Bitcoin News: Every Major Bitcoin Bottom for a Decade Has Come Near the 200-Week SMA — History Says the Window Is Open Right Now

Bitcoin is trading near $60,000 — below its 200-week simple moving average at $63,500 — and analyst Ali Charts argues this is one of the better long-term entry windows in the past decade. The 200-week SMA has marked a macro accumulation zone at every major Bitcoin cycle bottom since 2015. The pattern is consistent, the signal is live, and the downside risks are specific and quantified. What history cannot tell you is timing.
What the 200-Week SMA Has Done at Every Prior Cycle Bottom
The 200-week SMA's track record as a cycle bottom indicator spans four distinct bear markets across ten years. In August 2015, Bitcoin touched the moving average and began a bull run that produced cumulative gains exceeding 8,500%. In December 2018, it tested the level and rebounded approximately 267%. In March 2020, the pandemic liquidity shock drove Bitcoin briefly below the moving average before it confirmed support and rose 1,125% from that level. In June 2022, Bitcoin broke below the moving average for the first time in its history — and remained below it for six months until December 2022, when it reclaimed the level and triggered a rally of approximately 680%.
The current setup matches that historical pattern precisely. The 200-week SMA sits at approximately $63,500. Bitcoin is trading near $60,000 — below that level, in the zone that has historically represented the deepest discount available to long-term investors across the entire decade of Bitcoin's institutional maturation.
Why This Is Described as a Macro Accumulation Window
Ali Charts' framing is specific: every time Bitcoin has touched or broken below the 200-week SMA, it has opened what the analyst describes as a "macro-level accumulation window" — a period during which long-term investors who established positions at or below the moving average have historically been rewarded with the next bull cycle's full upside. The returns from those windows — 8,500%, 267%, 1,125%, 680% — span a wide range depending on entry timing and exit discipline, but none of them produced a loss for investors who held through the subsequent cycle.
The $63,500 level is described as the "bull-bear dividing line." A firm reclaim of the 200-week SMA on a higher timeframe — with the price breaking above $63,500 and confirming it as macro support through consecutive weekly closes — has historically signaled the early stages of a new bull cycle rather than a continuation of the bear market.
The Caveat: $54,000 and $40,000 Downside Risks Remain Live
The historical pattern is not a guarantee of timing, and Ali Charts explicitly quantifies the downside risks that remain before any confirmation signal arrives. A pullback to $54,000 is described as possible in the near term — approximately 10% below current prices and close to Bitcoin's realized price of approximately $53,600, the level CryptoQuant identified as the threshold where the average holder transitions from profit to loss. In extreme scenarios, testing the $40,000 range cannot be ruled out — a further 33% decline that would represent a move well below any prior cycle's realized-price floor.
This range of outcomes — from an immediate recovery toward $63,500 to a potential extension to $40,000 — is why the suggested approach is a phased Dollar-Cost Averaging strategy for gradual position building between $58,000 and $40,000. Committing a fixed amount at regular intervals within that range allows investors to establish positions at technical discount levels without requiring a precise call on where the exact bottom lands. It is the strategy most consistent with the historical observation that the accumulation window is identifiable even when the precise floor is not.
How This Fits the Broader June Bottom Signal Cluster
Ali Charts' 200-week SMA analysis adds to the densest cluster of simultaneous bottom indicators Bitcoin has produced this cycle. CryptoQuant's cycle momentum indicator touched -30 — the historical bottom zone. The Sharpe ratio hit -20 on June 11, matching the level seen at the 2015, 2018-19, and 2022-23 lows. The RHODL Ratio is rolling over from its peak in the pattern that preceded the 2015 and 2022 recoveries. Long-term holders control a record 79% of circulating supply. Glassnode's Accumulation Trend Score has held at its maximum reading of 1.0 for weeks. And 259,000 BTC have been net accumulated between $59,000 and $67,000 since June 5.
The consistent message across every indicator is the same as Ali Charts' conclusion: the structural conditions for a bottom are present. The confirmation that the bottom has been reached and the next bull cycle has begun requires Bitcoin to reclaim $63,500 and hold it as support — a test that has not yet been passed, and that the US-Iran ceasefire's fresh breakdown this week, six consecutive weeks of ETF outflows, and the Reuters poll consensus of no Fed rate cuts through 2027 are making harder to achieve in the near term.