Bitcoin & Altcoins: BIGGEST Week of 2026

SPEAKER_1 (0:00)

All right, good morning. Welcome all to Discover Crypto. It's Monday morning.

Markets are opening up, mixed Bitcoin pumping while everyone expects a major crash, and the regular Wall Street sector taking a little bit of a tumble here. S&P opening up a little bit lower. Now, a lot of people are expecting today to be absolute D-Day on the S&P because of the AI fear-mongering that's been happening for the last week that's starting to set into the hearts and minds. Jaina doesn't care, though. That's the fun part. Jaina does not care. And I actually have some great Altcoin Alpha to be sharing with you later on in the show when we get into the Altcoin section. Welcome one, welcome all to the show. I see a lot of people with their opinions because we have a big week ahead of us. TJ, we got a lot going on this week. Clarity Act.

TJ (0:50)

A bit massively. This is the week we've been waiting for for months. I mean, we called this out a long time ago. We got, yeah, Clarity Act, Fed Day. On the same day, you've got Bank of Japan. You've got Bank of England. Everybody looking at hiking rates, oil doing fun things, AI controversy everywhere. So, yeah, big, big week economically. I think you've also got many. You got manufacturing numbers coming out, you know, just a lot, a lot of data coming out. And but this is this is the week, you know, where it looks like this is the week I was calling for a while ago that was saying like this would give the bears hope that they're going to get their lower prices. If you could get a clarity act, not passing and a rate hike on the same day, that could give you some bullish narrative.

Drew's Mike still quieter than mine. All right, I'll bump him up a little bit.

SPEAKER_1 (1:45)

I was messing with this. Did I think this is this weekend or is a September 11th? Look what it did. I mean, it created its own tower is crash.

Yeah, on a five-minute candle.

TJ (1:56)

I was a big middle finger to all of us right there, too. It's just like, all right, hey, you think you know what's going to happen? No, you don't. No, you don't.

SPEAKER_1 (2:03)

It can move fast.

TJ (2:04)

That's what I was going to say. Just to make it all the more fun, Bitcoin trading in a pretty tight range. It's not given much clear signal one way or the other.

People expecting it to be bearish. Like you said, opening up strong today. I don't know. We'll see.

SPEAKER_1 (2:20)

Well, the analysis from last week, I feel very strong about in essentially comparing the Bollinger Bands on Bitcoin and where we're at right now. I think that I need to turn this on just to rehash because these are really clear signals. Like this is a very clear W pattern that's developed with a Bollinger Band, two ovals, compression in the center, entry point at the top, exit at the bottom, and then now we're exiting out the top on this Bollinger Band. I think we're smack dabbed from our current situation. This is a very similar setup to this right here. I actually think that we're a little bit further in the process than I thought, you know, where we're coming out of the top end of this oval pattern right here, it leaves room for that flush out down to the center point of where we developed. And really, when I'm looking at Bitcoin, this week's going to be a little bit volatile. And so when I have to be reasonable, we had a really good move. Things are looking generally pretty bullish right now. But this is the thing that I'm watching, is a retest down into the maybe 72, basically between 68 to 72, coming back down and testing this volume node would make sense. It actually would line up with that previous movement that we did when we were kind of expanding out of these same Bollinger Band pattern. So this is something I'm watching on Bitcoin very closely. We already are seeing very, very strong consensus that a Federal Reserve rate hike is coming.

And TJ agrees with me. I don't want to speak for you, but it seems like you agree with me on this Clarity Act BS, because there's some good highlights about the devil in the details about this Clarity Act deal, right?

TJ (4:09)

About it being not great even if it did pass? Yeah, I'm fine with it not passing at this point. They keep giving, they keep giving more and more back to the banks and, you know, they keep, oh, it's about ethics and this on the other. It's not, it's about banks protect. Yeah, there you go. That's the John Deaton said it best right there. The banking industry has captured our leaders. And so I think people have gotten, you know, the industry itself has gotten so focused and, you know, determined to get this over the finish line for their own reasons that they're there. I think they're giving up way too much ground when it comes to DeFi and putting in a check here. What's your gain app on, on your mic, by the way, let me check.