A new analysis from well-known market analyst TechDev is quickly spreading across the crypto community. His latest chart highlights two long-term market signals that, according to his research, have mapped every major Bitcoin phase over the past 16 years, from euphoric cycle peaks to brutal bear market bottoms. With Bitcoin navigating a volatile macro environment, TechDev’s framework is being seen as one of the clearest long-term roadmaps available.
The Two Signals Guiding Bitcoin’s Macro Story
TechDev’s research focuses on two business-cycle-style oscillators. He argues that together they have captured the full rhythm of Bitcoin’s market behavior.
Across every cycle, the signals have identified when bull markets begin to form, where major cycle tops occur, when the U.S. dollar peaks, how bear markets unfold, when deep bottoms are formed, and when Bitcoin transitions into its slow “grind-up” recovery phase before entering a parabolic expansion. Despite Bitcoin’s evolution from a niche experiment to a global asset, the long-term structure revealed by these signals has remained surprisingly consistent.
Consistent Rhythm Across Every Cycle
The chart shared by TechDev overlays these oscillators on top of Bitcoin’s entire macro history. The first indicator tends to peak near the end of powerful bull markets and then decline sharply as bear markets begin. The second one moves more slowly, bottoming during multi-year lows and signaling when long-term accumulation is taking place.
When the two indicators reach specific zones together, Bitcoin has historically entered major transition points, whether the explosive final phase of a bull cycle or the exhaustion point of a bear market. The repetition of this pattern across 2013, 2017, and 2021 is what gives the model credibility among long-term cycle analysts.
Where Bitcoin Appears to Be Now
Based on the current position of both signals, Bitcoin seems to be emerging from the lower regions of the long-term oscillator. In past cycles, this zone has marked the early stages of recovery, a period when the market slowly regains strength before entering more aggressive expansion. This phase is typically characterized by quieter price action, gradual demand returning, and the market digesting previous drawdowns. Historically, it has also been the period that eventually leads into the next major upside run.
A Long-Term Framework for What Comes Next
TechDev emphasizes that, despite short-term volatility and shifting macro conditions, these two signals have remained reliable guideposts. Even as Bitcoin’s market size, liquidity, and investor base transformed, the underlying structure remained intact. If the pattern continues as it has for more than a decade, Bitcoin may now be progressing through the mid-cycle recovery stage that precedes a much larger move.
Whether history will repeat is never guaranteed, but TechDev’s model offers one of the clearest long-term frameworks for understanding how Bitcoin transitions from accumulation to acceleration and, eventually, to its next parabolic phase.