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The basis dropped to 5%, and the arbitrage funds left
The annualized basis of CME Bitcoin futures for near and far months dropped to 5.11% on October 28 (it was 10.48% the previous day). A year ago, this level was 17%.
The basis is the "buy spot + short futures" batch of quant money's meal ticket. When the meal ticket is not enough to cover funding and fees, they close positions and leave — and this portion of funds used to be the most stable spot buyers outside of ETFs.
CME open interest fell from above 21 billion to below 10 billion, while Binance remained steady around 11 billion. The institutional spot vacuum cleaner has been turned off.Numb
Really numb!
Institutions' ETFs are frantically accumulating, while we are frantically cutting losses.
The panic index has dropped to 30, with over a billion liquidations across the network, all from long positions cutting losses at the bottom.
But guess what the institutions are doing?
BTC ETFs had a net inflow of $135 million in one day, quietly taking over 1,600 BTC.
And what about ETH ETFs? In October, they cumulatively withdrew nearly $1.32 billion, setting a historical record.
Got it?
Institutions are bottom-fishing BTC and are frantically abandoning ETH.
Meanwhile, we retail investors are still foolishly waiting for Ethereum to return to 3000, still feeling sorry for those spot holdings that have crashed badly.
Yesterday, a huge whale forcefully cut 36,000 ETH long positions, losing $38 million in one go just to avoid being completely liquidated.
They lost $38 million, accepted it, and ran.
What about you? You lost a few thousand USDT and are still asking in the group chat, "Can I hold on to die?"
This is the most disgusting part of this market:
Smart money has long chosen the direction, even at the cost of cutting losses to survive;
While retail investors are still holding onto those bloodied chips, fantasizing about miracles.
Stop asking where the bottom is.
Institutions won’t pump the price unless they’ve cleaned out your ETH.
Did you cut losses today?
Or are you still waiting for that nonexistent "big rebound"?
Be honest in the comments.
The above is just my personal review and does not constitute any trading advice.
$BTC $ETH Options Market: $110K Gamma Cliff
On October 30, a wave of $11 billion worth of Bitcoin options expired, accounting for about one-third of Deribit's open interest. 70% of the Gamma in this batch is concentrated in the $75K–$82K range.
What does this mean? Market makers' hedging positions will amplify volatility within this range: if it breaks down, they sell along; if it goes up, they buy along. $80K is not support, it's a spring.
Looking at the positions: the batch expiring on October 31 has a Put/Call ratio of 1.22, with the maximum pain point at $79K; the most active are the November 13 $74K Put and the November 1 $75K Put. Funds are buying insurance, not betting on a rise. The "ammo" in exchanges is running low
Another overlooked line: exchange stablecoin reserves.
According to CryptoQuant, the balance of ERC-20 stablecoins on exchanges has dropped to 60.62 billion, at the 1st percentile historically — down from about 80 billion at the start of the year. Binance alone fell from 43.2 billion to 41.1 billion, losing 6.3 billion since April.
This is the "ammo depot" ready to enter the market at any time. Ammo is shrinking; prices can still hold sideways not because of strong buying, but because sellers are also exhausted.
Even more interesting is USDT: in mid-October, it shrank nearly 1 billion in market value over 5 days. From early July to October 1, 19 platforms saw a net withdrawal of 4.6 billion USDT balances, only partially offset by 1.9 billion replenished by USDC/RLUSD. This is not a token swap, but an exit from the market.BTC today (November 1) fluctuated narrowly around 77,400–77,700 USD, with a slight 24-hour increase of about 0.5%–1%, ranging approximately 76,300–77,800 USD. This represents stabilization at a low level after a sharp drop, rather than a trend reversal.
The background involves multiple negative factors stacking up: On October 29, Binance disclosed a security incident involving about 6.3 billion USD, the largest in crypto history, triggering concentrated leverage liquidation; on October 30, about 11 billion USD worth of BTC options expired, amplifying volatility. In the past 24 hours, about 427 million USD worth of liquidations occurred across the network, with longs accounting for over 70%, and BTC single-asset liquidations about 142 million USD, indicating passive leverage liquidation rather than active selling.
The funding side remains cautious: On October 30, the US spot Bitcoin ETF saw a net outflow of 643 million USD, the largest single-day outflow since June, with BlackRock's IBIT alone seeing 234 million USD outflow; for the entire October, ETFs turned to a net outflow of about 516 million USD. The Fear & Greed Index is around 30, in the "Fear" zone, compared to 51 a week ago. BTC dropped about 3.9% in the past 7 days and about 8.4% in the past 30 days, with the mid-term structure still weak.
Key levels: Support at 77,000 / 76,300 / 75,000; resistance at 79,300 / 81,400–82,000; only a firm break above 82,000 can be considered a recovery.Coinbase Premium: Hasn't turned positive throughout October
This is what I care about the most.
Coinbase–Binance Bitcoin premium index, October 24th −0.1353%, has been negative for 31 consecutive days; October 25th −0.1259%, the 33rd day; the monthly average −0.093%, three times that of September, and on October 24th it once dropped to −0.146%, the deepest since June.
To translate: The price Americans are willing to pay has consistently been lower than that of overseas retail investors. On the Coinbase side are institutions, advisors, and authorized ETF participants; on the Binance side are global retail investors. The domestic US spot buying has not caught a breath all month.
If the premium doesn't turn positive, I won't add a satoshi to spot.ETH ETF: Bleeding for 5 consecutive weeks, this is no longer a correction
ETH is even colder here.
October 30 −155.7 million, net outflow for the 5th consecutive day; nearly 431 million in the past 5 days, nearly 1.6 billion in the past 30 days. The total monthly outflow has surged to over 1.32 billion, just less than 100 million short of the single-month record of 1.42 billion set in November 2025.
Breaking it down more clearly: ETHA alone ran nearly 500 million from October 26–30, and the inflow to FETH is nowhere near enough to fill that. IBIT can't stand alone; this time the vote was 12:0 against.
The rebound on October 27 looked impressive: +176 million, with IBIT taking 151.5 million alone, accounting for 86%, FBTC added 24.5 million, and the remaining 10 products all had zero.
This kind of "one company carrying the load" inflow is most feared not for a drop, but for the lack of a second company to follow.
Comparing to the 30th: all 12 products had negative net flows, even BTCW, usually used for hedging, was redeemed. The same batch of money only bought IBIT when entering, but sold off the entire market when exiting — indicating a reduction in risk exposure, not a product switch.A week wasted: bought in over 4 days, then sold out in 1 day
Looking at the last week of October in detail:
26th +110.3 million, 27th +176 million, 28th +137.3 million, 29th +17.1 million — four consecutive days of net inflow, totaling 440.7 million.
Then on the 30th, in just one day: −643.2 million. According to SoSoValue metrics, none of the 12 products had net inflow; IBIT −234 million, FBTC −201 million, ARKB −130 million.
What was accumulated over four days was lost 1.46 times in one day. This isn’t "profit-taking," it’s a collective withdrawal confirming the failure of a quick rebound.
My first reaction as a spot trader: don’t catch that needle. Wait until it swallows the bearish candle on the 30th before discussing the trend.Let me share something I only recently realized: why do our positions here shake when there's a lawsuit in the US?
Because "who exactly regulates crypto derivatives" hasn't been firmly decided. The federal CFTC claims exclusive jurisdiction, but several states question why it should be them. Now the CFTC is giving up and plans to take it to the Supreme Court, arguing that state-level actions harm market integrity.
Sounds distant, but in plain terms: the more chaotic the rules, the fewer market makers dare to participate, the wider the spreads, and the easier it is to trigger stop losses. When $BTC drops with a long lower wick, all the stop losses hit are from small positions.
Before the ruling comes out, don't max out your leverage. Hold onto your $ETH, don't increase your bets based on rumors. "Bottom Grinding Diary: Why Does the Rebound Always Fall Short?"
The crypto market is really a bit "low on power" ⚡(｡•́︿•̀｡). After Bitcoin and Ethereum dropped, they didn’t rebound properly. The reason isn’t a single negative factor but a combination of macro headwinds and capital outflows.
The Federal Reserve’s tone is hawkish, pushing back the timing of rate cuts. Long-term US Treasury yields are rising, naturally suppressing valuations of volatile assets like crypto; when tech stocks weaken, market risk appetite drops another notch (＞﹏＜). On the other hand, spot ETFs continue to see net outflows, with no sign of institutional incremental buying, leaving no hands to support the bottom.
After prices break key support levels, leveraged longs are forcefully liquidated in a chain reaction, intensifying selling pressure; meanwhile, trapped positions above are dense, so every small rebound easily hits sell-to-break-even orders and gets pushed back down (´･_･`). Sentiment is cautious, and bottom-fishing funds only dare to watch.
ETH is even more volatile and usually under more pressure than BTC. In the short term, it’s highly likely to continue grinding sideways at the bottom. The focus is on US Treasury yields and ETF capital flows ( •̀ ω •́ )✧.
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#美联储官员释放加息信号，12月预期仍存分歧 Brothers, SNDK's earnings report exploded but the stock dropped 13%, is the 1152 level panic or an overreaction?
$SNDK $1,152
SNDK closed down sharply by 13.47% to 1150.89 on Friday, with an intraday low of 1115.16. From the June peak of 2354, the pullback has exceeded 50%.
The earnings numbers are crushing. Q1 revenue was 11.03 billion, a year-over-year surge of 378%, adjusted EPS 49.51, both beating expectations. Data center revenue was 4.8 billion, nearly 17 times higher year-over-year. Gross margin was 85.1%, and the company also announced an 8-for-1 stock split effective November 19.
But the market voted with its feet, and the reasons lie in two details. First, Edge business revenue was 5.83 billion, below analysts' expected 6.07 billion. Second, consumer revenue dropped 29% quarter-over-quarter to 397 million; aside from data center, other businesses are shrinking.
Analysts' target prices are still lofty. Among 25 covering analysts, most recommend buy, with an average target price of $2105, implying about 83% upside. Cantor Fitzgerald lowered its target to $2200 but maintained a buy rating.
Technically, 1115 was Friday's intraday low and is a key short-term level to watch.
Let's discuss in the comments: the earnings report was explosive but the stock price halved, is this an overreaction?👇
#美联储官员释放加息信号，12月预期仍存分歧
#闪迪业绩超预期并宣布拆股，股价跌逾13% There is something most people will scroll past, but it could determine the direction of the US derivatives market for the next six months: the CFTC is preparing to take the dispute over derivatives jurisdiction to the Supreme Court.
The background is not complicated. US derivatives trading has long been exclusively regulated by the CFTC under a unified federal framework. Now some states do not recognize this arrangement and want to regulate under their own state laws. Michael Selig put it bluntly: challenges at the state level threaten market integrity.
What the market fears most is never strictness, but disorder. For the same contract, if the federal government says yes but a certain state says no, exchanges will face dozens of incompatible rule sets, and compliance costs will ultimately be passed on to spreads and funding rates. Once liquidity is fragmented, everyone holding positions gets hurt.
Therefore, the CFTC is proactively escalating the issue, essentially aiming to use a lawsuit to eliminate uncertainty. Rules remain unchanged before the ruling, and exchanges operate as usual; after the ruling, either there will be a nationwide set of rules or each state will issue its own licenses. The former is a prerequisite for crypto derivatives to be accepted by mainstream capital, while the latter would turn the US market into a patchwork.
In the short term, this is just another regulatory news item. In the medium term, it will determine the shape of the US derivatives market in the coming years. The institutional holding structure of $BTC and the depth of $ETH options will ultimately follow this set of rules.
One question remains: if the states win, will crypto derivatives become a business of applying for licenses state by state? At that time, the US will no longer be one market, but fifty.Profits look great, but the pullback is more real: Don't just watch the hype in the Strategy earnings report (￣▽￣)
Strategy's Q3 net profit hit a new single-quarter high, with digital asset income definitely stealing the spotlight. But under the new FASB rules, BTC is accounted for at fair value, and with the Q3 coin price still above 85,000, this profit looks more like "valuation-based" rather than "realized from selling coins" (๑•́ ₃ •̀๑).
The key is the timing difference: The report covers Q3, but BTC has now slipped to around 77,000. If the price doesn't quickly recover, Q4 could very likely record a large paper loss. Paper wealth is fragile and can vanish with a breeze (｡•́︿•̀｡).
The actions are more worth watching: In Q3, only 334 BTC were added, but nearly 200 million was spent on repurchasing preferred shares. Previously, debt was issued to buy coins; now, debt is being repaid to reduce leverage. Management clearly knows that the 12% fixed dividend is painful when coin prices fall (•̀ᴗ•́)و.
The market isn't cooperating either: BTC is around 77,100, with resistance at 78,000 above and support at 76,500 below. The earnings report can't save current liquidity (￣▽￣).
Practical moves: Those holding positions should set risk control lines below 76,000; those without positions shouldn't rush to bottom-fish—wait for volume to shrink and stabilize near 76,500 before considering. Past profits are not a safety net now; don't bet on them as the current bottom (￣▽￣)ノ
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#StrategyQ3净利润创单季新高，数字资产收益贡献显著 Crypto markets are drifting into the weekend without a crash — and without any appetite to attack. That combination is more revealing than a sharp selloff. Latest PMI data showed manufacturing at 49.3%, back in contraction territory, with demand-side benefits exhausted and sentiment broadly cautious. Only high-end manufacturing held a slight expansion, a clear structural split. That macro softness is now meeting a market already running on empty. The contradiction sits at the center of the tape:Hedge funds have also started to protect profits and year-end bonuses.
According to Morgan Stanley data, hedge funds have cumulatively reduced active positions by about 8%, marking the largest de-grossing (reducing total position exposure) since 2016, directly piercing through the lows of the past decade.
Goldman Sachs data shows that TMT hedge funds lost about 12% in October, with losses mainly concentrated in crowded tech stocks.
The recent sharp sell-off over the past week or two is likely driven by this round of concentrated position reductions. To preserve profits from the first half of the year, funds are selling longs, covering shorts, and simultaneously reducing total position exposure. After all, stocks like Intel, with a market cap in the hundreds of billions, can drop 30% in a single day, which has scared everyone a bit.
The more tech stocks fall, the greater the volatility and risk control pressure, triggering more position reductions, ultimately forming a chain reaction stampede that amplifies the declines of crowded names like Amazon, Google, and Intel $AMZN $GOOGL $INTC 📌10.30 Crash Day｜Cathie Wood vs White-Haired Serenity Thought Comparison
Both faced tech stock sell-offs, but two trading systems are completely different:
✅Cathie Wood (ARK): Diversified innovation across multiple sectors
Realized profits in pharmaceuticals, increased positions in gene sequencing and crypto finance;
Logic: Rebalance after a big drop, layout multiple disruptive technology sectors, not relying on a single market.
On the day ARKG fell nearly 7%, volatility came from a basket of highly elastic growth stocks.
✅White-Haired Serenity: Highly concentrated bet on AI upstream
Core heavy position in AAOI optical modules, supported by Micron, LITE, AXT, RDDT and other computing power supply chains;
Logic: Long-term capacity shortage, short-term valuation cuts ≠ fundamentals worsening, big drop seen as a bottom-fishing window.
Cost: AAOI dropped 12.8% in one day, monthly drawdown of 13.59 million, concentrated holdings have very strong drawdown explosiveness.
💡Core divergence:
Cathie Wood bets on multiple technological revolutions, diversifying to prevent collapse of a single sector;
Serenity bets on AI computing power cycle supply-demand mismatch, focusing on upstream bottleneck alpha.
⚠️Note: For review only, not investment advice #美联储官员释放加息信号，12月预期仍存分歧 #加密行业协同守护资产安全 #BTC持续震荡，后续走势受多重因素影响 $ZEC The current market pricing is overwhelmingly betting on the Democrats sweeping both chambers, with a 70% probability almost fully priced in. This highly consistent consensus itself is the biggest source of risk.
If the Democrats do take both chambers, it would be a positive realization. The script of buying the rumor and selling the fact is likely to replay — funds have already positioned ahead of the result, and after the event, there will be a lack of new buying momentum to follow through. The tech and storage sectors are prone to spike and then fall back, even experiencing sharp needle-like drops. This pattern is common in the crypto market; the fuller the expectation, the heavier the selling pressure after realization.
But if the result deviates from the mainstream expectation, for example, if the Republicans take one chamber, that would be a busted expectation. The current pricing is based on the assumption of a Democratic sweep; once this premise is broken, funds will need to reprice policy paths, regulatory expectations, and fiscal directions, causing very volatile swings. The crypto market is especially sensitive to political winds, and marginal changes in regulatory attitudes can trigger chain reactions.
My view is: don’t bet on the outcome, bet on the volatility. In any scenario, short-term volatility will increase. Rather than betting on direction, it’s better to control position size, keep sufficient margin, and wait for the dust to settle before making trend judgments. The most dangerous moment in the market is often not the news itself, but when everyone thinks they already know the answer.
$BTC $ETH $LIT Never short it with high leverage, or you'll just be fuel; the trading volume is all wash trading.The liquidations in the past 12 hours are not large, but the structures of BTC, ETH, and SOL are completely different. The market has shifted from a one-sided long squeeze to a back-and-forth clearing between longs and shorts.
The total market liquidation is $25.99 million, with longs at $13.65 million and shorts at $12.35 million, nearly a 50/50 split. Compared to $126.94 million in the past 24 hours, this indicates that the concentrated deleveraging phase has slowed down, but it does not mean the risk is over.
BTC liquidations amount to $2.77 million, with shorts at $2.16 million and longs at $606,000, shorts accounting for about 78%. Those chasing shorts at low levels are starting to lose, and there is short-term momentum for a rebound. However, until $78,000 is firmly held, it can only be seen as an oversold correction.
ETH liquidations total $2.78 million, with shorts reaching $2.49 million and longs only $292,000. Nearly 90% are shorts, indicating that ETH's rebound has inflicted the most damage on the bears. As long as $2,200 holds, it may still test $2,280–$2,300 later, but it is not suitable to chase the rally before a breakout.
SOL liquidations are $322,000, with longs at $166,700 and shorts at $155,300, almost evenly matched. The current $94 is short-term support, and $100 remains the main resistance.
Chasing shorts now is uncomfortable, but the reversal is not confirmed either. With low liquidity over the weekend, double-sided liquidation is most likely. Light positions and waiting for direction are safer than forcing bets.The truth about "zero downtime": Core's underlying consensus remains intact, but the "money printer" once went out of control—Why can't BTC hash power protect the code?
The recent validator reward vulnerability incident in Core is easily misunderstood: the network continuously produced blocks, and the underlying Satoshi Plus consensus chain was not broken, ultimately achieving zero downtime during the founding team's handover phase. This proves that the block production layer, which selects validators weighted by Bitcoin hash power, can operate smoothly; however, the reward code that determines the CORE token release rules had a logical flaw, equivalent to the on-chain "money printer" briefly going out of control. Approximately 255 million future block rewards were prematurely released. After a hard fork reclaimed 186 million tokens, about 69 million had already flowed into external wallets and cannot be recovered. This is the key boundary of BTC hash power protection: Bitcoin miners' hash power serves to participate in scoring validator election weights to decide who can become block-producing nodes, ensuring the network is difficult for malicious nodes to arbitrarily tamper with transaction history; but miners themselves do not verify Core's internal token reward distribution logic. BTC hash power can only solve "who can produce blocks" but cannot audit the business code rules of "how many CORE rewards should be issued after block production." Protocol-level reward logic bugs are beyond the protective scope of Bitcoin hash power. The project's subsequent completion of the founding contributors' resignation and the handover of block production rights to 31 independent validators addresses the block production operator issue but cannot automatically fix the design shortcomings of the protocol incentive code. BTC hash power endorsement can raise the threshold for validator misconduct Institutional funds' "counterattack": ETF turning positive, is it a frontrunner move or a bull trap?
ETF data for October 21 has been released, truly eye-catching. Just a few days ago, there was a frantic retreat, but today $BTC (net inflow of 40.8 million), $ETH (29.4 million), and $SOL suddenly synchronized into inflows. Combined with the current high-level market oscillation, this wave of capital return is quite meaningful.
Objectively looking at this data set:
$BTC has a net inflow of 513 million over the past 7 days, showing a clear improvement in capital support, but psychological resistance levels above (such as around 85,000) still exist, and breaking through requires sustained incremental inflows.
$ETH's single-day inflow of 29.4 million ended the consecutive decline, but there is still a net outflow of 680 million over 30 days, indicating that the mid-term trapped positions are still being digested, and the support test near 2,500 has just begun.
$SOL is similar, turning positive in a single day but with a small volume; if there is not enough turnover around the resistance zone near 110, it can easily become a short-term capital withdrawal point.
The core suspense now is the Federal Reserve's interest rate meeting on October 28. Before the macro shoe drops, institutions may be making short-term defensive replenishments. The reference weight of single-day ETF data should be discounted; sustainability is the hard truth.
How many days do you think this capital return can last?
For market record only, not investment advice.
#英特尔Q4指引不及预期，股价暴跌近30%
#加密行业协同守护资产安全
#美联储官员释放加息信号，12月预期仍存分歧 Back then, when Ethereum faced a delisting crisis, could CORE become the second Ethereum?
First, let's clarify the facts: In the 2016 The DAO hacker incident, the tokens facing delisting were the application-layer DAO tokens; the underlying ETH never faced a delisting crisis on mainstream exchanges. The root of the crisis was solely the vulnerability in The DAO contract. Ethereum's underlying consensus remained intact. The hard fork decision was the result of multi-party negotiations among miners, nodes, and token holders. The vast majority of computing power and developers chose the main chain. The ecosystem base was sufficiently diverse, allowing it to smoothly navigate the split turmoil. In contrast, the nature of Core's current turmoil is completely different: it exposed a consensus-layer vulnerability in the validator reward mechanism, resulting in about 69 million CORE tokens being prematurely released and unrecoverable. South Korea's Bithumb officially announced the delisting of the CORE native token citing risks in the underlying mechanism. Subsequently, the project launched a zero-downtime handover of founding contributors stepping down and block production rights transferring to 31 validators. However, the scope of the handover mainly covers block production operations; underlying code iteration and treasury governance still bear the influence of the core team. The transparency of the staking weight distribution behind the 31 validator seats is insufficient. The two projects are at clearly different stages with different ecosystem depth: when Ethereum faced the fork crisis, it had already gathered global developers continuously deploying applications; although Core emphasizes the BTCFi narrative, its on-chain ecosystem self-circulation capability has not yet fully matured. Ethereum survived primarily because the crisis was resolved through collective decision-making by diverse participants across the entire network; Core's current governance transformation is more of an organizational restructuring after the crisis and has yet to undergo an independent crisis test away from the core team.#亚马逊Q3营收略逊预期，AWS增速达近五年最快水平 Three types of tokens, can the driving logic be fulfilled?
WLD at 0.42 maintains user growth, but the price has not followed upward, with regulatory risks suppressing valuation. Supporters anchor on the real user scale, while skeptics focus on the subsequent implementation of privacy policies.
LAB at 0.045 experiences volatility driven by project buyback news, but large transfers from team-related addresses weaken the positive impact; SLX at 0.048 is tied to wafer lease cash flow, showing resilience when the chip sector declines.
The sustainability of buybacks, regulatory statements, and lease fulfillment are the verification variables for the three logics respectively.
Open your position list and see where you set the stop-loss for this position.
$WLD $LAB $SLX $BTC $ETH $SOL $OKX $DOGE $XRP $TONI saw a pretty magical number: in the past 30 days, 7,042 BTC flowed into exchanges. My first reaction was, it's over, everyone is preparing to dump.
But after breaking it down, it's the opposite. Coinbase Pro saw an outflow of 8,359 BTC; Bybit and Bitfinex each received nearly 7,000 BTC.
So it's not that everyone is selling, they just switched venues. Those who really wanted to leave have already left; this batch of people just want to have coins on hand, ready to act anytime. $BTC will probably stay like this in the short term.In the past 30 days, exchange wallets have cumulatively received 7,042 BTC. The number becomes interesting when broken down—two are inflows, one is an outflow.
The outflow is from Coinbase Pro, which sent out 8,359 BTC in 30 days and now holds 832,900 BTC. The inflows are to Bybit and Bitfinex, with 6,948 BTC and 6,906 BTC respectively, bringing their balances to 53,100 BTC and 430,300 BTC. During the same period, the total balance of exchange wallets is 2,461,200 BTC.
Coinbase Pro is a compliant custody channel commonly used by institutional and regulated funds, while Bybit and Bitfinex lean more towards trading and leverage. Money is moving from a place where it is stored to two places where it can be readily used, usually not for long-term holding.
Therefore, the 7,042 BTC should not be read as new buying pressure; it looks more like inventory relocation. After moving to places where leverage can be opened, it is not good news for $BTC in the short term: more sellable supply has appeared. But don’t rush to interpret this as a crash—the total supply of 2,461,200 BTC has not been drained, only redistributed.
What’s really worth watching is the next week. If Bybit and Bitfinex continue to accumulate while Coinbase Pro keeps sending out, that is a unified preparation to sell; conversely, if Coinbase Pro starts to flow back in, it means institutions are rebuilding positions on the other side. The same data set, two opposite interpretations. Which one do you bet on? Binance is still patching the 6.3 billion yuan hole from the hack, but the market has already started switching cards.
The fear and greed index has been stuck at 30 for two days, with liquidations exceeding 1.1 billion, mostly long positions.
But the ETF side is not worried at all; $BTC spot funds saw a net inflow of 135 million during the same period, while $ETH funds are flowing out.
The money hasn't left, it's just moved from the second coin to the big coin.
More subtly, in the early morning liquidation wave, shorts actually lost more than 60%, with leveraged longs bleeding first and shorts taking hits afterward.
$SOL is the worst hit, with whales dumping over one million tokens in five days, turning the $100 iron bottom into a ceiling.
The stock market is almost the same story; AI hardware has dropped at least 30% monthly, while Hong Kong stocks have become a safe haven.
The real switch is coming on January 3rd midterm elections; regulatory direction will have a much bigger impact than the hacker incident.
Don't rush to chase the rebound; first see who is switching positions and who is holding firm. From ETH Trading Suspension to Core Hard Fork: Why Do Exchanges Rarely Delist "Live Chains"?
After the 2016 The DAO hacker crisis erupted, Ethereum also faced a huge trust shock and market panic spread. However, exchanges only needed to address vulnerabilities in upper-layer contracts, while the underlying ETH mainnet continued to produce blocks stably. Global miners and nodes formed a clear consensus, so platforms always retained ETH trading and even simultaneously listed the fork-born ETC, never deciding to delist ETH. After the Core validator reward vulnerability incident, exchanges like Coinbase and Bithumb immediately suspended CORE deposits and withdrawals to isolate risks. Subsequently, Bithumb further decided to delist, showing differentiated handling that precisely reveals exchanges' underlying evaluation logic for public chains. Exchanges tend to be conservative toward "live chains" that continue producing blocks and have independent node networks: as long as the network has not completely shut down and still has diverse maintenance forces, they generally prefer to suspend deposits and withdrawals and mark risks rather than delist directly. Delisting is usually the final option after multiple risks accumulate: underlying protocol defects are hard to fix, governance is highly centralized, the ecosystem stagnates long-term, and risk events repeatedly fail to prove safety. Ethereum's crisis back then originated from application contracts, while the underlying consensus withstood the full network node game; Core's current vulnerability directly hits the validator incentive rules, a consensus-layer defect. Even after an emergency hard fork fixes the vulnerability, the 69 million CORE tokens released prematurely cannot be recovered, and governance transparency and staking weight decentralizationDuring the midnight watch, ZEC's floating profit was still showing 600%, and I was actually thinking about adding more. Have you ever had that moment of "clearly already made a profit, but reluctant to leave"? Yesterday, I bought ETH at 2305, ZEC at 1238, and BTC at 79800 low points, and the account looked very good for a while. I was even laughing in the middle of the night, thinking the trend would continue. When the pullback came, I even added positions, thinking it was just a shakeout. It was only an hour later that I realized this was not a pullback, but a turning point, so I cut my positions. Early this morning was even more painful; my ETH orders at 2240 and 2210 were eaten, liquidation price was 2179, the lowest hit 2170, and the stop loss at 2180 didn’t hold. The leverage was too high, the position too large, and I gave back all the day’s profits. What’s really worth mentioning about this experience isn’t the loss itself, but the structural differentiation during the volatility phase: on the surface, altcoins were still lively, and high-volatility assets like ZEC even showed exaggerated gains, but the real support was thin. Once BTC couldn’t hold around 79800 and ETH broke below the psychological level of 2200, leveraged positions were cleared first, followed by spot market sentiment loosening. Many people were attracted by the narrative of "continuing to rise" last night, pricing in rate cut expectations and sector rotation early, but they overlooked that when volatility amplifies, the liquidation chain transmits faster than news. The bullish path isn’t impossible either: if BTC can quickly reclaim above 80000 and ETH holds steady at 2250, high-beta assets like ZEC will be the first to reboundOne hour after the market opened on 10/30, Cramer posted just one word on X: buy. This post got over 3 million views, more than 13,000 likes, and many people in the comments were joking about doing the opposite of Cramer. By the afternoon, as the market kept falling deeper, Cramer posted again: "It is a stock-pocalypse," meaning stock market doomsday, with 580,000 views. The same person, on the same day, went from calling a bottom to declaring doomsday. $SPY $QQQ This incident was joked about for two days, but it actually records a very typical market psychology: wanting to bottom-fish at the open, getting scared as the drop deepens, and giving up before the close. Another post from Cramer was even more straightforward: clearing positions by the end of the month, or everyone saying "see you after the election." Those willing to clear their positions before the election had already sold everything by 10/30. The data also points in the same direction. The CNN Fear & Greed Index is at 26, the AAII retail investor survey shows 41.4% bearish sentiment, bearish sentiment has exceeded bullish for three consecutive weeks, while the historical average is only 31.5%. The S&P fell 1.82% for the day, but the VIX closed at 19.42, and the options market did not panic, indicating that what was sold were spot positions and hedging demand did not spiral out of control. Some say that doing the opposite of Cramer is the signal, that when Cramer says buy, you should sell. Such jokes are just for fun; a single person's calls have never been a basis for trading. What matters is the crowd watching: a buy call post being viewed and mocked by millions shows that almost no one in the market dares to take the other side. Such one-sided sentiment itself is a contrarian indicator.ETH fell below 2300, but Bitfinex long positions surged to nearly a 4-year high?
Current price is about $2253, still below the key level; Bitfinex margin long positions are about 389,000 ETH (approximately $880 million), nearly 4.7 times the roughly 82,500 at the end of August, with a long-short ratio of about 87:1.
Price is dropping, but whales are adding — bottom fishing or a bull trap 😃
$ETH $BTC $SOL Today, the top five altcoins are all showing gains, but the capital sentiment is not unified. PARTI leads with a 42.99% increase, topping the chart for the fourth time but showing signs of retreat: price dropped 5.83% in 1 hour, position reduced by 7.00%, 4-hour position down 11.02%, holding 2.81 million, volume ratio 65.6, the strong trend looks more like a pull-and-withdraw. SOPH rose 25.50%, representing a small position genuine attack: price up 9.16% in 1 hour, position up 14.94%, volume up 27.96%, 4-hour position increased by 16.40%, holding 810,000, volume ratio 17.5, negative fee rate -0.0789, short-term momentum is relatively strong. H100 rose 7.50%, with 120,000 mini positions showing obvious activity, price up 6.64% in 1 hour, position up 7.61%, volume up 5.12%, 4-hour position up 11.43%, lively but small scale, chasing highs is easy to get dizzy. CAP rose 5.77%, trend is sideways, price almost flat in 1 hour, position up 3.32%, 4-hour position up 7.92%, holding 3.66 million, steady but lacks fire. CNPY rose 5.33%, small position slightly up, volume shrank 0.60% in 1 hour, 4-hour position down 4.03%, holding 420,000, strong wait-and-see sentiment. Overall, the red board is just a facade, position changes reveal the true sentiment of capital: PARTI retreating, SOPH pulling, H100 fluctuating, CAP sideways, CNPY shrinking. When following the trend, don’t just focus on gains, first see where the positions are moving. Don't ask if Core will be delisted; ask if ETH was almost delisted back then?
Many people easily confuse the key historical facts: In the 2016 The DAO hacker incident, the token delisted by exchanges afterward was the application token DAO, while the underlying public chain ETH was never delisted by mainstream exchanges. Although the crisis caused ETH's price to be halved immediately and the community split with a hard fork that created ETC, and market panic peaked, the vulnerability was limited to Ethereum's upper-layer smart contracts, while the underlying consensus protocol remained intact. After global miners, nodes, and developers competed, the vast majority of computing power chose the new ETH chain, and exchanges even simultaneously listed the forked ETC, recognizing the value of Ethereum's underlying network through their actions. In contrast, Core's current situation is completely different: the Korean exchange Bithumb plans to delist the native public chain token CORE, with the risk source directly pointing to a consensus layer vulnerability in validator rewards, which is a defect in the network's underlying incentive rules, not an issue with any on-chain application. Although Core subsequently completed the founding contributors' resignation and handed over block production rights to 31 validators with zero downtime, only the block production operation responsibilities were transferred; underlying code iteration and treasury governance still have core team influence; the 31 validator seats do not equal sufficiently decentralized staking weight, and the on-chain ecosystem has not yet formed a self-sustaining cycle. This is the most fundamental difference: Ethereum's crisis back then was "application problem, underlying intact"; Core's current exposure is a vulnerability in the underlying consensus mechanism. The exchange's delisting decision essentially prices the risk of the public chain's underlying layer.
#btcThe aftermath of the Binance hack is really intense; $BTC almost failed to hold 78,000, and the number of liquidations in 24 hours surged past 180,000[reference:0]. But interestingly, while funds verbally express fear, their actions are quite honest. Switzerland just approved a retail spot Bitcoin ETF, ticker BBIT, which can be bought through bank accounts without dealing with on-chain wallets. Looking at the US ETF data, Bitcoin had a net inflow of 23.2 million, while Ethereum actually saw a net outflow of 26.1 million, clearly showing institutional sentiment: despite the dip, they prioritize holding the big coin. $ETH is a bit awkward now, dropping harder than BTC, with funds moving out. But don’t rush to bottom-fish; whether $BTC can hold above 80,000 depends on whether those betting on 90,000 after the November 3 midterm elections get their wish. Anyway, the crypto world is like this—panic and greed always sit at the same table.It has dropped so much, and the friends in the group have been discussing it very actively these days, constantly asking if it's time to buy the dip?🤔️
The key bottom signal, ETF funds, have not yet shown continuous net inflows. To see real money continuously entering, it won't be a market takeoff from just a one- or two-day rebound.
$BTC is now around $77,500, and from the chart, it has already dropped more than 4% this week. It might also be somewhat related to Binance being hacked, which has unsettled everyone.
$ETH is stuck around $2,250, down more than 5%, with the price below key moving averages, and volume shrinking. Funds are clearly choosing to wait and see. The Federal Reserve remains on hold, making market sentiment more cautious.
It now looks more like a consolidation and recovery phase after a sharp drop. Liquidity is thin over the weekend, so hopefully the market will perform better next week!
#美联储官员释放加息信号，12月预期仍存分歧 The scale growth of USDC is very likely to continue, but the efficiency of converting "growth" into "profit" is facing dual pressures from declining interest rates and distribution costs. The divergence of "volume up but profit not up" is very likely still the main theme in Q3.
📉 Core contradiction: scale is increasing, but revenue can't keep up. About 95% of Circle's revenue depends on interest from USDC reserves invested in short-term U.S. Treasury bonds, rather than transfer fees. When reserve yields drop from 4.14% to about 3.5%, even if the pool grows larger, the growth rate of interest income will be significantly diluted.
💸 Deeper erosion: distribution costs consume most of the incremental gains. Distribution and other costs reached $412 million in Q2, with about $325 million paid to Coinbase alone, causing Circle to retain only about 7 cents in net profit for every dollar earned in the first half of 2026.
🔄 The second curve (Arc) is still unlikely to support profits in Q3. The Arc public chain attempts to convert on-chain activity into direct transaction fee income, breaking reliance on single interest income. But the actual daily revenue generated is currently too small and is very unlikely to change the fundamental pattern of "interest income determines success or failure" in the Q3 financial report.
💎 The real highlight of the financial report
Market consensus expectations for Q3 roughly range between $789 million and $797 million in revenue, with EPS around $0.38 to $0.40. The probability of the report's numbers significantly exceeding expectations is not high.
#Circle财报在即，稳定币增长能否兑现收益？ Gold’s compressing range is the quiet signal worth watching, while $BEAT shows how quickly a rally can decay. $XAU at 3891.39 is down 0.5% over 24 hours, but the more telling number is the shrinking swing: a 4.32 high-low gap in the last six hours versus 8.91 in the prior six. That is roughly half the amplitude, with price circling 3890. Traders often mistake such convergence for a coiled spring, yet it is better read as indecision—participation thinning while the market waits for a catalyst. ThCORE is a small-cap altcoin without an industry-standard whale threshold (unlike BTC which is fixed at ≥1000 BTC, or ETH commonly at ≥10000 ETH). Generally, within the community, there are two commonly used thresholds for tracking CORE whales (Nansen / Lookonchain): 1. CORE Mega Whales (capable of impacting the market): ≥1,000,000 CORE 2. Large holders/Shark tier: 100,000 to 1,000,000 CORE Core characteristics (the biggest difference from BTC and ETH) 1. Extremely high concentration of holdings The top wallets include: Core DAO treasury, team/investor lockup contracts, staking contracts, and exchange cold wallets. The top 10 addresses hold a very high proportion of the circulating supply, which is the fundamental reason why CORE’s volatility is much greater than BTC/ETH. 2. No fixed official number - The ≥1,000,000 CORE tier: the real-time number of addresses is usually in the dozens (dynamic, changing with unlocking, staking, and transfers) - The ≥100,000 CORE (large holders): a few hundred addresses Many addresses are staking contracts, foundation treasury, or exchange reserves, not individual large holders. The number of independent mega whales who can freely sell and actively trade is much smaller than the number of addresses. 3. Data pain points: CORE’s on-chain statistics are not as mature as BTC or ETH. Santiment and Glassnode do not provide stable whale-specific statistics like they do for Bitcoin and Ethereum; data can only be found on Core ScanEarly Ethereum: Co-founders left, chain forked, coin halved — then it surged 100x. What about Core?
Ethereum's early days faced multiple heavy blows: several co-founders left due to ideological differences, The DAO hack triggered a hard fork splitting the network into ETH and ETC, the coin price was directly halved during the event, standing on the brink of collapse, but eventually surged a hundredfold. Its core strength lay in that the vulnerability was in the upper-layer application contracts, while the underlying consensus remained solid; the fork decision involved extensive negotiation among miners, nodes, and developers, with global diverse ecosystem participants collectively choosing the main chain. A large developer community continuously deployed applications, forming a network foundation capable of self-growth independent of any single team, and mainstream exchanges consistently retained ETH trading. In contrast, Core's current crisis is fundamentally different in nature and stage: the project is still in its early phase, exposing a consensus-layer vulnerability in the validator reward mechanism. Approximately 69 million CORE tokens released prematurely cannot be reclaimed through a hard fork, and South Korea's Bithumb directly delisted CORE citing underlying mechanism risks. Subsequently, the project announced a "zero downtime handover" narrative involving the founding contributors stepping down and block production rights transferring to 31 validators, but the handover mainly covers block production operations; core team influence remains in underlying code iteration and treasury governance. The number of validator seats does not equal decentralized staking power; on-chain BTCFi narratives are lively, but real DApps and user activity are weak, and the ecosystem's self-sustaining cycle is far from formed. It's easy to oversimplify by applying Ethereum's history: just surviving the crisis doesn't guarantee a hundredfold explosion.In the final days before the election, crypto regulation has once again come to the forefront, not because of a new bill, but due to an old issue: the $6.3 billion Binance hack.
The two parties are not arguing about "who got hacked," but rather "who has the authority to regulate." The Republicans are pushing the Clarity Act, advocating for a clear definition of exchanges, tokens, and custody all at once; the Democrats believe the boundaries are too loose and demand stricter regulation and stronger investor protection. The same case is interpreted in two different ways.
This is crucial in terms of mechanism. There has always been a "regulatory discount" in crypto pricing, an unclear amount, but it is most obvious in exchange platform tokens like $BNB: the vaguer the rules, the less willing institutions are to give a long-term valuation, and retail investors have to bear higher volatility. $BTC and $ETH have deep enough liquidity and are less sensitive to policy noise, but once it involves the compliance costs of exchanges, platform tokens are the first to be revalued.
My judgment is: regardless of who wins, the trend toward stricter regulation will not reverse; the difference lies only in the pace. The Clarity Act’s approach of clearly writing the rules first is actually beneficial for the industry because uncertainty itself is a cost; continuing to increase regulation without clear rules will make capital more willing to move exposure to markets with clearer regulation.
One point worth considering is: both parties use the $6.3 billion figure, yet no one answers how it happened. The regulatory dispute is about authority, and security issues have been politicized, so the same vulnerabilities are very likely to reoccur in the same way next time.Yesterday, there was a sudden "Binance security incident," causing $BTC to experience a rare 5,000-point drop in a single day. By the close, PSIP was fixed at 61%.
Similarly, in March 2023, the "US traditional bank crash" caused PSIP to drop to a low of 58%.
From historical data, during the bear-to-bull transition period, the lower the PSIP, the higher the cost-performance ratio, and the greater the long-term certainty.Ethereum nearly "died" in 2016, Core just "born" in 2026: Where exactly is the lifeline of a public blockchain?
In 2016, Ethereum faced The DAO hacker crisis, causing panic across the network and halving the coin price, standing on the brink of death. However, the vulnerability was in the upper-layer smart contract, while Ethereum's underlying consensus protocol remained intact. After the crisis broke out, miners, nodes, and developers engaged in multiple rounds of public negotiations, ultimately completing a hard fork to fix the issue. The vast majority of computing power and users chose the new chain. Diverse participants jointly safeguarded the foundational network, and mainstream exchanges never delisted ETH, allowing Ethereum to cross the critical lifeline. At that time, although Ethereum was young, it had already accumulated a geographically distributed node group and developer ecosystem, possessing a consensus foundation with multiple checks and balances. In contrast, Core in 2026 is still in its early development stage. After the validator reward vulnerability incident, about 69 million CORE tokens were prematurely released, exposing flaws in the underlying incentive mechanism design. South Korea's Bithumb judged the underlying mechanism as risky and officially announced the token delisting. Subsequently, the project completed the founder's resignation and transferred block production rights to 31 validators in a zero-downtime handover, attempting to promote community autonomy transformation. But the transformation has obvious limitations: the handover mainly involves block production operations, while code iteration and treasury governance still bear core team influence; the staking weight distribution behind the 31 validator seats lacks transparency, the on-chain ecosystem activity is weak, and an independent self-sustaining cycle has yet to form. The comparison of the two public blockchains points to the same answer: the true lifeline of a public blockchain has never been a single vulnerability or a round of coin price crash Binance was hacked for about $6.3 billion, the $BTC options market reaction is on the same scale as during the previous Iran conflict.
1W IV surged to 46%, now has fallen back to around 40%, only the Put Skew remains elevated by 6.7 Vol.
I believe continuing to short at this level has worse odds than betting on a rebound.
Especially for option buyers, who can pay some premium to appropriately delay the trade expiration, for example, to the end of November.
Even if there are sudden dips in between, there is no need to worry about forced liquidation like with leveraged contracts. Just wait for the market to rebound.💥Intel plunged over 27% overnight! Is the AI dividend turning into a "backlash"?🔥
Overnight, $INTC plummeted more than 27%, with the market blaming AI for squeezing the traditional PC sector.
Core logic breakdown:
A large amount of memory supply is flowing to AI data centers, driving up PC hardware costs and impacting consumer demand. The industry downturn could even last until 2027. Ironically, Intel's stock price doubled earlier this year on AI expectations, but now it may be suffering from the industry changes brought by AI.
Deep contradiction:
AI is not simply a boon for all chip stocks. The surge in computing power demand actually crowds out resources and profit margins in the PC supply chain. As capital reprices, Intel shifts from being an "AI beneficiary" to a "PC cycle pressure bearer."
Personal thoughts:
When the U.S. stock market opens today, it probably won't be calm. After a 27% plunge, there might be short-term emotional recovery, but if PC demand and cost pressures don't ease, any rebound will feel more like a game than a reversal. Don't just focus on the single-day drop; pay more attention to whether the AI narrative can still cover the downward revision of traditional business.
Do you think this round for Intel is an overreaction or the start of a valuation reset?
Market observation only, not investment advice
$INTC $BTC #美联储官员释放加息信号，12月预期仍存分歧 #OKX、ICE与Trade.xyz联手，推动永续合约进入美国合规市场 $SUI has been grinding all day, and the overall market is still weak.
Although I am still optimistic about SUI in the future, it is really too weak.
I compared this wave of gains: Ethereum is close to 80%, Solana more than doubled, while SUI only increased a little over double, but its volatility spikes are relatively more frequent compared to Solana. In comparison, the cost-performance ratio is not as good as Solana.
In this wave of the market, LINK, ZEC, NEAR, and HYPE all stand out.
So every market wave has its own main theme; there’s no need to hold onto the old leaders for a long time. I’ll observe for a few more days, but I might switch to NEAR and LINK.
Originally, I planned to sell first, then buy back after a drop to do some T trading.
But with this volatility, there’s not even an opportunity to do T trading.
Looking forward to Monday’s market.
Stop loss set at 0.7 to guard against black swan spikes Red market doesn't mean unity: Top 5 altcoin rankings' fund sentiment
Today, the top five altcoins all showed gains, but fund attitudes were not unified. PARTI led with 42.99%, topping the list for the fourth time but showing signs of retreat: 1-hour price dropped 5.83%, position reduced by 7.00%, 4-hour position down 11.02%, holding 2.81 million, volume ratio 65.6, the strong trend looks more like a pull-and-withdraw. SOPH rose 25.50%, representing a small position real attack: 1-hour price up 9.16%, position up 14.94%, volume up 27.96%, 4-hour position increased another 16.40%, holding 810,000, volume ratio 17.5, negative fee rate -0.0789, short-term momentum is strong.
H100 rose 7.50%, with 120,000 mini positions showing obvious activity, 1-hour price up 6.64%, position up 7.61%, volume up 5.12%, 4-hour position up 11.43%, lively but small scale, chasing highs is risky. CAP rose 5.77%, trend is sideways, 1-hour price almost flat, position up 3.32%, 4-hour position up 7.92%, holding 3.66 million, steady but lacks fire. CNPY rose 5.33%, small position slightly up, 1-hour volume down 0.60%, 4-hour position down 4.03%, holding 420,000, showing strong wait-and-see sentiment.
Overall, the red market is just a facade; position changes reveal the true fund sentiment: PARTI retreating, SOPH pulling, H100 fluctuating, CAP sideways, CNPY shrinking. When following the market, don't just focus on gains, first see where the positions are moving. What the heck do they really want to do?
These past few days they've been selling off their Bitcoin at any cost
Are they scared?
Or do they just have no confidence in the market?The Three Underdog Coins: LAB is buying back, SLX is collecting rent, RE is playing dead
$LAB 0.045
MemesLab multi-chain trading terminal, ATH in June was $27.26, now only 0.045. The project team is buying back, but ZachXBT found that team-related wallets dumped 18.4 million tokens within 48 hours. The 3.57% rise a few days ago was due to buyback news, not consensus. This kind of coin just waits for the project team to continue buybacks; once buybacks stop, it will keep falling.
$SLX 0.048
Solstice splits the long-term usage rights of real-world wafer fabs into on-chain shares, renting at 0.048 per share quarterly. Leases usually last 5 to 10 years and do not follow spot memory prices. Intel’s Q4 guidance was below expectations, chip stocks crashed, but SLX only dipped slightly—it belongs to the RWA track, aiming for stable cash flow, not short-term price differences.
$RE 0.37
The insurance protocol on the Re public chain pays out automatically, with only 530,000 in volume, the smallest market cap. Binance got hacked in such a big event, yet it showed no reaction at all. In theory, on-chain insurance should be hyped, but the price doesn’t reflect that—indicating that capital simply doesn’t buy into this narrative.
#加密行业协同守护资产安全
This article is for market analysis only and does not constitute investment advice. #Intel Q4 guidance falls short of expectations, stock price plummets nearly 30%
$INTC will only go below 50! The Assassin community will publicly position!
Why is below 50 the real value zone?
First, valuation safety margin. Based on about 2 times book value, the $50 target price is still significantly lower than TSMC's price-to-book ratio of over 10 times. Intel currently holds $54 billion in cash, with a net cash position of about $3.87 billion, total assets exceeding $211 billion, and shareholders' equity around $125 billion.
Second, the turning point of the foundry business is completely ignored by the market. The 18A process yield rate has increased from 65% to 85%, second only to TSMC's 90%, and far higher than Samsung's 50% to 60%.
Third, the irreplaceability of policy and strategy. Intel is the only domestic wafer foundry in the U.S. with advanced process capabilities. The U.S. government hopes that domestic chip manufacturing regains strategic significance; even AMD may consider partial manufacturing cooperation with Intel for political reasons. This strategic position is completely unpriced at below 50.
Fourth, the AI business boom is temporarily overshadowed. Q3 data center and AI business revenue reached $7.3 billion, a 78% year-over-year increase, marking the strongest growth in 15 years. After the panic selling clears out, it will gradually be rediscovered by capital.
Don't short at 64.92, and don't bottom fish at 64.92 either. Wait for it to drop below 50, wait for the panic selling to be thorough, wait for the volume to shrink—that's when you enter to pick up the bloodied chips. $xINTC
#AAOI high-speed optical modules ramping up, can the Q3 earnings beat expectations?
Brothers, AAOI is about to report. The market expects revenue of 268 million, which is basically a given. The real game is on the profit side.
Clear card: 800G ramp-up is extremely strong, only 12.8 million in Q2, Q3 guidance points to nearly a 5x quarter-over-quarter surge. Plus over 200 million USD in 1.6T orders, demand is definitely not a concern.
Hidden card: Profit. Q2 gross margin was barely passing at 29.8%, now with the 1.6T ramp-up plus depreciation from capacity expansion, profits could be eaten away at any time. Even more painful, 560 million in capital expenditures in a single quarter turned cash flow directly negative. Revenue beating expectations is just the baseline; whether the gross margin holds is the real factor that will boost the stock price.
Market linkage: Tech stocks are getting valuation cuts, BTC current price around 77,400, support below at 76,500. If you have a position, hold firmly at 76,000; if you’re out, wait for a pullback to 76,500 with volume contraction and stabilization before watching further. Don’t use the long-term logic of optical modules to catch the short-term knife of BTC! $BTC $ETH $SOL