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TechDev Newsletter - Market Update #100

Breakout Week: The Next Trade, and Why 2025 Was 2019

Aug 23, 2026
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100 issues. And the market picked the week to make it count, because the breakout we have been positioning for since the June low finally landed, both majors closed green above their key Supertrends, and the whole sequence arrived on day 19 of the two to three week window published on August 1. It is time to fully tune out the noise and lock the fuck in.

Today’s issue is heavy on Ethereum, and that is deliberate. It is where I am heavily positioned for my short-term trading, as I have disclosed along the way, and its chart is screaming macro outperformance of Bitcoin, which is exactly where the focus belongs at this point in the cycle.

So we will walk the record first, the full ledger of calls since November, then the confirmations on both majors, then the trade plan as it evolves from two trades into three, then the evidence behind the next swing, and then the argument I keep returning to: that this market is mid-cycle, not late, and 2025’s high was this cycle’s 2019.

The Gem Score board reruns near the end, kept simple and easy to read. And there is one piece of news I am deliberately holding back: the TechDev platform is being expanded into something much bigger than a newsletter, and next issue is the formal reveal. Today is the map, and the map is full.

Today’s topics

The Record

  • Ethereum: The Path

  • The Ledger: Every Call Since November

The Confirmation

  • Ethereum: Above the Supertrend

  • Bitcoin: Confirmed, With One Revision

The Trades

  • The Two-Trade Scoreboard

  • The Third Trade: Mapping the Swing

  • Two Fractals, One Target

The Mid-Cycle Case

  • Bitcoin Between the Bands: 2025 was 2019

  • Dominance: The Same Signature

  • Global Liquidity: Bigger Coil, Bigger Launch

The Gem Score

  • The Rerun, at a Glance

  • Exits and Movers

  • The Cards and the Scan

What Comes Next

  • The TechDev Revamp

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