For those who have a lot of money and are somewhat intelligent, all they need to know is to click the Buy/Sell button at the right time - much easier than having an account on some CEX, right? In this specific case, "not your keys, not your coins" is not something such investors need to worry about.

I think this is normal. We know the global economic conditions are not good. The central banks of several developed countries have raised interest rates. The latest rate hike by the FED seems to be a warning. The market might currently not be doing well. Investors might be trying to make profits to secure their assets. But I’m not exactly sure, because the market is always fluctuating and very hard to predict. Maybe right now the best thing to do is to wait and see where the market will go. At least we try to minimize losses.

I don't know if we are still in a bear market but after seeing more ETF inflows into Bitcoin and the rest of crypto in these recent months, I can say with some level of conviction that we may have seen the worst of the bear market and the bottom is already in. This is a good time to be in bitcoin as a lot of countries including US are knee-deep in inflation right now. ECB hike recently, FEDs hiked and even BOJ hiked earlier today.

Rate hikes are supposed to be bearish events especially for a bear market but not this time.

Really I have not read about any institution buying Bitcoin recently so I don't know about the attributes of the ETF or the force behind the current market sentiment as the trends had continued to be bullish again recovering from the mid $70K up to upper boundaries of $80K again which is currently perching on the previous resistant in the range of $81K-$82K.

Maybe there may had been some positive news driving this force which the ETF flows will definitely be key players.
Perhaps it is obvious that there had been more inflows than outflows of the ETF.
With this intensity, there is probability that we might see $90K because if price can approach the higher resistance at $88K as the trend keep going greenish, we might experience a break out.

Yeah, that's what I read from several sources that the current pump to $81k-$82k was due to the huge inflows of Bitcoin ETF. As compare to the last two days which is very negative. So it did catch up in the last 24 hours so we are all good for now.

But we don't know if this is just another manipulation and what follow next is a correction again. So we will see, we still have at least 2 weeks or less in this month. And as others said, the September used to be negative, but perhaps this year will be different.

For me one week outflow after a huge inflow week is not surprising. ETF money move fast compare to people who self custody.
This could be also coincidence especially the monthly close is approaching, and as we all know we recently went above $70,000 so quick.

I don't try to call next week from this. Multi-week trend more useful for me, and I still just DCA long term.

And that could be that the market are maturing and does not affected by this kind of news unlike before, one bad news and the market will go red. But perhaps with so many stakeholders, we might have learn already that this kind of news should not be taken as negative, but instead it could fuel and pour money in the market to push it above $80k again.

And perhaps there are also a lot of liquidations, so after that, they go back to the market again and try to make and squeeze more money that's they the price suddenly go up and almost everyone didn't anticipate it.