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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Bitcoin's had a 35% move or so since early February.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And we're at a really interesting inflection point on the crypto markets.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And so that's where I'm spending most of my time and just really trying to understand if this rally continues in NASDAQ and S&P 500,
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Is there a chance that they're just going to pull the crypto markets along with it?
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And I think that's the big unknown.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Typically, Bitcoin actually leads the NASDAQ.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So when we look at Bitcoin correlations, we talked about how it's most correlated during bear market years.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
We are at the highest correlation point right now in 2026.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And Bitcoin tends to lead the market here.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So that'll be interesting to see.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
If Bitcoin rolls over, it's at its peak.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
Right around its 200-day moving average, which can be resistance in a bear market.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So we'll be keeping an eye on that.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
If Bitcoin breaks down, is that a leading indicator for NASDAQ and the TradFi side?
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
So, yeah, we've never invested in the crypto markets through, I guess, a sort of bubble type setup, you know, in NASDAQ.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
I guess, you know, 2021, we had some similarities there.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
And, yeah, I mean, I think the best thing you can do is understand the relationship between, you know, Bitcoin and NASDAQ.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
We know that it's moderately correlated.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
It tends to be more correlated in bear market years.
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How Long Will the AI Boom Continue? The #1 Question for Crypto Investors | Michael Nadeau
you know, my, the way that I'm playing this is, you know, my exposure to the TradFi side of things is like an index funds and I'm just kind of like, you know, I'm not like selling anything.