Bitcoin Risk Score

This chart plots the Risk score across all of Bitcoin's history. Risk is a single 0-to-100 read of how stretched or cheap Bitcoin looks, and seeing its whole track record is what lets you judge whether today's number is high or low by Bitcoin's own standards rather than in the abstract.

About This Chart

In one sentence

It plots the Bitcoin Risk score across every past cycle, so you can see where today's reading sits against history.

What it measures

Risk distills eight on-chain and technical indicators into one number from 0 to 100. Low means Bitcoin looks cheap against its history; high means it looks stretched. This chart draws that number across every cycle at once.

Shaded target zones mark the historically low and high ends of the range, so you can see at a glance how far the current reading is from either edge.

How to read it

Each past cycle low pulls the line toward the bottom of the range, and each past peak pushes it toward the top. The value of seeing the whole history is context: a reading of 60 means little on its own, but a lot once you can see it against where the line has been at previous turning points.

Risk is only one of the two lenses. It says nothing about how far through a cycle we are in time; that is what the Time lens is for.

Limitations

Risk is an unweighted average of a three-tier grade per indicator (below, between, or above its buy/sell targets), not of the indicators' raw values, over eight indicators in a bull leg and seven in a bear leg, since Pi Cycle is sell-only. Collapsing each reading to one of three tiers before averaging inherits every weakness the indicators carry, discards how far past a target a reading sits, and smooths over the fact that some of them have drifted in reliability from cycle to cycle. A single number is easy to read but hides that spread.

Like all of these tools, it is calibrated on a handful of completed cycles, so the historical range it is measured against is thin.

Fact Sheet

How it is calculated

The daily Risk score (0-100) over all of Bitcoin's history. Each metric is graded on a three-tier scale, 0 at/below its buy target, 50 neutral, 100 at/above its sell target, and Risk is the average of those grades: eight metrics in a bull leg, seven in a bear leg, since Pi Cycle is sell-only and drops out when there is no green edge to grade against.

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