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Bitcoin $78K. Goldman Files. Schwab Launches. The S&P Hits All-Time Highs. This Week Mattered.
The S&P 500 and Bitcoin printed new local highs on the same week. Most people will see that and call it a good week. I want you to understand why it’s more than that.
For two years the story was simple: Bitcoin trades like a risk asset. When equities bleed, crypto follows. A lot of portfolios learned that the hard way in 2022 when BTC dropped 65% alongside a 20% equity selloff. This week was the opposite. Synchronized strength — both markets up, same window, no lag.
The buyers who showed up in March during Extreme Fear are sitting on 20% in three weeks. ETF inflows haven’t dried up. Strategy has added over 500,000 BTC to its balance sheet since 2020 and is still buying. Japan has passed financial asset recognition legislation. The US Treasury now briefs crypto firms the same way they brief Goldman Sachs. These aren’t narratives. They’re structural facts building on top of each other.
$78,000 is not the top. It’s the floor of the next range. $80K is the number the whole market is watching, and Bitcoin 2026 in Las Vegas starts in ten days. Pay attention.
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Bitcoin has broken $78,000 and is holding above it. Today’s high touched $78,333 before pulling back slightly, with price now consolidating above $77,000.
The daily is bullish across every shorter timeframe. RSI sits at 67.9, elevated but not yet overextended. On the weekly chart, MACD has flipped bullish for the first time since September 2025. That is the higher timeframe signal that matters most this week. One caveat: the weekly candle is still reading bearish on the dashboard. All shorter timeframes are bullish. That split tells you the daily trend is recovering while the weekly has not yet confirmed. A strong weekly close fixes that.
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ETH is trading at $2,427, up 3.37% on the day. Bitcoin is leading this move and ETH is following, which is the healthy version of this setup.
RSI sits at 65.2, neutral with room to expand. Smart Money is balanced. No distribution signals on the 4H. Like Bitcoin, the weekly is still reading bearish while all shorter timeframes are bullish. The key Fibonacci level to watch is the 0.618 retracement at $2,701. That is the next meaningful resistance. A clean daily close above it opens the path toward the 0.382 at $3,519.
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The biggest stories this week, filtered for signal. CCS coverage linked where relevant.
Bitcoin broke $78,000 as the S&P 500 closed at a new all-time high of 7,126 on the same day. Three consecutive all-time highs on the S&P this week (7,022 → 7,050 → 7,126) alongside Bitcoin’s move is the synchronized strength story of the year. This is what institutional co-movement looks like.
Charles Schwab announces spot Bitcoin and Ethereum trading for retail clients, launching in the coming weeks. Schwab manages $12 trillion in client assets. This is the largest traditional brokerage to offer direct crypto trading and puts BTC and ETH on the same screen as stocks for millions of everyday investors.
Goldman Sachs files for a Bitcoin Premium Income ETF. The $3.5 trillion bank is moving beyond its existing Bitcoin ETF exposure into yield-generating BTC products. Institutional product development is accelerating.
Kraken confidentially files for a US IPO. The second-largest US crypto exchange going public is a legitimacy milestone for the industry and a signal of how much the regulatory environment has shifted in 12 months.
SEC officially ends the Pattern Day Trader rule, eliminating the $25,000 minimum for day trading. A decades-old barrier to retail participation in active markets is gone. This expands the addressable market for crypto and equities trading platforms simultaneously.
Morgan Stanley says tokenization is the next major step for its $2 trillion business. When the world’s largest wealth manager says this publicly, it’s not a trend piece. It’s a product roadmap announcement.
X’s cashtag trading pilot for stocks and crypto generated an estimated $1 billion in volume in its first week. The social-to-trade pipeline is real and moving faster than most people expected.
Iran reopens the Strait of Hormuz. Bitcoin crossed $77K within hours of the announcement as oil prices crashed 13%, traders rotating out of commodity hedges.
Tesla adds $100 billion in market cap in a single day. Up 7%, reflecting broader risk-on sentiment across the week.
SEC issues guidance that certain crypto interfaces supporting self-custodial wallet transactions may not require broker-dealer registration. A meaningful step toward clearer regulatory boundaries for DeFi and wallet infrastructure.
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This isn’t the asset that bleeds when the S&P sneezes anymore. This week proved it. When both markets print new local highs in the same window, that’s capital allocation behaving normally around a mature asset class. The speculation phase built the infrastructure. The infrastructure attracted the institutions. The institutions are now here.
$80K is the next number. I’ll be on the floor at The Venetian in ten days. If you’re going to be there, hit reply. I’d like to know.
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