James Check says THIS dip is NOT one you need to worry about. Here’s how he knows

Published August 5, 2025

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    00:01 James Check says this dip is not the dip
    00:04 you should be worried about and it’s
    00:06 still a good time to buy more Bitcoin.
    00:08 So, how does he know? Well, first of
    00:10 all, who is James Check? James Check,
    00:12 who goes by checkmate or checkmate with
    00:14 a Y on the end, is my favorite Bitcoin
    00:17 analyst, the only one I follow. And what
    00:19 he does all day long, 24/7 when he’s not
    00:22 sleeping, is he analyzes the Bitcoin
    00:25 ecosystem, the Bitcoin market, and looks
    00:27 at every single indicator that could
    00:29 possibly indicate whether we’re hitting
    00:32 a top or a bottom in the life cycle and
    00:35 price of Bitcoin because as with
    00:37 anything, it goes up and down on its way
    00:39 up. And a lot of people just don’t want
    00:41 to buy the very peak tips and then be
    00:44 stuck underwater for a long time. And
    00:46 James Chuck is by far the best person to
    00:48 tell you is now a good time to buy
    00:50 bitcoins. Now he will be the first to
    00:52 tell you and I will be the first to tell
    00:53 you all times are the best time to buy
    00:55 bitcoin. It’s never a bad time to buy
    00:57 bitcoin but if you want to sort of lower
    00:60 your anxiety and your heartburn uh
    01:02 related to investing then he can give
    01:04 you a lot of comfort of sort of how
    01:06 things are acting and the way they’re
    01:08 acting. So he did a report this morning
    01:11 called uh you know what was it uh damage
    01:14 report or something like that because
    01:16 the price dipped uh in the last within
    01:18 the last week part of the last week the
    01:20 price dipped from 118,000 down to
    01:22 113,000.
    01:24 So he is the best person in the entire
    01:26 world for evaluating is there a problem
    01:29 here? Now, the only downside is you you
    01:32 usually get those reports, you know, a
    01:33 day or two. They’re usually done on a
    01:35 Monday and like a Thursday. And so
    01:37 sometimes if it’s dipping going into a
    01:40 weekend like this one, um he is in
    01:43 Australia, so if the price starts
    01:45 dipping aggressively on a Friday, after
    01:47 his business hours, you typically don’t
    01:49 get the report until Monday morning,
    01:51 which is fine. I don’t expect him to
    01:52 work on weekends, but uh anyway, by the
    01:54 time you wake up first thing Monday
    01:56 morning, he’s already finished the
    01:57 report because Australia’s way ahead
    01:59 time zone wise as compared to the United
    02:01 States. So here’s what the report said.
    02:03 One second.
    02:09 So he goes through item by item and
    02:11 says, “Okay, the price dipped by from
    02:14 118 to 113. Should we be worried?” Okay,
    02:17 the first thing you look at is okay, you
    02:21 know, how much money is going into or
    02:22 out of Bitcoin on a macro scale. So, he
    02:24 looks at that, he says, we’re looking
    02:26 good. Next, he’s looking at, okay, how
    02:29 in or out of profit are people who
    02:32 bought Bitcoin recently? You know, are
    02:34 people capitulating? Is there fear? Is
    02:37 there behavior indicating that a lot of
    02:40 people are running scared? And he looks
    02:42 at that metric and he says, “No, we’re
    02:44 we’re looking good on that metric.” Then
    02:46 he looks at, okay, how much profit or
    02:48 loss are people actually taking on the
    02:50 Bitcoin they hold. So he looks at how
    02:52 much money is coming in and out of of
    02:54 Bitcoin and how does that compare with
    02:56 the averages over time, especially the
    02:59 averages before, during, and after
    03:02 markets and bull markets and how does
    03:04 the metrics of the current dip compare
    03:07 to past bull markets and bare markets
    03:10 and the metrics before, during, and
    03:12 after those things. Then he looks at
    03:14 okay how much in-loss or out of loss is
    03:16 the average Bitcoin holder that has
    03:19 bought recently which are called s
    03:20 short-term holders because if short-term
    03:23 holders are in five or 10% loss from a
    03:26 dip that’s fine. Most people are not you
    03:29 know having a serious cow uh when
    03:32 they’re only 5 or 10% down from whatever
    03:34 they bought at. But when people start
    03:36 getting 20 or 30% down from the price
    03:38 they paid, they start, you know, really
    03:40 freaking out. So, he looks at those
    03:43 metrics and he says, “Hey, we’re not,
    03:44 you know, it’s nothing to, you know,
    03:47 nothing to worry about. The the amount
    03:48 down that short-term holders are is not
    03:51 the kind of numbers that typically freak
    03:53 them out.” Then he looks at, okay, uh,
    03:56 realized gain or loss, which is okay,
    03:58 the actual people that are working or
    03:59 selling Bitcoin, you don’t know who
    04:01 those people are. You don’t know names
    04:03 of those people. It’s all anonymized
    04:05 data, but you can tell on the Bitcoin
    04:07 blockchain based on is the the Bitcoin
    04:10 that are moving in or out of Coinbase or
    04:13 something like that. Are they held by
    04:16 someone who’s held them a long time or
    04:18 are they held by somebody who’s held
    04:19 them a short time or did they buy them,
    04:21 you know, last week at 118 or did they
    04:23 buy them at the peak of 123 or are these
    04:26 people selling or buying that, you know,
    04:28 bought Bitcoin at 110? You can tell all
    04:30 of that from the Bitcoin blockchain and
    04:32 from the flows related to the exchange
    04:34 traded funds, the Bitcoin ETFs, exchange
    04:37 traded funds. So, James Check looks at
    04:39 all of that. Basically, the report from
    04:41 all of the this morning is things are
    04:43 looking great. Uh he looks at a lot more
    04:46 metrics than that. And actually, he’s
    04:48 offering a 7-day trial, free trial right
    04:50 now. So, if you want to get a sense of
    04:52 what James Check uh what his analysis is
    04:55 like, then I would say sign up for a
    04:57 free trial.
    04:58 read the report from this morning called
    04:60 damage report. Watch the video from this
    05:02 morning which is about 40 minutes long.
    05:04 And then you can just decide is that
    05:06 sort of content the sort of content that
    05:09 you need to feel good about Bitcoin. In
    05:11 my case, it is. And it’s worth $29 a
    05:14 month, which is what I pay. And it’s
    05:16 worth it because a lot of people look to
    05:18 me when the price dips or when it
    05:21 rockets up. when it rockets up, they,
    05:23 you know, they reach out to me and
    05:25 they’re like, “Hey, is this still a good
    05:26 time to Is it still a good time to buy?”
    05:28 And I want to tell people it’s a good
    05:30 time to buy if James is telling me,
    05:32 “Hey, this thing is really overheated.”
    05:33 Like, everybody’s sitting on a fat
    05:35 profit right now and long-term holders
    05:38 are trying starting to cash out to
    05:40 improve the lives of themselves and
    05:41 their families. And basically if the
    05:44 metrics indicate that these are the sort
    05:46 of things people were doing when the
    05:49 price is really high comparatively then
    05:52 you know I want to be more cautious.
    05:54 Again it’s not that I’m ever going to
    05:55 say don’t buy Bitcoin. You might just
    05:57 say hey if you’re buying Bitcoin right
    05:59 now you need to be you know you need to
    06:02 be planning on holding it for quite a
    06:03 while. Same same before like you know I
    06:06 don’t know three four five months ago
    06:08 whatever it was six months ago maybe it
    06:10 was longer than that. Anyway, I posted
    06:12 on Facebook that that look, if you’re
    06:13 buying between 70 and $90,000, you
    06:16 should buy right now no matter what. If
    06:18 you’re buying betweenund 90,000 and 110,
    06:22 plan to hold it for one or two years. If
    06:24 you’re buying above 110, plan to hold
    06:26 for three or four years. Now, all of
    06:29 those numbers go up over time. So, you
    06:32 know, maybe today you’d add 10,000 to
    06:34 that. And I would say, look, if the
    06:36 price is between I’ll just throw this
    06:38 out there because it probably feels
    06:39 about right. If the price is between 80
    06:41 and 100,
    06:43 you should no matter what like doesn’t
    06:46 matter how long you’re planning on
    06:47 holding it, you know, as long as you
    06:49 have a decent risk tolerance. Prices
    06:51 between 100, you know, 80 and 100 are a
    06:53 fire sale. Between 100 and 120, just
    06:57 plan to hold for at least one to two
    06:59 years. And prices above 120 probably you
    07:03 should plan to hold for three or four
    07:04 years. So, you’ll notice all of those
    07:06 price ranges ratcheted by $10,000.
    07:10 That’s because we uh time has passed.
    07:12 More people have had more time to adopt
    07:14 Bitcoin. There’s a lot of things
    07:16 positive that have happened in the
    07:17 Bitcoin marketplace. And that makes me
    07:20 more confident saying, hey, the ranges
    07:22 where I recommend buy no matter what
    07:24 versus buy if you plan to hold for at
    07:25 least one to two years versus buy if
    07:27 you, you know, only if you can
    07:29 definitely hold for three to four years.
    07:30 those ranges are probably uh by $10,000
    07:34 versus the same places that I
    07:36 recommended previously because again
    07:38 market adoption is higher than it was
    07:40 when I made those recommendations uh you
    07:44 know back when I made them. So anyway,
    07:45 so James looks at all of that. If you
    07:47 want to get a good flavor of his stuff,
    07:49 sign up for a free 7-day trial, read the
    07:51 report from this morning called damage
    07:53 report. read or listen or watch the
    07:57 YouTube video that goes with it, which
    07:58 is 40 minutes long, which reiterates a
    08:01 lot of the stuff that is in the written
    08:02 report, but it takes you about 10
    08:04 minutes to read the written report. And
    08:05 the 40 the YouTube video is like 40
    08:07 minutes long. So, it’s got a few extra
    08:09 bonus items in it that are, you know,
    08:11 helpful to know. And then you can decide
    08:13 is that the sort of content that is uh
    08:15 compelling and interesting to you.
    08:17 Anyway, James Jack says we have nothing
    08:19 to worry about, but if you’re buying
    08:21 Bitcoin, you can confidently do that
    08:23 with all the metrics on your side.
    08:26 Again, it doesn’t mean that the price is
    08:28 not, you know, high a little bit.
    08:30 Obviously, you know, in the four-year
    08:32 cycle, we’re in the third of the three
    08:33 up years, but, you know, most people are
    08:36 saying we’re not going to have a down
    08:37 year like we did in 2014, 2018, and
    08:40 2022. probably not going to have that in
    08:42 2026 because Bitcoin is just a much more
    08:44 robust asset with much stronger holders
    08:48 right now than we’ve had in previous
    08:50 cycles. In the previous cycles,
    08:51 everybody was speculating that worldwide
    08:53 adoption was just around the corner. And
    08:55 right now, so far, we have not seen just
    08:58 the speculative craziness that you
    09:01 typically would see before a major
    09:02 correction. Uh so if we don’t get that
    09:04 speculative craziness, we just sort of
    09:06 keep ratcheting higher and then grinding
    09:08 sideways for weeks or months and then
    09:10 ratcheting higher and then grinding
    09:12 sideways for weeks or months and then
    09:13 ratcheting higher. That’s much more
    09:15 sustainable long term than these huge
    09:18 parabolic rises where the price price
    09:20 goes up by 50 or 80% in a matter of
    09:23 weeks or months, which that those sort
    09:25 of things tend to be unsustainable,
    09:27 which means we typically walk back and
    09:29 settle down for a little while before we
    09:31 go back up. but it doesn’t feel like
    09:33 that’s where we are. According to James
    09:35 Check, that is not where we are. Um, and
    09:39 so again, it’s a great time to buy
    09:40 Bitcoin. In summary, James Check is
    09:43 absolutely the person to talk to or not
    09:46 talk to to read his research. Um, and
    09:50 that’s by far the best place to do it.
    09:51 Uh, if you’re wondering where to get the
    09:54 YouTube video uh for James Check, you
    09:56 have to be a subscriber to get his
    09:58 YouTube videos. Now, he does guest
    09:60 appearances on podcasts regularly, but
    10:02 to actually watch his videos, you’ve got
    10:05 to subscribe to his newsletter. But
    10:06 again, you can do that right now if you
    10:08 go to check on chain uh or just go to
    10:11 the link I sent this morning. There’s a
    10:12 link there where you can sign up for a
    10:14 free 7-day trial. Um, somebody has a
    10:18 really slick looking Cyber Truck,
    10:19 completely black Cybert truck back
    10:21 there. Uh anyway, uh you can sign up for
    10:23 a completely free 7-day trial and you
    10:26 can watch the video, but the only way to
    10:27 watch the video is to be a subscriber
    10:30 and you can do that with a free 7-day
    10:32 trial right now if you’re interested.
    10:34 So, uh I love James Check. His stuff is
    10:36 by far the best signal to noise ratio of
    10:39 anything in the world of Bitcoin. And
    10:42 it’s the best guide if you own Bitcoin
    10:44 and you like keeping an eye on it or
    10:47 you’re obsessed with Bitcoin like I am.
    10:49 Um or if you just want to know every
    10:52 time the price dips or goes up, you
    10:55 know, what exactly happening and how
    10:57 sustainable, you know, is this dip going
    11:00 to turn into a crash or is this peak
    11:03 going to turn into a major price
    11:05 correction? Basically, is a dip going to
    11:07 turn into a crash or is a uh you know,
    11:10 swing going to turn into a crash. James
    11:12 Check is by far the best person in the
    11:14 entire world to tell you that and I
    11:16 loved his research. And there you
    11:18 hopefully all that’s helpful. Thanks
    11:20 everyone.

**Originally recorded 8/4/25**

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