Bitcoin Macro DistributionI subscribe to Wyckoff Methodology quite heavily viewing all markets as being manipulated by the composite operator (invisible hand moving the markets accumulating supply creating the lows of the market and distributing supply creating the tops). Bitcoin over the course of 2021-2022 has completed a Macro Distribution Schematic. Viewing markets in trading ranges is critical to utilizing Wyckoff methodology to your advantage.
We can clearly see where preliminary supply is being unloaded by large interests after the significant run up signaling that a change in trend is approaching. After this occurs the market continues its advance and creates the 1st local distribution which produces a buying climax, where volume and spread increases while price is between the 47-60k range the remaining supply is distributed by the composite operator. With intense buying substantially diminished as the composite operator takes advantage of the euphoria in the market to unload their remaining supply they continue to unload supply driving price down this is the automatic reaction. The low of this sell off helps define the lower boundary of the distribution trading range. The secondary test occurs as price revisits the 1st local distribution range to test the supply/demand balance at those price levels. Supply heavily outweighs demand and price moves to the lower boundary of the trading range. After this occurs price bleeds down to the lower boundary of the macro trading range as the 40-30k range completes a local macro accumulation phase. A sign of weakness is observed in the macro range as price moves below the 30k level and is bought up quite aggressively forming the next phase of the macro distribution. This move below 30k that is bought with high spread and volume is the spring component of the local accumulation range between 30-40k. We can now presume that the next phase of the range resulting in the second Local distribution top was the result of a large market maker that is now insolvent utilizing heavy margin to drive price into an upthrust. The upthrust after distribution where demand pushing price above the upper boundary of the range is the distributional counterpart to the spring and provides a definitive test of new demand after a breakout above the resistance of the trading range. As demand fails to sustain price at levels above the trading range the top is in and the composite operator now seeks to distribute the remaining supply on the market. Multiple last points of supply occur as supply is being unloaded on weak rallies as the market has difficulty advancing upward. This inability to rally may be due to weak demand, substantial supply or both. Last points of supply represent exhaustion of demand and the last waves of distribution before markdown begins. The final Sign of weakness occurs as price moves below and consolidates under the lower boundary of the trading range before a final last point of supply as the last waves of large operators unload so markdown can begin.
