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“Buy the dip after a 10% crash day”

Bitcoin bounces after a 10% daily drop.

Too few cases to tell

This has happened 29 times on Bitcoin since 2017-08-17. 7 days later it was higher 58% of the time (n=24), against 53% after any day; median +2.2% vs +0.5%. That is within what luck produces.

Higher 7d later
58%
Any day
53%
Median after
+2.2%
Cases
24
Date7 days later30 days later
2026-02-05+5.3%+6.9%
2022-11-09+4.7%+7.6%
2022-08-19-2.9%-6.8%
2022-06-13-8.5%-10.0%
2022-05-09-0.7%+0.4%
2022-01-21+3.5%+5.3%
2021-09-07+0.5%+14.8%
2021-06-21+9.1%+1.7%
2021-05-19+7.0%-2.4%
2021-05-12-26.1%-24.8%
2021-01-21+8.2%+81.0%
2020-09-03+1.9%+4.0%
2020-03-12+28.4%+43.3%
2019-09-24-2.4%-12.7%
2019-07-16+4.5%+9.1%
2019-07-14+4.1%+7.1%
2019-06-27-1.6%-16.4%
2018-11-24+6.5%+1.9%
2018-11-19-21.3%-25.4%
2018-06-22+2.5%+22.3%
2018-03-29-4.5%+31.9%
2018-03-14+8.8%-3.6%
2018-02-05+28.3%+42.8%
2018-02-04-1.5%+30.9%
2018-02-01-15.6%+24.3%
2018-01-16-0.9%-8.3%
2018-01-11-17.2%-35.5%
2017-12-30+37.2%-9.6%
2017-12-22+7.9%-13.5%

How this was checked. Every occurrence on Bitcoin's daily chart, measured from that day's close, non-overlapping per horizon, against all days (z beyond ±2.5 to count).

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Recomputed nightly from Binance daily closes. History describes the past; it is not a forecast or advice.