{"id":78809,"date":"2026-04-02T15:01:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78809"},"modified":"2026-04-02T15:01:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T15:01:32","slug":"bitcoin-flashes-contrarian-long-signal-vanecks-matthew-sigel-says-were-long-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/?p=78809","title":{"rendered":"Bitcoin Flashes Contrarian Long Signal, VanEck&#8217;s Matthew Sigel Says: &#8216;We&#8217;re Long Here&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>VanEck\u2019s Head of Digital Asset Research <strong>Matthew Sigel<\/strong> is turning more bullish on <strong>Bitcoin<\/strong> <a class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"BTC\" data-exchange=\"CRYPTO\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/BTC-USD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(CRYPTO: <\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/btc\/usd\">BTC<\/a>) as the derivatives market reaches the 99th percentile for protection demand \u2014 a long signal, according to Sigel.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Derivatives Flip<\/h3>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s happened in the derivatives market for Bitcoin leaves me much more bullish,\u201d Sigel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hZVnJiHcvMc&amp;t=1023s\">told<\/a> <strong>Anthony Pompliano<\/strong> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at what you have to pay for puts versus calls, it\u2019s like we\u2019re in the 99th percentile here of folks paying up for protection. That\u2019s a contrarian long signal,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, coins that are 3-5 years old that haven\u2019t moved in that timeframe started selling heavily in Q4 and Q1 as early cycle buyers took profits.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That selling has eased up in recent weeks, with <strong>Marathon Digital Holdings<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MARA\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"ticker-link\" data-ticker=\"MARA\" data-exchange=\"NASDAQ\" rel=\"noopener\">(NASDAQ:<\/a><a class=\"ticker\" href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/quote\/MARA\">MARA<\/a>) retiring convertible bonds representing one exception.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re still bullish, but we haven\u2019t added maybe as much as you might expect given that kind &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.benzinga.com\/crypto\/cryptocurrency\/26\/04\/51627956\/bitcoin-flashes-contrarian-long-signal?utm_source=benzinga_taxonomy&amp;utm_medium=rss_feed_free&amp;utm_content=taxonomy_rss&amp;utm_campaign=channel\" alt=\"Bitcoin\" flashes contrarian long signal vaneck matthew sigel says: here>Full story available on Benzinga.com<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VanEck\u2019s Head of Digital Asset Research Matthew Sigel is turning more bullish on Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) as the derivatives market reaches the 99th percentile for protection demand \u2014 a long signal, according to Sigel. The Derivatives Flip \u201cWhat\u2019s happened in the derivatives market for Bitcoin leaves me much more bullish,\u201d Sigel told Anthony Pompliano on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3,4,5],"class_list":["post-78809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-crypto","tag-doge","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dogewisperer.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}