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The US midterms are arriving with a split verdict already priced in: Democrats are favoured to retake the House, while the Senate remains genuinely open. For crypto, that is not a straightforward bullish signal. The CLARITY bill, once held up as the sector’s best shot at legislative clarity, stalled in the Senate. A Congress where Democratic influence widens could make the next two years of crypto lawmaking slower and more contested, not smoother. But the election’s effect on $BTC needs separati811 bitcoins — this isn’t just sprinkling scallions into the pot, it’s like pouring a whole bucket of butter onto the stove! Last week, Strategy spent $65.5 million to buy 811 BTC, while simultaneously repurchasing about $208 million in preferred shares. What does this move look like? Like a chef adding the main dish while turning down the heat on the broth — financing cost is the base flavor of that broth; if the heat is too high, the broth burns first, no matter how tasty the meat is.
Look at Strive: for the first time, they used preferred shares with a 15% annual dividend plus 124 BTC. A 15% dividend is like having to pour a spoonful of precious sauce over each dish before serving — it smells good, but the cost is obvious, and if the timing is off, the sauce turns bitter. BitMine is even more intense, throwing 8,573 ETH into the pot, with total holdings reaching about 6.06 million ETH. This isn’t just cooking a dish; it’s like the entire central kitchen is stewing the main course. The question is whether the broth for each dish is thick enough.
Metaplanet repaid about $50.64 million in bonds early, pouring the saved money entirely into BTC, raising the purchasing budget to about $212 million. This move is like clearing out the freezer of pre-made dishes and replacing it with fresh main courses — less debt, more heat in the pot, but also more chili peppers added.
The core is the recipe: mainstream coins are the main dish, altcoins are the seasoning, and leveraged contracts are the extra spicy chili peppers. Preferred shares and bonds determine the broth’s concentration; when financing costs rise, each share of crypto holdings is like the portion size of each dish quietly shrinking — the plate looks the same to the customer, but when they pick up the chopsticks, there’s less meat. Capital efficiency isn’t about how much is piled in the pot, but whether each spoonful served still holds the main dish firmly.
Holdings per share are the net weight of the dish; dividends and interest are the thickening agents — if the thickener is too heavy, the main ingredients sink to the bottom.
No matter how steady the heat, there’s always the risk someone mistakes sugar for salt — this dish isn’t about the meat, it’s about the chili that can burn through the pot’s bottom at any moment. #strategybuys811btc$ETH is stuck flat at 2275 with RSI hovering mid-level, $ZEC surged 7 points to 1219 with RSI at 73, if these two jump together, I'm ready to short.
ETH stuck at 2275 is frustrating, RSI at 54 neither up nor down, MA7 pressing the price down, Bollinger middle band at 2278 almost touching current price. Basically, it's deadlocked in the 2270-2310 range, bulls and bears both weak, whoever moves first gets hit. I've been watching this chart for a long time, no patience left, this kind of market is only good for waiting it out, not for opening positions.
But ZEC is different, 1219 jumped over 7 points, RSI shot up to 73.6, Bollinger upper band at 1257 right overhead. I'm most familiar with these sharp surges, funding rate is still positive 0.01%, meaning bulls are paying fees to hold, if it can't break higher, a stampede will follow. I'll say it here, as long as ZEC stalls in the 1240-1250 range, I'll be the first to short, stop loss above 1260, target first to retest the middle band at 1180.
BTC hanging at 77400 with RSI 60.8, lukewarm, no clear direction, altcoins jumping around are just false signals. If ETH and ZEC jump together, I see it as a bull trap, wait for ZEC to peak and fall back, ETH will likely follow down to fill the 2240 gap. Don't chase longs, if itchy hands, wait for shorting opportunities. The October jobs report is not a lone soldier; it is the promotion piece at the center of the interest rate chessboard; once the data drops, all lines of government bonds, the dollar, and risk assets are simultaneously put in check. The October Purchasing Managers' Index rose to 55.5, surpassing the forecast of 54.7, but the price sub-index hung high at 75.2. This is not a simple opening move but a pawn chain pushed beyond the river boundary: growth provides offensive space, but inflation pins your rook on the king's wing. The Fed holds rates at 3.75%-4.00%, seemingly waiting for a move but actually shifting the time pressure onto the market; September core prices rose 3.1% year-over-year, and the probability of a 25 basis point hike in December has been traded up to about 70%, indicating that the players have already written forced moves into the calculation tree, just waiting for the jobs report to confirm the move.
In grandmaster-level games, the scenario I fear most is when the pieces are not weak, but all lines are constrained, and any exchange risks exposing a weakness. The current dollar, U.S. Treasuries, and risk assets are exactly like this: the PMI beating expectations is a pawn advance, the high price index is a distant weakness, the Fed holding steady is controlling a key square, and the market's 70% probability of a rate hike is preemptively moving the rear rook to an open file. The real risk is not the obvious check but a false opening—if the data is strong but not hot, the rate hike expectations will be forced to retreat, and both bears and bulls will have to recalculate on the same square.
At 1:30 PM on November 6, the jobs report will be played: an expected increase of about 60,000 jobs and an unemployment rate holding at 4.2% is the key square in the endgame. If employment is soft, the rate hike line is cut off, and the dollar loses the initiative first; if employment is resilient and the price sub-index does not fall, the Fed's waiting move will become a forced move, compressing the middle game space for risk assets. The U.S. stock token XPL is not an independent piece; it is more like a flank minor piece: once the dollar and interest rate constraints change, its linkage lines are immediately re-evaluated, and you cannot just look at its own pawn structure.
Position management here is never about taking one step at a time but calculating twenty moves ahead before placing a piece: marking forced moves, leaving sacrifice lines, then discussing piece investment; hiding exposed pieces before the data is the chess principle of not chasing highs amid check calls. The real winning move is not the PMI at 55.5 but who is forced to take the initiative to exchange their interest rate exposure after the jobs report lands. #USJobsReportInFocus $BTC is stuck near 77,000, fear index at 26, over 2.2 billion liquidated in 24 hours, but Hyperliquid's top 200 positions opened 65.99 million long orders and only 723 short orders, with 40x leverage, liquidation price less than 2% away from current price. Even after such a drop, some are still licking blood at the edge of the knife; once 76,300 breaks, the excitement is just beginning.
Altcoins are a completely different story. $PEPE rose nearly 10% against the trend, the meme hype hasn't faded, but funds are clearly picking "accountable" ones — $UNI up 18% weekly, logic being DEXs eating into CEX market share, protocol fees flowing as real money into the burn pool. After the Binance turmoil, money shifted from "running first" to "selective buying," targets with income and buybacks are being singled out for valuation.
A-shares battery sector is defying the trend with a surge of daily limit-ups, lithium battery concept saw a net inflow of 3.2 billion from main funds in a single day, CATL repurchased 5.36 billion, solid-state battery pilot lines are intensively coming online, with MGL and Shangshui Intelligent hitting 20cm limit-ups. But the overall market main funds saw a net outflow of nearly 48.4 billion, money is shifting from tech highs, not new inflows.
US stock Nasdaq rebounded 0.83%, Philadelphia Semiconductor up 2.63%, AMD beat earnings expectations and surged another 7% after hours, but Apple dropped 2%, dragging the Dow down nearly 200 points. AI giant Anthropic's Q3 revenue soared 1200% year-over-year, IPO is on the way, but when a heavyweight like Apple sneezes, the index still catches a cold.Spot is being bought, but no one dares to play contracts anymore.
Today's set of capital flows is worth a look: BTC, ETH, and SOL have shown three different states.
BTC had a net spot inflow of $136.6 million in the past 24 hours, but contracts saw a net outflow of $79.88 million. This indicates that some are genuinely buying with real money, but contract funds remain cautious. Although the price has rebounded, leverage hasn't rushed in, and this structure is actually healthier than relying solely on contracts to push prices up.
ETH is clearly more proactive, with a net spot inflow of $88 million and a contract net inflow of $156.13 million. Spot and leverage are entering together, showing stronger short-term sentiment than BTC. However, since contract inflows far exceed spot, caution is needed to avoid positions building up too quickly; if the price can't break through, the pullback could be more direct.
SOL is somewhat divided, with a net spot inflow of $11.25 million but a contract net outflow of $12.01 million. Some are buying spot, but short-term leveraged funds are still withdrawing, indicating the market is willing to buy but not to chase with heavy positions.
So, in this round of capital structure, I am more confident in BTC's spot support, ETH has the greatest short-term flexibility, and SOL still needs to wait for contract funds to return. The market isn't lacking money; rather, funds are choosing directions. Whoever can sustain spot inflows has a better chance to develop an independent trend.A 96% revenue growth rate is like a skyscraper topping out in three months; yet the total value of new contracts only climbed 6%—this is not a construction progress report, but a record showing the load-bearing walls haven't kept pace with the building's height.
I've worked on too many projects like this. The faster the above-ground part rushes up, the more I need to crouch down and check the pile foundations. Revenue represents the completed floor area, while the total contract value is the newly acquired land. The former only proves that piles driven two years ago are now producing output; the latter determines how many more floors can be added in the coming years. A 6% increase means one thing: the construction team is sprinting, but the bidding team is standing still. The tower crane is still turning, but the next plot of land hasn't been secured yet.
What truly deserves a detailed blueprint review is the rerouting of the load path. U.S. commercial income rose 148%, surpassing the old government load-bearing axis for the first time. In structural terms, this is called distributed loading: previously, the entire building relied on a single government column, causing the whole structure to resonate in the wind; now, the load is spread across dozens of commercial columns, making lateral stiffness more stable. This is a genuine structural upgrade, not just a facade change.
But structural upgrades take time. The new load system requires recalculating nodes, a settlement observation period, and repeated seismic simulations. The market clearly isn't planning to allow for this observation period—since July, prices have surged 55%, effectively selling the pre-construction units at topping-out prices during the blueprint phase. That price includes the expected rent promised by the words "artificial intelligence," but excludes the actual yield strength of any steel reinforcement. The full-year guidance was raised again, meaning the owner demands additional investment to add floors; and the first step in adding floors is never pouring concrete, but rechecking whether the original piles are deep enough.
Now look at the tokenized U.S. stock mapping target. Its relationship to the main structure is like the connection between the curtain wall and the core tube. When the wind picks up, the curtain wall creaks first because it only transmits wind pressure and never bears vertical loads. The true wind-resistant core is always the cash flow core tube. Once the connectors have gaps, every strange noise you hear on the glass isn't the structure yielding, but the decorative layer reminding you: it's just decoration.
After twenty years of drawing blueprints, what I fear most is never slow construction. It's extremely fast construction with shallow piles, while everyone raises a glass on topping-out day. #palantirq3growth96%When an exchange has a major incident, is it often the bottom of a bear market? Yahoo Finance compared it to FTX, which suspended withdrawals on November 8, 2022, About a year after the 2021 peak, and the crypto market bottomed two weeks later, Then the total market cap rose 18% over the next 6 months, and $BTC rose 40%. This time Binance was hacked, also about a year after the peak, And this round's retracement was only 52% at its deepest, much shallower than 73% in 2022. Still hoping the markeL2 Observation: The buzz belongs to the ecosystem, but whose gains are these?🤔
This week, let's break down Arbitrum's accounts: tokenized funds about $1.1 billion, BENJI money market on-chain $56 million, MORPHO lending USDG $140 million, and stablecoin issuers continue to onboard new users. On-chain metrics are indeed impressive, but the token price has long hovered around 0.16😑.
The issue isn't the data, but the distribution chain: ecosystem growth hasn't translated into cash flow, buybacks, or governance rights for token holders. Buying tokens naturally doesn't equal buying growth. OP is similar—revenue and locked tokens exist, but the token's sensitivity to the ecosystem is nearly zero. POL is even weaker; when the sector dips slightly, it falls first, so I’ve removed it from my watchlist🙅.
Operationally, I don’t do left-side accumulation on these three chains. I’ll wait for governance proposals, buyback plans, or fee distribution mechanisms to truly take effect before deciding whether to participate; until then, I only track L2 on-chain data without committing funds⏳.
Data growth is the ecosystem’s report card, not the token holders’ bill. Without adjustments to the distribution mechanism, no matter how hot the market is, it’s just others making money🙂.Revenue at Cloudtop bursts with a 12% upward airflow, but gross margin is suppressed into a low-level inversion by memory chip prices—Apple's Q4 data is a classic case of clear skies aloft with low-level shear.
Ground observations first report: quarterly revenue of $114.5 billion, up 12% year-over-year; phone business $57.6 billion, up about 17%, both exceeding expectations. Earnings per share $2.10, of which about $0.05 comes from tariff refunds, like a brief gust that raises surface temperature by half a degree but doesn't change the low-level humidity field. The real focus is the forecast: next quarter revenue growth of 7% to 10%, sounding like the subtropical high continuing to extend westward; but gross margin guidance of 45% to 46%, below expectations. Rising memory chip prices are a warm, moist jet stream, and smart service costs are convective cells; both continue to increase temperature and humidity at low levels, raising condensation height and pushing the gross margin sea-level pressure line downward.
For the US stock proxy $xAVGO, this is not isolated weather. Apple orders are an upstream monsoon trough, with volume still present; cost transmission is wind shear, and when direction changes, the supply chain profit precipitation echoes reorganize. Apple's revenue beating expectations provides high-altitude divergence for $xAVGO's custom and network chip demand; but Apple's margin pressure strengthens the shear line in price negotiations, turning upstream clear skies into cloudy conditions. This linkage is not a simple rise and fall together but two circulation systems in the same moisture channel: Apple collects orders ahead of the high-pressure ridge, $xAVGO receives orders ahead of the trough, with wind direction offset by half a beat, making the experience feel like different seasons.
Using ensemble forecasts, short-term precipitation probability lies not in revenue but in gross margin. Tariff refunds contribute only $0.05, a convective shower, not a climate state. If memory prices continue to climb, the 45% to 46% gross margin range is the front line, and any increase in smart service costs may trigger gust fronts. $xAVGO's linkage paths are twofold: one is the upward airflow from Apple sales and network upgrades; the other is the downward airflow from Apple's price pressure and cost reassessment. These two airflows converge in the boundary layer, prone to squall lines—surface revenue looks clear, but profit side has thunderstorm high pressure. Visibility is high on revenue but has dropped below moderate on margin; the warning signal is not red for heavy rain but yellow shear for "clear turning to thunderstorms."
Radar echoes already show: Apple's high-altitude jet stream remains, but low-level warm, moist costs reach condensation height; $xAVGO is just waiting for wind shear to shift—once the gross margin downward shear line presses south, supply chain precipitation echoes will change from scattered to widespread. #appleq4marginpressureCrypto markets have a habit of punishing agreement. The latest borrowing data makes that discomfort hard to ignore: leveraged long demand is swamping short-side borrowing across the three largest proof-of-stake and settlement assets, leaving order books structurally lopsided. The numbers are stark. Long borrowing stands at 1,507.55 $BTC against just 68.89 $BTC borrowed to sell. On $ETH, longs have drawn 16,400 ETH while short borrowing sits at 766.95 ETH. And $SOL shows 129,900 SOL borrowed long$BCH 24-hour liquidation overview today: total network liquidation volume is 380 million, long position liquidations are 340 million, short position liquidations only 37 million. This round mainly targets cleaning out long positions, with panic sentiment heating up.
$BTC is currently quoted around 77,400–77,700. The previous dip from 78,000 to 75,000 and the concentrated liquidation of 1.5 billion USD in long positions was part of the historical market movement during the Binance hack incident, not today's market. The core factors suppressing the market currently are:
① The lingering confidence impact from Binance's 6.3 billion USD security incident, although asset backstops are 95%-98% complete, panic sentiment has not fully dissipated; hacker stolen funds are continuously tracked, with nearly 3 billion USD in stablecoins frozen;
② Continuous outflows from BTC spot ETFs, with BlackRock's IBIT as the main divestment force, net outflows totaled 1.04 billion USD from October 30 to November 2;
③ Dual macro disturbances: midterm elections approaching, regulatory and fiscal expectations unclear; meanwhile, Friday's nonfarm payroll data is pending, with market concerns over strong data raising rate hike expectations, combined with weakening US tech stocks, suppressing risk appetite.
Election results will directly affect crypto regulatory trends and market risk appetite, requiring close monitoring.
Liquidation data indicates crowded long positions are being cleared, but in a panic environment, do not rush to bottom fish. Be patient and wait for the nonfarm and election news to land before making decisions. Prioritize position control and risk first.
#USMidtermElectionsApproaching, which results are worth watching? #AppleQ4RevenueExceedsExpectations, next quarter gross margin guidance under pressure #PalantirQ3RevenueGrows96%· Prediction market pricing concentration: Polymarket's pricing for GAAP EPS exceeding $0.37 is stable at 73%.
· Arc token one-time income support: Morgan Stanley's latest estimate indicates that Q3 other income will include $180 million in Arc token recognized gains, directly raising the GAAP diluted EPS for this quarter from the previously estimated $0.40 to $0.56. This non-recurring gain provides a substantial buffer to surpass the $0.37 threshold.
· Market stabilization and rebound: After a single-day drop of 9.31% last Friday, the stock price rebounded nearly 5% to above $75 on the day before the earnings report (November 3), and further slightly increased to $75.74 after hours, showing a short-term capital bet on the earnings sentiment warming up. $CRCL The most common way to lose in breakout trading is: the price just crosses the line, but the standard lowers accordingly.
Tareeq suggests that before seeing sufficient volume and a sufficiently prominent structure, do not continue breakout trading; instead, wait for opportunities with limit orders and high market cap coins. This is his adjustment judgment and does not mean all breakouts are invalid, nor does it imply that limit orders are inherently safer.
Kraken's $BTC quote is about $77,627, with a rolling high around $77,970, still not standing above the range. My personal market observation is that the closer it gets to the upper edge, the less you should treat "imminent breakout" as a fact that has already happened. I will wait for a close above before seeing if the pullback can hold; if it crosses the line but then falls back below, I will cancel the breakout assumption rather than switch to another timeframe to keep looking for bullish reasons.
My overall judgment is that doing one less trade before confirmation is more suitable for this market than continuously lowering the threshold. What can overturn my cautious attitude is the price stabilizing and showing sustained support, not just one spike. For now, I do not chase, nor do I rely on increasing the next risk to recover missed gains. When you screen breakouts, do you first look at volume continuation or whether the pullback can hold? This is just a viewpoint exchange and does not constitute investment advice.$ZEC
ZEC rose 8.5% today, BTC 1.2%, ETH 1.4%. It's the only one moving in the entire market.
I first looked at the fee rate, 0.01%, not raised at all. The position size is $151 million, the same level as four hours ago. The price pulled from 1121 to 1232, but leverage didn't keep up.
The 1H volume also doesn't match: 10 hours ago there was a 7,287 coin spike, but it hasn't gone above 2,400 since, the latest bar is 1,962 coins, yet the price has gradually risen from 1191 to 1232.
I won't chase this kind of rise. Sellers withdrew first, so the price is light; the buying side hasn't truly entered. I'll wait until it breaks 1245 and both fee rate and position size rise together before I acknowledge the trend. Right now, it's just that no one is selling.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ ETH-based tokens account for $3.79 billion: The Binance hack is not the end, but the starting point for "custodial trust" repricing
In this record-breaking Binance hacker theft, Ethereum mainnet and EVM ecosystem tokens, as well as ETH itself, constitute a large portion of the stolen assets. The total scale of ETH-related assets is about $3.79 billion, making up a significant share of all stolen assets and becoming the most closely watched component of this heist. Many only see the stolen amount but overlook a deeper issue: even the largest centralized exchange in the industry can have its custodial security defenses breached. This attack was not a traditional private key leak but started with phishing during early job recruitment, malicious development tools in the supply chain, lateral infiltration of the internal network, and then leveraging the EIP-7702 delegation authorization mechanism to gain hot wallet execution permissions. It is a complex multi-layered supply chain plus social engineering attack, exceeding the expected boundaries of conventional security defenses. ✅ Core changes in custodial trust repricing brought by the incident: 1. The perception that "top exchanges = absolute security" is broken. The market previously assumed that custody by large exchanges was a safe choice, but this incident proves that internal personnel, development tool supply chains, and new contract mechanisms can all be entry points; even with MPC multi-party computation wallet architecture, there remain risks of vulnerabilities at the permission delegation level. 2. Insights from asset structure: High proportion of stolen ETH ecosystem assets. There are many types of tokens on the ETH chain and complex authorization interaction scenarios. After hackers gain permissions, they can transfer out large amounts of different contract assets, exposing the complexity of EVM ecosystem asset custody: each type of contract authorization#Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？ Don't think so A large amount of funds flowed out of Binance due to a theft incident. OKX could have attracted a lot of capital inflow, but instead launched a holding-to-earn campaign, holding USDT and USDC to earn 400,000 USDT. However, very few people participated. If the campaign had been for OKB, it would have been much better than now. They miscalculated, unfortunately, and people didn’t buy into it. The opportunity was missed. Now the funds that flowed out of Binance are starting to flow back. Everyone, take a look at the number of participants 😄On the surface, altcoins seem to be recovering, but underneath, it's still BTC and ETH holding the ground, with SOL stuck awkwardly in the middle. Would you dare to take the position at SOL's current spot? When reviewing charts these past couple of days, I had a subtle feeling: the overall market sentiment isn't bad, BTC and ETH rhythms remain steady, but when it comes to SOL, the scene suddenly quiets down. Current price is 93.30, almost unchanged in 24 hours, with a 7-day range from 90.86 to 103.65. Since sliding down from above 103, it has been grinding just above support. This kind of "surface calm" is actually more worth watching than a big drop because it indicates neither buyers nor sellers want to make the first move.
Let's talk structure first. The key defense line for this wave is between 90.00 and 91.50; the 7-day low of 90.86 sits right within this band, meaning the price is now standing on the last stone at the edge of a cliff. Above, 96 to 100 is a dense resistance zone, where the trapped positions left from the previous drop from 103 will likely try to sell tentatively. So the short-term rhythm is clear: hold 91, there's a chance to test 96 and then 100; if 90.86 breaks, 85 is the next psychological barrier.
But what I want to discuss more is the sector strength and weakness. BTC is stable, indicating big money hasn't retreated; ETH is keeping up, showing risk appetite is still in the mid-range; but SOL, a high-beta altcoin, hasn't followed suit—instead, it has slid from a high level and is hovering on support. This is a typical case of "surface activity with inconsistent underlying structure." The market hasn't fully shifted to offense but is selectively buying. Even within altcoins, there's stratification, with funds preferring to stay in higher-certainty assets.Crypto’s latest rebound has the look of a relief rally, not a regime change. $BTC is back at $77,622, up 0.87%, with $ETH at $2,291, up 1.79%. The gains are real, but the confirmation is missing. Spot Bitcoin ETFs saw clear outflows earlier, and institutional investors have not yet signaled a return. That gap between price and participation is the most telling signal in the market right now. The calendar adds pressure. The US midterm elections are shaping risk appetite, and November 6 brings impThe most surreal thing is that these three statements can all be true at the same time: the negotiations have made no new progress, both sides are still willing to continue talks, and the use of military means is not ruled out.
Iran demands the US respond to 7 conditions, Qatar is mediating in the middle, and Trump added that anything could happen after the midterm elections. It sounds like three different camps' messages, but actually, it's three facets of one message: no one wants to be the first to give in, and no one really wants to break the table.
So now the trend of $BTC largely depends on who speaks first and what statement is released first. While you focus on the K-line looking for support, others are watching the schedule to set the timing. #Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？ CRCL (Circle) 2026 Q3 earnings report was released today, with the market consensus expecting revenue of about $789 million and net profit of $99.11 million, a significant decline compared to the same period last year. The core pressure comes from the Federal Reserve's interest rate cuts and the decline in reserve asset yields, directly squeezing USDC reserve interest income (the company's main profit source).
On the business side, USDC circulation remains high, with enterprise payments, SAP, and other institutional collaborations implemented, continuous investment in the Arc public chain, and increased R&D expenses. Highlights include institutional tokenized assets and cross-border settlement demand; risks are concentrated in U.S. stablecoin regulation and continued downward pressure on interest rates suppressing profit elasticity, with intensified competition for USDC market share. Performance is highly sensitive to interest rates, causing large profit fluctuations.
Disclaimer: This is only a summary of market expectations and does not constitute investment advice. $BTC has climbed back near 78,000, but don't rush to celebrate; the weekly chart might be showing the fifth consecutive bearish candle. Once the midterm elections are over, volatility will come. Binance has again reported unauthorized transfers of tens of billions of dollars in assets, and ETF funds are also withdrawing, so the rebound lacks strong support.
The A-share market is even more surreal. The main index is falling without resistance, while funds are rushing to speculate on "yang"-sounding pun stocks, with 11 stocks whose names include the sound "yang" hitting the daily limit up. On the other hand, CPO tech stocks are being bloodied, broad-based ETFs dumped nearly 80 billion yuan in a single day to prop up the market, forcibly turning the SSE 50 red, but the STAR 50 still couldn't hold.
$ETH is barely holding at 2280, while $NEAR has dropped over 6% and is still being cut down by leveraged funds. The Nasdaq rebounded 0.83%, AI giants collectively recovered, but Goldman Sachs poured cold water, saying 60% of the S&P 500 components have already fallen into a "hidden bear market." The excitement is localized; losses are widespread.$BTC breaks below 77,000 again, don’t just focus on the round number levels
Today BTC once again fell below $77,000. The US midterm election results remain uncertain, and weak tech stocks continue to suppress risk appetite.
But what’s more worth analyzing is the structure of the decline.
Glassnode’s report shows that the last round of pullback was mainly driven by active selling in perpetual contracts, while spot buying did not collapse in sync; instead, it retained some support.
The subtlety lies in this: the price has fallen, but leverage has not noticeably cooled down. Futures open interest remains at a relatively high level, longs continue to bear high funding rates, and demand for downside protection in the options market is also rising.
What does this indicate?
The price is falling, but the leverage risk has not been fully released.
So what we should be more cautious about now is not which round number $BTC has lost again, but that in a highly leveraged market, external shocks can amplify volatility once more.
Of course, spot buying still shows resilience, which also means the market has not completely lost support.
Going forward, the focus is on two points: whether contract positions can decline in an orderly manner, and whether spot demand can continue.
For $BTC to truly stabilize, it won’t rely on a sudden sharp rebound, but on risk gradually clearing out and buying returning steadily. #美国10月非农前瞻：就业增长或牵动12月加息预期 BTC futures open interest surged 12.1%, while spot is quietly bleeding — Is this 78,000 wave really backed by real money leveraged buying?
$BTC: Price dropped 5.3%, but futures open interest surged to 694,000 BTC, funding rate annualized at 17%, leveraged longs are holding strong. But Bitfinex bluntly says buy orders in the 77,000-80,000 range are "passive," placing orders to catch the knife, not actively sweeping. Without spot ETF inflows, a rebound to 81,300 will face resistance.
$ETH: BitMine, the world's largest ETH enterprise holder, is underwater by over $4 billion, with stock price only 0.88 times net asset value; buybacks of their own stock are more cost-effective than buying coins — the largest spot buyer is stepping back. But 1.37 million ETH are queued for staking on-chain, with a 24-day wait and an in/out ratio of 137:1.3. The network is locking tokens, ETH/BTC fell to 0.029 approaching a three-month low.
$XRP: Today at UTC 14:46, XRPL activated the fixCleanup3_4_0 amendment, fixing the PaymentBurn token minting vulnerability, with 33 of 35 validators supporting; XRP native supply remains unaffected. Event-driven, short-term funds are playing before the boot drops.
Summary: BTC is propped up by leverage, ETH whales are "defecting," XRP is waiting for the security patch to land. Are you holding futures longs or spot chips? Show in the comments, let's see who's swimming naked👇
#BTC现货ETF连续流出 Lively positions, cold structure: What exactly is the $14 million ZEC bet on? If the upgrade was already announced, why did the price slowly slide from 1400 to 1243? - On the 2nd of the month, an address t1JJnA spent $3.8 million spot to buy 3,052 ZEC at an average price of 1250, while simultaneously opening a long contract position twice the size of the spot, 8,000 contracts, with a nominal value of $10.16 million, totaling nearly $14 million. On the surface, this looks like a strong early stake, but what really made me pause is the rhythm: The NU7 mainnet upgrade lands on November 5, reducing block time from 75 seconds to 25 seconds. This information has long been public, yet the price did not move up in advance; instead, it steadily declined. This indicates the market has not priced the upgrade as a new positive but is more waiting for a realization window. My own feeling is that the most dangerous aspect of this position is not the direction but the structure. The 3,052 spot coins are solid, but the 8,000 long contracts amplify volatility. If the old script of "sell immediately when the event lands" plays out around November 5, the leveraged side will face pressure before the spot side. ZEC has indeed had this habit over the past two years: buying on news, selling on event release. Some analysts even warn of a 50% to 70% pullback after the upgrade. This is not bearish talk but a reminder—when someone uses contracts nearly three times the spot size to express a view, what they are actually betting on is notInterest rates are still pushing higher; Bitcoin is just catching its breath inside the box.
Overnight, US job openings and factory orders were stronger than expected, the 10-year US Treasury yield hit 4.966%, and the US dollar index stopped falling, closing at 101.86. Gold closed at 3930, briefly dipping below 3900 during the session. The probability of a Fed rate hike in December is about 75%. The Reserve Bank of Australia raised rates by another 25 basis points to 4.85%, an 18-year high. Tonight, US ADP and ISM services data are due.
BTC is around 77800, up just over 1% in 24 hours. Funding rate is +0.01% per 8 hours, longs are paying but not extremely. About 70% of accounts are long. The total market liquidation in 24 hours is 175 million USD, with longs slightly more; in the past 12 hours, shorts have been squeezed. The liquidation zones are clear: above, first watch 78000, then 80000–82000; below is 76200.
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#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ Bitcoin's "Darkest Hour"? Continuous Decline: Is It the Darkness Before Dawn or the Beginning of the Abyss?
As of November 4, 2026, Bitcoin is priced at approximately $77,700, down about 4.7% over the past 7 days, with the Fear and Greed Index remaining deep in the panic zone at 26. But more thought-provoking than the short-term decline is that the digital gold narrative is undergoing a real stress test. First: The failure of its safe-haven function. Since 2026 began, gold has risen about 32% for the year, while Bitcoin has retraced over 40% from its $126,000 peak. During geopolitical conflicts, gold rises while Bitcoin falls; this divergence has repeatedly occurred. Second: The inflation-hedge logic has been disproven. The US PCE inflation has risen to 3.8%, but Bitcoin holders’ real purchasing power has actually shrunk by about 39%. In true inflation-hedging scenarios, Bitcoin has not delivered on its promise. Third: ETFs have changed its nature. When Bitcoin enters Wall Street trading desks through ETFs, it becomes part of the same risk budget system—when tech stocks fall, Bitcoin falls with them, and often more sharply. But the story is not over yet. Michael Saylor divides Bitcoin’s value narrative into four camps: monetary, capital, technical, and libertarian. Currently, pricing power is held by the capital camp—they treat Bitcoin as an interest rate-sensitive financial asset, and the ETF redemption wave is clear proof. However, another underlying trend is happening simultaneously: long-term holders are absorbing chips sold by retail investors, with about 75% of circulating supply now controlled by LTH. $BTC is stuck at $76,868, unable to reach $78,000 above or break $76,000 below — this is not calm, but rather neither side has triggered. In the past hour, BTC dropped 2.93%, $ETH fell 1.22%, $SOL declined 0.80%, while only $ZEC rose 0.68% against the trend, yet it still fell 9.72% over 24 hours, making it the worst performer overall. Short-term all are down, long-term diverging; this structure often means the market is waiting for a direction, not that a direction has been chosen yet. What’s truly worth watching is the chip distribution. There is a thick wall from $78,500 to $79,500 above, with the lower edge about $500 higher than $78,000; below, $76,000 to $76,800 is also substantial, with the upper edge raised to $76,800. $BTC is exactly stuck just outside the lower edge, with neither side activated. My judgment is simple: only acknowledge strength if it stands above $78,000, only acknowledge a breakdown if it falls below $76,000, everything in between is noise. This is not a prediction, it’s discipline. Leverage is quietly cooling down. Total network open interest is $134.154 billion, shrinking 2.17%, but funding costs are not cheap at all — $BTC rate is 0.0106%, the highest in the market, $ZEC the lowest at 0.0066%. $ETH is at 2256, $SOL near 92.27, $ZEC dropped to 1140, all three negative, with $ZEC funding rate at -10.07% the deepest. Positions are decreasing while rates remain high, indicating longs are paying to hold positions, not shorts panicking. Under this combination, an upward breakout requires#The Circle financial report is coming up, can the growth of stablecoins translate into profits? I believe Circle (CRCL) faces a major challenge: growing USDC adoption does not guarantee higher profitability. High distribution costs, agreements with Coinbase, and the possible drop in interest rates could pressure its margins. For me, the real test will be to prove that growth comes from real and sustainable transactions, not just accounting figures. #美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ $BTC $ETH $XAU The US midterm elections essentially represent a vote on US fiscal and regulatory policies. Control of both chambers will directly change the short-term pricing logic of US debt, the dollar, gold, and BTC.
The market's current baseline expectation is a divided Congress, meaning each party takes one chamber. Under this scenario, large-scale tax cuts, new fiscal stimulus, and aggressive regulatory bills are unlikely to pass.
Two other scenarios are unexpected and would cause greater volatility:
✅ Republicans take both the House and Senate
Expectations for tax cuts and deregulation of industries heat up, concerns about deficit expansion resurface, and interest rate hike expectations will be repriced. US Treasury yields and the dollar strengthen, gold comes under pressure; US tech stocks and AI preferences rise, BTC follows risk assets with a slightly stronger oscillation.
✅ Democrats sweep both chambers
Tend to constrain fiscal spending, promote tax increases and strong regulation, leading to deficit expectations narrowing. US Treasury yields tend to fall, benefiting gold; expectations for strong regulation in tech and crypto sectors rise, bearish for BTC.
📌 Reference price levels
Gold: support at 3900, resistance at 4020
BTC: support at 76000, resistance at 81000
👉 Trading approach
Elections are a typical event with expectation gaps; do not heavily bet on the outcome in advance. Focus on comparing actual outcomes with prior market expectations, prioritize observing US debt and dollar correlations for validation, and consider light trial positions only after market signals stabilize, with strict stop-losses. Macro event-driven markets have far more uncertainty than certainty.
Brothers, what are your thoughts US Stocks: Since 1950, in 19 midterm elections, the S&P 500 has risen in the 12 months following every election, with an average increase of 15.1% and a median of 14.5%. But this year is different—the maximum pre-election drawdown was only 9% (historical median is 16%), and the distance from the historical high is just 3%, so the space for recovery is limited; historical gains cannot be simply applied.
BTC: Having gone through 3 full cycles (2014/2018/2022), it rose one year later on average by about 54%. But the key point is—the median dropped 31% in the first three months after the election, meaning the direction was right but the process was extremely painful. Also, these 3 times coincided with two and a half years after halving, where bull-bear cycles and election cycles overlap, so it cannot be proven as an "election effect."
Policy: The CLARITY Act missed passing the Senate by one vote in September and is now stalled; the new Congress will decide the legislative direction. A divided Congress is positive for the stock market (restraining fiscal spending) but negative for crypto (legislative deadlock prolongs uncertainty).
Core conclusion: Being optimistic about one year later ≠ no short-term decline. The real determinants of direction are the Federal Reserve's December meeting, corporate earnings, and BTC ETF fund flows; the election is merely an emotional catalyst.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ $BTC $ETH $ZEC Bitcoin did not plunge further over the weekend, and the Binance turmoil has basically eased. The price is now back around $76,000–$78,000, recently dropping below $77,000 again, hovering near the 100-day moving average in the short term.
The 100-day and 200-day moving averages can be used as short-term references:
- In a bear market, rebounds near these two lines often face resistance;
- In a bull market, pullbacks near these two lines often find support.
But don't apply this mechanically; the key is whether there is volume to break above or below these lines.
Three short-term scenarios:
1. US-Iran easing → risk sentiment recovers, $BTC has a chance to stabilize near the 100-day moving average;
2. Fighting while negotiating → continued volatility with repeated shakeouts;
3. Conflict escalation → possibly another drop, but near the 200-day moving average, around $73,000, will be a more worthwhile bottom-fishing zone.
I am more optimistic in the medium term. Historical data shows that in the six months after the US midterm elections, the S&P 500 mostly rises, with an average gain of about 16.6%. This doesn't mean that if the US stock market rises, Bitcoin will definitely rise, but at least it indicates a reduced risk of a major US stock market crash, which is a positive factor for BTC's subsequent recovery.
In terms of trading, watch the 100-day moving average resistance and 200-day moving average support in the short term; for the medium to long term, still consider buying in batches, avoid chasing highs, and don't panic sell.Major macro event incoming! The midterm election boot has not yet dropped, and BTC stands at a crossroads of directional choice.
The U.S. midterm election voting has begun, and Bitcoin has retreated to around $76,500. The sentiment of tech stock adjustments continues to transmit to the crypto market. On the capital side, an extreme reversal drama is playing out: from October 26–29, the U.S. spot BTC ETF saw a cumulative net inflow of about $441 million, but on October 30 alone, there was a large net outflow of $643 million, clearly showing huge institutional long-short divergence and unstable buying pressure.
📊 Reviewing history, after the previous three midterm elections, BTC followed a highly similar trajectory: first a pullback to digest risk, then a rebound lasting about a year. The sample average maximum drawdown was about 38%, and the average increase one year after the election was 54%. If only doing scenario simulation, the corresponding phase low is about $47,400, and the estimated position one year later is $117,700; ⚠️ history will not simply repeat, this is for reference only and not a market prediction.
💡 What truly determines BTC’s subsequent trend is not the election result itself! The core points to watch are: changes in regulatory policy expectations, whether ETF funds can return to net inflows, and the strength of buying support at the pullback level.
Once negative news lands combined with capital inflow, the market may see a rebound; if policy concerns persist and ETF outflows continue, downward pressure remains.
Short-term advice is to patiently wait for signs of market stabilization, plan funds carefully, and always pay attention to trading risks #美国10月非农前瞻：就业增长或牵动12月加息预期 "Is the benefit of asset recovery turning into a death sentence? CORE's trust fracture is hard to mend, yet AI optical communication remains fervent"
On one side, AI technology is blazing like a fire fueled by oil; on the other, trust in public chain governance is collapsing. The market's joys and sorrows do not align.
🔥 The AI sector continues to surge: Marvell plans a stock swap acquisition of Lumentum, heavily investing in AI optical communication infrastructure. This indicates that external capital's enthusiasm for AI foundational computing power infrastructure remains undiminished, with giants accelerating their territorial expansion.
⚠️ CORE's "positive" turns "negative":
The hard fork recovered 68.15 million CORE tokens, which sounds like great news? But the market responded with a harsh slap via a drop of over 6%. Why? Because although transactions were not rolled back, the attack records remain permanently on the chain. The technology was fixed, but trust was broken. More importantly, these 68.15 million tokens have only been transferred to a recovery address and have not been distributed to the affected users—this huge invisible landmine could explode into massive selling pressure at any time.
Operational advice:
Amid the macro storm of the upcoming midterm elections, market sentiment is extremely fragile. CORE holders, immediately check your holdings list and reset your stop-loss points! Focus only on the current core support; as long as support holds, there is a chance for recovery; once broken, be sure to retreat decisively. Do not blindly increase your position driven by this "asset recovery benefit" hype—the outcome of catching a flying knife is often disastrous. Funds are flowing out; why would you play the savior?
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ #伊朗授权政府谈判，霍尔木兹重开能否提速？
Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba has granted the government certain authorities to negotiate with the U.S., seeking to end the Middle East conflict. The Iranian Foreign Minister immediately proposed a "two-day plan": on the first day, the U.S. fulfills its commitments; on the second day, the Strait of Hormuz reopens and shipping resumes. On the surface, compressing from "seven days" to "two days" seems to significantly accelerate the reopening.
But the actual threshold has not lowered; it has risen. The U.S. must complete a series of actions within one day, including unfreezing Iranian funds, lifting the maritime blockade, granting oil export exemptions, and removing new sanctions. Experts point out that the time compression cuts down the U.S. preparation time, and the negotiation itself is even removed from the plan—the Strait reopening is no longer conditional on resuming negotiations but on the U.S. unilaterally fulfilling its commitments first.
The more fundamental deadlock lies in the logic of the exchange: Iran views the right of passage through the Strait as a tradable asset, while the U.S. believes international waterways should be open by default and does not recognize this as something to be bargained for. Authorizing negotiations has opened a diplomatic window, but the "two-day plan" seems more like a pressure tool rather than a genuine compromise. The reopening of Hormuz is unlikely to truly accelerate in the short term.$BTC $ZEC $SOL On October 30, the French National Assembly rejected two proposals for crypto "exit taxes." Let's look at the specific data first. The first was Amendment I-3904, which aimed to forcibly include crypto assets (including self-custodied wallets where the user holds the private keys) into France's existing exit tax framework. It was directly killed with 55 votes against, 27 in favor, and 1 abstention. The second was I-3432, targeting households holding over €800,000 in crypto assets and who have been French tax residents for at least 6 of the past 10 years. It sought to tax "unrealized gains" when they move abroad, but it also failed with 60 votes against and 31 in favor. Both proposals had been provisionally approved by the Finance Committee on October 8 but were blocked during the plenary debate. The so-called "exit tax" is fundamentally designed to prevent wealthy individuals from fleeing. Even if you move overseas, if your assets have appreciated—even if unsold—the tax authorities treat it as if you intend to cash out and tax you in advance. This time, the attempt to include crypto assets was stopped by the Assembly. However, don't misunderstand: rejecting these two proposals does not mean France is abandoning crypto taxation. Other provisions remain in the budget, such as the clause taxing the conversion of crypto assets into stablecoins, which has already passed but is not yet finalized. The Assembly still has over 700 amendments to discuss, and the entire 2027 budget has been delayed until the November 17 deadline. 0x50c2be4b3958c358e2654c6dabb4feb9e1cc7777 0xe797e34845f5A historical pattern worth noting:
After past U.S. midterm elections, $BTC has always experienced a pullback.
Tomorrow marks a new round of midterm elections. Will BTC break the pattern this time, or will it decline againEpic "Blunt Knife Cutting Flesh": Bitcoin Continues to Fall, a Tragedy Directed by Greed and Fear
As of November 4, 2026, Bitcoin is priced at about $77,700, down approximately 4.7% over 7 days, with the weekly chart approaching a fifth consecutive week of decline. This round of decline is not a crash but more like a blunt knife cutting flesh: weak rebounds, scattered selling pressure, and fluctuating sentiment.
The real pressure comes from three layers.
The first layer is the aftermath of security incidents. On October 29, Binance suffered a hot wallet theft of about $6.3 billion. Although withdrawals have been gradually restored and a guarantee promised, the market remains uneasy about custody risks.
The second layer is institutional fund withdrawal. On October 30 and November 2, the US spot Bitcoin ETFs saw a cumulative net outflow of about $1.04 billion, with BlackRock's IBIT being the main force behind the withdrawal. Institutions can buy, but they also sell quickly.
The third layer is the resonance of macro and political factors. With the US midterm elections approaching, selling pressure on tech stocks, oil price volatility, and concerns over AI capital expenditure collectively suppress risk assets.
The problem with greed and fear is that they are both rearview mirrors. The panic index dropping to 26 does not mean the bottom has been reached; it only means the price has already fallen through a cycle. What truly determines the direction is whether ETF funds will flow back, whether the $76,300–$76,500 range can hold, and whether it can regain footing above $78,000.
This tragedy is not that the emotions have finished playing out, but that the emotions are still unfolding and the chips have not yet fully changed hands. #Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？ #Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？ My core view is: Circle's stablecoin growth indeed has the potential to translate into revenue growth, but USDC scale growth does not equal profit growth at the same rate.
The most important focus of this earnings report is not the USDC issuance volume itself, but three variables:
Whether USDC circulation growth continues.
Whether interest income generated by reserve assets can be maintained.
How much revenue is taken by distribution partners like Coinbase.
Among these, the third point is especially important. Circle's revenue growth and the profit ultimately received by shareholders are not the same thing.U.S. midterm elections, what elections and what results? How will it affect the U.S. stock market? An infographic to analyze
I'm trading SNDK, how about you? $SUI is facing monthly unlocks of tens of millions, yet the retail long-short ratio can still be pushed above 2.1.
The project team only buys back 1 million tokens annually, like scooping water out of a leaking boat with a small spoon? The spot price simply can't rise; it's all bulls using leverage to rush ahead.
With no real consumption or burn, under such market conditions, liquidating retail leverage with a spike is just a matter of the whales flicking their fingers. The previous low of 0.82 probably won't hold for long.
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👇$IRYS This rebound looks impressive, but the order book is actually extremely weak.
The price rose by 64%, yet the trading volume plummeted by 85%.
There is basically no capital entering to catch the dip; it's purely a thin order book being forcibly pulled up.
Above, there is a pile of trapped holders stubbornly holding on; if the buying stops even briefly, it could immediately reverse and crash through.
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👇I've always been puzzled: whenever there's talk of cutting aid or trouble brewing, should I first buy some hard assets?
But every time the news comes out, the first to drop are the coins. This time is no different. Trump said he wants to end security aid to Israel; Israel was clueless, saying they hadn't even received the documents, yet the market ran first out of caution.
Later I realized, what falls isn't faith, but leverage. People who have multiplied their positions, upon hearing news that can't be priced, their first move is to reduce positions to survive. Whether you believe in Bitcoin or not doesn't matter. $BTC often takes the first hit from its own people.
So when this kind of news comes out, I don't rush to chase. I wait for those forced liquidations to finish before looking for direction. Israeli officials and defense agencies are now very concerned because Trump said that security aid to Israel is about to end. But the most notable thing about this whole matter is not the statement itself, but that Israel has not yet received any formal documents.
Security aid has never been a simple gift; it is the foundation of the US-Israel military procurement agreements. Israel's Channel 12 said this decision will affect the military procurement agreements between the two countries and also impact the Israeli Defense Forces' procurement plans. Even Israel's own defense department cannot clearly explain the meaning or implementation timeline of Trump's statement.
This creates a typical uncertainty gap: the direction is known, but the boundaries are not. What the market fears most is never bad news, but news that cannot be priced.
The transmission path is also very clear. Such events first hit risk premiums, not fundamentals. $BTC often moves first because it is treated both as a risk asset and a safe haven asset, attracting funds from both sides; $ETH and $SOL have greater elasticity, with their rises and falls amplified. But it should be noted that $BTC's reaction is emotion-based pricing, not a fundamental revaluation.
My judgment is twofold. If it is just a statement, it is closer to a bargaining chip, and risk assets will recover their losses within a few days. If it really materializes into a document and is written into the budget, then it is structural, and the Middle East arms procurement chain and the credibility of US fiscal commitments will need to be recalculated.
So what really needs to be watched is not what Trump said, but whether there is that piece of paper. Statements without documents can be withdrawn at any time; policies with documents require portfolio adjustments. In the last round, there were three directions: one win and two losses. BTC went from 77,668.49 to 77,795.30, a +0.16% gain, with neither the take profit at 78,630 nor the stop loss at 77,092 triggered; XRP went from 1.2827 to 1.2803, down -0.19%; TRX went from 0.323390 to 0.321950, down -0.44%. Among the three trades, only one hit the target, and neither take profit nor stop loss was triggered. I will not change any direction or position, and the reasons are below. Voting has already started, but the votes are not yet counted. The market odds for a Democratic sweep of both chambers are 70%, and the options market is even more direct: the implied volatility for the November 4 expiration is 43.5%, which is 7 points higher than later expirations—this is insurance for election night, not pricing the trend. I reviewed the past three full election cycles; the one-year returns were all positive, but none were a straight upward trend. It is normal for positions to be shaken out in the first few weeks after the results land. After the trust collapse in November 2022, there was a two-week decline followed by three months of sideways movement; this time it’s different because the $6.3 billion bomb was swallowed on the same day, and the drop to 76,300 left only a lower shadow candle. The funding situation looks bad: over two trading days, spot products were redeemed for about $1.04 billion, including a single-day outflow of $405 million from a leading institutional fund—the largest since June—and the total industry fund holdings fell below $100 billion. Yet the price climbed back from 76,455 to above 77,800. Money is moving, prices are rising, but the buyers are not from these channels. Here isTriple-line hedging is not a free pass: Big Brother Maji's tough ledger
Big Brother Maji is toughly holding the market with a massive long-short combination: $BTC short, $ETH long, $HYPE short advancing on three fronts, with a total margin of about 5,698,000 U and a total position value of about 62,980,000 U, maximizing the intensity of the game.
The BTC short is the "profit cushion" in the portfolio: 40X full position, holding -249.9 BTC, opening average price 78,104.1 U, unrealized profit +325,700 U, funding fee +166,300 U, liquidation price 103,059.49 U. The ETH long is under pressure: 25X full position, holding 9,823.81 ETH, opening average price 2,427.28 U, unrealized loss -1,722,900 U, funding fee -82,200 U, liquidation price 1,561.77 U. The HYPE short is the main source of loss: 5X full position, holding -259,600 HYPE, opening average price 72.8005 U, unrealized loss -2,765,900 U, funding fee +1,203,000 U, liquidation price 106.72 U.
Roughly summed up, unrealized P&L is about -4,163,100 U, funding fee about +1,287,100 U, still an unrealized loss after hedging. The money earned from the BTC short is being swallowed by the ETH long and HYPE short. #美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ #苹果Q4营收超预期，下季度毛利率指引承压 #PalantirQ3营收增长96%，股价不涨反跌 $SOL
8567 SOL tokens. This batch of coins was transferred from the stolen funds address to Privacy Cash this morning, clearly visible on-chain.
At the same time, 1WIN's TGE running on Solana saw a subscription of 61.02 million USDC, oversubscribed by 15.6 times. While some are laundering, others are rushing to grab shares.
Price is 93.34, 1.3% higher than yesterday's opening, just 0.60 away from the 24-hour high of 93.91.
I'm watching the volume. At 10 PM last night, the hourly candle showed 580,000 trades; the latest candle shows 31,131 trades, shrinking nearly twentyfold in nine hours, yet the price remains steady between 93.3 and 93.9.
Open interest is $336 million, with positive funding rates—longs are paying to support shorts.
I'm not chasing this move. Those laundering are selling, those grabbing quotas are buying; neither side is in a hurry. When volume empties, whoever acts first sets the direction. I'll wait until trades exceed 200,000 again before watching.
#美国中期选举在即，哪些结果值得关注？ Short positions account for more than half, but the real pricing factor is not the long-short ratio, it's the number on Friday night
All three coins have a short position advantage, which easily makes people think that "following the trend to short" is a natural choice. But first, take a look at the macro background: the probability of a 25 basis point rate hike in December is already priced at about 75%, with only 25% left for no change. Under this denominator, the overall bearish bias in the crypto market is not "sentiment," but a result of interest rate expectations.
The problem is, between "shorts dominating" and "being able to push the price down," there is a layer of position structure. In the past 24 hours, BTC long liquidations were 203 million, while shorts were only 17.2 million, a brutal long squeeze; but open interest barely moved, and the funding rate remains at a positive premium of +0.65%, with a long-short position ratio of 65/35 still favoring the long side. Long positions were liquidated, but leverage was not cleared—when one batch falls, someone immediately fills the same position. This means BTC's short advantage is an "on-paper advantage," not a "fuel advantage."
ETH is more subtle. The funding rate turned negative to -0.0054%, shorts started paying fees, and short-term sentiment is indeed weak; but open interest still has about 71.94 million contracts, with leverage piled up and not withdrawn. Shorts hold 56.79% while also bearing holding costs. The more crowded the shorts, the greater the elasticity of the reverse sweep.
So "shorting at this position is not cost-effective" is correct, but the reason is not "too many shorts," rather the nonfarm payroll on Friday is the real directional arbiter. October's new job additions are expected at 65,000, previous value 29,000.