@jimcramer
Pemilih saham paling berisik di televisi Amerika — dan di kripto, suara yang paling sering dilawan. Cramer bukan trader kripto; ia pembawa acara CNBC yang mengatakan apa yang ia pikirkan tentang Bitcoin di depan kamera, lengkap dengan tanggal. Justru karena itu rekam jejaknya bisa diperiksa, dan justru karena itu “Inverse Cramer” menjadi sebuah posisi tersendiri.
Singkatnya. Jim Cramer is a former Goldman Sachs salesman and hedge fund manager who has hosted CNBC's Mad Money since 2005 and runs the CNBC Investing Club. Crypto is a sideline for him, not a specialty — but he talks about it constantly, on the record, so it can be scored. In the last seven months he has gone from “I own Bitcoin and I do think it's a good buy” (May) to calling Bitcoin “bad money” (June) to “I'm going to sell mine” over quantum computing (July) to “Just go buy Bitcoin” (August) — and on 1 October, “if you like Bitcoin I got an idea, buy Bitcoin”. Charted against real price, the bearish turns are where he has been most wrong: the three negative calls have since gone +36%, +29% and +31% in the direction he warned against, while his one clean buy call is +21% in his favour. He is a reach-driven contrarian indicator, not a source of levels — and this page treats him as exactly that.
Karier Cramer bukan karier kripto. Ia kuliah Government di Harvard, meraih gelar hukum di sana pada 1984, masuk Goldman Sachs di divisi sales dan trading, lalu pada 1987 mendirikan hedge fund sendiri — Cramer & Co., kemudian Cramer Berkowitz — yang ia pimpin sampai mundur pada 2001. Ia mengklaim imbal hasil rata-rata 24% per tahun selama 14 tahun di sana; peneliti independen membantah angka itu, dan tidak ada catatan teraudit yang dipublikasikan. Pada 1996 ia ikut mendirikan TheStreet bersama Martin Peretz, dan sejak 2005 membawakan Mad Money di CNBC, tempat ia juga mengelola CNBC Investing Club berbayar beserta Charitable Trust-nya.
Di kripto ia terutama dikenal sebagai sasaran posisi berlawanan. Riwayat terdokumentasinya adalah rentetan putar balik: pada April 2021 ia mengatakan di CNBC bahwa ia menjual sebagian Bitcoin-nya di sekitar ~$60 ribu untuk melunasi KPR; pada 6 Desember 2022, saat BTC di kisaran $16.796, ia menyatakan telah membuang seluruh kriptonya, menyebutnya “a gigantic con” dan mengatakan tak akan menyentuhnya “in a million years” — Bitcoin kemudian naik lebih dari 400% dalam tiga tahun berikutnya. Polanya begitu populer sampai Tuttle Capital meluncurkan Inverse Cramer Tracker ETF (SJIM); dana itu dibubarkan pada Februari 2024, tanpa berhasil mengalahkannya. Peristiwa-peristiwa itu berada di luar jendela harga tujuh bulan yang bisa digrafikkan halaman ini, tetapi tetap bagian dari rekam jejaknya, jadi disebutkan di sini alih-alih dihilangkan diam-diam.
Sources: cnbc.com · x.com/jimcramer · dated third-party coverage (linked on every call)
Narasi dulu, keyakinan penuh, tanpa level. Cramer bekerja dari fundamental perusahaan, akses ke manajemen (ia mewawancarai CEO setiap malam) dan sebuah cerita makro yang terus berjalan — The Fed, suku bunga, siklus belanja modal AI, utang. Untuk kripto ia hampir tak pernah memberi target harga, level, atau titik pembatalan; yang ia beri adalah sikap, disampaikan dengan keyakinan total dan direvisi tanpa basa-basi ketika ceritanya berubah. Keluarnya ia dari Bitcoin pada Juli 2026 lahir dari satu wawancara CEO soal komputasi kuantum — dan dibalik di udara tiga minggu kemudian. Bagi pembaca, di situlah seluruh pelajarannya: keyakinan dalam cara menyampaikan tidak mengatakan apa pun tentang keyakinan di baliknya, dan ukuran posisi, jangka waktu serta stop tidak pernah disebut karena memang tidak ada.
Ini bukan netral, melainkan benar-benar labil. Mei membeli, Juni meremehkan, Juli menyatakan menjual, Agustus membeli lagi — semuanya dalam empat bulan. Kami menaruh jarum di tengah karena itulah rata-rata jujur dari sikap yang terus berbalik, bukan karena ia sedang menunggu di pagar.
Six dated statements from the last seven months, every one of them pulled back verbatim from its own source page before it was charted. Two come from CNBC's own write-ups and his own X account — first-party. Cramer does not trade crypto publicly, does not post levels and does not run a portfolio you can follow, so these are stances, scored on what price actually did next. The result is lopsided and we are not going to dress it up: 1 played out, 2 open, 3 went against him — and all three misses are moments he turned negative. Note also what is not here: no outlet has ever verified that he actually sold any Bitcoin, so this page says he said he would.
“Now, look, if you like Bitcoin I got an idea, buy Bitcoin.”
Reviewing the third quarter on Mad Money, he noted that Bitcoin's rally had lifted Strategy (MSTR) 76% — and told viewers to skip the levered proxy and own the coin. It repeats his 20 August line, and like that one it is a conditional buy: no level, no timeframe, no stop. BTC's daily point for 1 October is $83,576; the show airs at 6pm New York time, about two hours before the next point, $84,842 on 2 October. Since then BTC has dipped to $81,686 (−2.3%), reached $86,490 (+3.5%) and sits at $83,778 (+0.2%) — −1.3% from the 2 October point. Two weeks is far too early to score, so this is open. Quote and date are Insider Monkey's account of the 1 October episode; CNBC's own write-up confirms that night's show was the third-quarter review but does not carry the Bitcoin line.
SourceStrategy (MSTR) Rallied 76%, but Jim Cramer Would Rather Own Bitcoin — Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance↗ finance.yahoo.com“Just go buy Bitcoin. Don't buy the derivatives.”
Asked in the Mad Money lightning round about BitMine Immersion (BMNR), he told the caller to skip the equity and own the coin — three weeks after saying he would sell his own. BTC was $69,291 that night. It has never traded lower since (+0.0% worst dip), ran to $86,597 (+25.0%) on 22 September and sits at $83,778 (+20.9%). His cleanest crypto call of the window, and the one that most directly contradicts the call before it.
SourceCramer's lightning round: “Just go buy Bitcoin. Don't buy the derivatives.” — CNBC↗ cnbc.com“Arvind Krishna knows quantum incredibly. He knows Bitcoin and quantum. And I'm going to sell mine.”
After IBM CEO Arvind Krishna told him to get “rather paranoid” about cryptography inside three or four years, Cramer said he was out. BTC was $64,743. It then fell just 3.0% to $62,773, ran to $86,597 (+33.8%) and is $83,778 today (+29.4%) — and he was publicly recommending it again 20 days later. Dating note: outlets differ, some placing the on-air exchange on 31 July and others on 3–4 August; BTC traded $62.8k–$64.7k across that whole span, so the verdict is the same either way. No sale has ever been verified — no wallet, no size, no proof. We score the statement, not a trade.
SourceJim Cramer Is Selling His Bitcoin Over Quantum Threat — Decrypt↗ decrypt.co“I realize I'm waiting. Ethereum, really, maybe even worse.”
In the same breath he singled out Ethereum as the more exposed of the two. ETH was $1,918. It dipped 3.9% to $1,843, then ran to $2,775 (+44.7%) and trades at $2,514 (+31.1%) — the strongest move of any asset on this page, in the opposite direction. To be fair to the argument: quantum risk is a multi-year thesis and two months cannot falsify it. What two months can judge is the trading implication he attached to it, and that implication was wrong.
Source“Ethereum, really, maybe even worse” — Decrypt↗ decrypt.co“Bitcoin and gold--bad money, being liquidated for SpaceX. Apple and Nvidia --good money--being liquidated”
A one-line dismissal posted mid-selloff: BTC was the money being dumped for better assets. It was $61,670 that day — and that was close to the end of it. The subsequent low was $58,566, only 5.0% lower; from there BTC ran to $86,597 (+40.4%) and now sits at $83,778 (+35.8%). Verified in full through the public X syndication endpoint, so the wording above is his, including the dashes.
𝕏 Post“Bitcoin and gold--bad money, being liquidated for SpaceX” — @jimcramer↗ x.com“I own Bitcoin and I do think it's a good buy right here for the long term.”
Answering a caller sitting on a loss, he said he owned BTC and would not double down, but that it was a buy. BTC was $74,340. Anyone who acted on it then watched a 21.2% drawdown to $58,566 before it recovered; today it is $83,778 (+12.7%), and the best it has managed was $86,597 (+16.5%). He also framed it as long term, which we take at face value — four months does not settle a long-term call, so this is open, not a win and not a miss.
SourceCramer on Mad Money, 28 May 2026: “a good buy right here for the long term” — 24/7 Wall St.↗ 247wallst.comHasil penilaian adalah pembacaan kami atas sikap yang ia nyatakan terhadap harga nyata CoinGecko, bukan penilaian dia sendiri — dan menilai sikap tanpa level maupun jangka waktu selalu mengandung unsur pertimbangan. Bila pemberitaan berbeda soal tanggal, kami menyebutkannya langsung di kartunya. Penilaian jangka pendek bisa berubah.
Uang Cramer datang dari CNBC dan dari langganan, bukan dari kripto. Itu menghapus satu konflik kepentingan — ia tidak sedang menggoreng kantongnya sendiri — dan memunculkan konflik lain: produknya adalah satu jam televisi setiap malam, dan televisi memberi imbalan pada opini kuat tentang segala hal, setiap hari, termasuk pada hari ketika jawaban jujurnya adalah “saya tidak tahu”.
Mad Money tayang sejak 2005. Ia dibayar sebagai pembawa acara jaringan; insentifnya adalah penonton dan waktu tayang, yang memberi imbalan pada banyaknya dan tegasnya opini, bukan pada akurasi tiap pernyataan.
Produk langganan berbayar yang dibangun di sekitar portofolio Charitable Trust miliknya dan peringatan transaksi. Cakupannya saham, bukan kripto — jadi pandangannya soal Bitcoin adalah komentar, bukan produk yang ia jual.
Salah satu pendiri TheStreet (1996), tempat ia menulis sampai 2021, dan penulis beberapa buku termasuk Confessions of a Street Addict dan Get Rich Carefully.
“Just go buy Bitcoin. Don't buy the derivatives.”
20 Aug 2026 · pernyataan ronde kilat yang terbukti benar“Arvind Krishna knows quantum incredibly. He knows Bitcoin and quantum. And I'm going to sell mine.”
31 Jul 2026 · keputusan keluar yang ia balik tiga minggu kemudian“Bitcoin and gold--bad money, being liquidated for SpaceX. Apple and Nvidia --good money--being liquidated”
10 Jun 2026 · diunggah 5% di atas titik terendahKutipan diambil dari sumber publik miliknya sendiri; ini pandangan yang dinyatakan, bukan rekomendasi.
Tidak ada pustaka video di sini. Keluaran Cramer adalah televisi siaran — Mad Money dan Squawk on the Street di CNBC — bukan unggahan ke kanal miliknya sendiri, dan halaman video CNBC tidak menyertakan transkrip. Ketimbang menjejali bagian ini dengan klip yang tidak bisa kami kutip, kami membiarkannya kosong: setiap pernyataan yang digrafikkan di atas adalah tulisan CNBC atau unggahan X, ditautkan pada kartunya dan direproduksi kata demi kata dalam korpus terverifikasi di balik halaman ini. Kami tidak menggrafikkan klaim yang tidak bisa kami kutip persis.
James Joseph Cramer — mantan sales Goldman Sachs yang memimpin hedge fund Cramer Berkowitz dari 1987 hingga 2001, ikut mendirikan TheStreet pada 1996, dan membawakan Mad Money di CNBC sejak 2005. Profesinya pemilih saham; kripto adalah sesuatu yang ia komentari, bukan bidang keahliannya.
A running market joke that fading his calls beats following them. It went far enough that Tuttle Capital listed an Inverse Cramer Tracker ETF (SJIM) — which was closed and liquidated in February 2024, having failed to beat him. On the six crypto calls charted on this page, three went against him, one played out and two are open. That is a small sample from one seven-month window, not proof of a reliable inverse signal — and it is worth noting the ETF built on exactly that premise did not work.
Pada Mei 2026 ia bilang punya, dan pada akhir Juli 2026 bilang akan menjualnya. Tidak ada penjualan yang pernah diverifikasi secara independen — ia tidak pernah mempublikasikan alamat dompet, bukti transaksi, atau ukuran posisi — jadi di luar rumahnya tak ada yang tahu apa yang ia pegang. Tiga minggu setelah keluar, ia menyuruh seorang penelepon membeli Bitcoin.
He is a television host, not a licensed adviser, and his crypto record in this window is 1 played out, 2 open and 3 against. He gives no levels, no timeframes and no invalidation, and he reverses without warning — the August buy call directly contradicted the July sell call. Treat his views as a dated, checkable opinion from a mainstream-finance voice, and never trade them blindly in either direction.
Gaya Cramer adalah keyakinan tanpa level: cerita yang kuat, disampaikan lantang, direvisi ketika ceritanya berubah. Seberapa dekat itu dengan cara Anda benar-benar memutuskan? Ukur sungguhan dengan Trader Passport.
Sampel tujuh bulan bukanlah keunggulan, dan ETF yang dibangun di atas premis itu sudah tutup. Uji idenya alih-alih memercayainya — dengan data pasar langsung, tanpa risiko modal, di turnamen BuyCrypt gratis berhadiah nyata.
Analisis informatif dan edukatif yang ketat berdasarkan materi yang tersedia untuk publik (tulisan CNBC sendiri, unggahan X-nya yang terverifikasi, dan pemberitaan pihak ketiga bertanggal, ditautkan pada setiap pernyataan). Bukan nasihat keuangan atau investasi. Angka bersifat perkiraan dan terus berubah. Spotted an error, or are you Jim? Kirim koreksi →
Akun terverifikasi · Sumber dicantumkan di atas · Metodologi penilaian · Diperbarui 14 October 2026
