Why S&P 500’s $6 trillion melt up rally exposes Bitcoin amid range-bound weakness

Piyasa gündeminde öne çıkan haber: Traditional equities like the S&P 500 are staging a historic comeback, shaking off weeks of geopolitical anxiety to chart new all-time highs. Yet Bitcoin , which has historically been a synchronized beneficiary of risk-on sentiment, is noticeably dragging its feet, leaving investors questioning what is missing from its narrative. The S&P 500 closed higher by 0.

8% this week, pushing the benchmark index to a record 7,022. 95 and eclipsing its previous peak established in late January. The milestone marks a dramatic reversal from the turbulent first quarter, where the index plummeted nearly 10% to a local bottom of 6,316.

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91 on March 30 amid the US-Israel-Iran conflict and subsequent oil price shocks. While Wall Street celebrates a return to “greed” and heavily capitalized tech stocks reclaim their market dominance, Bitcoin remains ensnared in a prolonged consolidation phase. The flagship cryptocurrency continues to trade significantly below its previous all-time high, highlighting a rare and persistent decoupling from traditional risk assets that has not been observed with this severity since 2020.

Why this matters For years, Bitcoin has behaved like a high-beta extension of the stock market, amplifying big risk-on moves in equities. If that relationship is breaking down just as Wall Street enters a powerful momentum phase, crypto investors could miss a major leg of the global risk rally, or face a much sharper catch-up move if capital suddenly rotates back on-chain. The ‘momentum thrust' fueling equities The velocity of the stock market’s recovery has caught many institutional desks off guard.

In the two weeks since the late-March lows, markets have rapidly adjusted to the sustained geopolitical uncertainty in the Middle East and added over $6 trillion in market capitalization. According to Warren Pies, founder of 3F Research, the market’s trajectory over the last ten days represents a statistical anomaly. The S&P 500’s near 10% surge places it in the 99.

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7th percentile of all 10-day returns. S&P 500 10-Day Return (Source: 3F Research) Historically, there have been only 20 instances since 1950 where the stock market has recorded such aggressive short-term gains. Pies characterized these events as bullish “momentum thrusts,” which typically yield an average return of 19% over the next twelve months.

Related Reading Global markets crash as everything including Bitcoin sells off at once erasing trillions Over $800 million in long positions were wiped out in minutes as the US open turned into a brutal liquidity bloodbath for unsuspecting traders. Jan 29, 2026 Liam 'Akiba' Wright However, what makes the current equity rally unique is its proximity to all-time highs. According to Pies, the previous momentum thrusts almost exclusively occurred during deep bear markets, with indices still languishing 20% or more below their peaks.

Meanwhile, the current market recovery has been distinctly top-heavy. Since the March 30 low, a fund tracking the “Magnificent 7” mega-cap technology stocks has surged nearly 18%, outpacing the broader S&P 500 by roughly 8% when excluding those seven companies. This aggressive institutional buying is largely driven by the “AI-Infrastructure” narrative, with sector leaders like Oracle serving as the primary engines of global productivity growth.

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