The latest market summary from CryptoInsightUK comes with the sound of a hammer striking right next door, an incidental soundtrack to the thud he expects traders will have to endure before the next rally. In a thirteen-minute guide to the liquidity map of XRP, Bitcoin, and Ethereum, the British analyst argues that the market is staging what he calls "an intentional trap" designed to eliminate weak hands, harvest stop-loss orders, and maximize bullish leverage for larger players—leaving retail participants "screaming, 'Yay, we’re going to the moon,' ... only to realize they've been played."
The trap has been set, warns the XRP trader.
He started with the five-month downtrend channel of XRP starting from the New Year peak, noting that the price continues to cling to the lower side of the descending trend line. "Being stuck below that trend line basically means we are looking to see if this liquidity gets pushed below us or not. My clear opinion is that it will," he said, emphasizing his belief that a series of resting bids below remains the path of least resistance. He argued that the sell-off would "make our upward journey much better and much easier to navigate," as it would reset the funding, shake out long-term buyers, and reload the order book for what he still calls the "next parabolic expansion potentially up to the $8 to $12 range."
However, the trap may not be a simple vertical collapse. He reminds viewers that the chart "likes to do something like" an initial breakout of 15-20%, convincing traders that the downtrend is over, only to suddenly reverse into deep liquidity pockets below. "That's exactly how higher peak and higher low scenarios are supposed to frustrate you," he says, publicly acknowledging that this pattern seems designed. The phrase he never uses—manipulation—lingers unspoken throughout the analysis, but his words leave little doubt: "This is how they test people."
Bitcoin, in his narrative, could act as a bait to trap. The benchmark asset has escaped its own wedge-like consolidation and, he observes, "likes to do things like this" by staging early price surges. He outlines a journey that could aim for $115,000 that would "delay the inevitable" and then give way to its own liquidity hunt. Nevertheless, the price range between cycles for Bitcoin remains $150,000 to $220,000. He argues that this increase justifies dollar-cost averaging into altcoins while still holding "a bit of cash" in reserve for the collapse he anticipates.
A more complex scenario involves a temporary increase in Bitcoin's dominance to the range of 66% to 74%. As Bitcoin attracts capital, altcoins like XRP will "bleed," hitting reduced liquidity targets and only then reversing when cash flows back into their order books. He illustrates the dance on two TradingView charts—Bitcoin on the left, XRP on the right—before concluding that the alternating setup "is unlikely to happen" as it would require a series of large dominoes to fall in sequence. However, he refrains from dismissing it, pointing to the strategic reserves bill in Washington as the kind of narrative catalyst that could spark a temporary rally exclusive to Bitcoin and dampen the spirits of altcoin holders.
Macro risks briefly surface in the commentary—conflicts that could "push us down" in the near future—but he views geopolitical tensions as a catalyst for the ultimate capitulation rather than a thesis killer. "Growth is so large that it is almost impossible to ignore," he emphasizes, considering the current pullback as a high-volatility pause before a structural bull market.
Whether that rally only begins after a complete liquidation or appears after another false breakout remains uncertain, but the analyst's message is unmistakable: traders pursuing the breakout without considering the hidden stakes risk being liquidated first, becoming spectators of the parabolic line they hope to ride.
Currently, he is content to wait for "the market to perform its worst trick," believing that the final shakeout will self-announce through a sudden wick, deep and piercing. "You are being played," he warns. The caution is very clear: if the scenario unfolds as expected, the pain will come quickly. "If we reach these levels, that's where I'll dump my final dry powder into […] It's around $1.80, maybe $1.90."
