@DaanCrypto
One of the most-quoted chart accounts in crypto media — and one of the least dramatic. Daan doesn't sell six-figure price targets; he marks ranges, moving averages, CME gaps and order-book liquidity, says which level decides the next move, and then waits. Cointelegraph quotes him almost weekly, which means his reads are dated in public and can be checked.
In short. Daan Crypto Trades is a pseudonymous Dutch full-time trader whose X account (~500K followers, opened in October 2017) has become a standing fixture of crypto market reporting. His method is deliberately narrow: Bitcoin first, a handful of tools — range highs and lows, the weekly/daily 200 moving averages, the bull-market support band, CME futures gaps and exchange liquidation heatmaps — and an explicit refusal to post directional hype. He is best read as a range trader: his standing 2026 frame was a $60K–$80K box, and most of his good calls in this window came from respecting it at both ends. His weakness is the flip side: when he does lean directional he can lean at exactly the wrong moment, as he did on the $84K CME gap in early May.
Daan trades full time from the Netherlands and has never made his real name public; the @DaanCrypto account dates to October 2017 and grew through the 2021 cycle on educational chart threads. In a 2024 Cointelegraph Hall of Flame profile he was described as Netherlands-based and in the 20–30 age bracket, with roughly 372,000 X followers at the time — he is nearer 500,000 today.
What distinguishes him from most accounts this size is the absence of a product. There is no paid group, no signals service and no course; in that same profile he said he is selective about sponsorships and only promotes platforms he uses, with an exchange affiliate deal (ByBit) as the visible revenue line. His posts have carried exchange deposit-bonus referral links, which is the conflict worth knowing about.
He is also on the record disliking the loud format: asked about long/short recommendations he said “I don't think it's something I like,” describing his output instead as “mostly just a Bitcoin or Ethereum chart where I roughly think we're heading.” That is exactly what the record below shows — levels and conditions, not targets.
For completeness, his out-of-window forecasts deserve a mention because they are not all good. In that May 2024 profile he put Bitcoin at $120,000 and Ether at $10,000 for H2 2025 and named Stacks (STX) as his most bullish pick of the cycle. The Bitcoin number landed; the Ether number was nowhere close, and ETH trades near $2.5K today. Those calls sit outside the 210-day price window this page charts, so they are disclosed here rather than scored.
Sources: cointelegraph.com (weekly markets coverage citing his X posts) · x.com/DaanCrypto · youtube.com/@DaanCrypto
Range-first Bitcoin technicals. Daan works top-down from a high-timeframe box — for most of 2026 that box was $60K–$80K — and then asks which edge is in play. Inside it he leans on a small, repeatable toolkit: the weekly and daily 200 moving averages, the bull-market support band, CME futures gaps as short-term magnets, and exchange liquidation heatmaps to find where liquidity is stacked. Calls are usually framed as conditions rather than predictions (“a daily close above X flips the story; a close under Y kills the momentum”), which makes them unusually easy to grade. The cost of that discipline is that he rarely commits early — and the one time in this window he did commit to an upside target, he did it days before the top.
Close to neutral by design. Daan's default is “this is a range until proven otherwise” — he turned bearish on the May breakdown, refused to turn bearish at the June lows, and turned constructive in July. He is a level-follower, not a permabull or permabear.
Twelve dated statements from the last five months of the price window, each one machine-checked against its source page before it was charted: the quote appears verbatim on the page, and the page's own publication date matches the date on the card. Nine come from Cointelegraph's markets desk quoting his X posts as they were written; three are the X posts themselves, captured through the syndication endpoint. Two caveats you should weigh. First, selection bias: these are the posts a newsroom chose to quote, which skews toward his most quotable moments — this is not a complete log of everything he said. Second, his calls are conditional by nature, so we grade them on whether the condition he named actually decided the tape, not on whether he picked a number.
“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%).
𝕏 Post@DaanCrypto on X — BTC sweeps the August lows; liquidity left at $80K & $82K↗ x.com“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.
𝕏 Post@DaanCrypto on X — $67K as the line between chop and a breakout↗ x.com“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.
𝕏 Post@DaanCrypto on X — crypto market cap at high-timeframe support (~$60K on BTC)↗ x.com“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.
SourceBitcoin Struggles At $65,000 Amid US-Iran War, Tech-Stock Selling Hurdles — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“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%).
SourceBitcoin Needs a Daily Close Above $64,700 to Seal Its Latest Rebound, Says Trader — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“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%).
SourceBitcoin Takes Pressure Off $60,000 as Bear Market Roadmap Continues — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“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%).
SourceBitcoin Must Hold $60,000 Next After $2 Trillion Crypto Market Wipeout — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“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%).
SourceBitcoin Falls Below $78,000 as Analysis Eyes a New Bear Trap — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“continuing quite a lot higher”
Cointelegraph reported that he saw a break above $82,000 taking Bitcoin up to fill the $84K CME gap and then “continuing quite a lot higher.” BTC was $79,289; it first fell 26.1% to $58,566, and the trigger only armed 131 days later, on 22 September, when Bitcoin closed at $86,597 (+9.2%) — through $82K and through the $84K gap in one move. The third leg has not come yet: the high is only 5.6% above his trigger, and price has slipped back to $83,099 (+4.8%), 1.3% above it. Two of three legs done, so it stays open.
SourceWatch These Bitcoin Price Levels Ahead of the CLARITY Act Vote — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“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%).
SourceBitcoin Due One More Dip Before BTC Price Uptrend Continues, Traders Agree — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“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%).
SourceCan Bitcoin Avoid A Repeat of its January Rejection Next? — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.com“its way to close the previous large gap from $84K”
His one directional lean in the spring, and on its timing it was wrong. Cointelegraph quoted him saying Bitcoin was on “its way to close the previous large gap from $84K,” adding that gaps are worth marking because they can act as “'magnets' and local reversal zones.” BTC was $78,512; it got to $82,018 (+4.5%) — within 2.4% of the gap — reversed, and fell 25.4% to $58,566. The gap was finally filled 141 days later, on 22 September, when Bitcoin closed at $86,597 (+10.3%). We keep it graded against him: “on its way” was a near-term call, and anyone who acted on it sat through a 25% drawdown first. Today $83,099 (+5.8%).
SourceBitcoin Analysts Flip Bullish at $80K: Key BTC Price Levels to Watch Next — Cointelegraph↗ cointelegraph.comOutcomes are our read of his stated position against real CoinGecko price, not his own scoring. Every figure below comes from the same price series that draws the charts. The window opens 14 February 2026; we found no verifiable dated call from him before 4 May, so the record starts there rather than being padded out. Calls from the last few days of the window are left off until the price has had time to answer them.
For an account this size, Daan's monetisation is unusually thin — and that is the most useful thing to know about him. There is no signals group, no course and no token bag being talked up. What there is: exchange affiliate links.
He has an affiliate relationship with exchange ByBit, and his posts have carried deposit-bonus referral links. That pays on sign-ups and volume, so a bias toward activity — trading rather than sitting still — is the structural conflict, even though his actual commentary often argues the opposite.
In his 2024 Cointelegraph profile he said he only promotes platforms he personally uses and turns down most deals. Take that as a stated policy, not an audited one.
No subscription signals service, no education product and no launched token are publicly known. His calls are free and public, which is why they can be graded at all.
Being the desk's go-to chart quote is its own incentive — quotable levels get published, ambivalence doesn't. Weigh the posts, not the headlines built on them.
“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.”
08 Jun 2026 · the range frame that defined his 2026“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.”
09 Jul 2026 · how he actually writes a call“its way to close the previous large gap from $84K”
04 May 2026 · the lean that went wrong, days before the topQuotes transcribed from his own public sources; stated views, not recommendations.
Daan's YouTube channel ran a weekly levels-and-scenarios format, but it has been quiet since February 2026 — X is where his current work lives. The most recent uploads, for context on how he frames a market out loud:
The Market Has Broken Down — What I'm DoingHis last upload: how he repositions when structure breaks.02 Feb 2026
2026 is Here! — What to Expect This YearThe year-ahead frame that became the $60K–$80K range.12 Jan 2026
Slow Market — Final Video of 2025Sitting on hands as a position: his default state.22 Dec 2025
Choppy Market Conditions — Levels I'm WatchingThe levels-first method the track record above runs on.15 Dec 2025A pseudonymous full-time crypto trader based in the Netherlands, on X as @DaanCrypto since October 2017 and followed by roughly 500,000 people. He does not publish his real name. He is one of the most frequently quoted chart analysts in crypto market reporting, particularly by Cointelegraph.
Not publicly known, and no credible figure exists. He is pseudonymous, runs no paid product, and has never disclosed his book. Treat any specific number you see as invented.
Over the 210-day window charted on this page, ten of his twelve verifiable dated calls played out, one is still open and one went against him — a strong run built mostly on respecting a $60K–$80K range at both ends, and then on reading where the liquidity sat when it broke. But he is a commentator, not an adviser, these are the calls a newsroom chose to publish, and his single directional lean in the window (the $84K CME gap) was his worst. Never trade someone else's post.
Range-first Bitcoin technicals. He defines a high-timeframe box, then uses the weekly and daily 200 moving averages, the bull-market support band, CME futures gaps and exchange liquidation heatmaps to decide which edge is in play. Calls are framed as conditions — “a close above X flips the story” — rather than price targets, and he avoids long/short recommendations on principle.
No paid signals group, subscription service or course is publicly known. His visible revenue line is exchange affiliate marketing — his posts have carried deposit-bonus referral links — which is the conflict to keep in mind.
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Informational and educational analysis based strictly on publicly available materials (dated third-party coverage and his own public posts, linked on each call). Not financial or investment advice. Figures are approximate and change constantly. Spotted an error, or are you Daan? Submit a correction →
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