LIVE · BITSTAMP BTC/USD

The Bitcoin halving cycle, measured.

Every cycle bottom struck ≈524 days before a halving. Every cycle top ≈535 days after. A free, live, TradingView-grade chart that draws the rule, confirms it with indicators, and shows you the mathematics underneath — nothing hidden, nothing to install.

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BOTTOM −524d ±16 TOP +535d ±11 BOTTOM→TOP 1,059d ±9 BEAR 383d ±21 DECAY ×0.27 / CYCLE POWER LAW R² 0.96 HALVING ≈ MIDPOINT ×1.02 4 HALVINGS · 15 YEARS OF DATA
01 · THE CYCLE

One rhythm, four times in a row

Bitcoin's supply halves roughly every four years. Around each halving, price has traced the same anatomy — measured here on real data, not folklore.

BOTTOM −524d ±16 HALVING the midpoint · ×1.02 ±0.05 TOP +535d ±11 1,059 days bottom → top · varies by just ±9 days across the last three cycles
Measured on Bitstamp + Coin Metrics history, cycles 2016 / 2020 / 2024. The ±500-day calendar rule brackets exactly this structure.
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02 · THE INSTRUMENT

Everything on the chart is a switch

Start with a clean TradingView-style chart. Layer on exactly the evidence you want — every toggle remembers your choice, privately, in your own browser.

AThe 500-day rule, drawn live

Halving lines, BUY/SELL dates with every historical move measured close-to-close, technical confirmations, and the three research tables — over live candles that tick with every Bitstamp trade. The current bar forms in front of you, with a countdown to the weekly close.

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  • Candles / Line
  • Log / Linear
  • Labels on/off
  • Each table on/off
The live halving-cycle chart with BUY/SELL labels, halving lines, and research tables

BCycle math, on demand

One click marks every measured bottom and top with its distance from the halving, shades the fitted windows for the 2028 cycle, and opens the CYCLE MATH panel — anchors, decay law, rhythm constants. All labeled for what they are: hindsight fits, not forecasts.

  • Cycle math
  • Power-law corridor
  • 200W / 200D SMA
  • Pi Cycle
Cycle math overlay: measured bottoms and tops, fitted 2028 zones, power-law corridor

CTwo rules, one click

The classic ±500-day rule ships untouched. Next to it: a research preset fitted to the measured anchors — buy 450 days before, sell 550 after — with its full backtest shown right on the chart, honestly compared against buy & hold.

Rule table with backtest: 137.6%/yr, Sharpe 1.55 vs buy and hold 76.1%/yr Cycle math panel with anchors, decay and projections
Fitted rule view with projected windows and backtest
03 · THE METHOD

How it calculates

The whole pipeline is deterministic and inspectable — the same numbers every time, from public data you can check yourself.

  1. 1

    Public data, kept fresh

    Full Bitstamp BTC/USD daily history, extended back to 2010 with Coin Metrics community data. The chart re-syncs itself minutes after every UTC bar close.

  2. 2

    The calendar rule

    BUY = halving − offset · SELL = halving + offset. Every completed BUY→SELL and SELL→BUY move is measured close-to-close and listed in the performance table — including the drawdowns.

  3. 3

    Technical confirmations

    Only completed weekly bars count — no repainting. BUY: weekly RSI(14) crosses above 35 while the Mayer Multiple ≤ 0.90. SELL: weekly MACD turns bearish while RSI ≥ 45 and Mayer ≥ 1.00, within ±90 days of a calendar date.

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    Cycle research fits

    Bottoms and tops located per cycle → anchor statistics, the ×0.27 decay law, a log-log power-law corridor (R² 0.96), and projected 2028 windows — every fit shown with its sample size and dispersion.

Bitcoin has completed three full halving cycles with reliable data. Three of anything is a pattern, not a proof. That is why this chart shows you dispersion, sample sizes, and backtests instead of predictions — and why the current cycle already bends some of the old rules. Research evidence, honestly presented. Never financial advice.

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Fitted bottom zone: Oct–Nov 2026 · Fitted top zone: Oct 2029 — go see how they're derived.

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