Pi Cycle Top Indicator

111DMA vs 2×350DMA, computed live — the crossover that marked three cycle tops.

PI CYCLE TOP INDICATOR · daily closes, computed live
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BTC price
111-day MA
2 × 350-day MA
Ratio (trigger at 1.0)
THE TWO MOVING AVERAGES · ~2 years of daily closes

When the orange 111-day MA crosses above the red doubled 350-day MA, the indicator triggers. Watch the gap between the two lines.

Pi Cycle Top, computed live from daily closes

This page fetches the last 1,000 daily closes and computes the two moving averages that define the Pi Cycle Top indicator — the 111-day MA and twice the 350-day MA — then shows how close they are to crossing. The crossover has coincided, within roughly three days, with the blow-off tops of April 2013, December 2017 and April 2021.

Why a crossover of these two averages?

The 111DMA tracks fast, euphoric price acceleration late in bull markets; the doubled 350DMA represents a stretched long-term trend. When short-term momentum runs so hot that its average overtakes double the yearly trend, historically the market had exhausted itself. The 350/111 ≈ π coincidence gave it the name.

How to use the ratio

Watching the binary trigger misses the information in the distance. A ratio around 0.4–0.6 says conditions are nothing like past tops; 0.8+ says momentum is genuinely stretched. The needle above maps the current ratio against those zones.

Limitations worth respecting

Three data points make a pattern, not a law. Structural changes — spot ETFs, institutional custody, deeper derivatives — may damp the blow-off dynamics this indicator relies on. Pair it with valuation metrics like MVRV rather than trading on it alone.

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