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GBTC

GBTC

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF

ETFsPCXUSD-48.3% from ATH
Current Price

$50.91

Drawdown from ATH

-48.3%

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Dipsern Grade90d

C

Marginal

Graded against GBTC's own history at this drawdown — not the market's.

What it means: GBTC's own history does not strongly favor buying at this level yet.

What to do: Consider watching and waiting for a deeper dip or a higher grade.

Median 90-Day Return
Historical Win Rate
Last 30 days-19.78%
May 5Jun 16
About GBTC

Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF

The trust’s Bitcoins are carried, for financial statement purposes, at fair value as required by U.S. generally accepted accounting principles (“GAAP”). The trust determines the fair value of Bitcoins based on the price provided by the Digital Asset Market that the trust considers its principal market as of 4:00 p.m., New York time, on the valuation date.

The reading

How Dipsern reads GBTC right now.

Three plain-English paragraphs — current state, historical base rate, and interpretation — so you walk away with context, not a dashboard.

Snapshot

How is GBTC doing right now?

In plain terms: GBTC is 48.3% below its highest-ever price. Dipsern checks every past time it was this far down and grades how the next 90 days usually went.

Right now GBTC — Grayscale Bitcoin Trust ETF — is in a severe drawdown, down 48.3% from its record high. Last price: $50.91. Severe drawdowns separate structurally sound assets from the ones that don't recover. The historical data below shows what GBTC did after similar episodes.

Historical base rate

What history says at this drawdown

Across all available history, GBTC has spent enough trading days in the 50%-to-45% drawdown band to build a meaningful sample (107 observations). Dipsern segments these by drawdown depth and computes the rolling median forward 90-day return — that median is the primary signal you see in the full app, and it's substantially more robust than mean-based forecasts because it ignores fat-tail outliers in both directions.

Interpretation

What this means for GBTC

ETFs aggregate constituent behavior, so their drawdowns tend to be shallower but more persistent than single stocks. The median forward return at a given drawdown level for an ETF is usually a more stable signal than for an individual equity. At this depth, focus on prediction error and sample size before median return. A high historical median return at -40% means nothing if the prediction error was also 30%.

Comparable signals

Other ETFs at similar drawdown levels

Five tickers closest to GBTC's distance from all-time high. Same category, one tap away.

ARK Innovation ETF

-48.7% from ATH

Bitwise Bitcoin ETF

-47.8% from ATH

Fidelity Wise Origin Bitcoin Fund

-47.8% from ATH

ARK 21Shares Bitcoin ETF

-47.8% from ATH

ProShares Bitcoin Strategy ETF

-49.2% from ATH

Historical depth

Sample sizes by drawdown band

Dipsern segments the full drawdown range into 20 equal-width bands. The table shows the number of confirmed historical observations in each band for GBTC. Median forward returns, win rates, and prediction errors are available in the full analysis.

Drawdown BandObservationsMedian ReturnWin Rate
-90% to -85%114
-85% to -80%116
-80% to -75%232
-75% to -70%247
-70% to -65%210
-65% to -60%110
-60% to -55%38
-55% to -50%90
-50% to -45%Current107
-45% to -40%128
-40% to -35%115
-35% to -30%152
Methodology

Every grade is reproducible.

We segment 40+ years of GBTC's price history into 20 equal-width drawdown bands and compute forward median returns, win rates, and prediction error per band. No look-ahead bias. Pure NumPy. Open math, gated numbers.

Years of history

40+

Drawdown bands

20

Look-ahead bias

None

Data sources

4

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Signal computed Jun 17, 2026 using default parameters (90-day return period, 20 segments, 0.95 decay). Data sourced from Yahoo Finance, Binance, CoinGecko, and Steam Market.