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TA MASTERCLASS: Summer Doldrums vs. Bloodbath: Where I’m Hunting 📉🔥

2026-07-23

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BTC, ETH and SOL are rebounding from key technical shelves while TSLA, MSTR and some AI names are in fast-moving selloff/rotation territory, with the core trading frame built around buy/sell signals, 200-day levels, and seasonal summer weakness. The strongest bullish calls are that BTC can reclaim 69K and then 100K-120K within 6-12 months, while TSLA’s historical pattern still points to 50% in 90 days and 239%-240% in a year if the model repeats. The video repeatedly favors swapping weaker, sell-signaled names into stronger ones like IBIT, and using covered calls/put sales at extremes rather than holding through breakdowns. It also leans hard into AI-capex names, arguing the market is still rewarding semis and infrastructure while being selective on the quality of the trade.

  • Crypto market cap is up 10% for the month, with BTC, ETH and SOL all rebounding while VIX is at 19.5.
  • BTC bounced off the 58K-59K shelf where a lot of buying happened between 60K and 63K; whales stepped in first, then ETFs joined in over the last 5-6 days.
  • BTC’s red support line, hit in February and pierced in July, is holding again; the critical level is 69K, about $4K away, and a break above it is framed as the bull market starting.
  • BTC could chop sideways in the prior box for another 75 days after a 175-day breakout-to-breakout span and a prior 250-day sideways stretch; the chart already shows a buy signal and positive trend.
  • ETH bounced off a $1,500 killbox; its 200-day moving average is 21.81, ETF flows are described as very strong, and Schwab plus Morgan Stanley are said to be buying in.
  • ETH has not yet printed a fresh buy signal after the dip on the weekly, even though lower-level buy signals and top sell signals have been appearing.
  • On the BTC/gold cycle chart, BTC is expected to outperform gold through September 2027, then the next 12 months are explicitly framed as BTC being the faster horse.
  • SOL is around $75.40, in a bear market, with nine red months in a row; it is a clean bounce off a level one ATR above the zombie zone and faces the 200-day moving average near $88.
  • A $64 SOL print is the stated buy trigger; if SOL gets back above the 200-day, it is said to tend to stay there, as it did for 511 days last time.
  • MSTR is in the zombie zone, around $93, far below its 200-day and described as beaten to death; the trade rule is sell on a sell signal and move into IBIT until another green candle.
  • The MSTR-to-IBIT swap examples cite 44% in 27 days and 58% over 142 trading days, with the claim that the pair trade can be done tax-free in a retirement account.
  • TSLA had a black-swan day, fell 13.8% to about 315, and 322 is the key level; the first buy signal around 9:00 a.m. Pacific was a fake-out, followed by a sell signal and then another buy attempt.
  • TSLA is down 29% year to date, but the same-history model still maps to 50% in 90 days, about 480-485, and 239%-240% in a year, about 775.
  • The model extends to BTC: if the TSLA-style upside mapping were applied, BTC would be $150,000, but that outcome is not expected within a year.
  • MCHP is framed as an oversold mean-reversion trade with a clear buy signal on April 1, 2026 and another major dip buy on July 20, with the stock then moving up from that low.
  • MCHP at $800 is called a no-brainer; IA’s $1,600 call is cited, and the preference is for things that double or triple.
  • MRVL ran from $75 calls to almost 340 and then pulled back; the summer buy signal was at 186 with a ramp-back target to 260, while 169-170 is the level to watch if you have no position.
  • ALAB ran from roughly $80-$88 at the end of March to 500; a 550-call hedge sold 4-5 weeks out was called the clearest hedge ever, and the current buy signal is 285 with after-hours at 328.51.
  • AVGO popped to 500, then fell out of bed; 350 is the nibble zone, but it is not as fast a horse as the hotter names.
  • AMD ripped from 200 to 540 in 8 weeks during the wild first half of 2026 AI tape; the view is that it may not break out again until September or October because summers suck.
  • Copper is treated as an easy triple through 2030, the only precious metal held, and it is trying to break out near 670-671 while outperforming gold by as much as 46% this year.
  • The rule stated from the metal and crypto charts is that the first asset leads the next leg, so BTC is preferred over gold and copper over gold.
  • SANM? No — the SanDisk put trade is on December 28 1450 puts for $600 premium, described as safe down to about 850, with the claim that you need a 50% fall to lose money on the puts.
  • Forward Industries is said to hold just over 7 million SOL and trade at a 41% discount versus SOL, with a stable 0% difference over months and a 2% YTD delta in its favor.
  • A basket example, DFTV, is cited at a 51% discount, while fly-by-night treasury companies are called very risky and Forward Industries is called pretty safe.
  • TSLA was down 13th-worst all time over 16-17 years, yet the long-hold rule is still Buffett-style: if you can’t hold 10 years or stomach a 50% drawdown, don’t buy.
  • SpaceX’s Starship 13 is flying today after two Raptor engines were swapped last week, and the relative valuation versus TSLA is described as a 71% gain between owning one versus the other.
  • SpaceX upside/downside scenarios are given as $100 on the upside and an $18 downside, with unlocks continuing until about November.
  • A TRS/IBIT/Tesla rotation frame is repeated in segment 2: if the trade can be tax-free, buy MARV first because it should rebound 100% faster, then rotate into TSLA, and later back into BTC if TSLA reaches 775.
  • Tech/security setup advice is to use a Mac, Brave Browser and Proton Email; the rationale is that Macs are harder for scam software and the speaker says they use a Mac Studio, with three in the house.