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Global Liquidity + BTC Divergence

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This Pine Script is essentially creating a:

“Global USD Liquidity vs BTC Price” divergence monitoring indicator.

The core idea is:

In theory:

Global liquidity ↑
BTC should also ↑

If the two move inconsistently,
that creates a “divergence.”

This is a very common macro trading framework.

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# What This Indicator Measures

It combines:

| Data | Meaning |
| ----- | ----------------------------- |
| WALCL | Federal Reserve balance sheet |
| TGA | U.S. Treasury General Account |
| RRP | Reverse Repo |
| BTC | Bitcoin price |

into:

“Net USD Liquidity”

Then compares it against Bitcoin price.

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# Overall Logic Flow

Indicator workflow:

Federal Reserve data

Calculate net liquidity

Normalize values

Normalize BTC

Calculate divergence

EMA smoothing

Visualization

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# Part 1: Getting Macro Data

Code:

```pine
walcl = request.security("FRED:WALCL", "W", close)
tga = request.security("FRED:WTREGEN", "W", close)
rrp = request.security("FRED:RRPONTSYD", "W", close)
```

The data comes from:

Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED)

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# What Is WALCL?

# WALCL

Total assets held by the Federal Reserve

Including:

* QE
* Treasury bonds
* MBS

When it rises:

it generally means the Fed is injecting liquidity.

Usually:

risk assets tend to rise.

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# What Is TGA?

# Treasury General Account

The U.S. Treasury’s account at the Federal Reserve

You can think of it as:

money parked by the Treasury at the Fed.

When TGA rises:

market liquidity gets drained.

Because funds move back into the Treasury account.

That’s why it is subtracted.

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# What Is RRP?

Reverse Repo

This is:

the Fed absorbing liquidity from the market.

When RRP rises:

market liquidity decreases.

So it is also subtracted.

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# The Real Net Liquidity Formula

Core formula:

```pine
liq = walcl - tga - rrp
```

This is essentially:

Net Liquidity

Many macro traders use this exact framework.

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# Part 2: Getting BTC Data

```pine
btc = request.security("BINANCE:BTCUSDT", "W", close)
```

This pulls:

* Binance
* BTCUSDT
* Weekly timeframe

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# Part 3: Normalization

This is one of the most important parts of the indicator.

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# Why Normalize?

Because:

| Data | Value Range |
| --------- | ----------------- |
| Liquidity | Trillions |
| BTC | Tens of thousands |

They cannot be compared directly.

So the script compresses both into a 0–1 range.

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# Normalization Formula

```pine
(value - low) / (high - low)
```

Result:

Lowest value = 0
Highest value = 1

This allows:

* The liquidity curve
* The BTC curve

to be overlaid and compared visually.

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# Part 4: Divergence

Core logic:

```pine
divergence = liqNorm - btcNorm
```

Meaning:

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## If > 0

Liquidity is stronger than BTC.

This suggests:

BTC may be undervalued.

Liquidity has already increased,

but BTC has not followed yet.

Many traders interpret this as:

potential upside catch-up.

Green bars.

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## If < 0

BTC has risen too aggressively.

It is outperforming liquidity support.

This may indicate:

an overheated market.

Macro traders often interpret this as:

potential pullback risk.

Red bars.

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# EMA Section

```pine
liqEma = ta.ema(liqNorm, emaLen)
btcEma = ta.ema(btcNorm, emaLen)
```

Here:

the EMA is calculated,

but never plotted.

So currently:

it has no practical effect.

It was probably intended for:

* smoothing
* trend analysis

but was not fully implemented.

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# Chart Explanation

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# Green Line

Liquidity
Global liquidity

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# Orange Line

BTC price

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# Histogram Bars

Divergence value

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# Green Background

Liquidity > BTC

This implies:

a bullish environment.

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# Red Background

BTC > Liquidity

This implies:

a potentially overheated market.

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# What This Indicator Is Good For

Very suitable for:

| Scenario | Suitability |
| ------------------------ | ----------- |
| Macro trend analysis | Excellent |
| Weekly timeframe | Excellent |
| Long-term BTC investing | Very good |
| Bull/bear cycle analysis | Very good |
| Short-term trading | Poor |
| High-frequency trading | Poor |

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# Core Philosophy of the Indicator

The fundamental idea is:

BTC is largely driven by USD liquidity over the long term.

Meaning:

Fed liquidity injections
→ Risk assets rise
→ BTC rises

Many institutions:

* Global Macro funds
* Crypto hedge funds
* Liquidity-focused traders

use very similar models.

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# But This Indicator Has Several Limitations

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# 1. The Data Is Weekly

You used:

```pine
"W"
```

Which means:

updates are slow.

This is only suitable for higher timeframes.

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# 2. BTC Is Not Driven Only by Liquidity

BTC is also influenced by:

* ETFs
* Halving cycles
* Leverage
* Stablecoins
* Market sentiment
* Regulation

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# 3. Normalization Can Distort Reality

0–1 normalization:

only shows relative positioning,

not absolute valuation.

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# 4. No Lead/Lag Modeling

In reality:

liquidity changes often lead BTC by several weeks or months.

But here:

they are compared simultaneously.

This reduces accuracy.

Professional models often:

shift liquidity forward.

For example:

```pine
liqShift = liqNorm[10]
```

Meaning:

liquidity leads BTC by 10 weeks.

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# Professional Upgrade Ideas

You can improve this model further by adding:

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## 1. Lead-Lag Analysis

Most important upgrade.

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## 2. Global Central Banks

Not just the Fed:

* ECB
* BOJ
* PBOC

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## 3. DXY

The U.S. Dollar Index is extremely important.

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## 4. Stablecoin Supply

Such as:

* USDT
* USDC

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## 5. Global M2

Global money supply.

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# Who This Indicator Is Best For

Suitable for:

* Macro traders
* Long-term BTC investors
* Cycle analysis
* Liquidity research
* Crypto macro strategies

Not suitable for:

* High-frequency trading
* Intraday trading
* Scalping

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# One-Sentence Summary

This indicator is essentially asking:

“Is BTC’s current price action supported by global USD liquidity?”

If:

Liquidity is strong
BTC is weak

Then:

BTC may eventually catch up higher.

If:

BTC is far stronger than liquidity

Then:

the market may be overheating.

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