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Weekly setting up...

Bullish developments + farming ops

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Ivan Labrie
Oct 04, 2025
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GM gents,

Since my last post, the weekly timeframe and possibly monthly timeframe in Bitcoin are gearing up for a rally. Weekly signal fired earlier this week, will obviously be fully confirmed on close (as there is always a theoretical chance for the market to suddenly turn down before the close nullifying it, although slim).

We have a green week, as far as volume goes, with the RgExp vol indicator showing us strength from the buyers, and the 50% speed line support held when tested during the correction into this month’s low.

As far as sentiment goes, we have a few contra signals flashing which reinforce the bullish view:

  • Famous perma bear Mark Dow had called Bitcoin dead essentially the day it bottomed

  • Marko Kolanovic doubled down on his bearish stance as well (this applies to the whole market, saw it by chance as he for some reason has me blocked haha).

  • Crypto bros are mostly in smaller alts, not even in ETH or SOL, from what I gather, everyone is either bearish and wanting another leg down before going up or going with “alt season, uptober, we are near the top” dogma from CT (based on a sample size of two pattern from 2015-2018 and 2019-2022). This is doomed to be wrong in some unexpected ways (which makes sense with the longer cycle theory derived from yearly BTCUSD and quarterly ETHUSD and SOLUSD charts among others.

Call to action: if monthly triggers, definitely wise to deploy some more $ into Bitcoin exposure, if not in or underexposed. Weekly is already bullish, you should already be invested. (and please, don’t use leverage or derivatives, unless you’re following my perp trading cues from Discord)


Aster perp dex and token

After threatening to come down, the token has formed a bullish signal (which is being retraced today). If price holds over $1.8 this could be a decent entry to buy a speculative position here. There might be some multiplier if you’re farming Aster by using the perp dex, to my knowledge, and according to the rules, you do get some points for using USDf or asBNB as collateral.

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Linea / Metamask token

Linea is about to flash a bullish signal if it goes over $0.03 today, holding spot LINEA will likely be either a multiplier or a qualifier for getting the Metamask token airdrop -now confirmed- (I hodl my airdrop and bot some more).

There’s various ways to earn $ in the Linea chain, that will help you earn rewards in Linea tokens and likely contribute towards earning the Metamask token airdrop.

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