. and introduced in his 1978 book New Concepts in Technical Trading Systems. It measures the speed and magnitude of recent price changes to evaluate whether an asset is potentially overextended to the upside or the downside….
BD Pulse extreme fear — that’s the only way to describe a score of 6 out of 100. Deep in Extreme Bear territory, just two points above the three-month low of 4. The BD Extreme Index is at −1.88σ — approaching the Extremely Oversold threshold that has historically marked meaningful market turning points. BTC is…
BD Extreme Index explained — and why BD Pulse alone isn’t always enough. BD Pulse tells you what the market looks like right now. But “right now” without historical context can be misleading. A score of 70 might look elevated — but is it actually unusual, or is that just a normal reading for this…
BD Pulse explained — and why I built it in the first place. Most sentiment tools I tried were either too vague (“fear and greed”), too lagging, or too narrow — focused only on price or only on derivatives. I wanted something that combined multiple signals into a single, actionable number updated every day. So…
Five bitcoin on-chain indicators — read together, in real time. This is what the data is saying right now. Every time Bitcoin makes a significant move — up or down — the same debate plays out across crypto Twitter: is this the start of something bigger, or a bull trap? A dead cat bounce, or…
Bitcoin dominance is the one chart I check before buying any altcoin. I learned this the hard way — buying altcoins during periods of rising BTC dominance and watching them bleed in BTC terms even when the broader market looked okay. Once I understood what dominance was actually measuring, I stopped making that mistake. In…
Crypto funding rate explained — and why it became one of the first things I check before entering any significant position. Funding rate is one of those indicators that looks confusing at first but becomes essential once you understand it. I ignored it for a long time because the mechanics seemed technical. But once I…
NVT ratio explained — Bitcoin’s equivalent of a P/E ratio, and one of the cleanest ways to assess whether the network is fundamentally over or undervalued. If you’ve ever used a P/E ratio to value a stock, the NVT ratio will feel immediately familiar. I came across NVT after spending too much time staring at…
If MVRV tells you where the market is in the cycle, SOPR tells you what holders are doing right now. I started paying attention to SOPR after noticing that price action alone wasn’t enough to tell me whether a rally was sustainable or a dead cat bounce. SOPR filled that gap — it shows whether…
A practical guide to the MVRV ratio — what it measures, how to read market cycle signals, and how to combine it with other on-chain indicators.
Bitcoin on-chain data at $77K — what the metrics are actually showing beneath the price action. Bitcoin has pulled back sharply from its all-time high of $126,000 reached in late 2025, now consolidating around the $77,000 level. Price action alone tells only half the story. Beneath the surface, on-chain data is painting a picture that…
Trading fees are a fixed cost of active participation in crypto markets. Unlike price risk, they don’t fluctuate — they compound quietly, trade by trade, regardless of whether a position is profitable. The standard taker fee on Bitget futures is 0.06%. Entry and exit combined, that’s 0.12% per round trip. For a trader running three…
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