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Over the last week, Bitcoin has seen significant correction waves, hitting a price low of $85,000, as broader financial markets also plunged on fears of an impending economic recession. As many determine to exit their investments, recent on-chain data shows that the present turbulent market presents a perfect investment opportunity for risk-taking Bitcoin investors.
Accumulation zones – stressful in real time, rewarding in the long run: analyst
The fourth quarter of 2025 was largely a everlasting period for many Bitcoin investors. After hitting a brand new high of $126,100 in early October, the leading cryptocurrency struggled with further price increases but succumbed to strong selling pressure and fell 30.1%. However, the recent price declines in Bitcoin have brought the market right into a latest dynamic that’s favorable for investors with high risk tolerance, based on historical data from the MVRV percentile metric.
For comparison, Bitcoin MVRV (Market Value Realized Value) compares Bitcoin's current market capitalization to its realized capitalization (the worth of coins at their last move on-chain) and shows whether BTC is overvalued or undervalued. Raw MVRV may be difficult to check across cycles. Therefore, the MVRV percentile ranks the present MVRV in comparison with its historical distribution (0-100), making it easier to evaluate extremes across different cycles, with high percentiles indicating overheated markets, low percentiles indicating capitulation.
Source: CryptoQuant
Using this metric, veteran market analyst RugaResearch explains that the present MVRV percentile is between 0 and 10%, a spread typically related to heavy investor capitulation and market losses as fear has gripped the market. However, the crypto expert also observed that similar market situations were ideal entry points for an exponential price rally.
For example, Bitcoin's MVRV fell below 10% when prices crashed to around $200-$300 in 2015 following the Mt.Gox Black Swan event, triggering waves of pessimism amongst investors, a few of whom may need expected an outright ban on regulation. However, the leading cryptocurrency surged in the next months, reaching a peak price of $20,000 in 2017, a 10x gain.
RugaResearch also points to a more moderen example after BTC collapsed to $15,000 following the FTX collapse in 2022, heralded by other events including the collapse of the Terra Luna ecosystem and corporations like Celsius and Three Arrows Capital. Despite major market fears during this era, Bitcoin would see one other rally, doubling its price the next yr.
Bitcoin is booming?
At the time of writing, Bitcoin is trading at $88,200, having increased by 0.54% previously day. However, the performance on the weekly and monthly charts shows losses of two.52% and three.52% respectively as many investors remain underwater and others exit the market. Still, RugaResearch explains that the recent retail capitulation represents a perfect “high risk, high return” zone given the MVRV percentile of lower than 10. The analyst is urging investors to be more aggressive with accumulation to capitalize on the following explosive move higher.
BTC is trading at $88,256 on the day by day chart | Source: BTCUSDT chart on Tradingview.com
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