@Pentosh1
The penguin. A pseudonymous swing trader who posts rarely and sizes slowly — high-timeframe levels, a handful of trades a year, and positions stated out loud with the entry price attached. When he is wrong he leaves the post up, which is why it can be charted.
In short. Pentoshi (@Pentosh1, roughly 947,000 followers) is one of the most-followed anonymous traders on Crypto Twitter, active since 2019 and known for going quiet for weeks at a time. His method is high-timeframe support and resistance plus a supply/demand overlay — corporate treasury buying, ETF flows — and he trades it with unusual patience: by his own count, three Bitcoin trades in half a year, entered in quarters rather than all at once. The record below is the honest version: a conditional April read whose trigger never fired, a May “the lows are in” call that Bitcoin promptly disproved by 25%, and a July Ethereum entry, posted with the exact fill, that has since run more than 40%.
Pentoshi has traded publicly under a penguin avatar since June 2019 and has never disclosed a real name, a company or a website — his X profile links nothing and his bio reads, in full, “full time larp”. The mainstream crypto press covers him anyway: The Daily Hodl has quoted him for years as a “pseudonymous trader” and “popular market analyst known for his timely crypto calls”, and his follower count has climbed from about 834,000 in late 2024 to roughly 947,000 today.
Crypto Twitter widely credits him with calling the 2021 cycle top. We could not verify that from a primary dated source, so it is not part of the record on this page — everything charted below is one of his own posts, pulled twice and quoted verbatim. What the public record does show is a documented run of misjudged downside: in May 2025 he framed Bitcoin's worst case as “mid $90,000s as the next higher low”; Bitcoin's actual low since is $58,566, on 1 July 2026. He also posts his losses — “was waaay to big of an eth position right before that nuke… the market humbles all” — which is the reason a track record like this is possible at all.
Sources: x.com/Pentosh1 (posts captured verbatim) · Daily Hodl coverage · CryptoRank angel-investment record
High-timeframe levels, traded slowly. Pentoshi works from support and resistance on the weekly and monthly chart, asks whether a bounce is a real reclaim or a lower high, and refuses to call expansion until a prior level closes back above. Around that sits a supply/demand overlay — corporate treasury buying versus daily issuance, ETF flow — and a habit of reading majors against each other (ETH/BTC, ETH/SOL) rather than only against the dollar. Position sizing is the tell: quarter positions, few trades, long flat periods, and an explicit “sometimes less is more”. The weakness is the same as the strength — when he does turn bullish he states it in absolutes (“the lows are in”, “$180k”), and a level-based framework has no answer for a market that simply keeps grinding lower.
Structurally bullish, tactically flat. He spends long stretches with no crypto position at all and then states a directional view in absolute terms — so the bias reads bullish, but only a minority of the time is he actually in the trade.
Three dated posts from his own X account inside the CoinGecko price window, charted against what price actually did next. Pentoshi posts infrequently — that is the method, not an oversight — so this is a small, complete sample of his in-window directional calls rather than a selection of the good ones. Two of the three are Bitcoin calls a week apart in the spring; the third is the July Ethereum entry. Every quote was pulled twice from X and is reproduced verbatim in the corpus linked on each card.
“I started a 1/4 position in it at 1,766 and will look to hopefully get to add more to that over time.”
He named the asset, the size and the fill. ETH closed $1,774 that day — his stated 1,766 entry — and nothing has closed lower since: the low after the post is the day of the post itself. ETH is +40.8% to $2,498, with a high of $2,515 (+41.8%). Worth the caveat that this was not the bottom: ETH had already printed $1,566 on 26 June, 12% below his fill. A quarter-size entry into a hated major, and it worked.
𝕏 Post“$ETH is currently the most interesting major” — @Pentosh1, 14 Jul 2026↗ x.com“But long term I don't think it's a bad spot with quite a bit of patience. Right now I think it's more important to reclaim a prev level if we want true expansion. For example 84-86k area HTF close for momentum”
A conditional call, and the condition never came. BTC was $77,367 that day; the highest close since is $82,018 (+6.0%), so the 84–86k higher-timeframe close he wanted for “true expansion” has still not printed. In between, the “I don't think it's a bad spot” half was tested hard — BTC fell 24.3% to $58,566 on 1 July before recovering to $79,099 (+2.2%). Unresolved, and it did end up being a macro lower high.
𝕏 Post“We got the 80k push on $BTC” — @Pentosh1, 28 Apr 2026↗ x.com“In terms of probabilities, I think the lows are in and we could see BTC trade as high as $180k between this year and next.”
Six days after standing aside he returned, bought, and said so: one corporate buyer absorbing 1.6× daily issuance meant “at some point something has to give”. It gave the other way. BTC was $78,512; it fell 25.4% to $58,566 by 1 July. The mid-80k confirmation he named never closed (high since: $82,018, +4.5%), and $180k was never in sight. BTC is back to $79,099 (+0.7%) — the position is roughly flat, but “the lows are in” was wrong by a quarter of the price.
𝕏 PostStrategy's buying vs daily issuance — @Pentosh1, 04 May 2026↗ x.comOutcomes are our read of his stated position against real CoinGecko daily closes, not his own scoring. Prices in the text are the same series the charts are drawn from. Open calls are revisited as the cycle resolves.
There is no paid group, no newsletter and no website — his X profile links nothing, and we found no subscription product to sell. That removes the most common conflict and leaves two others, both of which matter: he is an angel investor in the sector he comments on, and he talks his own book out loud.
CryptoRank lists him as an angel investor with 11 tracked deals (BounceBit, Eesee, DreamOS, DeFi.app among them) at a stated retail ROI of 0.54x. Private positions in the sectors he posts about are the sharpest incentive here — and the returns suggest his private book has done far worse than his public calls.
He posts positions with entries attached — a 1/4 ETH position at 1,766, new BTC purchases on 4 May, a standing long in $HYPE where he writes “dips are for buying/adding imo”. Transparent, and still a book he benefits from you agreeing with.
No paid channel, no course, no affiliate funnel that we could find, and long stretches with no posts at all. The revenue model appears to be trading and investing rather than audience monetisation — unusual at this follower count, and worth crediting.
“In terms of probabilities, I think the lows are in and we could see BTC trade as high as $180k between this year and next.”
04 May 2026 · the call that went against him“I started a 1/4 position in it at 1,766 and will look to hopefully get to add more to that over time.”
14 Jul 2026 · how he actually sizes: a quarter at a time“Sometimes less is more. Gotta know when to push it and when to sit back.”
28 Apr 2026 · three BTC trades in over half a yearQuotes transcribed from his own public videos; stated views, not recommendations.
There is no video library to link. Pentoshi publishes no podcast, links no website, and runs no channel he acknowledges — a YouTube account using his name exists but is not referenced from his profile and we could not verify he is behind it, so it is not linked here. His entire public output is X posts, which is exactly why every call above is a quote with a timestamp rather than a clip. The verified corpus behind the chart is cited on each card.
An anonymous trader who gives almost no interviews sits awkwardly in a section about who he shows up with. One documented exchange aside, what follows is the cohort he belongs to analytically — pseudonymous or chart-first callers publishing dated levels in public, useful for triangulating a call rather than as claimed collaborators. Dossier links connect them as the database grows.
The one documented sit-down: Clemente published a long written interview with him on his own Medium. On-chain analytics as a cross-check on Pentoshi's level-and-flow read.
The other big pseudonymous X caller in this database — same format (dated posts, no video), opposite temperament: il Capo holds a zone through drawdown, Pentoshi steps out and waits for a reclaim.
Structure and confirmed weekly closes on the same Bitcoin chart — the closest methodological cousin to Pentoshi's reclaim-it-or-it-doesn't-count rule.
Another chart-first swing trader publishing dated levels, but far more often — a useful contrast in cadence with someone who posts three trades a half-year.
A pseudonymous crypto trader who has posted under the handle @Pentosh1 and a penguin avatar since June 2019, with roughly 947,000 followers on X. His real name, location and employer are undisclosed, and his bio reads “full time larp”. He is quoted regularly by the crypto press as a “pseudonymous trader” and “popular market analyst known for his timely crypto calls”.
It is widely repeated that he did, and it may well be true — but we could not verify it from a primary dated source, so we do not assert it and it is not part of the track record on this page. Everything charted here is one of his own posts, captured verbatim with its timestamp.
He is an anonymous commentator, not a licensed adviser. Of his three dated in-window calls charted here, one played out (+41% on Ethereum), one is unresolved, and one — “the lows are in”, on 4 May 2026 — was followed by Bitcoin falling 25%. He also underestimated the 2025–26 downside badly, framing “mid $90,000s” as the worst case before BTC traded at $58,566. Treat his posts as a documented, dated opinion — never trade them blindly.
High-timeframe support and resistance with a hard reclaim requirement — he will not call expansion until a previous level closes back above. He overlays supply and demand (corporate treasury buying versus daily issuance, ETF flows), compares majors against each other rather than only against the dollar, and sizes in quarters, taking very few trades: by his own count three Bitcoin trades in over half a year.
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Informational and educational analysis based strictly on publicly available materials — his own dated X posts, each captured verbatim and linked on the call cards, plus dated third-party coverage. Not financial or investment advice. Figures are approximate and change constantly. Spotted an error, or are you Pentoshi? Submit a correction →
Verified handles · Sources cited above · Scoring methodology · Updated 28 August 2026
