A research instrument
for bitcoin's position.

Thirteen indicators, published with the math and the parts that don't work.

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13 Indicators
15+ Years of data
3 Full market cycles
SHAP Informed weights

Research & Methodology

What works, what doesn't, and where the data runs thin.

Methodology · Falsifiable

The Exchange Balance Is Just the Flows Added Up

A popular reading of this month's rise says big holders pulled coins off exchanges, so fewer were left to sell, and the price rose. Coins did not leave: 93,338 more sat on exchanges on 15 August than on 1 June, right through the fall. Tested at sixty-one lags over 5,596 days, the daily flow leads nothing, and the one test that supported the story turned out to be a coin flip. The balance itself is not a second measurement: on 5,441 of those days it is the flows added up, to the last digit in the file.

Commentary · No new call

The Part of the Filing Nobody Read

The first scorecard entry graded a miss, and grading it found a false sentence in the article behind it: a 13F shows more than the shares a firm owns. Read the fourth row and the finding reverses: three of Jane Street's four holdings say the book more than halved, all four say it grew.

Commentary · No new call

The Coins Now Pay a Different Bill

Strategy is still selling bitcoin every week, but the funding mix has flipped: $943.7m raised from stock over a fortnight against $213.3m from coins. In the week to 9 August none of the bitcoin money reached the dividends; all of it bought back the company's own preferred shares.

Methodology · Falsifiable

Every Grade Here Has a Vintage

Every grade here was worked out from vendor data as it stood that day, and vendors rewrite old figures later. Rebuilt from git history: the money-supply file had 203 of 206 old rows rewritten back to 2009, yet not one of 5,735 published grades moved. The margin was thinner than it sounds.

Commentary · No new call

A Bitcoin ETF Is Closing. Bitcoin Is Not the Reason.

Hashdex is winding up its bitcoin fund, by CoinDesk's account the first US spot bitcoin ETF to close. All five reasons the sponsor gives are about running a fund. Its $14.7m is roughly two minutes of ordinary daily trading; two rival funds have taken in $70.45bn.

How It Works

Seven dimensions of bitcoin's position, read across thirteen indicators.

Valuation

Is Bitcoin cheap or expensive relative to its 15-year history?

Macro

Is the liquidity and currency environment supportive?

Trend / Cycle

Where in the cycle are we, and what direction is the trend?

On-Chain

Is there genuine network usage and demand for block space?

Volatility

Is the market calm or stressed?

Mean Reversion

How stretched is price from its medium-term average?

Momentum

Short-term buying or selling pressure.

Each indicator is graded 0-100 against fifteen years of bitcoin's own history, then combined into the single reading on the dashboard. The weights are SHAP-informed and then fixed by hand: the machine-learning rankings shape them, but they are an editorial mapping, not a computed output. The model's value is in revealing which indicators carry information, not in predicting price.

The research is the reason to be here: the methodology, the corrections, and a dated record of every directional call.

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