Benjamin Cowen argues Bitcoin has already swept the February 2026 low and that this remains consistent with a broader bear-market / midterm-year pattern rather than evidence the cycle is over. He compares 2026 with 2018, 2019, 2014, and 2022, but ultimately says the most likely path is still another lower low later in the year, with October the base-case timing unless a sharper price capitulation changes the setup.
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Cowen’s core thesis is that Bitcoin’s move below the February 2026 low is not surprising or bearish in a novel way; it fits a recurring bear-market structure he thinks investors keep misreading. He frames the current move as a likely sweep of the low, not necessarily the final bottom, and repeatedly says the most likely cycle low still comes later, with October his base case unless the market capitulates much harder first. The point of the video is not that he can pinpoint the exact bottom, but that the current drawdown still looks broadly normal within historical midterm-year and bear-market behavior. He supports that view with several analogies. First, he emphasizes the similarity to 2018: February low, then a higher low in spring, a rally toward the 200-day moving average, and then a lower low in June about 19 weeks later. …
Near term, the market looks vulnerable to one more shakeout: the June low may be only a sweep, and losing the 60K area would keep downside pressure alive.
Over the next several weeks/months, the base case is a bounce followed by another test lower, with Q4 still the most likely window for the cycle low unless price capitulates hard enough to front-run it.
Structurally, Cowen is arguing that Bitcoin remains in a normal cyclical bear phase shaped by liquidity and participation, not in a regime where every rally signals a durable trend change.
Bitcoin has swept the February 2026 low, but that does not necessarily mean the bear market is over.
He frames the move as consistent with prior bear-market behavior where lows are revisited months later.
Bitcoin often takes four to five months in bear markets to set new lows, which can make the bear market feel over before it actually is.
He uses this as a general timing principle for bear markets.
The current cycle resembles 2018 because both had February lows, spring higher lows, rallies to the 200-day moving average, and June lower lows.
He explicitly maps the current cycle onto the 2018 pattern.
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