Bitcoin jumps past the floor, Ethereum climbs even more

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Bitcoin jumps past the floor, Ethereum climbs even more

Last week I showed a decline band for Bitcoin, between 51,000 and 55,000 dollars. Bitcoin never touched it. It rallied 22.8% straight to the first resistance, and Ethereum went even further.

August 24, 2026 · 6 min read

Key takeaways

Bitcoin rallied 22.8% this past week, from 64,506 to 79,245 dollars, without touching the 51,000-55,000 band marked last week as a possible decline zone.
Ethereum rallied even more, 31.4%, from 1,912 to 2,512 dollars.
The ETH/BTC ratio rose another 6.9% in just the past week. The divergence from the last seven weeks isn't just continuing, it's accelerating.
In a video from 17 August I say, with my usual sense of humor, that I'm selling everything. Joke aside: I went short, but let me be explicit, the short is on the S&P, not on crypto.
For Bitcoin and Ethereum, my thesis stays the same as last week: the bottom is in, or very close.

Last week I showed a decline band for Bitcoin, between 51,000 and 55,000 dollars.

It never declined.

It rallied 22.8% straight to the first resistance watched, at 90,000.

Ethereum went even further, up 31.4%.

Definition

Short selling

A bet that an asset's price will fall. The investor borrows the asset, sells it now, then buys it back cheaper to return it, and the difference is the profit. It's the opposite of a normal buy position, and it's riskier, because the theoretical loss has no upper limit.

The jump

Bitcoin jumps 22.8% in a week, straight toward 90,000

Last week I wrote about a 51,000-55,000 band, a possible decline before continuing higher.

Bitcoin never touched it.

Instead of falling, it rallied 22.8% in a week, from 64,506 to 79,245 dollars.

The market jumped past the floor and went straight for the first resistance watched.

The 90,000-93,000 band was meant as the next level, once Bitcoin finished its job down below.

It's now a few thousand dollars away, without ever passing through the expected decline.

That doesn't mean the lower zone is off the table forever. It just means it didn't happen this week, and price picked the opposite direction.

On the weekly Ichimoku, tenkan crossed above kijun this very week, right as the rally started, on 17 August. A technical pivot, on top of the price move.

This isn't a zone I'm inventing now. On 29 July I flagged a deviation toward 57,000 and said: if it confirms, the next channel is above 78,000. It confirmed.

+22.8%How much Bitcoin rallied this past week, from 64,506 to 79,245 dollars.

Bitcoin, the last ten months. Same bands as last week. Price never touched the floor below.

Bitcoin, since February. The deviation toward 57,000 flagged on 29 July, with the target above 78,000, already confirmed.

But the bigger move of the week wasn't on Bitcoin.

The gap

Ethereum climbs 31%, more than Bitcoin

Ethereum rallied 31.4% over the same week, from 1,912 to 2,512 dollars.

More than Bitcoin, for the second week in a row.

The ETH/BTC ratio keeps the direction I wrote about last week. It didn't stop, it accelerated.

The ETH/BTC ratio rose from 0.0296 to 0.0317, another 6.9% in just the past seven days.

It's the same move I wrote about last week, I won't repeat the explanation here.

What's changing is the speed. The divergence isn't just continuing, it's accelerating.

+31.4%How much Ethereum rallied this past week, versus +22.8% for Bitcoin.

Bitcoin and Ethereum, indexed to 100 on 17 August. Ethereum is climbing faster.

One clarification is worth making, so this week's headline isn't misread.

The clarification

My short isn't on crypto

In a video from 17 August I say, with my usual sense of humor, that I'm selling everything, to go short.

That title sounds like an alarm bell for crypto. It isn't.

Let me say it plainly: the short is on the S&P, not on Bitcoin or Ethereum.

For crypto, my thesis stays warm: the bottom is in, or very close, and August-September are the last months I see any real chance of further decline.

The short, with the full detail, lands in Thursday's stock market report.

Here, only this matters: it changes nothing in the Bitcoin and Ethereum thesis above.

17 AugThe date of the video where I explicitly say my short is on the S&P, not on crypto.

That was the week: Bitcoin jumped past the plan, Ethereum went even further.

How we're positioned

The allocation stays the one from last week's report: Bitcoin and Ethereum the majority of the portfolio.

We didn't change anything on this move. One week of a strong rally isn't a new reason to buy or sell, if the underlying thesis hasn't changed.

I also had a swing trade on XRP, on the three-day chart: the last dump stopped at equal lows, around $1.03, without a new low, with RSI climbing in a channel of three higher lows. Tight stop under that zone, a measured target of $1.38, with 5x leverage.

Price already blew past the target, at $1.53 today, up 48% from entry. Long-term, I still think XRP stays range-bound until next year, until Bitcoin finishes its final accumulation.

From here, for Bitcoin I expect a consolidation toward the 90,000 zone, then corrections a bit bigger than the current consolidation.

We're watching whether 90,000-93,000 holds, not the daily price. The full analysis, with every level, stays on The Liquidity Map.

Conclusions

Bitcoin jumped past the decline band and went straight for the first resistance, up 22.8% in a week.

Ethereum went even further, up 31.4%, and the ETH/BTC ratio shows the same direction as last week, just faster.

My short from 17 August is on stocks, not crypto. For Bitcoin and Ethereum, nothing has changed.

What's left to watch is whether 90,000-93,000 holds on the first try, or price runs straight through it.

What to watch this week

Does the 90,000-93,000 band hold on the first touch, or does price run straight through it?
Does the ETH/BTC ratio keep climbing, or does it stop here?

Bitcoin jumps past the floor, Ethereum climbs even more

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