Daan Crypto Trades

“The big clusters that are left in this range sit at $80K & $82K.”

With Bitcoin at $76,147, just after it swept the August lows, he said most of the liquidity below had been taken and named the two clusters left above as “magnets” that “could cause a further squeeze up.” Price never closed lower again — worst dip +0.0%. It hit $80,874 (+6.2%) two days later, $81,236 (+6.7%) the day after, and squeezed through both clusters to $86,597 (+13.7%) on 22 September. Today $83,099 (+9.1%).

“Above $67K things get exciting. From there on out you have $69K-$72K which is full of big high timeframe daily and weekly levels and moving averages.”

Another if/then, and he added: “until $67K is broken, we are just chopping sideways.” BTC was $64,263 and chopped for eleven more days — low $62,844 (−2.2%). On 20 August it closed above $67K at $69,291 (+7.8%), and “exciting” was an understatement: the $69K–$72K resistance he flagged barely slowed it, and two days later it was at $78,318 (+21.9%). It peaked at $86,597 (+34.8%) and sits at $83,099 (+29.3%) today. The trigger was right; the resistance zone was overrated.

“Until either the local highs are broken and push us higher in the range or the big support level is broken, this will just be a choppy few weeks.”

With BTC at $62,820 he refused to call a direction and named the two triggers instead. Both halves landed: price chopped in a $62,773–$64,917 band for the next nineteen days — a low of just −0.1% — then broke the local highs on 20 August exactly as he framed it. The move has since run as far as $86,597 (+37.8%); it sits at $83,099 (+32.3%) today.

“But I do think the longer price spends here, the more likely the $65K level is to break. Especially with the higher lows being made over the past 3 weeks.”

The $65K ceiling had rejected Bitcoin all month and most desks were calling for lower. Daan read the higher lows underneath it as pressure building upward. BTC was $64,670; it dipped just 2.9% to $62,773, then broke $65K and has since run as far as $86,597 (+33.9%). Today $83,099 (+28.5%). He also named ~$67,000 as where price would “break into a bullish market structure” — it did.

“A daily close above $64.7K flips the story and would make for a larger relief rally across the board. A close under $61.3K opens the road to the lows again and kills the momentum.”

The cleanest if/then on the page, and both branches resolved his way. BTC was $62,247 and never closed lower again — the worst dip from here is +0.0%, so his $61.3K invalidation was never touched. The $64.7K reclaim came, and the “larger relief rally” has run as far as $86,597 (+39.1%). Today $83,099 (+33.5%).

“I can easily see us trade in this $60K-$80K region for quite a while. Just need to not turn bearish at the range low and not get too excited at the range high region.”

His best call of the window, made while the tape was still breaking down and other traders quoted in the same article were looking for a deeper bear-market low. BTC was $63,274. It undercut $60K only briefly — low $58,566 (−7.4%) on 1 July — then rallied back to the top of his box, where it stalled through August and early September. The $60K–$80K range held for 103 days before Bitcoin broke out above it on 19 September, running to $86,597 (+36.9%). “Quite a while” proved right. Today $83,099 (+31.3%).

“Continuation down after that bearish retest in the low $80Ks region.”

In Bitcoin's worst week of 2026 he stayed short-side and named where it should stop: “Key area here in the low $60Ks least with the Weekly 200MA too.” Both held up. From $64,047 BTC fell a further 8.6% to $58,566 — a shallow undercut of the zone he flagged — and that was the bottom. It has since run as far as $86,597 (+35.2%) and sits at $83,099 (+29.7%).

“The longer price compresses around this $80K region, the more liquidity will be building up on both sides which should result in a larger more aggressive move at some point.”

A pure volatility-expansion call — he explicitly declined to say which way. It played out, violently, to the downside: from $79,069 Bitcoin lost 25.9% to $58,566 over the following six weeks. Grade it for what it was: he said the coil would snap hard and it did, but a reader who wanted a direction did not get one. He also flagged $71,000 as the nearest liquidity below — price went straight through it. Bitcoin has since recovered to $83,099 (+5.1%).

“Would want to see a move to at least clear that sticky area around the low $80Ks and hold there for a week or two.”

He called the move above the bull-market support band “not a clean break” and set a bar that was never cleared. BTC was $80,678 — it topped the very next day at $82,018 (+1.7%), never held the low $80Ks for anything like a week, and then lost 27.4% to $58,566. Refusing to confirm the breakout was the correct read, one day before the May high. His bar was only met four months later: since 22 September Bitcoin has held the low $80Ks, peaking at $86,597 (+7.3%). Today $83,099 (+3.0%).

“Acceptance higher can lead to a further bounce back into the $90Ks, but a rejection will likely keep this rangebound with $80K as the ceiling for a while.”

Two branches, and the bearish one is the one that ran. From $79,826 Bitcoin got six more days of upside — a high of $82,018 (+2.7%) — then rejected and fell 26.6% to $58,566. The $90Ks never came close. $80K stayed the ceiling for over four months — August and early September poked just above it at $80,268 and $81,265 and failed — until the breakout of 19–22 September to $86,597 (+8.5%). Today $83,099 (+4.1%).