Bitcoin breakout or black swan? $90K BTC price lacks gold, stocks high

Bitcoin ( BTC ) has not matched all-time highs against the S&P 500, gold and others — but doing so is “a matter of if, not when.”

In a post on X on Nov. 15, Caleb Franzen, creator of financial research resource Cubic Analytics, predicted BTC price outperformance next.

Bitcoin macro breakout not yet reality

Bitcoin may have tapped $93,500 and gained nearly 50% in Q4, but against many macro assets, the BTC price breakout has yet to happen.

Franzen notes that the S&P 500 and Nasdaq 100 indexes remain unbeaten by Bitcoin — something also true of the NYSE FANG+ tech stock index and gold.

“Just a matter of when, not if,” he predicted.

BTC vs. S&P500, gold. Source: Caleb Franzen/X

For US stocks, the key moment in Bitcoin’s history was early 2021, even before BTC/USD set all-time highs of $69,000, which remained in place for over two years.

While dollar records have since fallen over and over, Bitcoin is still working on setting new all-time highs across the macro asset spectrum.

Last week, Cointelegraph reported on the market now gaining ground against gold, which had a head start of several months in setting new all-time highs in dollar terms.

At the time, Charles Edwards, founder of quantitative Bitcoin and digital asset fund Capriole Investments, forecasted a “rapid repricing” now that BTC/USD had broken out.

Subsequently, Edwards shared a long-term chart of gold’s own breakout in the 2000s after spending twenty years below previous all-time highs from 1980. BTC/USD, he suggested, could now do likewise.

XAU/USD vs. BTC/USD. Source: Charles Edwards/X

BTC price bears warn of $72,000 “at least”

In a dramatic alternative take, a popular but increasingly infamous Bitcoin trader is now implying that a crash across risk assets is now due.

Related: Bitcoin price can hit $100K by Thanksgiving if bulls hold key level

On Nov. 15, Il Capo of Crypto returned to his Telegram channel with a photograph that suggested he expected a black swan event to hit.

While no commentary was given, the post rapidly began to circulate on social media, with users recalling Il Capo of Crypto’s  $12,000 BTC price target, among other things .

As Cointelegraph reported, bearish perspectives on Bitcoin continue to surface, with fellow trader Credible Crypto recently calling for $50,000 or lower for the pair.

In his latest X analysis, Credible Crypto flagged $72,000 as the downside target to watch.

“If we take our highs at 93.8k in a clear, impulsive move that breaks 100k+ then 72k and below is likely gone until the next bear market,” he wrote alongside accompanying charts.

“If we instead sweep our highs and fail to produce a final, 5th subwave then it implies this move was indeed corrective and makes the odds of us retesting 70-72k AT LEAST exponentially higher.”

BTC/USD 1-hour chart. Source: Credible Crypto/X

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