In 2014, after the election ended, the market kept falling and it took another 70 days to truly hit the bottom.
In 2018, more than 40 days after the election, BTC hit the cycle low.
In 2022, the bottom appeared almost exactly around the election days.
Killa's projection is: the bottom is right before or near the election, holding above 80,000, then moving upward.
Sounds smooth. But Killa himself gave a second scenario, and he was more cautious: first a surge, even touching 94-95k, then a risk-off drop after the election.
In the past four midterm elections, three times the market fell after the election.
Here’s the question: this time, which script is the market trading in advance?
BTC didn’t surge above 85k, instead it directly broke below 82k. The trigger wasn’t the Fed, nor ETF outflows, but a piece of news: the US and Israeli militaries have planned to strike Iran again after the midterm elections.
The market is pricing in something that will only happen after the election.
Trump himself said on October 8 that he wouldn’t attack Iran before the midterms. Fox News’s judgment was even more straightforward: he’s unlikely to resume strikes before the election.
To translate: before the election, war is on pause. After the election, the pause button is released.
Iran is deliberately delaying negotiations, trying to weaken Trump’s political position before the election. Trump himself said on social media that Iran is "doing everything possible to raise oil prices before the election."
All players are waiting for November 3. And what the market hates most is "waiting."
So the "weekly bottom above 80,000" has a fatal premise.
Killa’s early bottom scenario is based on the chain: "bottom forms → rebound → hold bullish."
But the premise for the bottom to form is that selling pressure is fully released beforehand.
What is the current selling pressure? It’s not crypto internal leverage. BTC fell from 85k to 81k accompanied by the Nasdaq’s largest single-day drop since June, doubts about AI capital expenditure, semiconductor crashes, and oil prices hitting a five-month high.
Crypto is falling along with macro, not on its own.
And the biggest macro bomb is precisely scheduled after the election.
Is there a rebound near 80,000? Most likely yes. 80,000 is a major consolidation zone, repeatedly providing buy orders, and a technical rebound from a double bottom pattern is entirely possible.
But the nature of that rebound determines whether you should hold or exit.
If BTC grinds at 80k-82k with low volume before the election, then repairs to 85k — that’s a tactical "pre-election stabilization" repair, not a trend reversal.
The real pricing power returns to the market only after November 3. The restart of US-Iran conflict, December rate hike expectations (CME shows a 62.2% probability of a 25bp hike in December, unchanged, and only 9.9% chance of no hike), and the secondary inflation transmission from oil prices — all are lined up on the post-election calendar.
Killa also reminded: you can’t simply copy "post-election must fall," but if it weakens after a surge, it’s time to reduce risk.
In other words: the bottom above 80,000 might be real. But it’s most likely an "election bottom," not a "cycle bottom."
Don’t bet on direction before the election. You can take the rebound above 80,000, but don’t treat it as a "bull market restart" to leverage up. Killa’s quant background lets him flexibly reverse positions; you might not have that speed.
Use 85k as a touchstone. If BTC repeatedly fails to break 85k before the election and then falls back, that’s a "classic risk-off" script rehearsing early. Conversely, if 80k holds and lows gradually rise, then talk about holding bullish.
The first week after the election is more important than before. History tells us that bottoms often need a "post-event confirmation." In 2022, the bottom was during the election, but what really made people hold positions was the subsequent trend, not the price on election day.
History doesn’t simply repeat, but it rhymes.
The "rhyme" of midterm elections is: bottoms often appear before the election, but the real risk is released after.
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