00:01I see a lot of people worrying about this dip, this dip down to 83,800, and these red bubbles
00:06And when I look at my Twitter, I basically see everyone freaking out about this thing called bond rates
00:11So, everyone's freaking out about the bond rates and the fact that the bond rates are all going up like crazy
00:17US bond rates, Japanese bond rates, etc
00:19In fact, I think this is probably the best depiction of what's actually going on on Twitter at the moment
00:27I mean, these guys sitting in a room saying, "Bro, did you see the five-year yield hit 5% today? It's over." Because that's exactly what's going on here
00:34I want to remind you why we shouldn't worry
00:38I want to remind you of the reasons why we're..
00:39Actually, here is because the bond rates are going up
00:44And I want to remind you that our run started, right? Our run started when the bond rates began going up uncontrollably, and Scott Bessent had to start interfering
00:54And that is why Bitcoin actually started to outperform; that is when Bitcoin began to outperform all the other assets
00:59So, let's actually dig into exactly what's going on today
01:04We'll debunk this whole bond rate thing, and it's actually a little bit more complicated than you think, because generally, when bond rates go up, it used to be scary, but it's actually not that scary anymore
01:13So, that's what we're going to be doing today
01:15Big show
01:16Let's do this, guys
01:21I'll tell you one thing
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01:45Let me quickly take you through the reasons why we're here
01:46Everyone's panicking about the bond yields
01:48I want to remind you that we're not panicking
01:52We're not panicking for two reasons, and I'll show you where we are panicking, right? We're not panicking because the reason why we are here, the reason why Bitcoin is actually running is..
01:59Because the bond yields are going up, it's because the bond yields that are rising, Bitcoin is actually rallying
02:05And I'm going to show you how Bitcoin decouples from the stock markets and from all the other assets, right? I also want to demonstrate that we shouldn't get worried until this happens, right? And when I say "this," I mean, I told you a few days ago that once we break out of the 50-week moving average—the 50-week moving average on the weekly chart—once we break above it, we generally don’t go below it in a bull market, right? So, you can see that with every other bull market
02:33Now, we did break out above the 50-week moving average on the weekly chart this week
02:37And as long as we don't go below the 78,000 to 80,000 level today—maybe 78,000 or 79,000—it should be fine
02:45Whatever it is, or 77,000 depending on when we actually get there, then there's no need to worry
02:50I will be worried if we go below the 50-week moving average, and we stay below the 50-week moving average for a couple of weeks, then I will start worrying
02:58Until then, my strategy is every dip that comes is a buying opportunity
03:04And instead of wasting my time worrying about the dip, I want to be worrying about what I should be buying in the dip that I didn't buy last time or that I felt I left behind
03:14And even though our portfolio was really good, we actually did get left behind on a couple of coins, coins like Uniswap
03:20I don't have enough Uniswap in my portfolio
03:22So, we'll talk about all this
03:24Of those
03:26But first, let's talk about what actually happened
03:27Yes, the bond yields exploded
03:29Yes, this is the 30-year Treasury bond
03:31This is what the US pays to borrow for 30 years
03:36The US government pays to borrow for 30 years
03:38And actually, if you look at where the bond yields are now, 5.4%
03:43Actually, the 30-year bond yields have not been at these levels for the last 20 years or even more
03:48In fact, the last 23 years, the last time that the US government paid 5.4% to borrow for 30 years was 23 years ago
03:56And so, yes, bond rates are very, very high
04:00What does that mean? It means that investors don't want to loan money to the government, specifically the US government, for 30 years unless they receive a big premium for their money
04:11Why is They’re scared of inflation
04:13They’re scared of lending to the government now and that money being inflated away
04:17So, two things basically happened yesterday, which set off this yield thing, right? The first thing that happened yesterday was, guess what? We got the PMI numbers, right? Now, the PMI numbers were actually good
04:30The PMI, the Purchasing Managers’ Index, basically shows how much the economy is expanding, how bullish and positive the economy is
04:46And the numbers were crazy, right? We expected a 53.7 on the PMI, and we got 57, which in a nutshell means that the economy is really, really hot
04:58It means that— People have jobs
05:00The economy is really, really hot, and things are good
05:04The problem with things being good is that it means the economy could also be overheating
05:09And when the economy is overheating, it means that there will be inflation
05:13So, as soon as those numbers basically came out, you realized that the chances of a rate cut, which is on the 28th of October, during the next CME meeting, increased to 73.1%
05:27Now, I think this is very, very close to the midterm elections
05:30In fact, let's actually see when the US midterms are
05:32I think it's about two weeks before the midterms
05:34Midterm elections
05:36Let's have a look here
05:39Tuesday the 7th
05:42So, you've got the Fed meeting five days after that
05:45Wow, that's crazy
05:47Before the midterm elections, there's a 73.1% chance that they are going to actually increase rates now
05:50So, because the US economy is doing so well, investors are worried about inflation, and because the investors are worried about inflation, effectively, what they're saying is if we're going to lend you money, you are going to need to give us a much bigger premium
06:07And they had this big—it doesn't look like a big green candle because it's on a weekly chart—but if you look on the daily chart, we had this big green candle, and the numbers basically shot up, and the 30-year yield went to 5.4%
06:15Even the 10-year which is the rate the US government pays to borrow money for 10 years
06:24Had a big green candle over here, right? And so, that's the first thing that happened
06:30The first thing that happened is we got the PMI numbers, and guess what? The economy is too good
06:35Because the economy is too good, people must be negative, because it means that the Federal Reserve will actually pull up the handbrake and try to slow things down, because things are running too fast
06:43That's the first thing that happened
06:44The next thing that happened was that the US government wanted to auction its 5-year debt notes
06:49In other words, when the US government needs money, it goes to the market and auctions debt
06:56And in this case, they went to auction five-year debt
06:58And unfortunately, they didn't get as much supply as they needed
07:02Wanted
07:06Right? So, it says here, the direct bidders stepped up, but that was not enough to offset the weaker indirect demand
07:10And so, we had a lower bid-to-cover ratio, and the sizable tell shows that buyers required a higher yield in the market
07:17In other words, what they're saying is the US government went to borrow money from investors on a 5-year timeframe
07:22And guess what they basically said? No, no, no, no
07:26We need a much higher interest rate
07:28And so, yesterday was a very bad day for rates, right? So, as ZeroHedge says, bonds crashed the most since Liberation Day after a catastrophic 5-year auction
07:39So, it's not only the 5-year auction, but also the fact that the economy is too good, and we had the 5-year auction, right? So, the..
07:44Bonds started to crash
07:46The 30-year had a breakout, went to the 2023 or 2024 year-old levels
07:48The 10-year also had a breakout
07:52It's now 5%
07:54Let's just quickly go look and see when the 10-year was last at these levels
07:56The 10-year was last at these levels in 2007, which was before the big collapse
08:02And I think this is quite important that we realize that it was just before the big collapse
08:08So I think that we need to, we need to realize that right now, people don't really want government debt
08:14And the reason why they don't really want government debt is because they're saying, look, we know that governments are so much in debt that they can never repay the debt, or at least they think that they can never, ever, ever repay the debt
08:20And so they..
08:26They need a big premium to fund the government debt because they know that governments are going to keep printing money to pay off their debt
08:32Because if you're the US and you've got $40 trillion worth of debt and you have to refinance this at, say, 5%, then that's costing you $2
08:41trillion a year, but your GDP isn't even that high, right? Your GDP isn't even $2.5 trillion a year
08:47So, now what do you do? Where do you get the money to refinance your debt? Well, that's the problem
08:51You have to start printing money, and then you devalue your currency
08:54And that's the whole issue, right? And that's what the market's worried about
08:57That's why investors want a higher interest rate to loan the government money for such a long period of time
09:02Basically, what's going on here is not only in the US
09:05Yes, the US government bonds—no one wants US government bonds— but the Japanese bond rates also went down
09:12In fact, if you look at this chart over here, it basically shows you that all bonds for all countries are requiring higher yields
09:18People don't want government debt anymore, and when they do, they want a very high rate of return
09:25So, why is this scary? Why is your Twitter timeline getting scared about this? If you are in crypto, you shouldn't be worried about this
09:36If you are in the stock markets, maybe you could be concerned
09:38And the reason why it becomes so scary is if you think about an investor who can get 5.4, and..
09:45As Ben Khan says, maybe even soon six to six and a half percent for lending money to the US government
09:50There comes a point when, when that interest rate goes high enough, they say, "Hold on a second, why should I have money in the stock market and take the risk that the markets may crash when I can just hold US government debt and get 6%, 7%, 5%, whatever the number is?" So, there comes a point when, when bond rates go up, that people eventually say, "You know what, let me stop putting money into the market and risks because I can get a risk-free rate of six or six and a half percent." Right now, just to give you some perspective, the S&P 500 pays a dividend yield of 1 to 1.5%
10:28And so, at a certain point, investors are..
10:31going to go, "Hold on a second
10:32We can either put it in the S&P 500, but the S&P 500 has had a big run, and if the S&P 500 has had a big run, then it will probably come down or there will be some correction, or I can just give it to the government and just get 6% risk-free." And that is what the concern is or used to be
10:48And I say used to be because I think that was more of a concern before 2007
10:53I think that in 2007, something broke
10:56It was the 2008 housing crisis
10:58Remember the 2008 housing crisis
11:00So from that point, governments responded by actually starting to print money, right? And so when they got into a crisis, they started to print money
11:09And when they started to print money, that became good for stock markets
11:12And so as you can see with
11:14This chart, right? If you look at this chart since 2020, it shows that the 10-year Treasury yields have been going up
11:19But instead of the markets going down, which is what they used to do in history, the markets actually go up
11:26And the reason why the markets actually go up is because they basically say, "Hold on a second
11:29How is the government going to unwind this? They're going to buy back their own debt
11:35They're going to issue more money." And therefore, stock markets basically don't respond to it anymore
11:40So, it's not that scary anymore, right? And even if it is a little bit scary for stock markets, because even at some point, people might prefer to put their money in something earning 6 or 7% with the government
11:51With the government than actually putting it into stock markets, what actually happens to crypto then, and more specifically what actually happens to scarce assets, then that's where you can't lose sight of why we're actually here
12:06Bitcoin loves two things
12:09The first thing it loves is increased liquidity and increased economic activity
12:16And you can see that every time that the ISM goes above 50, actually, we start getting Bitcoin bull runs, right? And this time's no different
12:23It was just a little bit delayed
12:24But as soon as we got to 50, 55 on the ISM, basically, the Bitcoin bull run began
12:28The second thing that Bitcoin loves is when the Treasury has to start stepping in and buying back their own debt, because as we I saw yesterday on the 5-year bid, no one wanted the debt
12:38And so now the rates are going up
12:40So what's the plan? What does Scott Bessent actually do at this point? How does Scott Bessent get the long end of the curve down? And he has to do it because if he doesn't, the problem is that he has to refinance all this debt, paying 5%
12:54And if that happens, it deals an almost knockout blow to the US, right? So what does Scott Bessent do? What's the endgame here? The first thing is, he has to act
13:07It's just a matter of time, but he has to act
13:08And how does Scott Bessent act? Well, probably the best way for him to act is what Luke Broman says here
13:16I think I've got it here where he says he better get some
13:19Balls and upsize his buyback to 20 or 30 billion
13:21Otherwise, it basically feels like this is all he's doing, right? And so, he's basically saying, "Look, Scott Bessent better come back to the market and start buying back his own debt to show the market that he's serious." So, option number one, and probably one the best option and probably the only option, is for the Fed to start printing money or for the Treasury to start printing money and actually buy back its own debt
13:45It's not unusual
13:47The government is the one entity that can actually create its own debt and buy back its own debt
13:53I know it's weird
13:54I know it sounds weird
13:55I know some of your wives think that they can do it as well
13:56It doesn't work like that
14:00This is a..
14:04The thing that the governments can do—only governments can basically print debt, create I Bonds, and then print money to buy those I Bonds and put the money into circulation
14:08Crazy, crazy, crazy story, but it can happen
14:11That's what governments basically do, right? Also, remember that Scott Bessent has a trillion-dollar account
14:16It's called the Treasury General Account, and it's made for exactly this
14:19It's made for the Treasury to spend on things to stabilize the economy
14:24It has a trillion dollars, and he'll probably start using some of that trillion dollars to buy back its own debt
14:29Remember again that Scott Bessent was trained under George Soros, and he is a mastermind in currencies, bonds, interest rates, etc
14:40So, rest assured that at some point he's going to act
14:45And the only tool that he actually has is money printing
14:47That's the only tool Scott Bessent really has to go and fight these bond markets, and he has to act
14:54He has no choice
14:56He cannot let the bond vigilantes win because, as he says here, the bond vigilantes are really good at manipulating the market with beer muscles
15:04A good market intervention tends to focus their minds
15:07In other words, what he's saying is just do a good market intervention, and the bond vigilantes will basically leave the debt alone
15:12So, I almost think that Scott Bessent is waiting for the shorts to pile in, and then he's going to try and liquidate them
15:22Because that's exactly his style, right? And when he does that, it means more money into circulation
15:25So, what am I saying in matcha? And I think it's what James Lavish is saying, and that's my mom on the phone
15:32She should know I'm live now
15:34Um, he says good morning
15:36If you're selling hard assets like gold and Bitcoin as yields rise and bond auctions become disorderly, you are not paying attention to the underlying problem and the inevitable currency devaluation, because ultimately they're just going to have to print more money
15:50And when they print more money, the assets that succeed are the assets that are in scarce supply and in high demand
15:56That's pretty much the whole thesis
15:58So, if you are panicking because your The timeline looks something like this
16:04If you are panicking because your timeline looks something like this, if you are one of these people that are dumping into this timeline, uh, great
16:14But we shouldn't worry, and again, we're not going to worry until and unless we break below this line over here
16:20And until we get to that level, and we will have a correction
16:23I wouldn't be surprised if we went back and actually tested this line
16:26We will have a correction to 78,000 at least, and probably that correction will come pretty soon, because, to be honest, I haven't looked at the RSI's for a while, but I imagine RSI's are pretty high
16:36Let's have a look here
16:38Okay, so that's the RSI's
16:40That's RSI's on the daily
16:41Uh, they're not
16:42Too high
16:44Let's look on the 4-hour
16:45So let's look on the weekly
16:46I mean, they're not too high
16:48The RSIs are starting to get stretched, but they're not too high
16:49They're not too high
16:51I think this is fine
16:53So, I think that for now, great
16:56Let's wait for a little bit of a pullback
16:58As I've said before, I'm not deploying anything now, but it's probably a good time to start thinking about all the things that you want to buy that you didn't actually manage to get your hands on, right? Like, I've got a couple — like I said to you — like Uniswap
17:04I missed Uniswap
17:09I really want Uniswap in my portfolio
17:15I'm not paying $10 or whatever else
17:17What else is there? There's Uniswap that I want to add to my portfolio
17:21There is a stone that I want to put into my portfolio
17:23Um, what else is there that I want to put in so that I’ll actually, you know, maybe tomorrow we'll do a list
17:29I mean, there's stone again
17:32It just keeps running away
17:34Um, I think what we'll do, I think what we'll do is we'll actually make a buy list for people who are already holding a good portfolio
17:40What are we actually going to buy on this, uh, on this dip? Why does Ron only read the part about Scott Bessent's CV resume, which suits him? Scott's full resume is not at all impressive
17:54Okay
17:56Did you see Scott Bessent's resume? I mean, we know he worked with George Soros
17:58I don't know
18:00Um, yes
18:01So, we're not selling
18:03This is the reason—what's happening is the reason why we're..
18:06Here in the first place
18:09So, don't sell
18:11Don't give them your coins
18:13It's the craziest thing that you could ever do
18:15Um, one of our trades, which I posted in Front Runners, is actually starting to break out
18:18It's Compound
18:20Um, Lucky posted it first
18:23I'm still holding the position
18:25It looks like it's breaking out
18:26It's showing relative strength when the market is not breaking
18:27When the market is, so maybe something to look at
18:29Um, again, I'm not really buying too many things at the moment, just because I think the RSIs are heated, and I think there's a risk that the return is maybe on a slight pullback before we go on another leg up
18:40Uh, also because I'm 80-90% deployed, right? It's like when you're 80-90% deployed, you don't want to be..
18:46Deploying into highs like that
18:49Um, cool
18:51What else is there? So, I want to show you something specifically
18:54If you have assets and you want to hold them, but you also need cash, how many of you are in a position where you have Bitcoin, Ethereum, or some other tokens, and you need some spending cash, but you don't want to let go of your actual assets? There is actually a solution for people like that
19:14There are two reasons why you'd want to hold on to your assets
19:16The first reason is because you think Bitcoin is going to appreciate, and you need some spending cash
19:22I'm not saying you have to leverage your entire..
19:23Bitcoin
19:24But let's say you own one Bitcoin
19:25It's worth $80,000 today
19:27You need $5,000 or $10,000 to, I don't know, survive, have fun, whatever
19:31What you can do is actually take a loan against your Bitcoin
19:35That's what actually rich people do
19:36And the reason why rich people do that is because they never want to pay taxes
19:41So, as soon as you sell the Bitcoin, you pay capital gains tax
19:45But if you never sell the Bitcoin, you never pay capital gains tax
19:47So, what do they do? They basically loan their Bitcoin to a loan provider
19:53And this is where Nexo comes in
19:55So, Nexo is one of our partners
19:57Again, I don't usually promote these kinds of things unless they are things that I personally do
20:02I would use Nexo myself, right? And Nexo is one because Nexo has been here for a long time
20:07Effectively, what you do is go to their market, or rather, their dashboard
20:17So you go here, and you can deposit Bitcoin, earn up to 5.7%, and you can actually borrow against Bitcoin
20:25So you can give them your Bitcoin and borrow against your assets, which means that you basically get stablecoins against the assets, right? So, this is, and they have a whole lot of assets that you can actually do this with
20:37I see they've also got an exchange
20:39They've also got an exchange feature here
20:41Yeah, they've got futures
20:45I didn't actually know
20:46They had all of these things
20:48What I do use them for is to actually loan against assets
20:50So, you give them your assets, borrow stablecoins against them
20:54And when you return the stablecoins, you basically get your asset back, and you never pay tax
20:58So, if you want to, let's say, for example, you just need some spending money to carry you through at the end of the month, or you want to buy a car but you don't want to let go of your Bitcoin because you're going to need to pay capital gains tax, then you'd go to a platform like Nexo
21:11They are one of our partners
21:13If you want to support them and you actually need the service, then go to the link below
21:18There's a Nexo link below
21:21There's a Nexo link below
21:23Uh, yeah
21:26And then, basically, just borrow against the Nexo link below
21:29Yeah, borrow against your assets
21:31There's a Nexo link below
21:33Sorry
21:35Yeah, just borrow against your assets
21:37You can literally just borrow against your assets
21:39Also, while we're here, if you are in the US, reminder, there's a $5,000 giveaway if you open a Kelsey account
21:40If you want to trade legally in the United States, you can use Kelshi
21:44They've got the Pro Mode as well, which is this here
21:46Uh, see, Bitcoin's up at $84,000
21:48So, there's a $5,000 giveaway
21:50If you open an account using the link below, you can stand a chance to get $5,000 deposited into your actual account
21:53Um, I think that's it
21:56I think for now, don't panic
22:00Now, start thinking about what you're going to buy if the market actually pulls back
22:04Um, I wouldn't be spending now
22:06Uh, it's just one of those times where you just sit and wait, and I'll let you know exactly when to buy
22:11All right, my friends
22:13I'll see you again tomorrow
22:14Until then, trade well, my friends.