Standard Chartered’s three ‘Ifs’ that stand between bitcoin and a market low
Your day-ahead look for June 4, 2026
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This week’s crypto pain was real, Kendrick said, but he thinks “the low is almost in.” His case rests on three pillars:
Strategy (MSTR) repeats its 2022 operation: When Strategy last sold BTC, in December 2022, it bought back more than it sold just two days later. Kendrick expects the firm to do the same after having sold 32 BTC last week. It could potentially buy as much as 100 times that amount, he said in an email, adding that, if confirmed next Monday, he’d treat it as a tentative signal that the low is in.
ETF holdings are sturdier than feared: The 11 spot ETFs listed in the U.S. have seen a net outflow of $5 billion over the past three weeks. Yet, if we zoom out, the holdings have barely moved. The cumulative net inflow since inception in early 2024 is back to $54.2 billion, right where it was earlier this year. “They went up from 682k and then back down to now 674k (broadly unchanged). This tells me that ETF holdings are more structurally strong than I had feared in February,” he said.
