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The Federal Reserve's interest rate decision will be announced at 2 PM on Thursday. Cryptocurrency is currently not an independent narrative; Bitcoin follows Nasdaq fluctuations. When tech stocks weaken due to concerns over AI capital expenditures, the crypto market simultaneously comes under pressure. A deeper constraint lies in the high US Treasury yields (10-year nearing 5%), which increase the cost of leveraged funds, while the crypto market itself lacks endogenous liquidity sources, passively amplifying sensitivity to the macro interest rate environment. CoinShares points out that the next phase of the crypto market direction is more likely to be determined by the interest rate path rather than industry-specific catalysts, so continue to pay attention to the interest rate path.
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Bitcoin has recently been tugging around $80,000, repeatedly falling below and barely recovering. This fragile balance directly reflects the suppression of interest rate expectations: the market prices in about a 68% or higher probability of a rate hike in December. If the statement is hawkish and strengthens expectations for December action, rising US Treasury yields will suppress risk assets, and Bitcoin may test support below $80,000 again, reaching levels like $78,000; conversely, if the wording leaves room for December, Bitcoin is expected to get a breather and attempt to recover above $82,000 $BTC surges then falls back: ETF “net inflow” fails to mask same-day demand reversal 📉
$BTC weakened again after attempting to rebound near $85,000, dipping once to $79,332. The report on October 26 shows its 24-hour trading volume at about $17.55 billion; related data is rolling and changes over time, so it should not be confused with subsequent exchange quotes or closing prices.
ETF capital flow also fluctuated: Farside Investors' table shows inflows of $526.7 million, $23.2 million, and $524.8 million on October 19, 20, and 21 respectively; outflows of $635.6 million and $137.9 million on the 22nd and 23rd, totaling $773.5 million outflow over two days. Summing the five entries, net inflow is about $301.2 million. However, there is one issuer entry missing on October 23, so the total is still subject to adjustment.
Therefore, two consecutive days of outflows do not necessarily mean a net outflow for the week; capital remains positive during the week, but same-day demand has reversed, and BTC failed to hold the high level. The price retreat near $85,000 after three days of inflows also indicates that relying solely on new ETF funds may not be enough to support Bitcoin. ⚠️#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ $ETH 2348 tailing off, but still trapped in a "consolidation cage"
Market summary:
4H: MACD golden cross below zero line with expanding red bars, RSI recovering from 42 to 48; however, price remains suppressed by EMA25(2318)/EMA99(2347), 2360 is the intraday hard resistance
2300 successfully reclaimed twice, 200-day EMA(2317) temporarily acts as the lifeline; below 2,282 break = target 2,220
Capital betrayal: On 10.27, spot ETF net outflow of $88.58 million, foundation sold 2785 ETH, BitMine approaching 5% cap and no longer aggressively buying — rebound lacks institutional support
Three critical lines:
2,317–2,300 = bull's bottom support, daily close above maintains base formation
2,360–2,400 = rebound wall, only breaking above cancels the "weak" label
2,461 = true strength threshold, requires ETF inflow + volume expansion
This ETH wave:
Like a "sidekick lifted by BTC" —
BTC passes 81.2K, ETH touches 2360; BTC drops to 79.8K, ETH instantly breaks 2300.
No independent trend, all rebounds before FOMC (29th 02:00) are leveraged moves.
Trading strategy: Light positions between 2320–2340 if not broken, reduce if 2360 not surpassed; exit if 2282 breaks, only go long on volume breakout above 2461.
(Not investment advice · For reference only) $ETH Recently, there has been internal conflict within the Federal Reserve. Since Waller took office, he has adopted a "silent strategy," not speaking much, leaving the market uncertain about his intentions. As a result, the vice chairs came out to correct this, saying there is no rush to raise interest rates, and the market immediately rebounded.
But Waller disagrees, saying that this approach of narrowing forward guidance is like "throwing out the baby with the bathwater." I think this shows there is a significant division within the Fed—some advocate continuing to raise rates to suppress inflation, while others suggest waiting and watching.
In September, rates were already raised by 25 basis points to 3.75%-4%, and now the PCE inflation forecast is 3.7%, with oil prices still above 110. I believe the probability of Waller taking a hawkish stance at this press conference is high, and it’s not ruled out that he might hint at another rate hike in December.
Brothers, don’t think the trend has reversed just because it rose today; the real direction will be revealed tomorrow night.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ #美伊讨论霍尔木兹开放方案，油价回落 $BTC $ETH $ZEC Smart money also took a hit? BTC longs and shorts both suffer 😵💫
$BTC current price 79822, funding rate 0.0090%. Among 2529 smart money traders, the nominal long-short ratio is 27.02%, superficially shorts dominate, but both sides are actually struggling 😣.
Longs: 1014 people, position size $784 million, average price 86544.49, unrealized loss about $66.04 million, profit rate only 30.96%. Cost is stacked above 86544, so any rebound first faces pressure to break even 🧱.
Shorts: 1515 people, position size $2.9 billion, average price 76750.39, unrealized loss about $112 million, profit ratio 58.21%. Larger volume, close to cost, but widespread unrealized losses indicate shorting didn’t get a bargain either 📉.
Core point: Under volatile tug-of-war, longs and shorts are both under pressure; 86544 is strong resistance above, while the short cost zone below provides support. Short-term looks more like a range tug-of-war, not a one-sided easy win 🎯. Smart money can lose too, due to mismatched position sizes, costs, and volatility rhythm. For reference only, not trading advice ⚠️#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ #美伊讨论霍尔木兹开放方案，油价回落 But the Strategy has not exited. As of October 25, it holds about 848,500 bitcoins at an average cost of $75,446, still floating a profit of about 6% at the $80,000 price. Pausing accumulation and liquidation are two different things.
Fidelity Digital Assets analyst Zack Wainwright provided a more macro perspective in a report on October 20: all companies buying bitcoin through issuing preferred shares have cumulatively purchased about 136,000 bitcoins, accounting for 0.5% of the total bitcoin supply. From March to May 2026, these companies raised $7 billion to sweep up 95,000 bitcoins. Fidelity believes this type of product builds a bridge connecting crypto assets with the global $150 trillion fixed income market. But the bridge has weight limits. Fidelity also warns: this model only works if the coin price’s long-term gains outpace the dividend costs. Once sideways or downward trends persist too long, incremental buying may instead become a source of liquidity risk. #交易之声：你的经验值得被听到 $BTC $BTC $ETH Old whales are unloading, new narratives are taking off, which to follow?
Today's two on-chain news combined are particularly interesting.
On one side, old money is exiting: two whales dormant for 3 years deposited 2,571 BTC worth $207 million into Coinbase Prime; an ancient Ethereum whale from the 2015 ICO at $0.31 cost transferred another 3,000 ETH to exchanges within 24 hours, with 47,000 ETH remaining. These are chips held for many years, starting to move around the 800,000 level.
On the other side, new money is betting: Sony's L2 Soneium announced a token issuance after TVL dropped 95%, betting on IP going on-chain; Upbit announced listing NIL/KRW trading pair, NIL surged 29% in 15 minutes; Quack AI rose 271% in one day; anti-Pump.fun narrative token LAUNCH had $6.8 million in daily volume.
Also a security alert: Indian exchange CoinDCX lost $16 million due to an automatic transfer system failure.
My view: Old whales depositing into Coinbase Prime doesn't necessarily mean selling, Prime is a custody and OTC channel, more for institutional portfolio adjustment; but the continuous moves indicate large holders are reallocating around the 800,000 level.
Regarding new narratives, opportunities like Upbit listings and token launches after TVL crashes are pure speculation, fast in and out, don't use main positions.
The altcoin season index has dropped to 53, heat is cooling down, so be more cautious chasing new coins now. $BTC, 100x long position. Entered at 80,046.4, now at 80,821.7, floating profit 96.85%.
Sounds impressive, right? But breaking it down, it's just so-so — actual increase 0.97%, safety margin 0.96%. I bet on less than 1% movement with 100x leverage, then hyped it as "almost doubled."
The most frustrating part is 81,000. Just an hour or two ago it was 80,921.8, 109%, inside the gate; now 80,821.7, retreated 178 points, 0.22%.
My mood swung several times in between: felt bored at 44%, started feeling high at 109%, now 96%, a bit regretful for not taking profit earlier. Overnight, this string of numbers led me back and forth several times.
But one thing I did well — did nothing. No adding positions, no chasing highs, no averaging down.
So now I’m doing this: take out most of the money first, push the rest to break even, and let the remaining bit do whatever it wants. The gate will open by itself, or not. I’m going to sleep. $ETH $SOL
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 In this 24-hour liquidation pain point statistics set, BTC, ETH, and SOL share a common contrast: the largest short pain points are closer to the price at the time of statistics, while the largest long pain points correspond to greater liquidation volumes. Distance and scale point to different things. BTC: Price at statistics 80747.1; upper short largest pain point 81558.27, distance +1%, liquidation volume 26.5443 million U; lower long largest pain point 78853.93, distance -2.34%, liquidation volume 40.7142 million U. ETH: Price at statistics 2343.4; upper 2374.86, distance +1.34%, short liquidation volume 17.4384 million U; lower 2288.65, distance -2.34%, long liquidation volume 19.0945 million U. SOL: Price at statistics 101; upper 101.89, distance +0.88%, short liquidation volume 3.3067 million U; lower 99.15, distance -1.83%, long liquidation volume 3.431 million U. 💡 My view. Being closer above means a smaller price increase is needed to hit the short pain point, but that does not equal a higher probability of price rising; a larger scale below also does not directly imply the price will move downward. By coin, BTC shows a more pronounced difference in long and short liquidation scales; ETH and SOL have more balanced amounts on both sides, with SOL having the closest upper pain point distance among the three. You cannot treat the three coins as having the same trading structure just because the upper side is closer. Regarding the spike and two-way liquidation risks mentioned in the text, I am more concerned aboutThe figure of 80,017 USD is more worth watching than the price change percentage. Have you noticed that the price barely moved, but the market's "tension" has changed? BTC is at 80,017, up only 0.16% intraday; ETH at 2,320, almost flat; SOL at 101, actually down 0.70%. On the surface, it looks like a calm pool, but derivatives tell a different story—when the price range is squeezed this tight, leverage often quietly accumulates, with both longs and shorts feeling they have a chance and neither willing to retreat first. The most fragile part of this structure is not the direction, but "who gets squeezed first." My own feeling is that what’s being traded now is not the price increase, but patience. Spot markets give no clear signals, but contracts are pricing in market sentiment: a slight push up can trigger short covering, a slight dip can easily hit long stop losses. In this narrow range, volatility is compressed, but squeeze risk is actually rising. If the funding rate remains positive, it means longs are willing to pay to hold positions, showing optimism, but it also means the chain reaction on the downside will be more abrupt. The bullish path is clear: as long as BTC holds near 80,000 and ETH doesn’t drop below 2,300, leveraged longs have a chance to ignite sentiment with a small breakout, and altcoins will follow with recovery. The risk lies on the other side—SOL has already weakened first; if it continues to drag, it indicates risk appetite hasn’t truly returned, and BTC’s sideways movement may just be "waiting for a trigger" rather than "building momentum upward." On the news front, Strategy has paused adding positions, S $ATOM Value Tracking: The underlying logic behind ATOM being undervalued is hidden in the "burn address."
IBC has connected 115+ chains and processed over $50 billion in transactions, yet it still hovers near historical lows. The change is: the inflation cap has been reduced from 20% to 10%, and Osmosis protocol revenue will be used for open market buybacks and burning of ATOM.
In the past, stakers earned from dilution caused by issuance; in the future, they will earn from real network fees. Solana integration is in its final stage, Base and other EVM L2 connections are under audit, and the Hub is expected to become a cross-chain routing layer.
The suspense is not in the price, but in when the first deposit will appear in the burn address after the buyback mechanism is implemented. When institutions start seriously "using" Cosmos, ATOM's narrative will no longer be just about cross-chain, but the settlement layer for the RWA era. Tracking data is closer to value than chasing sentiment.
#SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ $HOOD
Robinhood's crypto revenue for Q3 was $120 million, down 55% year-over-year. This was the most striking line in its after-hours earnings report last night.
But on the same day, its total revenue was $1.424 billion, a record high, up 12% year-over-year. Revenue from the prediction market was $173 million, more than six times higher; options and stocks are all rising, only the crypto segment is shrinking. Crypto's share of total revenue was 21% a year ago, now it's only 8.4%.
The HOOD token on OKX is now 87.8, down from 93.2 in 24 hours, a drop of nearly 6%. After the retail investor retreat, even the most crypto-friendly US stock brokerage is like this, which I think says more than any candlestick chart. By the way, this $120 million is actually a bit higher than analysts' expected $114 million—the expectations had already been cut to the floor.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 $ETH
Seeing the phrase "ETH is fake," my first reaction was to check my holdings—nothing unusual on the market, fluctuating between 2296 and 2364 in the last 24 hours, current price 2348.
Ethereum is definitely not fake. Yesterday, OpenAI released three achievements at once, one of which disproved the "Exponential Time Hypothesis" from computational complexity theory, abbreviated as ETH. Outsiders freaked out at the headline, insiders found the abbreviation ironically amusing.
I think this mix-up quite well reflects the current market sentiment: an academic abbreviation completely unrelated to crypto can go viral like this, showing that people really have time on their hands. Funding rate is 0.0085%, almost flat, open interest at 14.98 billion USD basically unchanged—before the Fed decision, no one dares to make a move first. Despite the confusion, the calm market is the real truth right now.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #SK Hynix Q3 earnings report is coming, can HBM4 boost profitability? The annualized interest rate of $USDC on OKX suddenly jumped from 3% to 9%, a figure more worth pondering than Bitcoin's sideways movement around the $80,000 mark. Stablecoin lending rates don't triple without reason; it indicates that someone is using stablecoins as collateral to leverage, and the demand is urgent and intense. Interest rates are the price of capital, and a sudden price change signals behavior: the market's leverage appetite is heating up, not cooling down. Interestingly, at the same time, $BTC is stuck near 80,000, unable to go up or down. On the surface, it looks like boring consolidation, but putting the two together changes the picture: on one side, leverage demand suddenly expands; on the other, the price refuses to choose a direction. This divergence often means that incremental funds are quietly building positions rather than exiting. The crowd sees "no upward movement," but the capital side sees "someone is borrowing bullets." Market sentiment is clearly divided at this moment. One side says this is a normal pullback in a bull market; the other side eyes 75,000, expecting another drop. The disagreement itself is information—when neither bulls nor bears can present overwhelming reasons, the price gets stuck in the middle, repeatedly grinding. Real turning points usually don't happen in consensus but at moments when consensus is weakest. My judgment is cautious: the current macro environment and sentiment do not support an immediate bull market restart; $BTC is more likely to test downward in the short term rather than break upward. But this is not a prediction; trading is inherently a probability game. The cost of being wrong is missing out, and the other cost of being wrong is losing money; these two are asymmetric—missing an opportunity doesn't lose principal, waitingIn the DePIN storage sector, it is common to boast about "total network storage capacity exceeding 100PB" and "node count surpassing 10,000" to showcase prosperity. However, if all the data stored on these hard drives is junk, this is merely an inflation-driven empty operation.
Comparing these three projects:
$FIL: The former storage leader. The total network computing power is huge, but the actual external customer paid revenue is very low. Most nodes (SPs) still rely on block inflation rewards for income, and with early token unlocks, selling pressure persists. Its token value capture heavily depends on the future realization of the "AI data storage" narrative.
$AR: Focuses on "one-time payment, permanent storage." The mechanism is very innovative, but most of its protocol income goes into an endowment fund for future long-term payments, rather than being directly distributed to token holders or burned. The token's current empowerment mainly relies on expectations of ecosystem expansion.
$STX: Although also infrastructure, through the PoX mechanism, miners must pay real BTC to obtain STX block production rights, and this BTC is directly rewarded to stakers. This creates a hard link between STX's value capture and Bitcoin's underlying real income.
Summary:
The three models in the storage sector are clearly ranked: $FIL "relies on inflation subsidies and new narratives to save the day"; $AR "has income but it all goes into a long-term endowment fund"; while $STX "anchors its returns with real BTC." $ETH this one, 100x long position, floating profit 124.23%.
Let me walk you through the path it took tonight, quite funny: at 8:58 it was 2336.18, 67.48%; at 4:31, 2343.8, 100.32%; at 6:05, 2352.13, 136.21%; now 2349.35, 124.23%.
See it? It just climbed above 2350, barely settled, then slid down. Now it's off by 0.65 points, 0.03%—this gate has changed owners for the Nth time tonight.
I calculated the safety margin: 1.23%. Under 100x leverage, this thing is dangerously thin; a normal shake can wipe me out. Converted, every 1 point move in ETH makes my floating profit jump 4.31%—if it shakes 5 points around 2349, I bounce between 103% and 145%.
My biggest fear is my own impulsiveness now. Seeing "just 0.65 points away," I really want to add a position to push it through. That thought is the dumbest. What I add is not a position, but moving closer to the cliff edge.
So I won't. I take most of the money, push the breakeven up, and let the rest go. $BTC $ETH
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 $ETH Review: After the 2807 warning was triggered, what to watch next?📉
Around 2807 it was noted: if 2810-2820 is not broken suddenly, the upward momentum is risky. Subsequently, ETH made multiple failed attempts to rally and turned bearish, currently down 18.76%.🔍
Structurally, 2807-2282 is first seen as a correction to the weekly uptrend from 1505-2807. If 2282 marks the full correction, ETH needs to quickly reclaim and hold 2370-2390, and must not lose the green Gann 2/1 line again; otherwise, the move since 2282 is just a rebound, which will be followed by further correction. The secondary bottom to watch is 2145-2156 (where MA200 and Fibonacci 0.5 intersect). The correction starting from 2807 may end as early as mid-November.⏳
Currently, price is consolidating near 2300. ETH/BTC is weakening, with funds favoring $BTC; staking lockups and continuous withdrawals benefit the long term, but spot ETF net outflows and weak spot support persist.⚖️
On liquidations, long positions are stacked below 2279, short positions above 2346, and high-leverage longs remain active. Wednesday's FOMC is the key variable: a hawkish tone breaking below 2300 could trigger a long squeeze; if 2280 holds, a short squeeze rebound to 2346 is possible.🎯#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ #美伊讨论霍尔木兹开放方案，油价回落 Google earnings report coming tonight: Cloud business surges, but free cash flow is the biggest weakness
Google will release its Q3 earnings report at midnight Beijing time on October 29. The market expects revenue of $127.8 billion, a 25% year-over-year increase.
The real contradiction in the fundamentals is not in revenue, but whether "burning money to drive growth" can close the loop. The cloud business is the biggest highlight, with the market expecting growth of over 90%, and JPMorgan even raising it to 100%, corresponding to revenue of about $30.3 billion. However, free cash flow turned negative for the first time in history in Q2, and the full-year capital expenditure guidance is as high as $195 billion to $205 billion, nearly doubling year-over-year.
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If cloud growth holds at 90%, it indicates AI investments are generating returns; if it falls short of expectations or capital expenditure guidance continues to be revised upward, the "resilience narrative" of the fundamentals will be questioned. Meanwhile, the FOMC decision is also scheduled in the same window, making tonight destined to be turbulent with the dual volatility of macro and earnings.
Disclaimer: This is only a summary of public information and does not constitute investment advice.
$GOOGL CORE Coin Price Prediction: 4 Scenario Analyses Based on Market Cap Backward Calculation
Baseline Parameters: Circulating supply ≈ 1.5 billion CORE, current price ≈ $0.017, current circulating market cap about $25 million
Scenario ①: Pessimistic Scenario (Ecosystem Continues to Shrink)
Circulating market cap falls back to $10 million
Target price ≈ $0.0067
Logic: Validator nodes continue to flee, BTCFi sector heat remains low, ghost chips keep dumping, no new BTC staking capital inflow into the ecosystem, coin price continues to hit new lows.
Scenario ②: Neutral to Slightly Weak (Sector Slightly Warms Up)
Circulating market cap reaches $75 million
Target price ≈ $0.05
Logic: BTCFi sector experiences slight rotation, node loss rate slows down, ghost chips do not concentrate dumping, no major product breakthroughs needed, just relying on sector capital inflow to achieve this, making it the relatively most realistic target range.
Scenario ③: Optimistic Scenario (Ecosystem Reverses)
Circulating market cap surges to $500 million
Target price ≈ $0.33
Logic: Number of validators stops declining and rises, SatPay launches, Middle East Nawa ecosystem continuously brings BTC staking increments, on-chain fees and buyback flywheel start operating, CORE becomes one of the core assets in the BTCFi sector.
Scenario ④: Extreme Bull Market Scenario (Replicating Historical High-Level Market, Circulating Market Cap Hits $9 Billion)
Target price ≈ around $6
Logic: BTCFi enters a super bull market, massive Bitcoin assets flood into Core ecosystem staking, 69 million ghost chips are absorbed by the marketThere was an intriguing detail in Monday's market: US chip stocks were all celebrating, the Nasdaq rose nearly 1%, the VIX dropped below 19, and risk appetite clearly warmed up 😄. But BTC seemed nailed around 80,000, with a daily high-low range just over a thousand 😐.
Stocks rise but crypto doesn't follow; this kind of divergence carries more information than a simple drop — it's not macro forces dumping, but rather the crypto space itself lacking confidence. Funding rates returned to neutral, and those getting liquidated are still the longs trying to catch the rebound, meaning the market is internally de-crowding.
Outside it's sunny, but inside they're cleaning 🧹. Chasing the rebound to go long now risks getting stabbed. I'd rather stand on the sidelines and watch it clear out the floating supply.
Do you think this knife has landed? 🤔#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ $ATOM Impact on ATOM: Short-term liquidity constraints, no substantial long-term negative impact
Short-term (during upgrade): Deposit and withdrawal suspensions will cause a brief liquidity disconnection. However, the post also mentions that the price difference between Upbit and OKX is less than 1%, indicating no panic discount selling in the market.
Mid-term (after upgrade completion): Once the network stability is confirmed and deposits and withdrawals resume, this technical impact will quickly dissipate. The upgrade itself does not generate new tokens and has no direct impact on total supply or the token economic model.
"Interference" to note: Upbit has a monthly balance audit on October 31, and ATOM is also on the list of 25 tokens with suspended deposits and withdrawals, with staking applications also paused. This is a routine audit all major coins undergo and is unrelated to the network upgrade. Do not misunderstand this as a separate review targeting ATOM.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 Damn it! If I had known, I would have held on all along. Damn it, it might go to zero tomorrow. Shitcoin and scam pumpers, just looking at them makes me angry, no vision at all! 😡
【Thighs broken, how much less profit!】
With the October FOMC decision just around the corner, the macro expectation of "high interest rates for longer" is making BTC grind at the 80k mark, altcoin liquidity is extremely scarce, and crashes have become the norm. If I had held that short from 0.0592 last night until now at 0.025, it would have dropped nearly 60%, and with 3x leverage, that’s a full 180% profit! But me, I took profit and ran at 0.0477, although I made +58%, compared to holding now, it’s really just a sip of soup.
Really pissed me off! I clearly saw it was going south all the way, but I chickened out and didn’t hold on. This wave was purely limited by the "lock in profits" mentality. Didn’t even try a "dead cat bounce" trap, just a pure pig slaughter, this shitty coin is completely blacklisted, better if it goes to zero tomorrow, out of sight, out of mind.
The biggest lesson from this wave: for trades that are aligned with the big trend, you must take profits in batches and keep a base position! Don’t run away with all the small profits, otherwise watching the waterfall later is even more painful than losing money. The macro boot hasn’t landed yet, leverage is crowded both ways, ETH around 2300 is also facing liquidation stampedes, altcoin volatility is even more intense. Trading must avoid emotional decisions, keep light positions, strictly control leverage, and capital preservation is always the priority. $BTC $ETH $ZEC In this 24-hour liquidation statistics set, ETH, BTC, and ZEC all have higher short liquidation amounts than long ones, but the differences among the three are not just about the scale of liquidations. ETH: total liquidation of 33.1282 million U, accounting for 26.66%; among which longs are 6.5018 million U, shorts are 26.6264 million U. It has the largest short liquidation amount among these three coins, and the short pressure during the rebound is worth noting. BTC: total liquidation of 17.6625 million U, accounting for 14.21%; longs 7.4633 million U, shorts 10.1992 million U. Compared to the other two, the long and short liquidation amounts are closer, so it cannot be simply summarized as a one-sided short squeeze. ZEC: total liquidation of 6.3522 million U, accounting for 5.11%; longs 598,600 U, shorts 5.7536 million U. Although the total amount is smaller than ETH and BTC, the liquidation structure is more skewed towards shorts. 💡 My view. The original text tends to interpret this rebound as driven by short stop-loss releases. I focus more on two dimensions: ETH reflects the liquidation volume, ZEC reflects the concentration of direction, and BTC is relatively balanced. Larger liquidation amounts do not equal greater subsequent upside potential. Forced short liquidations may create a buyback demand, but this does not mean new funds are continuously buying, nor does it prove anyone is deliberately "washing shorts." If prices rise later and open interest decreases, it may still mainly be position exits; if liquidations weaken but trading remains active and pullbacks are supported, that is more favorable for judging the continuation of the rebound. You would prioritize observing changes in ETH's liquidation scale, and #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ SK Hynix Q3 Earnings Preview | Expecting this performance to surpass market consensus. Core logic: HBM4 yield rates continue to improve, shipments of high gross margin products steadily increase, major cloud providers have ample long-term contracts, and the tight supply situation for high-end memory remains unchanged. Meanwhile, traditional DRAM contract prices keep rising, ordinary storage demand on the server side is warming up, and product mix optimization continues to boost overall gross margin. The current market consensus is relatively conservative, with many funds still worried about pressure from increased HBM supply. However, based on industry production schedules and customer order feedback, demand resilience for high-end computing memory is stronger than the market imagines. The key is to wait for the next quarter guidance after the earnings release; if guidance is raised, it will further confirm the strength of the storage super cycle #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ Earnings preview: I predict SK Hynix's performance this time will exceed expectations ✅
HBM remains the largest source of flexibility, with HBM4 volume ramping up, combined with the DRAM price increase dividend, creating a dual positive effect. Many market institutions still maintain a cautious forecast, underestimating the strong demand for high-end storage driven by AI giants' continuous expansion of computing power. The company is restrained in capacity deployment, prioritizing high value-added HBM, without blindly expanding production to impact supply and demand. Of course, predictions are just predictions; until the earnings report is released, everything is subject to change. Going forward, focus on two key points: HBM shipment data and management's guidance on subsequent HBM prices and orders.In the past 24 hours, short positions on DOGE have liquidated over $11 million, mainly hitting shorts, with the largest single liquidation close to $440,000. Meanwhile, a major Solana staking whale unstaked and transferred 300,000 SOL to Binance within 30 minutes, valued at approximately $26.07 million. The account holds three positions with two losses and one gain; shorts are bleeding in a short squeeze, while longs are holding on under heavy macro pressure.
$DOGE short positions show an unrealized loss of -15.92%. Contract open interest surged 33% in five days while the price barely moved. This divergence indicates leverage accumulation rather than spot buying support. Once the short squeeze starts, shorts will have no window for a smooth exit.
$SOL short positions show an unrealized loss of -15.04%. The whale transferred directly from staking contracts to exchanges, a typical pre-sale move, concentrating sell-side liquidity into the order book. The short logic is correct, but the price has not broken down accordingly, indicating longs are still resisting. The odds of continuing to hold on are not favorable.
$BTC long positions show an unrealized gain of +10.04%, the account's only safety cushion. The US spot Bitcoin ETF saw a net outflow of $263.2 million in one day, ending nine consecutive days of net inflows. Funds are clearly turning cautious ahead of the FOMC. The $80,000 level is repeatedly contested; $82,000 is the next real test, and the trump card can be held.
DOGE's crowded shorts are being liquidated, SOL's whale chips are pressing the market, and BTC's ETF inflows have stopped. Deleveraging, holding trump cards, and waiting for the FOMC to land. #BTC现货ETF资金反复，市场买盘能否企稳？ Yesterday's range was slightly off: given 28,874 to 29,269, the close was 29,273, 4 points above the upper boundary. The Nasdaq 100 is currently reported at 29,390 today, 319 points higher than the previous period, and -5.87% from the recent high of 31,224.
But the probability hasn't changed at all: a 28% chance of touching the high within 20 days, with a baseline of 55%. This rebound has narrowed the price gap but hasn't rewritten the pullback scenario.
Today's expected range is 29,202 to 29,579. Tomorrow is the FOMC plus $MSFT, $GOOGL earnings, and Thursday $AMZN, so volatility may exceed the range. Before these events land, the back-and-forth within the range shouldn't be taken as a signal; to reassess, we need to see if the probabilities themselves change after these schedules.$SOXS 483% back then I didn't take profits, now 448%—this 35 percentage points is the cost of me "waiting for it to break another level."
Opened a short position at 52.92, 25x leverage, now at 43.42.
The most tormenting is the 43 level. It went in, then came back out. Around 3 a.m. at 42.69, I thought it had passed; now at 43.42, it has stood outside the door for more than twenty minutes without moving further in.
What I fear most is precisely the "numbness brought by a thick cushion." A 21.88% cushion tonight is second only to APR. The thicker the cushion, the easier it is to relax—but a thick cushion doesn't mean it won't go to zero, just that it will go to zero more slowly. I've seen too many trades not die at the start but after making a lot of profit.
There is also a mental knot: back when it was 483%, I was watching and considering whether to take profits but didn't act. Now at 448%, is the missing 35 percentage points the cost of my "inaction"? This kind of dilemma has no answer. The only thing certain is: if 43 is lost, the breakout is temporarily invalid.
The three things I fear most: first, thinking "the cushion is thick anyway, let it be." Second, itchy hands adding to the position chasing 600%. Third, dawn comes after staying up all night, utterly exhausted.
So don't fight it anymore. Realize most profits, move the break-even up. If it breaks below 42, look at 40; if it stands back at 45, reduce positions. $BTC $ETH
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 “Zero out” or “Hundredfold”? An in-depth review of the CORE token economic model: investment game under an 81-year release cycle.
One of CORE's biggest selling points is its token model designed to benchmark Bitcoin: a hard cap of 210 million tokens, with 40% of the consensus reward portion planned to be slowly released over 81 years. The annual block reward decays at a rate of 3.61%. The official goal is to use this ultra-long release cycle to continuously incentivize validator nodes and BTC stakers, creating a long-term scarcity narrative.
However, this carefully designed economic model is facing significant real-world challenges.
Theoretically, the 81-year long release cycle can avoid massive short-term sell pressure, but the exposure of 69 million ghost tokens has broken the originally preset release rhythm; combined with the continuous withdrawal of official nodes and validator exodus, the flywheel that maintained network security through block rewards is showing cracks. If nodes continue to decline, the model relying on token subsidies to maintain security will become unsustainable, and the 81-year release cycle will instead become a long-term continuous supply pressure.
To realize a hundredfold market surge, not only does the BTCFi sector need to explode, but nodes must stabilize, SatPay must be implemented, and on-chain fee income must gradually replace block rewards; if the ecosystem continues to shrink, the prolonged token release will only keep diluting value, heading towards a zero-out risk.
The 81-year release is a long-term mechanism under ideal conditions, not a capital protection guarantee. A hundredfold gain is a low-probability windfall, while zeroing out is a potential outcome that cannot be ignored, making it unsuitable for heavy investment.Zijin has turned positive simultaneously; is this wave a correction or a short-term rebound?
Just checked the ETF data and found a phenomenon worth discussing:
A few days ago, there was a collective retreat, but today there was a sudden turnaround. BTC net inflow is 40.8 million, ETH net inflow is 29.4 million, and SOL also slightly turned positive. The three major coins moving in sync indeed brought some warmth to the market.
Specifically:
$BTC previously referenced at 84500, 7-day net inflow of 513 million, the battle in the 85000-86000 range will be very critical;
$ETH reference price 2507, although there was a single-day inflow, there is still a 680 million outflow over 30 days, whether 2500 can hold is very important;
$SOL reference price 108.4, 30-day outflow of 57.9 million, chasing highs near 110 requires caution.
But don’t rush to conclusions, the real test is coming soon. Now everyone is wondering, is this inflow an institutional pre-positioning or just a short-term sentiment repair?
Feel free to share your thoughts in the comments.
For market record only, not investment advice.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议
#美伊讨论霍尔木兹开放方案，油价回落
#SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ CORE Coin Prediction: 0.05 or 6.14? Unveiling the Mask of BTC Layer2 to See Its True Value
Many people habitually refer to CORE as BTC Layer2, but strictly speaking, it is a Bitcoin sidechain/L1 public chain based on the Satoshi Plus consensus, not an Ethereum-style Rollup Layer 2. This is the "mask" in much of the promotion about the first layer.
Current: Price ≈ $0.017, circulating supply about 1.5 billion coins, circulating market cap approximately $25 million, total supply capped at 2.1 billion coins.
Scenario One: $0.05 (neutral to optimistic, ≈3x increase)
If the price reaches $0.05 with unchanged circulating supply, the circulating market cap will be $75 million. To achieve this goal, no epic explosion is needed, just the following conditions:
1. Rotation in the BTCFi sector, with funds flowing back into BTC staking tracks;
2. Phantom chips do not massively dump during the price rise;
3. The number of validators no longer rapidly declines, and the network does not further deteriorate;
This level is reachable with a sector recovery and is the most realistic target range.
✅Scenario Two: Hitting the All-Time High of $6.14 (extreme bull market, ≈360x increase)
Returning to the all-time high of $6.14, the circulating market cap would directly exceed $9 billion, which is the market's wildest imagination.
To realize this price, all checkpoints must be cleared simultaneously: In just two days, BTC spot ETF has shifted from net inflows to net outflows, totaling 773.5 million outflows, with almost all funds that came in last week withdrawn. This is not retail investors emotionally dumping, but institutional buying retreating.
During the same period, long-term holding addresses reduced their BTC holdings by over 50,000 coins, and institutions have also paused buying. Interestingly, BTC and gold are weakening simultaneously; currently, everyone prefers holding cash, The 24H gains for CORE, HYPE, and XRP are +1.92%, +5.18%, and +2.59% respectively, but the holding sentiment in this set of statistics is inconsistent: overall short positions slightly exceed longs for CORE and XRP, while HYPE has a slight advantage in long positions. CORE: Long positions 48.30%, short positions 51.70%, long-short ratio 0.9342. 4H gain +3.98%, 7D +1.3%; but 30 days still -25.98%, year-to-date -83.78%. Short-term rebound coexists with longer-term decline; the rebound cannot yet be considered a trend recovery. HYPE: Long positions 50.75%, short positions 49.25%, long-short ratio 1.0305. 4H +1.33%, 7D +3.19%, year-to-date +214.33%. The original post judges that its large holders’ bullish sentiment is also stronger, consistent with the overall statistical direction. XRP: Long positions 48.33%, short positions 51.67%, long-short ratio 0.9354. 4H +0.48%, 7D +1.99%. The original post mentions that its large holders’ long positions are relatively concentrated; CORE’s large holder accounts and holdings data are also biased toward longs, contrasting with the overall slight short dominance. 💡 My view. What really matters to distinguish is “directional consistency” versus “statistical stratification.” HYPE’s different dimensions are relatively aligned, while CORE and XRP show divergence. However, the number of accounts and position sizes are not the same thing; one cannot conclude a full retail versus large holder showdown based solely on these ratios. The original post worries that the divergence may increase the risk of stop-hunting spikes.Why do I say the "darkest hour" of the CORE coin has passed? The market cap logic and ecosystem reversal signals behind the $0.017 price
Many market opinions believe that CORE's most severe phase is over. We review the reversal logic cited by bulls while objectively considering unresolved risks. Bullish perspective: Reasons why the darkest hour has passed 1. Negative factors concentrated and fully erupted at once: The August reward loophole and September hard fork issues have been resolved; most excess tokens have been destroyed on-chain. The market has fully priced in the panic caused by the loophole crisis. The worst inflation disaster has been stopped by the hard fork, preventing a continuous flood of abnormal new tokens. 2. Market cap has been compressed to a minimum: The coin price has dropped from a historical high of $6.14 to around $0.017, a decline of over 99%. Market sensitivity to negative news has greatly decreased, and the momentum for unlimited further decline has been largely exhausted. 3. The long-term narrative of the BTCFi sector remains: A massive amount of idle Bitcoin assets await yield release. Core's unique Satoshi Plus self-custody BTC staking sector positioning remains intact; the Middle East ecosystem project Nawa Finance's Sharia-compliant BTC yield product has launched, opening potential capital inflows from the Gulf region, representing realized ecosystem growth. However, the ecosystem reversal is not yet confirmed, and the crisis is not completely over: 1. 69 million ghost chips still hang overhead, and a market rebound could release selling pressure at any time; 2. The official validator node withdrawal trend has not reversed, and network decentralization remains a concern.Evaluation of Core Overseas community evaluation of Core (Core DAO) ✅ Bullish side (supporters) 1. BTC native consensus narrative Core proposes DPoW (Delegated Proof of Work), introducing Bitcoin's hash power into its own public chain. Supporters believe it is one of the few public chains bound to BTC hash power, allowing it to leverage Bitcoin's security endorsement, belonging to the BTCFi track project. 2. Ecological imagination space The community is optimistic about its BTCFi, SatPay, and other product plans, believing it can bring BTC assets into the Core ecosystem for lending and payments, building a BTC application layer. 3. Miner group attention Many BTC miners pay attention to this project because they can gain additional CORE token rewards without significantly increasing extra mining costs. ⚠️ Bearish/cautious side (skeptics) 1. DPoW mechanism is the most controversial Many in the native Bitcoin community criticize that DPoW is not true Bitcoin security; it only borrows miner signatures and has security model vulnerabilities; they consider it a "parasitic BTC hash power narrative" and not an officially recognized Bitcoin extension. 2. Contract and asset risks DeFi researchers warn that various staking and lending contracts on Core (such as Colend) have smart contract vulnerability risks, and once problems occur, assets are difficult to recover; historically, ecosystem projects have experienced product delays and underperformance. 3. Token economics controversy Some analysts believe the token release volume is large, longCORE has dropped 99%, is buying now "picking up cigarette butts" or "catching flying knives"? 3 key data points tell you the answer
The coin price has plummeted over 99% from its historical high. Many people directly apply Graham's cigarette butt investment logic, believing CORE is extremely undervalued and a great bottom-fishing opportunity. But the core premise of cigarette butt stocks is: the main business capability still exists, and there is no ongoing destructive risk. We use 3 core data points to judge whether it is picking up cigarette butts or catching flying knives. Data ①: The number of independent validators continues to decline
Currently, there are only about 20 active validators left, official nodes are continuously withdrawing, and the network's decentralization is weakening. The core selling point of the BTCFi track is relying on Bitcoin's computing power for security endorsement. If validators continue to be lost, large Bitcoin holders will not dare to stake BTC on a large scale into the ecosystem, and the narrative foundation of the track will continue to be damaged. Data ②: 69 million ghost chips still exist
The hard fork only destroyed tokens stuck in vulnerable addresses; the 69 million abnormal chips transferred out before the fork cannot be recovered. As long as the market recovers, this part of the chips may be sold at any time, always lurking as sudden selling pressure on the way up. This is a rare time bomb for cigarette butt stocks. Data ③: Core product and revenue realization progress is below expectations
SatPay keeps being delayed, on-chain native revenue and buyback flywheel have yet to be realized, and although the Middle East Nawa Finance ecosystem product has launched, it has not brought massive new BTC staking funds. The ecosystem growth is below market expectations. Everyone is waiting for early Thursday morning, but the market moved first today
Everyone is waiting for the Federal Reserve early Thursday morning, as if the direction must be revealed at that moment. But the market did not follow the script.
This afternoon, BTC quietly slipped below 80,000, currently at 79,674; ETH is close to 2,305; SOL directly lost 100, now at 99.7. After three days of sideways balance, it did not break upward, but instead leaked downward.
Looking back, it’s simple: by the third day of sideways movement, those wanting to bottom-fish are already fully invested, those wanting to short have lost their nerve, and the rest think, "It’s been sideways like this, how much lower can it go?" So they heavily bet on one side waiting for the data. They are waiting for this kind of moment.
Just after breaking 80,000, BTC has long positions still held at 79,200 and 78,800 below; further down, 77,200 and 76,600 are even thicker accumulations; ETH focuses on 2,282 and 2,242; SOL has 9.69 million near 98. Early Thursday morning is indeed the main event, but no one said the market must wait until then to move. Those who put all their bullets on "data landing" might not even get the first shot.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #美伊讨论霍尔木兹开放方案，油价回落 #BTC现货ETF资金反复，市场买盘能否企稳？ The whale's high-leverage full-position short combination layout in the cryptocurrency derivatives market consists of three position cards corresponding to the three mainstream coins BTC, ETH, and SOL. Overall, it presents a risk-reward pattern of "partial coin floating profit, core coin slight floating loss," reflecting the highly representative game logic of cryptocurrency contract trading.
The configuration idea for each short position group is very clear, a typical "heavy on the main, supplemented by the rising" short layout.
Using $ETH as the core profit position, the 26,800 holdings correspond to a nominal value of $63,235,700, with an unrealized floating profit of $2,567,500 currently realized, serving as the income pillar of the entire portfolio;
$BTC acts as a hedging short position, with a larger holding scale of 224.88, but currently a slight floating loss of $123,100, playing the role of anchoring the benchmark risk of the overall market;
$SOL serves as a high-elasticity supplementary position, leveraging its large market volatility to supplement income elasticity, currently also maintaining a slight floating profit.
At the same time, all three orders use full-position mode, with leverage decreasing stepwise from 20X to 30X, balancing aggressiveness and basic risk control awareness.
The most noteworthy detail of this position is that all three coins have obtained positive funding fee income: ETH's funding fee income reaches as high as $2,407,000, even exceeding its own price fluctuation floating profit; BTC also received $252,700 in funding fees, and SOL has more than $6,000 in funding fee income. This indicates that the market was in an extremely crowded long position state at the time, with long positions needing to pay high interest to shorts. This trader not only bet correctly on the price direction but also earned "passive win" income brought by market sentiment, effectively receiving holding interest from the market while shorting.
The risk points of this strategy are also very prominent: BTC's liquidation price reaches $189,722, far exceeding the current mainstream market BTC price range. Once the market experiences an extreme surge, this high-leverage full-position order faces the risk of instant liquidation; meanwhile, the full-position mode means the margin of the three coins is fully connected, and an extreme fluctuation in a single coin may affect the entire portfolio's margin. Although the three short positions seem diversified, they essentially all bet on the same premise that "the cryptocurrency market will not experience a violent surge," without truly achieving risk hedging.
In the cryptocurrency contract market, such a position is a typical example of "high returns and high risks coexisting." It demonstrates the professional trader's skill in leveraging rules to amplify returns but also exposes the ever-present liquidation shadow in high-leverage trading.
#BTC现货ETF资金反复，市场买盘能否企稳？ Today, we first look at capital inflows, but it's still too early to hastily judge a reversal. BTC spot and futures are synchronously flowing in short-term, ETH leverage funds are replenishing more noticeably, while SOL is supported by spot but futures are still retreating.
BTC spot net inflow in 4 hours is $111 million, futures net inflow is $36.18 million. Extending to 24 hours, spot net inflow is $179 million, but futures net outflow is $92.74 million. The 30-day futures net outflow has 200,000 principal turns into 12 million? CORE coin's all-time high was $6.14, now it's $0.017. Is this a bottom rebound or a zero trap?
Simple calculation: from the current price of $0.017 back to the all-time high of $6.14 is about a 360x increase. If fully invested with 200,000 principal, theoretically it could become 72 million, while 12 million only requires a 60x increase, a huge potential that attracts countless retail investors to buy the dip. But low price does not equal bottom; this asset carries both super high odds and zero risk. The underlying story of the BTCFi sector hasn't disappeared; the trillion-scale idle Bitcoin assets represent the biggest imagination space for the sector. CORE focuses on Bitcoin staking yield; once BTCFi enters a bull market, small-cap public chains have huge valuation elasticity. After continuous sharp declines, the coin price is at a historic low. Many investors believe the negative factors have been fully released, but to realize a big surge, several critical hurdles must be overcome: 1. The number of validator nodes remains low, with few independent validators, so network decentralization and security risks remain unresolved, and large BTC holders dare not stake Bitcoin at scale; 2. 69 million ghost tokens hang overhead—abnormal tokens left from hard forks, which could dump anytime when the market warms, severely suppressing price rises; 3. Core plans like SatPay and buybacks have yet to be implemented, the on-chain native revenue flywheel has not started, making it hard to convert narrative into real value; 4. Competitors like Babylon and Stacks in BTCFi continue to seize market share, intensifying sector competition.Among the three disclosed full-position short orders, ETH has an unrealized loss of 2,567,500 U, SOL has a slight unrealized profit, and BTC has an unrealized loss of 123,100 U. Although all are short positions, the profit structures differ. BTC｜30X full position Holding -224.88 BTC, valued at 18,267,600 U; opening price 80,686.7 U, unrealized P&L -123,100 U, funding fee income +252,700 U; margin 608,900 U, listed liquidation price 189,722.02. ETH｜25X full position Holding -26,800 ETH, valued at 63,235,700 U; opening price 2,456.02 U, unrealized P&L +2,567,500 U, funding fee income +2,407,000 U; margin 2,529,400 U, listed liquidation price 3,264.07. SOL｜20X full position Holding -34,300 SOL, valued at 3,490,700 U; opening price 104.252 U, unrealized P&L +86,200 U, funding fee income +6,258.24 U; margin 174,500 U, listed liquidation price 804.12. 💡 My view. The focus of this set of positions is not only that ETH has the largest unrealized profit, but also that its nominal position is the largest: profit contribution is more concentrated, and the P&L changes during inverse fluctuations are more worth attention. Trading quality cannot be judged solely by profit amount. BTC's funding fee income exceeds its unrealized loss, but the two cannot be combined as closing profit, nor do they equal net account earnings. All three funding fees are positive, but that does not meanFrom $0.017 to $1? In-depth analysis: Is the next 60x myth of CORE coin brewing!
Rising from the current price of about $0.017 to $1, a nearly 60-fold increase, this huge potential return is the core motivation for many retail investors to persistently hold CORE. We objectively break down what conditions need to be met for this 60x rally to materialize, as well as the major obstacles along the way. If the coin price rises from $0.017 to $1, assuming the circulating supply remains unchanged, the market capitalization would need to expand by about 60 times. Once the BTCFi sector enters a super bull market, a massive amount of idle Bitcoin assets will seek on-chain yield. As a BTCFi L1 public chain featuring the Satoshi Plus consensus, CORE naturally has huge valuation elasticity and theoretically has this potential. However, for the 60x myth to come true, there are several very difficult hurdles to overcome: 1. Node crisis must be stopped: The continuous withdrawal trend of independent validators must reverse, and the network’s decentralization and security must be restored, otherwise large BTC holders will not dare to stake Bitcoin at scale; 2. Ghost chip selling pressure: The 69 million abnormal ghost chips left over after the hard fork could dump at any time during the price rally, severely suppressing upside; 3. Product implementation and delivery: SatPay needs to be launched and operational, with on-chain fees and buyback flywheel truly running, not just staying at the narrative stage; 4. Intense sector competition: Competitors in the BTC staking sector like Babylon and Stacks are constantly vying for market share.📌Pre-market quick notes: A sober reflection before Samsung's earnings report
Samsung will release its full Q3 earnings report on October 29, with preliminary operating profit soaring nearly 8 times year-over-year. AI storage demand is heating up, with HBM4 shipments and memory chip prices being the core factors. The stock rose 2.02% pre-market today, clearly betting on earnings beating expectations 😮.
But no matter how high the profits, beware of the "good news fully priced in" ⚠️. Two key points in the comments: First, Samsung's stock price fell despite record profits, foreign investors are reducing holdings and buybacks are ending, retail investors are moving to US stocks, leaving no net buyers in the Korean market, worsening the buying structure; second, SK Hynix's HBM4 backend equipment orders have been postponed to next year, expansion is slower than expected, the short-term shortage logic remains intact, but once long-term capacity comes online, prices will need to be re-evaluated.
Your previous long position in SK Hynix at 1250 was also a bet on this expectation. When earnings are realized, it is often the time for short-term funds to take profits. Scale down profits in batches above, keep your defense levels tight, and set stop-loss orders properly ⛑️. The above is time-sensitive, intraday variables change fast, don't go naked 😉.Wow, this week is really a bomb week.
Tomorrow night is the FOMC, Thursday's PCE inflation data is forecasted at 3.7%, and on Friday there is also $11 billion worth of BTC options expiring.
The key point is this option—$10.97 billion worth of BTC options on Deribit expire this Friday, accounting for 35% of all open interest. This is the largest expiration event of the year.
What does this mean? Before the options expire, the whales will try to push the price to the strike price most favorable to themselves. It's currently 81,000, and the max pain point is around 80,000. In other words, before expiration, the whales will most likely grind the price back and forth around 80,000.
I think if the FOMC turns hawkish tomorrow night, BTC might first drop then rally. Let's see what old Wash has to say. This kind of market really tests your mindset.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 #SK海力士Q3财报在即，HBM4能否提振盈利？ #美伊讨论霍尔木兹开放方案，油价回落 $BTC $ETH $ZEC $BTC
The Federal Reserve decision is just a few hours away, BTC is hovering around 80,800 now, with a 24-hour high of 81,298 and a low of 79,505, having reclaimed the 80,000 level again.
Wintermute also said during the day that after three consecutive weeks of decline, the 80,000 line is the lifeline. The previous surge to 87,000 was immediately pushed back, with heavy selling pressure above. Funding rates have returned to a normal level of 0.01%, open interest is around 31,000 contracts, and those betting on the decision haven't been forced to liquidate.
Willy Woo said the top in 2028 could be between 240,000 and 410,000. I believe half of that; whether it tops or not is another matter, but the fact that this veteran bull is still willing to speak out at least shows that big money hasn't fled.
My stance is simple: no adding positions before the decision is finalized; wait to see which side gets buried first, then pick a side. Those who try to jump the gun at times like this are basically providing liquidity for others.
#本周将公布10月FOMC利率决议 35 billion USD is not just a financing round; it’s a steel beam forcibly inserted into a load-bearing wall—the building isn’t topped out yet, but cracks are already climbing up from the cash flow foundation.
From the general contractor’s perspective on Meta’s securities financing this time, the 22.5 billion USD common stock financing is like increasing the column spacing, and the 12.5 billion USD mandatory convertible preferred stock acts as temporary support; the convertible terms mean that the temporary support will eventually become a permanent load, compressing the floor space of existing shareholders. With a potential additional 60 billion USD, pushing the total to 95 billion USD, this is not simply adding floors but raising the building height before the foundation settlement is fully understood. Nvidia, AMD, and Broadcom together may subscribe up to 5 billion USD, more like bringing material suppliers into the project company: rebar and electromechanical are tied to the same balance sheet, which will speed up construction but also makes structural coupling more dangerous.
The funds are directed toward AI infrastructure, which sounds like building new data centers, power, cooling, and compute centers, but in essence, it’s a large-scale load redistribution. Free cash flow turned negative in Q3, and the annual capital expenditure guidance is 135 to 145 billion USD, indicating negative pressure on the cash flow foundation; at this point, relying on common stock and mandatory convertible preferred stock to continue is like using a post-pour belt to patch the main building’s settlement. The real acceptance criteria are not the press release renderings but whether these compute centers can generate sustained profits to cover capital and dilution costs. The tokenized asset $xSNDK is the glass curtain wall of this building, first reflecting the deformation of capital expenditures; when the main structure settles, the curtain wall reacts first, and market linkage also transmits from here.
I don’t look at renderings, only at reinforcement diagrams and cash flow profiles. The financing scale is not the biggest crack; the biggest crack is capital expenditure poured into data centers with excessively long return cycles, while free cash flow can no longer support its own structural weight. When capital expenditure growth outpaces free cash flow, the whole building shifts from a core frame to a cantilever system; a delayed return by one quarter means stress will transfer to the outermost $xSNDK curtain wall. #meta35baifinancingThe isobars over the Strait of Hormuz are being redrawn by an invisible hand, and what I focus on is no longer the channel about to open, but the cold vortex above it that has yet to dissipate.
On October 26, observers from Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan simultaneously entered the Tehran station, and Qatar submitted a forecast valid for five days: Iran reopens the strait, and the US lifts the port blockade. It looks like a textbook frontal passage: warm moist air retreats, visibility improves, and shipping resumes. But in my years of forecasting, what I fear most is this kind of "looks like clearing up" map: the dispute over the sequence of navigation and unblocking remains unresolved, meaning the order of frontal movement is still uncertain; whether rain or wind comes first, differing by one time step, results in two sets of weather. Tehran excludes the nuclear issue from negotiations, effectively letting the deep cold vortex press over the boundary layer; no matter how much the surface warms, once lifting conditions are triggered, convection will still erupt.
Brent crude fell back to 114.81, WTI to 101.02. This is a drop from a red high-temperature warning to orange, not a cooling. The supply risk premium—the warm moist air—is only temporarily suppressed by a shortwave trough and the moisture transport is not cut off. The Houthi militia claims to have attacked Saudi pipelines, which is a local strong convective cell that large-scale models cannot capture; radar echoes appear clearly once they form, with random impact areas, but each time they disrupt the newly restored visibility again.
The US stock tokenized asset $xTSM shows typical air-sea coupling characteristics: sea surface temperature (oil price) slightly drops, the upper atmosphere (risk appetite) immediately responds, but the response magnitude is always greater than the sea temperature change itself, which is a common problem of turbulence exchange flux amplification. Every time the Strait navigation expectation improves, the $xTSM isobaric surface rises a level; but as long as ship passage through Hormuz cannot be stably observed for three consecutive time steps, this rise is just a false warming in the model: surging during the day, nighttime radiative cooling will still pull the temperature back to the dew point.
Currently, I only give one judgment—
The five-day window is a member divergence of an ensemble forecast, cannot be treated as a forecast, and the divergence is still expanding. #USIranHormuzTalks The $ETH 4-hour chart is telling a rather pessimistic story: each rebound is weaker than the last, and the highs continue to decline. In this structure, 2281 becomes the short-term dividing line between bulls and bears—once it is lost and cannot be quickly reclaimed, the downside space will open up, with the next observation zone around 2200, focusing on whether there is buying support there. Frankly, it's hard to be optimistic about $ETH for now. But what is truly underestimated is not this downtrend line, but the macro density of this week. The Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, and Bank of Japan are all releasing policy signals in the same week; US GDP and core PCE data are coming out consecutively; Microsoft, Google, and Amazon earnings reports are clustered. This is not an ordinary week, but a window where the stock market, the dollar, and US Treasury yields simultaneously price the crypto market. The transmission chain of capital flows is more worth watching than the charts: if earnings are strong, risk appetite may first revive the stock market and then spill over to $BTC and $ETH; if data is hawkish, the dollar and yields rising will first drain liquidity, and the crypto space often suffers passively. Most people only focus on the number 2281, but they overlook that it will very likely be redefined by macro news this week. Technical levels are effective during calm periods but are easily gap-breached during event-heavy periods, so the real signal is not the price touching 2281, but the quality of the price reaction above 2281 after data releases—if it recovers quickly, it means buying is still there; repeated attempts failing to hold above confirm trend continuation. My judgment is: the current bearish structure of $ETH has not yet been falsified, but the decision on direction this week is not in the hands of the chart, but in theThe proportion of tokens in profit across the entire network remains close to 70%. Meanwhile, exchanges' Bitcoin reserves continue their long-term decline, staying at multi-year lows. October saw neither concentrated panic holding of coins nor large-scale whale withdrawals for hoarding; the available spot chips for immediate trading are continuously shrinking. This means that once new buying emerges, the resistance to price increases is actually thinner than the support for downward breaks. The short-term battleground is tugging between 75,000 and 82,000, but the foundation of the bull market remains intact. #交易之声：你的经验值得被听到 $BTC