LTH-NUPL

LTH-NUPL serves as an indicator of profit and loss, as assessed by the behaviour of long-term investors.

Indicator Overview

Long Term Holder NUPL (LTH-NUPL) is Net Unrealized Profit/Loss that takes into account only UTXOs with a lifespan of at least 155 days and serves as an indicator to assess the behaviour of long term investors.

• View LTH-NUPL in Glassnode Studio
• View LTH-NUPL in Glassnode API Docs

How is it measured?

LTH-NUPL is calculated by taking the NUPL value only for spent outputs as old as or older than 155 days.

$$\begin{align*} \textrm{LTH-NUPL} &= \textrm{LTH-Relative Unrealized Profit} - \textrm{LTH-Relative Unrealized Loss} \\[0.5em] &= \frac{\textrm{LTH-Market Cap} - \textrm{LTH-Realized Cap}}{\textrm{LTH-Market Cap}} \\[0.5em] &= \frac{ \textrm{value} \cdot (\textrm{price}~{\color{gray}{[\textrm{USD}]}} - \textrm{price}_\textrm{created}~{\color{gray}{[\textrm{USD}]}})~{\color{gray}{\textrm{(of all UTXOs where age} \ge 155~\textrm{days)}}} } { \textrm{value} \cdot \textrm{price}~{\color{gray}{[\textrm{USD}]}}~{\color{gray}{\textrm{(of all UTXOs where age} \ge 155~\textrm{days)}}} } \end{align*}$$

About

Introduced By

Glassnode (via NUPL by Tuur Demeester, Tamás Blummer, and Michiel Lescrauwaet)

Date Introduced

March 2020

Further Resources

Rafael Schultze-Kraft - Breaking up On–Chain Metrics for Short and Long Term Investors

Tuur Demeester, Tamás Blummer, and Michiel Lescrauwaet - A Primer on Bitcoin Investor Sentiment and Changes in Saving Behavior

Rafael Schultze-Kraft - Dissecting Bitcoin's Unrealised On-Chain Profit/Loss