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Tom Lee’s “decoupling” and “bottoming” arguments are, at their core, left-side judgments based on emotional recovery and the technical exhaustion of selling pressure. Although the market’s most panic-stricken moment may have already passed, it’s still too early to claim that “macro pressures have been fully released”; cryptocurrencies are more likely to follow a path of “a correlated rebound first, followed by independent divergence.”

Macro Pressure: Pricing in “Panic,” Not Pricing in “Stagflation”

Tom Lee notes that “70% of S&P index constituents have already gone through a rolling bear market,” which points more to structural adjustment rather than a systemic collapse. The market has indeed shown resilience to the short-term impact of geopolitical conflict (U.S.-Iran), but that doesn’t mean risk has been fully cleared.

Unsolved problems: The secondary inflation risk brought by high oil prices and the delay in the Federal Reserve’s rate-cut expectations are still the sword hanging overhead. What the current market is pricing is an optimistic scenario of “conflict not expanding,” not the pessimistic scenario of “stagflation.”

Decoupling Illusion: The decoupling of the stock market from the war effort comes more from fiscal expansion (war spending) offsetting the risk of economic downturn, rather than from a fundamental and thorough improvement.

Crypto Assets: From “following the selloff” to “limited decoupling”

Tom Lee is especially bullish on Ethereum, believing that since the Middle East conflict, its performance has ranked only behind top-tier safe-haven assets. This suggests a new feature in the crypto market:

Short-term correlation: In the early stages of a rebound in risk appetite, BTC/ETH will follow the Mag 7 tech stocks to rebound—this is a liquidity-driven beta move.

Medium-term divergence: If inflation stickiness causes U.S. equities to come under renewed pressure, the crypto market, with its non-sovereign nature and independent liquidity pools (such as stablecoins and on-chain DeFi), may show greater resilience than traditional tech stocks—achieving “limited decoupling.”

Outlook for the market: Repair, not reversal

U.S. equities: In a repair phase after “killing valuation,” but earnings expectations have not yet faced the true test of a downturn; upside remains constrained by interest rates staying high.

Cryptocurrencies: April is very likely to be a bottoming month. After assets like Ethereum have experienced deep pullbacks, they have the momentum for a technical rebound; however, a new round of one-direction bull market requires double confirmation—continued net inflows into spot ETFs and a revival of on-chain activity.

Conclusion: Tom Lee’s optimism is a corrective judgment of “oversold.” The market has moved out of the “panic zone,” but it has not entered the “safe zone.” It’s recommended to treat the current period as a phase of high-volatility consolidation and bottom-building, rather than blindly chasing the starting point of a “new synchronized rally.”