@mark_cullen
A Bitcoin-only chart trader who posts a short “LTF plan” and a liquidity map, usually in the early hours UTC and in bursts. His big 2026 call was right: on 16 March, at $72,934, he looked for “a bit higher” and then a drop in Q2 and Q3. Bitcoin went to $82,018 in May and fell to $58,566 on 1 July. Many of his shorter calls missed. The $84k push in May, the $79k bounce in June and the 60K flush in August never came.
In short. Mark Cullen posts Bitcoin charts on X as @mark_cullen (display name AlphaBTC): liquidity heatmaps, CME gaps and a near-term plan. On our sample of nine in-window posts the record is 4 played out, 1 open, 4 went against. The wins are the bigger-picture calls: Bitcoin to $80k before $50k, higher into May and then a drop, and a lower low still to come in June. Most of the misses are shorter-term level calls that went the other way. The account posts in bursts: we found no posts from mid-May to 1 June, from July, or from most of August and September.
Mark Cullen has been on X since May 2009 and posts under the display name AlphaBTC. The bio reads “Entrepreneur, #Crypto enthusiast & #Bitcoin Maxi. Tweets are NOT financial advice” and links a Telegram channel and the website alphadlt.com, which did not load when we checked. The avatar is the Alpha|DLT logo, not a photo. We found no employer, location or verified track record behind the name.
Cointelegraph quotes him by name in its weekly Bitcoin round-ups. On 8 June 2026 it wrote that “Trader Mark Cullen warned that even in the event of a relief bounce, the bear-market low was still to come”, citing the X post we chart below.
The X feed has three kinds of posts. There are Bitcoin “LTF plans” (lower-timeframe plans), liquidity heatmap posts (“Liquidity Sandwich”, “Liquidity Hunt”) and CME-gap charts. There is also a weekly “Market Movers” macro calendar. Many of the liquidity posts end in a question rather than a level, and we did not chart those. We walked the whole public feed for 2026. It holds 56 posts from 5 March to 24 September, with gaps from 15 May to 1 June, 29 June to 3 August and 3 August to 24 September.
Sources: x.com/mark_cullen (captured via api.fxtwitter.com and X syndication) · Cointelegraph weekly round-ups · t.me/s/AlphaDLT · Google News
Liquidity maps, CME gaps and a macro overlay. Cullen reads where leveraged positions are stacked on a liquidity heatmap and expects price to “run” those pools, then sets near-term levels from that. He adds CME futures gaps, which he expects to be filled, and a macro view from the weekly economic calendar and geopolitics. The method did best on the bigger picture in this sample: Bitcoin up into May, then down into early Q3. It did worse on the exact path, and three of the four misses are calls where he expected one leg first and price did the opposite.
Bearish through spring and early summer. He expected a drop in Q2 and Q3 and the bear-market low in Q3. Since August he has leaned bullish with conditions. On 24 September he posted a 2023 fractal that “shows a flush back into $70–75K before the next leg up to $100K+”.
Nine dated posts from @mark_cullen, each captured verbatim from X and charted against real price. The tally is 4 played out, 1 open, 4 went against. The four wins are the bigger-picture calls. The four misses are near-term targets or paths: the late-March and early-May upside targets, the June bounce to $79k and the August flush to $60k.
“The pink overlay is that fractal. It shows a flush back into $70–75K before the next leg up to $100K+.”
A fractal of Bitcoin's early-2023 breakout, posted at $84,382. The post named support at $80–83K and $76–74K. Since then the low has been $83,479 (−1.1%) and the high $84,842 (+0.5%), and Bitcoin is at $84,580 (+0.2%). Neither the flush nor the $100K+ leg has started. Open.
𝕏 Post“It shows a flush back into $70–75K before the next leg up to $100K+” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“Clean out the lows, back down to 60K, then we may get that bigger push higher as the wider Tradfi market sees some relief in Aug.”
A flush-then-rally plan, posted at $63,504. The flush did not come: the lowest daily mark after it was $62,844 (−1.0%) on 17 August. The push higher came without it. Bitcoin reached $80,268 (+26.4%) on 28 August and is at $84,580 (+33.2%). Anyone waiting for $60k missed the move. Went against on the path he set out.
𝕏 Post“Clean out the lows, back down to 60K, then we may get that bigger push higher” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“I expect we have a bit more sideways and up for the rest of June. I am not expecting the ultimate market low until middle to late Q3.”
Posted at $63,274, the day after Bitcoin swept $60k, and quoted by Cointelegraph the same day. The bounce came: $66,293 (+4.8%) on 16 June. So did the lower low, $58,566 (−7.4%) on 1 July and the lowest daily mark since. That was the first day of Q3, earlier than “middle to late Q3”. Bitcoin then rose to $86,597 (+36.9%) on 22 September. Played out, with the low a few weeks early.
𝕏 Post“I am not expecting the ultimate market low until middle to late Q3” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“I'm hoping for a push higher back to 79K in the coming week(s), and not ruling out a run of the 83K high before going lower into the summer.”
A bounce-first plan, posted at $73,599. The same post expected “the low 60K's or even a sweep of the 60K level” afterwards. The bounce never came. The next day's mark was $71,320 (−3.1%), and by 7 June Bitcoin was at $60,855 (−17.3%). The 60K sweep came first, which he said himself on 8 June (“a bit quicker than i had originally anticipated”). Went against.
𝕏 Post“I'm hoping for a push higher back to 79K in the coming week(s)” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“$BTC still has a lot more juice to squeeze up to ~84K...”
A liquidity target, posted at $78,512 and repeated the next day. Bitcoin topped at $82,018 (+4.5%) on 11 May, short of ~84K, then turned down. It was at $73,501 (−6.4%) on 30 May and $58,566 (−25.4%) on 1 July. No daily mark passed $84k until 22 September, after that 25% drop. Went against.
𝕏 Post“$BTC still has a lot more juice to squeeze up to ~84K...” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“A run of the mid Mar high looks likely now, but i'm not expecting its just goes straight to 80k from there, we likely get some f'ckery first”
Posted at $74,482, close to the mid-March high. Bitcoin went above it to $78,275 (+5.1%) on 24 April. It did not go straight to $80k: it dipped to $73,841 (−0.9%) on 20 April and held below $80k until $80,914 (+8.6%) on 6 May. Played out.
𝕏 Post“A run of the mid Mar high looks likely now” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“I still have faith that $BTC sees 80K before 50K, as we see a bounce in Tradfi over the next few trading days.”
A which-comes-first call, posted at $69,936. Bitcoin first slipped to $65,947 (−5.7%) on 30 March. It then climbed to $80,914 (+15.7%) on 6 May. It has not come near $50k: the lowest mark since is $58,566 (−16.3%) on 1 July. Played out, though it took seven weeks rather than “the next few trading days”.
𝕏 Post“I still have faith that $BTC sees 80K before 50K” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“I'm still looking for a bit higher to take some of this upside liquidity before another drop later in Q2 and Q3 this year as the real impact pf the Middle East Conflict is realized in the data.”
The big-picture call of the sample, posted at $72,934. Bitcoin went higher, to $82,018 (+12.5%) on 11 May, which is more than “a bit”. Then the drop came in late Q2 and into Q3. Bitcoin fell to $58,566 (−19.7%) on 1 July. It is at $84,580 (+16.0%). Played out.
𝕏 Post“A bit higher … before another drop later in Q2 and Q3 this year” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.com“70K is critical, $BTC needs o get back above and hold for another attempt at a range break out. If it can do that then high 70K's / low 80K's will be on the cards before the end of the month.”
A conditional target, posted at $69,849. The condition was met: Bitcoin was back above $70k the next day at $70,029. It peaked at $74,679 (+6.9%) on 17 March, short of the high 70Ks. Then it lost $70k again and was at $65,947 (−5.6%) on 30 March. Went against.
𝕏 Post“high 70K's / low 80K's will be on the cards before the end of the month” — @mark_cullen on X↗ x.comOutcomes are our read of the stated claim against real price, not the trader's own scoring. Every quote is a verbatim X post, typos included, linked on its card and reproduced in full in the verified corpus. We did not chart posts phrased as questions, the weekly Market Movers calendars, or restatements of a charted view. Two June restatements both missed: the 9 June “67K+ to get run in June” (June's best daily mark was $66,293) and the 16 June “going to start with a 7 again soon” (no daily mark was above $70k until 21 August). Every post went out between 03:00 and 08:00 UTC, so each is measured from that day's midnight CoinGecko mark, a few hours earlier. Near-term marks can flip.
We found nothing for sale. Here is what the account links to.
The bio links t.me/AlphaDLT, a free public channel (“Crypto TA and discussion. NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE”) with about 750 subscribers. Its last posts are from October 2024. In 2024 it also carried altcoin posts, including a “LISTING ANNOUNCEMENT” for the $KNINE token. We found no paid tier, signal group or subscription.
The X website link and the avatar point to Alpha|DLT (alphadlt.com). The site did not load when we checked, and we could not tell what, if anything, it sells. The bio calls him an “Entrepreneur” without naming a business.
We saw no subscription pitches, referral codes or sponsored posts in his 2026 X feed.
“I'm still looking for a bit higher to take some of this upside liquidity before another drop later in Q2 and Q3 this year”
16 Mar 2026 · played out“Now $BTC has swept the 60K level, which happened a bit quicker than i had originally anticipated.”
8 Jun 2026 · owning a timing miss“It shows a flush back into $70–75K before the next leg up to $100K+.”
24 Sep 2026 · the latest callQuotes transcribed from his own public sources; stated views, not recommendations.
Mark Cullen publishes on X. The linked Telegram channel (t.me/AlphaDLT) has been quiet since October 2024, and we found no YouTube channel or newsletter.
A Bitcoin chart trader on X (@mark_cullen, display name AlphaBTC) with about 79,000 followers, on the platform since 2009. Cointelegraph quotes him in its weekly Bitcoin round-ups. His bio calls him an entrepreneur and a Bitcoin maximalist.
On our sample of nine dated posts from 11 March to 24 September 2026: four played out, one is open, four went against. The bigger-picture calls did well: higher into May, then a drop into early Q3. Several near-term targets and paths did not.
We found none. The linked Telegram channel is free and has been inactive since October 2024, and his 2026 X feed has no subscription or referral pitches.
A chart of where leveraged positions would be liquidated at each price. Traders like Cullen expect price to move toward the biggest pools and “run” them. The map shifts as positions open and close, so a pool is a possible target, not a certain one.
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