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$BTC At the $80,000 level, both bulls and bears have been fighting fiercely. The market is experiencing an extremely rare capital split—who will outlast whom?
Let's first look at two extremes in capital flow:
ETFs are flowing out, with a single-day net outflow of about $258 million, showing strong short-term risk aversion among institutions.
But whales are accumulating, having increased their holdings by about 60,000 BTC since late August, mostly buying in the $80,000 to $86,000 range.
The macro situation is even more troublesome. CPI and PPI have both exceeded expectations, reigniting fears of rate hikes. The dollar and U.S. Treasury yields are pushing higher, putting collective pressure on risk assets.
Currently, BTC is hovering around $82,000. The resistance zone above at $83,500 to $84,500 is very strong and hard to break without volume; the short-term key support is between $80,000 and $81,000, with $78,000 below that.
My judgment is simple: whether $80,000 can hold depends not on the candlesticks but on capital flow! If ETF outflows slow and whales keep buying, $80,000 will likely hold, and the market will oscillate between $80,000 and $84,000. If ETF outflows continue heavily and whales stop buying, once $80,000 breaks, stop-loss orders and leveraged liquidations will combine to push prices down to $78,000 or even $75,000!
Can the $80,000 level hold? What’s your take?
#ETF与巨鲸资金分化，BTC能否守住8万美元？
#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ #特斯拉交付超预期后盈利修复成焦点 Lately, I've increasingly felt that the phase where Bitcoin most easily causes people to lose money is not during a crash, but during the first rebound after a decline.
During a crash, everyone knows there is risk.
But once the rebound comes, the sentiment changes.
Short sellers start taking profits.
Long buyers start bottom-fishing.
Those who missed out begin chasing the rally.
Those originally planning to exit start fantasizing about a new round of gains.
The problem is, these buy orders don't necessarily represent long-term capital re-entering the market.
Short covering can push prices up, but it doesn't necessarily sustain the trend.
So moving forward, what I focus on most is not how much Bitcoin can rebound.
But three signals:
Whether ETFs can continuously restore net inflows.
Whether spot trading volume keeps pace during the rebound.
After the price re-establishes itself at key levels, whether it can withstand the next pullback.
If these three conditions don't improve, I won't change my judgment just because of a big bullish candle.
But if the market starts showing signs of not falling on bad news, pullbacks being bought, and sustained capital inflows, I will promptly revise my view.
I don't want to be someone who is always bullish.
Nor do I want to be someone who is always bearish. $PENDLE The Federal Reserve Chair's recent speech was neutral to dovish. The Fed will now enter a 10-day blackout period during which officials cannot express opinions. The probability of a rate hike in October is expected to continue dropping from 22%, so the market should see a rebound before the policy meeting at the end of the month.#奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 $82,284 (-0.18%)
BTC remains steady above 82K, but just experienced a sharp washout last night. The intraday low touched $79,694, marking a nearly three-week low, then quickly recovered.
What happened?
US CPI and PPI both exceeded expectations, fueling rate hike concerns. AI and semiconductor stocks plunged, dragging down risk assets. Within 24 hours, the entire network saw liquidations totaling $929 million, with longs accounting for $777 million, and over 180,000 traders forced out.
Key signals:
· The Fear & Greed Index jumped from 53 to 63 (Greed), indicating a rapid sentiment recovery
· BTC market dominance remains high at 59.8%, with funds still favoring Bitcoin
· On-chain monitoring shows a whale sold a total of 1,601 BTC over 5 days, rotating into ETH
Short-term focus:
Analyst Ted Pillows believes **$81,000 is a critical support**; breaking below may lead to consolidation. A breakthrough above the $82,800–$83,700 resistance zone could pave the way for further gains.
This rebound looks more like a technical recovery after deleveraging. Although volume has increased, the key is whether spot buying will sustain. At first, I thought ETH had risen about 3% that day, and the long-short ratio would push higher. Just checked OKX, it was still around 2.4 yesterday at noon, but now it has dropped to 1.9.
The top 5% column doesn't match either; calculating by position size, the long-short ratio is still at 0.91. People here are slightly more long, but the money is a bit more short.
So in this rebound, the side accumulating people is actually letting go, and the big holders' positions haven't flipped to long. If the top 5% position ratio goes above 1 in the next couple of days, I'll admit I was wrong.
When you usually look at ETH, do you trust the number of people ratio more, or the position size ratio? $ETH Midday Market Quick Review
$BTC:
BTC midday at 82056, after dipping to 79775 yesterday, entered a consolidation repair phase. Resistance above at 84216, support below at 80110, RSI back near 48, bearish momentum weakening with insufficient volume, short-term weak consolidation.
$ETH:
ETH midday at 2441, performance weaker than BTC, resistance above at 2566 and 2642, support below at 2375, RSI recovered to around 52, moving average pressure still present.
Capital Flow:
Fear and Greed Index at 64, still in the greed zone; 24h liquidations at $340 million, down 64% from yesterday's peak, longs and shorts roughly balanced; retail long-short ratio about 1.5, bulls still dominant.
Top two Hyperliquid addresses combined have nearly $500 million in BTC+ETH short positions, whales hedging at high levels.
On the spot side, BTC and ETH have net outflows over the past 8 hours, but SOL and TRX continue net inflows, capital rotating within the market, not exiting.
Liquidation pain points: BTC longs at 81666, shorts at 83311, short-term range likely grinding within this zone.
Interpretation:
Short-term sentiment is recovering from yesterday's panic, but volume is lacking, so the rebound won't be strong, mainly consolidation. From a cycle perspective, this is a normal bull market consolidation—whale short positions are hedges, not shorts; spot capital is just rotating sectors, the macro structure remains intact. Medium to long-term holders remain steady; consolidation and bottoming is a window for phased accumulation.
Just a personal view, trading is ultimately self-reliant
#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ Will Tesla's earnings report this quarter exceed expectations?
The delivery numbers are already out, and exceeding expectations is a fact, but this positive news has basically been priced in early. The real bottleneck is the profit margin, not the sales volume.
The current consensus EPS is about $0.43, and it has been adjusted downward recently. Energy storage deployment also hasn't met expectations. In Q2, there was a case where revenue exceeded expectations but EPS missed significantly, causing the stock price to plummet. That lesson is still fresh.
I feel that this time it will most likely be close to consensus or slightly below expectations. It's hard to truly "exceed expectations" in a meaningful way. The market's 68% prediction seems a bit high; I lean towards No.
Robotaxi is indeed expanding rapidly, but that's more about future narratives and conference calls, with limited impact on this quarter's numbers.
This does not constitute any advice.#Netflix growth may slow, advertising business becomes new focus A token dropping from $10 to $2 only indicates an 80% price decline; it does not alone prove that it is cheap.
"Whales are accumulating" or "the next bull market will return to historical highs" are just market narratives without support from capital flow and on-chain data.
A sharp drop may also mean the market is reassessing the project's value. To judge if it is undervalued, one must look at fundamentals and real demand, not just how expensive it used to be.#NetflixQ3AdsAndMargins
Focus Shifting to Monetization? 📊
Netflix will report its Q3 financial results on October 20 after the US market closes, guiding for revenue of ~$12.86B (up ~12% YoY).
However, the main story is the strategy shift: revenue growth is transitioning from pure subscriber volume to monetization—specifically periodic price hikes, ad-supported tiers, and expanded Average Revenue per User (ARPU).
#NetflixQ3AdsAndMargins Who has been mainly transferring BTC to exchanges during this recent downturn?
On-chain data shows: short-term holders transfer in about 2200 BTC per hour on average within 4 hours, while long-term holders only about 480 BTC, roughly one-fifth of the former.📉
❓ How to interpret these numbers?
1️⃣ Short-term holders: the transfer-in volume is the 4th highest since the rally started in August, but the peak is already lower than on October 8.
2️⃣ Long-term holders: on October 8, it surged to about 3700 BTC per hour, now back to around 480 BTC, a drop of about 87%.
3️⃣ Transferring to exchanges ≠ necessarily selling, but it is the most direct signal of potential selling pressure.
📌 In this downturn, those sending coins to exchanges are mainly recent buyers; the long-term holders are generally stable, and the short-term selling pressure is weaker than on October 8.
Two reminders for friends with light positions:
· Short-term holders’ transfers in are still at high levels since August, short-term volatility may not be over, so leave some room for leverage and position.
· Watching changes in this flow is more revealing of who is selling than watching a single candlestick.
Are you holding without moving this round, or have you also transferred coins to exchanges?👇
The above is only personal opinion and does not constitute investment advice. Cryptocurrency prices are highly volatile; please be cautious of risks.
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#Bitcoin #OnChainData #LongTermHoldersRenting GPUs to the AI company CoreWeave, the people who lent it money have been rushing to buy insurance these past two days, fearing it won't be able to repay. The first to feel the pain in this AI wave is actually the sublessor.KOSPI's early rebound shows that dip demand can return quickly after a circuit-breaker session. Yet foreign investors were still net sellers early Oct 16, so the move has not resolved whether external capital is prepared to support the chip rebound. Official monitoring may steady nerves, but flow persistence remains unproven.
#KOSPIReboundFlowWatch On October 16, today in the small coins I am paying attention to ALEO, STRK, and INJ.
ALEO is currently priced at about $0.0454, up approximately 56.7% in the past 7 days and about 200.7% in the past 30 days. Ledger now supports USDCx on Aleo, and the Arc mainnet has also launched. Progress has been made on implementation, but this increase is quite significant, so we need to watch for dilution pressure from token issuance going forward. Support is first seen at 0.0374–0.0384, with resistance at 0.048–0.050; wait for a pullback to find an opportunity.
STRK is currently priced at about $0.0841, up approximately 55.8% in the past 7 days and about 224.8% in the past 30 days. Starknet is discussing whether to research an independent L1 with quantum security; this is still in the voting and research phase and does not mean a migration decision has been made. The recent increase is large, and unlocked supply should also be monitored. Support is seen at 0.0717–0.0768; wait for a retracement to hold.
INJ is currently priced at about $9.18, up approximately 26.1% in the past 24 hours, 26.1% in the past 7 days, and 56.1% in the past 30 days. Institutional infrastructure has made progress, and there was a volume surge and strengthening on the 4-hour chart, but the short-term rise is sharp. Do not chase here; wait for a pullback around 8.55–8.85 to hold, then see if there is an opportunity.#US CPI and PPI both exceed expectations, will there be another rate hike this year? Tesla finally unveiled the new generation Roadster last night. They started taking $50,000 deposits back in 2017, and it's been delayed for almost nine years.
The live demo was indeed impressive: the car clings upside down on a curve, then flies out doing flips, hovers, and lands; it accelerates from zero to sixty miles per hour in under a second, using SpaceX thrusters and fans. But they gave no concrete information, no price announced, and mass production won't start until 2028. This car is basically a small-batch high-end toy, and CNBC openly said it basically has no impact on the company's finances. Last year, Altman even posted a screenshot of his cancellation on X, having waited seven and a half years and deciding not to wait any longer.
What will determine the stock price is the Q3 earnings report after the market closes next Wednesday. Q3 deliveries were 486,500 vehicles, better than the market expectation of over 460,000, but still about 2% less year-over-year, with energy storage installations at 13.7 GWh. What everyone wants to hear about are profit margins, Robotaxi, and robot progress; no matter how cool the flying car is, it won't change the valuation.
On the chip front, Nvidia dropped more than 2% intraday on Thursday to around $216, AMD fell about 6%, Micron dropped 5% in early trading but closed up 1.87%. Jensen Huang said that CoreWeave's "financing costs are actually decreasing," which helped recover much of the new cloud providers' losses.
With interest rates weighing down, tech stocks are now news-driven, moving several points up or down on a single headline. Before Tesla's earnings report comes out, watch the market carefully and hold your position for now $TSLA $FIL Solstice (Network Version 29) is scheduled to activate on October 19, 2026, mainly to accomplish two things:
1. Decommission the Fil+ system
Previously, verified data (Fil+) could obtain higher quality-adjusted power. After the upgrade, new sectors will be calculated at the highest quality power regardless of content, and verification registration and DataCap-related functions will be frozen.
2. Change in block reward distribution
Previously, 100% of block rewards went to miners. After the upgrade, the rewards will be split:
A portion will continue to go to consensus miners
A portion will be allocated to Service Orchestrators (service providers responsible for bringing paid demand)
And some may be burned
The consensus share will gradually decrease, while the service share will gradually increase according to actual paid demand targets.
Importance assessment
Token economics: Changes how rewards are distributed, attempting to shift incentives from "stacking storage" to "bringing real paid usage"
For miners: New sectors will no longer differ based on whether data is "verified," and miners will share part of the rewards with Orchestrators
For network direction: Clearly moving towards a service economy and paid demand. The short-term price impact is moderate. This is a structural change, not a direct supply reduction, so market reactions are usually less immediate than at the end of a vesting period
Technical risk: This is a mandatory upgrade; nodes and storage providers must upgrade
Summary
Solstice is not a minor patch but an important adjustment to the Filecoin reward mechanism, aiming to make the network focus more on real paid demand rather than simply expanding capacity. It is meaningful for the long-term direction but usually does not have as direct a short-term price catalyst effect as events like "significant supply reduction." Fell below 80,000 then pulled back to 82,000, $929 million wiped out; Pirate Chain suddenly created 39.8 million coins out of thin air, what's going on with privacy coins?
Last night’s market slapped both bulls and bears.
$BTC once dropped to 79,694 during the session, breaking below 80,000 for the first time since mid-September, but then stubbornly pulled back near 82,300, up slightly 0.8% in 24 hours. $ETH returned to 2,453, up 1%. But in the past 24 hours, the whole network liquidated $929 million, with long positions liquidated $777 million, accounting for over 80%.
There’s something today exactly like last time with Zano.
Privacy coin project Pirate Chain suffered a vulnerability attack, 39.8 million ARRR coins were created out of thin air. The network is still running, but the official team has warned: do not transfer any funds until recovery is complete. The Zano rollback of one month is still fresh, and now Pirate Chain repeats the same. In the privacy coin sector, code risk is really much greater than price risk.
Someone is frantically selling BTC to buy ETH. A giant whale/institution address sold a total of 1,601 BTC in 5 days, exchanged for 132 million USDC, then bought 53,095 ETH at an average price of 2,497. This is not a small move, it’s a directional portfolio adjustment.
ETFs had a net outflow of 262 million yesterday, with net outflows for the week. The 80,000 level is being tugged back and forth, leverage has already been cleared once. Were you liquidated today? Let’s talk in the comments 👇 #NetflixQ3AdsAndMargins
Netflix’s Q3 is a test of monetisation, not just audience growth: the key question is whether advertising can generate more revenue from existing viewers while protecting profitability. Management’s guidance of $12.86 billion in revenue and a 33.2% operating margin provides a clear benchmark. My view is cautiously positive, but the quality of any earnings beat matters—stronger ad sales and resilient engagement would be more convincing than cost reductions alone.#Netflix growth may slow, advertising business becomes new focus 🚨🚨🚨 Bitcoin price trends after the last three U.S. midterm elections
In 2014, the bottom was reached 71 days after the election, with a drop of -46.7%.
In 2018, the bottom was reached 39 days after the election, with a drop of -50.6%.
In 2022, the bottom was reached 1 day after the election, with a drop of -14.9%.
After every midterm election, Bitcoin prices hit new lows, creating a golden pit.
What will happen in 2026?
#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ $BTC $ETH $ZEC The moment the surgical light turned on, what I saw was not a market trend line, but an aortic aneurysm that was passive and could rupture at any time.
This new MSCI regulation is essentially a preoperative assessment. Non-operating companies—those that have turned their balance sheets into Bitcoin vaults—are being put on the imaging examination table. November 11th is the final list; the procedure takes effect after the market close on November 30th. The time window in between is exactly a period of myocardial stunning, with extremely unstable hemodynamics.
Let's first talk about the pathological mechanism. Targets like Strategy and Metaplanet essentially transform the company's left ventricle into a leveraged crypto pump. Their stock prices are not supported by core business cash flow but rely on Bitcoin as an allogeneic vascular bridge. The problem is that MSCI's index inclusion criteria assess "operating" status—that is, whether the myocardium itself has autonomous contraction ability, not supported by an external circulatory machine. Once judged as non-operating, passive funds must reduce holdings according to the rules. This is not an emotional sell-off but a mechanical, body surface area-based, non-negotiable blood loss.
I want to emphasize one point: currently, no company has been officially removed. This is a critical preoperative diagnostic divergence. Some in the market are pricing as if "diagnosed," which is overdiagnosis and a typical iatrogenic panic. The real risk window is November 11th; all declines before that are merely symptoms, not the lesion itself.
Next, consider the linkage with tokenized US stock targets like XIWM. What are they like? Like a myocardial biopsy after transplantation—on the surface, indicators appear normal, but ischemia-reperfusion injury may suddenly manifest within hours. Tokenized US stocks play a very special role during crypto market trading hours: they serve as 24-hour continuous ECG monitoring, while the pricing power of the underlying assets remains in New York's catheterization lab. Two circulatory systems coexist, amplifying blood pressure fluctuations.
Hemodynamic deduction: if MSCI ultimately excludes, passive fund outflows will be quantitative and measurable, similar to a planned atrial septal repair surgery; if retained, the currently mistakenly punished portion will instantly restore perfusion like myocardium after coronary spasm relief. The real risk is not in the outcome but in the rebalancing window before the market close on November 30th—that is a critical point of extracorporeal circulation transition, where any sudden blood pressure drop could trigger a chain reaction of hypotension.
As for those companies propping up their balance sheets with coin prices, I must say something calmly: their balance sheet structure is very much like dilated cardiomyopathy—the ventricles get larger, the walls thinner, and stroke volume decreases. When coin prices rise, this is called leveraged thickening; when prices plateau, this is the compensation period; when prices fall, this is decompensation.
The final list has not been released; everything is still in preoperative discussion. #mscibtctreasuryrulesInflation has exploded again, how much longer does the crypto world have to endure?
September's CPI and PPI exceeded expectations for two consecutive days. Honestly, the moment I saw the data, my heart skipped a beat.
PPI soared 6.3% year-on-year and 1.3% month-on-month, marking the largest monthly increase since March 2022. Gasoline prices rose 20.3% in one month, diesel up 21%, and the energy shock is spreading along the supply chain into various sectors. Core PPI also jumped from 4.7% to 5.0% year-on-year.
This is not a price increase in a single category; it is systemic price pressure penetrating deeper.
Latest CME data: the probability of keeping rates unchanged in October is 71.8%, but by December, the probability of no change plummets to 7.2%, with a combined 92.8% chance of a 25 or 50 basis point rate hike. Research reports from CICC and CITIC Securities are basically consistent—no change in October, but a high likelihood of a hike in December.
So don’t fantasize about "all bad news priced in." Until rate hike expectations fade, liquidity will remain a heavy iron plate pressing down on all risk assets.
$BTC—Stable on the surface, hollow underneath
Currently around 82,000, the trend looks okay, but Glassnode’s on-chain data is worrisome. After the 80,000 buy resistance was absorbed, new buying did not effectively replenish it; support liquidity is actually thinning. New buy orders mainly cluster around 78,000, essentially passive defense, not active offense.
The meaning is clear: the surface rebound is a technical correction, not a trend reversal. Once 78,000 fails to hold, there is a vacuum below, and the drop will be rapid.
$ETH—Even worse than BTC
Currently at 2,439, the hourly chart rebounded sharply from 2,313, but $280 million liquidations occurred in 24 hours, mostly long positions, with the largest single liquidation at $11.84 million.
An interesting detail: Huang Licheng just added $250,000 margin to stubbornly hold a 25x long position, with a liquidation price at 2,333; meanwhile, another whale who opened a position at 4,101 cut losses and liquidated $13.45 million.
Old retail investors are accepting losses and exiting, while new big players are accumulating at the bottom. But overall, $ETH remains weaker than $BTC, with a weak rebound and a pattern of grinding bottom sideways.
$ZEC—Small coins are hard to profit from
Currently around 1,223, it dipped overnight to 1,179 then slightly recovered, intraday surged to 1,244 but met resistance and fell back. The rebound mainly relies on short covering, not trend-driven buying. There is heavy trapped position pressure around 1,250–1,260.
Small coins are more sensitive to news, and volatility is amplified. If you get it right, you profit; if wrong, you get hit. Poor position control means getting slapped from both sides.
Some heartfelt advice
At this stage, heavy positions are a gamble with your life. Before macro expectations become clear, all big rises and falls could be shakeouts.
Take light positions for short-term corrections, strictly use stop-losses, and don’t rush to heavily invest to recover losses. Keep steady pace; survival is more important than anything.
The market won’t stay like this forever, but the premise is you have to be in the game.
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#美国9月CPI同比升至3.7%，核心通胀超预期 #美联储重启加息，BTC为何仍有韧性？ #ETF与巨鲸资金分化，BTC能否守住8万美元？ #Netflix growth may slow, advertising business becomes new focus The speech in Washington ended. Here's a summary for everyone:
Core: Federal Reserve officials acknowledge that inflation is high but are not in a hurry to raise interest rates immediately. They want to continue observing more economic data and will not tighten policy right away. There is no commitment to rate cuts; the stance is dovish but not extremely accommodative.
👉 Market reaction: U.S. Treasury yields slightly retreated, the dollar weakened, and risk appetite increased. This is the main driver behind today's cryptocurrency market rebound.
Impact on BTC trend:
1. Short term: Positive support for BTC. As long as U.S. Treasury yields do not rebound higher, BTC has a chance to maintain this oversold rebound; however, this is just a corrective rally, not a new major uptrend.
2. Key chart point: Holding the 81600 support level preserves the rebound structure; if this level is broken, the rebound ends, and BTC will fall again, with altcoins diving simultaneously.
3. Hidden risk: The speech leaves open the possibility of future rate hikes if inflation continues to rebound. If inflation data rises again, expectations will quickly turn hawkish, suppressing BTC.CPI flipped overnight, and the market just threw the table😱
Honestly, I didn’t expect this wave either.
I originally thought it would just be a data shake-up, a quick spike, and then the necessary washout would be done and dusted. But CPI at 3.7% completely tore apart the previous cooling narrative, and PPI month-on-month at 1.3% set the strongest record in over four years. Both exceeded expectations simultaneously, and the market wasn’t even given time to react.
$BTC spiked just above 80,000, triggering $485 million in liquidations across the network within an hour, with longs accounting for $464 million—$ETH alone bore $200 million [reference:2]. What does this mean? Huang Licheng rolled from 56,000 to 12.25 million in 4 months, and this spike knocked him back to 21,800, wasting over half a year and even losing money [reference:3]. $ETH fell below 2400; the next technical support level to hold is the psychological 2000 mark.
Many were confident that "after one round of decline, the bad news was priced in." But this inflation hammer clearly wasn’t priced in advance. The core contradiction has changed—the market is now repricing whether the Fed will move in October or hike in December, with CME’s probability of an October rate hike more than doubling from a low point. The path is unclear, and that’s the most dangerous part.
Inflation not falling, US Treasury yields surging, the dollar strengthening, risk assets all taking hits, crypto can’t stay immune. $BTC probing 70,000 is not alarmist, and $ETH at 2000 should be mentally prepared for repeated tests.
But one thing must be clear: this macro-driven sell-off, with spikes and chain liquidations, will be especially frequent. Being right on direction doesn’t mean you can endure the process; those heavily leveraged and stubborn often die before dawn. Light positions, stop losses, and keeping ammo are more important than anything🙏.
Outside the market, it’s not peaceful either. TSMC’s Q3 net profit hit a record high of 763.1 billion NTD, up 68.7% year-on-year, with AI computing power fundamentals truly strong, but gross margin dropped 1.3 points quarter-on-quarter, and early 2nm mass production still held it back. Netflix reports earnings on October 20, with market expectations of $12.878 billion revenue; the ad business is seen as the next growth engine, but whether the path from $3 billion to $7.5 billion can be realized depends on that report.
Tech stocks and crypto are now grasshoppers on the same rope. AI narratives support risk appetite, giving crypto some breathing room; if tech stocks collapse with macro, $BTC won’t escape either.
At this point, don’t chase shorts or rush to bottom-fish. 80,000 has been tested three times; breaking it means a real crash, not breaking it means a fake fall. Wait for stabilization signals—volume surge with bullish candles, clean chip rotation, and no further macro deterioration—then gradually buy in.
Don’t make decisions in panic.
#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ #台积电Q3净利润超预期，盈利创历史新高 #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点 #Netflix growth may slow, advertising business becomes new focus Distinguishing strength and weakness during a pullback is more important than bottom fishing
Even though prices are falling, the quality is completely different.
Most people focus on the candlestick chart asking "Where is the bottom?" I care more about—who is holding firm, and who can no longer hold on.
$BTC: Fell about 3.5% in 24 hours, about 4% in the past week, but looking over a month, the drop is actually only about 2%. Compared to other coins, $BTC is still holding up, but calling it "turning strong"? Not quite. The 80,000 level needs no overthinking—round number levels never spontaneously develop support. During the CPI shock, transaction volume expanded 5 times within 30 minutes, and the support near 83,000 didn’t hold, indicating huge disagreement between bulls and bears at this level. Next, it depends on whether 80,000 can hold and gradually recover. If it holds but can’t recover steadily, downward revision expectations must follow; if it can stabilize and climb higher, then that’s a turnaround. A smaller drop is not a reason to add positions, just an observation window.
$ETH: Under more pressure. Fell about 5.6% in 24 hours, once cumulatively down over 6% after CPI release, and the monthly chart is also weakening. Less gain before? Doesn’t mean safe; weakness can persist. Short-term double support around 2,350 (horizontal line + ascending trendline), which has repeatedly held since August 23, showing real buying defense. But conversely, if this combined support breaks, the downside space opens. Don’t get excited about rebounds yet; the key is whether it can continuously reclaim lost ground—if it bounces a little then retreats, it’s still weak. On Binance, $ETH had over $157 million liquidated in 24 hours, longs got wiped out badly.
$SOL: Fell about 4.4% in one day, nearly 7% in a week. It has dropped to the 100-101 range, with the 20-day and 50-day moving averages pressing above 103, showing clear short-term weakness. Don’t assume the $100 round number will definitely hold as support. More noteworthy is that within 4 hours after CPI release, $SOL open interest increased by 7.95%—leverage is still increasing during the decline, and once this structure breaks, deleveraging stampede will be rapid. Wait for it to show its stance: whether it can hold and then attack upward, or pause and continue downward, these are two completely different scenarios.
The macro environment isn’t favorable either.
CPI year-over-year at 3.7% exceeded expectations, PPI month-over-month surged to 1.3%, year-over-year 6.3%, the largest increase since March 2022. Energy prices are the main driver and have already transmitted to other goods and services. The probability of rate hikes before year-end approaches 90%. Meanwhile, $BTC spot ETF has seen a net outflow of about $859 million over the past six trading days, indicating institutional buying is shrinking short-term.
But here is a notable divergence signal—$BTC ETF still has a net inflow of about $2.09 billion over the past 30 days, while $ETH has a net outflow of about $319 million, and $SOL about $33.2 million net outflow. Institutions are not fully retreating; money is concentrating into $BTC, while altcoins are being drained. Another on-chain anomaly: ETFs are flowing out, but the total Bitcoin holdings of whales have risen to 3.03 million $BTC, the fastest monthly increase since February.
At this point, distinguishing strength and weakness is far more important than guessing the bottom.
Don’t rush to catch the weak, and don’t blindly chase the strong. Wait for the market to send its own signals.
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#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ #BTC现货ETF重回流入，ETH资金持续流出 #交易之声：你的经验值得被听到 $SOL has been grinding around 105 for the past few weeks. On the surface, we see ETFs withdrawing funds, but behind the scenes, a bigger event is lining up to launch.
On October 7, Samsung announced that Samsung Wallet will integrate USDC on Solana for cross-border remittances, opening in the U.S. in the last week of October, initially covering 82 million Galaxy phones. The feature is built into the wallet, with currency exchange and transfers all embedded; the blockchain runs in the background, and users won’t even feel like they’re using a blockchain.
The significance lies in the entry point. Previously, stablecoins on the chain mostly circulated between exchanges and DeFi. This time, an ordinary phone user can just tap to send money, and the funds will make a round trip on Solana. According to the foundation, stablecoin transactions on this chain have already exceeded $5.25 trillion this year, with PayPal and Western Union also operating on it.
Meanwhile, the U.S. SOL spot ETF has seen net outflows for nine consecutive trading days from October 5 to 15, totaling about $37.8 million. Institutional money is retreating, but the user-side pipeline is being laid out.
The price currently only reflects the first half. Even if only a small portion of those 82 million phones actually start using it, on-chain transfers and fees will move first, and the coin price usually follows with a lag.
After launch, watch whether the daily number of USDC transfers on the Solana chain rises—that will be the first signal that this news has materialized.Samsung Electronics (005930.KRX) plummeted 9.48% on October 15, experiencing a sharp single-day pullback, with the Korean semiconductor sector weakening across the board.
This decline is not due to a company-specific crisis but rather macroeconomic sentiment shocks: US CPI exceeded expectations, the market repriced Federal Reserve rate hikes, and global funds withdrew from AI technology and semiconductor sectors, dragging down SK Hynix and Samsung simultaneously.
A simple breakdown of Samsung Electronics:
The business is divided into two main parts: consumer electronics (phones, foldable screens, TVs) + semiconductors (memory, foundry, HBM).
Memory chips are a typical cyclical industry, with stock prices fluctuating in line with chip price cycles; HBM is the future growth driver, serving AI computing power demands. The mining difficulty adjustment of $BTC Bitcoin is essentially an automatic calibration mechanism to stabilize the network. Every time 2016 blocks are mined, a recalculation is triggered, aiming to firmly fix the average block time across the entire network at 10 minutes.
In the previous market cycle, miners directly experienced the largest scale of capitulation since 2021. At the beginning of the year, the total network hash rate was still above 1000 EH/s, but by June it dropped directly to 918 EH/s, evaporating 12% in just one month. The difficulty has been adjusted downward three consecutive times, cumulatively falling more than 20% from the historical peak. At that time, everyone was waiting for the new adjustment on July 11; if it dropped again, it would be the first time since July 2022.
The fundamental reason is that mining companies cannot bear the costs. JPMorgan calculated that the average mining cost for listed mining companies reached $78,000 per coin, while Bitcoin was only fluctuating around $62,000 at that time. For five consecutive months, the price was below the cost line. The hash price directly fell to a historic low of $29/PH/s/day, which means spending $100 on electricity would only mine coins worth $70. Twenty percent of miners shut down directly, and the rest had to endure by selling the coins they held. Six leading listed mining companies sold 32,000 BTC in a single quarter to cover operating expenses.
This mechanism is like an automatic thermostat. When hash power floods in, it raises the difficulty to slow down block production; when hash power leaves, it lowers the difficulty to make it easier for the remaining miners to produce blocks. Even if half the hash power suddenly withdraws, the network will not collapse and will always maintain a stable block production rhythm. Bitcoin got hit by data again last night. PPI year-over-year was 6.3%, much higher than expected, and as soon as it came out, it plunged directly to 79,800, blowing up over 900 million dollars worth of positions, mostly longs. Then it quickly broke below 80,000 but was pulled back above 82,000. The range from 80,000 to 81,500 is exactly the cost zone for the US spot ETF holdings; this dip was caught, indicating someone is defending it. It hasn't yet stabilized above 82,500, so if it can't break through, it will remain range-bound.
More important than the price is the MSCI news from last night. They set the rules for "non-operating companies": looking at operating assets plus five financial indicators, if four out of five fail, the company may be kicked out of the global index. Strategy is basically targeted by this, Metaplanet is also on the list, and coin-holding companies like SharpLink and Solana Company have been put on the watchlist. The list will be released on November 11, and will take effect after market close on the 30th.
Don't panic yet. Mature component stocks need to fail two consecutive annual reports to be removed, so Strategy won't be kicked out next month. JPMorgan previously estimated passive sell-off around 2.8 billion dollars; Strategy itself said that funds tracking MSCI hold about 13 million shares total, accounting for 3.1% of total shares, less than one day’s trading volume.
The trouble is ahead. Strategy has been the most stable buyer of Bitcoin in recent years by issuing shares and bonds to buy coins. Once its index status is in jeopardy, financing costs will rise, and whether this buying will slow down is what we need to watch next for $BTC $xMSTR Bitcoin fell below 80,000, yet ETFs saw a net outflow of $261 million
These days, I have become more cautious about Bitcoin in the short term because the market is showing a warning signal.
US Treasury yields have clearly fallen, the dollar has weakened, and gold has risen—according to old logic, all these should be bullish for Bitcoin, but it still once dropped near 80,000 USD. More importantly, on October 14, the US spot Bitcoin ETF had a single-day net outflow of $261 million.
So I began to suspect: the market might not be trading on liquidity easing, but on risk itself. There are two reasons for yield declines: one is anticipation of rate cuts and funds preparing to return to risk assets; the other is investors getting scared and buying Treasuries for safety. If it’s the latter, the yield drop won’t save Bitcoin.
I will watch three things next: whether it can hold above 83,000; whether ETFs can continuously return to net inflows; and when yields continue to fall, whether Bitcoin rebounds or weakens further. If the macro environment improves but there is no buying, I will remain cautious; but if the next round of negative news hits and Bitcoin doesn’t fall further and funds keep flowing back, I will revise my view.
The real bottom is not when everyone thinks it’s cheap, but when bad news can no longer scare away the last batch of holders. My money can wait; the market has no obligation to rise according to my beliefs. $BTC$BLUR short position floating profit 28%, brothers going long, how are you all doing?
Brothers, I entered the BLUR short at 0.01166, current price 0.01057, floating profit 28.04%, the direction was spot on. Brothers going long, how are you all doing?
On-chain signals are getting denser. Upbit has already put BLUR on the trading warning list, suspended deposits and withdrawals, with the review period until the end of October; the next step is most likely delisting. Market maker Wintermute also transferred about 2.6 million USD worth of BLUR to exchanges, openly selling. Earlier, 19 new wallets withdrew nearly 50 million BLUR from Coinbase Prime.
Platform data can't hold up either. Blur protocol TVL dropped from 215.9 million in March 2024 to 22.63 million now, shrinking nearly 90%. In Q3 2026, fees collected were only $0.51, with zero revenue in the past 30 days.
On the chart, 380,000 sell orders are pressing at 0.01059 above, while support below is clearly insufficient. The long-short ratio is 77% to 23%, retail investors are still stubbornly holding long, but the chart says it all.
I continue holding the short entered at 0.01166, with a stop loss above 0.0125; below, first watch 0.010, breaking that means 0.009. The rest is up to time.
$BTC $ETH #美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ #奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点
Market consensus expectation: revenue of 12.87–13 billion USD, EPS of 0.84 USD
Netflix's own Q2 guidance for Q3: revenue of 12.86 billion, EPS of 0.82 USD, operating margin 33.2%
Key point: The company's own guidance is already below Wall Street's consensus, effectively an early "lowering of expectations." In this earnings environment, "exceeding company guidance" is relatively easy; significantly exceeding Wall Street consensus is more difficult.$SKHYNIX semiconductor has basically bottomed after a few days of decline. Worried about getting stuck when bottom-fishing contracts? Try Martingale?
The most suitable strategy now should be Martingale. Already arbitraged 3 rounds today.
$BTC $ETH Wash's speech seems useless, BTC and ETH have been moving sideways without any movement. Not sure where they will go, waiting for direction confirmation. Based on previous patterns, most likely a drop today, recovery on Sunday, then a rally.
#奈飞增长或放缓，广告业务成新看点
Netflix growth is slowing down, can advertising become a new highlight? I think it's a bit difficult.
#Latest single-day net inflow for US spot ETFs is $172 million — this is the first positive turn in this round of adjustment. But on the same day, BTC fell below 82,000. Who is buying, who is selling? First, the news. Two numbers moving in opposite directions: on the capital side, the ETF's latest single-day net inflow is $172 million (previously negative for several consecutive days), with a 5-day net outflow of $506.3 million and a 10-day net outflow of $333 million; on the price side, BTC is at $81,571.4, falling below 82,000, with the 20-day range lower bound at 80,400. On the sentiment side, the Fear & Greed Index dropped from 62 to 53; on the macro side, the S&P 500 fell 1.11%, gold dropped 0.34%, and the US dollar index declined 0.46%. Next, the impact on capital. The forces on the buying and selling sides can be analyzed separately: sellers are mainly leveraged accounts (stop losses triggered when price breaks key levels) and macro hedgers (reducing risk exposure after inflation exceeds expectations); buyers may come from passive ETF subscriptions and long-term holders buying on dips. When "allocation funds net buy" meets "trading funds net sell," the short-term price is determined by the latter — because leveraged selling is more concentrated and faster, while ETF subscriptions are slow and dispersed. Implications for BTC: a single-day positive capital flow is a necessary but insufficient signal. It indicates that at this price level, real money is willing to step in, but one positive day is not enough to change the trend. Historically, effective capital reversals usually meet at least two conditions: continuous net inflows over multiple days and prices no longer making new lows. Currently, only half of the first condition is met. I continueOn the night when the September PPI hit the largest increase in four years, nearly $1 billion in leverage was forcibly liquidated, with news reporting that nearly 60% of it was attributed to $ETH. The positions were indeed washed out: the ETH long-short ratio dropped from 2.60 to 1.96, and the 7-day open interest decreased by 6.0%; meanwhile, during the same period, $BTC open interest actually increased by 1.2% in one day.
But what was washed out was leverage; the potential selling pressure still remains on exchanges. ETH had a net outflow of 42,236 coins from exchanges on October 10-14 single days, yet the 7-day total still showed a net inflow of 132,803 coins, with exchange holdings up 0.86% over 7 days. The daily RSI at 29.5 has entered the oversold zone, but on-chain DEX trading volume over 7 days dropped by 16.9%, indicating the price drop did not translate into increased usage.
My ETH short position was stopped out during this back-and-forth with a -35.9% loss; the rebound after the liquidation will similarly trigger stop-outs.
Closing above the EMA50 at 2,496.15 on the daily chart indicates this round of deleveraging has ended; closing below the 30-day low at 2,315.26 means this liquidation is just the beginning.
Leverage has been cleaned out, but is the ETH piled up on exchanges waiting for buyers, or lining up to sell?
#ETH #ChipAnalysis #OnChainData
Personal observation, not investment advice, please assess risks yourself. $#NetflixQ3AdsAndMargins
Also:
Not easy to compete with several mega-caps that have all decided to prioritize their streaming libraries, don't need to make much $ on those libraries & have the balance sheets to outspend $NFLX by a wide margin.
My hot take is that I think this iconic company's best days are behind it.#Netflix growth may slow, advertising business becomes new focus $AR Developing truly dynamic websites requires AO.
Arweave itself is a permanent storage layer; once data is written, it cannot be modified. Real-time GraphQL mainly addresses the data discovery problem (helping you see newly uploaded content faster), but it cannot provide mutable state and business logic.
The capabilities needed for dynamic websites are roughly as follows:
Functions mainly responsible for storing permanent content/static resources: Arweave
Fast discovery of new data: real-time GraphQL (HyperBEAM)
User login, posting, state changes, likes, business logic, and other writable operations: AO process with updatable application state AO
Therefore:
For content display only or semi-dynamic list refreshes, real-time GraphQL can help.
To achieve interactive, state-changing dynamic websites, the AO computation layer must be paired.
Currently, the complete dynamic website stack is: Arweave (storage) + real-time GraphQL (discovery) + AO (computation and state). AO is indispensable.#Netflix growth may slow, advertising business becomes new focus $FIL Geopolitical conflict risks intensify benefits for centralized storage
Related event verification
Bahrain / UAE AWS data centers
Around March 2026, during conflicts involving Iranian drone attacks, multiple availability zones in AWS Bahrain and one availability zone in UAE (mec1-az2) suffered physical damage. By September 2026, AWS officially confirmed that resources and data exclusively hosted in these zones could not be recovered, resulting in permanent customer data loss. The official statement indicated that the damage exceeded the tolerance of multi-AZ design. Customers were advised to migrate to other regions.
Saudi airport
In October 2026, Houthi forces attacked Riyadh International Airport and other targets, causing casualties and operational disruptions. This incident mainly targeted civilian critical infrastructure rather than data centers directly, but it also highlights the physical risks to facilities in the Middle East due to geopolitical conflicts.
These events demonstrate that even large cloud providers' multi-availability zone redundancy can fail in actual war/attack scenarios, especially when data exists only in the affected regions.
Impact on decentralized storage
Positive pull (narrative + some demand)
The core advantage of decentralized storage is the absence of a single physical point of failure:
data is distributed across numerous independent nodes worldwide, not relying on data centers in any single country.
If the model is permanent storage, it is especially suitable for "cannot lose" archives, public records, AI training data, dApp frontends, etc.
Distributed storage provider networks can also offer geographically dispersed redundancy.
When geopolitical risks rise, such events reinforce the perception of "physical vulnerabilities in centralized clouds," prompting some users and projects to consider:
The real pain point in the Bahrain incident was computing and low-latency services—banking apps, ride-hailing dispatch, food delivery platforms were paralyzed. These require millisecond-level response for online business, which decentralized storage (with minute-level retrieval, no SLA) architecture cannot handle. What it can handle is: cold data archiving, tertiary backups, public interest archives—this is the real boundary of "taking over part of the business."
Therefore, a more realistic approach is hybrid use: hot data still uses centralized cloud, while cold archiving, permanent records, and censorship-resistant content use decentralized storage. The rebound in the storage sector today, I'll first cover my short positions, not considering it a trend reversal.
PPI year-on-year 6.3%, month-on-month 1.3%, the data is quite harsh, but BTC pulled back from the 24-hour low of 79,775 to around 82,160, indicating that after the macro negative news came out, the selling pressure did not continue to spread.
It's even more obvious in storage. SK Hynix plummeted 11.06% yesterday, rebounded about 2.5% today, looks strong, but actually only recovered a small part of the previous day's decline. SNDK closed at 1,394.83 yesterday, after-hours fell back to around 1,371, not even truly holding above 1,400. Saying the fundamentals have reversed now, I think it's too early.
This looks more like shorts taking profits after continuous declines combined with bottom-fishing funds grabbing the rebound. A real reversal requires at least: SK Hynix holding above 1.3 million KRW, SNDK recovering above 1,400 with continued volume, BTC breaking through 82,643 instead of being pushed back again.
So I won't chase this move. The three lines can't strengthen simultaneously, the rebound looks more like a window for trapped positions to reduce holdings. The demand logic for storage hasn't broken, but the first thing the stock price kills is crowding and valuation; crowding release doesn't mean the rise has restarted.
$SNDK $SKHYNIX #美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ 🔥 After BTC's wick down to 79,775, it V-reversed to 82,139, yet the greed index soared to 63! What exactly is this market playing at?
Last night, CPI exceeded expectations, triggering rate hike fears. BTC briefly fell below the 80,000 mark, but the fear and greed index surprisingly rose against the trend to 63, entering a "greedy state." The more it falls, the greedier it gets? Meanwhile, funds are quietly withdrawing: BTC spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $262 million in one day, totaling $151 million outflow this week.
On-chain signals are even more alarming: a certain whale sold a total of 1,601 BTC (about $132 million) within 5 days, fully rotating into 53,095 ETH at an average price of $2,497, a very clear directional move.
Key levels: 79,775 below is last night's wick low; below that is the psychological support at 78,000; above, 83,000 is the Bollinger middle band resistance.
Ordinary people are most conflicted right now: afraid to miss out after the V-reversal, but chasing risks getting trapped. But whales are rotating positions, institutions are withdrawing—are you sure you want to be the one left holding the bag? Did you make a move today? Let's talk about $BTC in the comments 👇#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ ZEC has finally rebounded! I'm waiting for the next opportunity to act!
It dropped sharply from 1695 all the way down to 1071.95, this drop was brutal! But my short position at 1405.55 is still open, with a steady unrealized profit of 149%.
I mentioned before that I hoped it would rebound first—a continuous slow decline makes it hard to find a rolling position rhythm. Now that it has pulled up near 1186, I've already opened a new isolated short position!
Market outlook:
- Daily chart: Significant pullback from 1695, currently still in a retracement phase, it's too early to talk about a reversal.
- 15-minute chart: Rapid rise from 1071 to 1186, showing strong short-term momentum.
- Key levels: Resistance above at 1195 and whether it can hold above 1200; if it rallies but fails and falls back below 1160, the short-term weakness probability greatly increases.
- If it breaks above 1200 with volume, I will reassess.
Today ZEC surged to 1241 in a single day, making it the brightest among altcoins, but this rebound feels more like a leveraged short squeeze plus capital rotation's false fire. Grayscale ZCSH ETF has had continuous net outflows in October, with redemptions exceeding $93 million in the week of October 2, indicating insufficient liquidity on the market. The go/no-go decision on the NU7 upgrade on October 20 hangs overhead, with a long-short ratio of 0.65 showing shorts clearly dominant.
Brothers, do you think this rebound can hold above 1200? Place your bets in the comments.
️ Personal review only, not trading advice.
BTC ETH $ZEC
#美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？ The South Korean stock market triggered a circuit breaker during trading, plunging nearly 8%, with global tech stocks collectively under pressure — but what’s truly worth watching are the two opposite signals appearing today simultaneously: the probability of a rate hike in October has fallen again, and both short- and long-term U.S. Treasury yields are moving down together. While everyone is focused on the stock index circuit breaker, the bond market has already cast its vote for the market. 📉 The core contradiction of this round of correction has never been just about high U.S. stock valuations, outdated themes, and the need for new earnings expectations to take over, but rather the three-way liquidity competition among U.S. stocks, U.S. Treasuries, and corporate bonds. Capital is limited; whoever is withdrawn first collapses first. This time, the stock market decline has instead pushed liquidity back into U.S. Treasuries, easing the previously tense pressure on the bond market. In other words, the pain in the stock market is temporarily the painkiller for the bond market. The positions of $BTC and gold in this liquidity redistribution are completely different. Gold is directly linked to interest rates and remains generally stable under the combination of falling rate hike probabilities and declining yields. Even if there is a sharp drop caused by short-term liquidity shortages, central bank gold purchasing demand still provides strong support, making it the preferred low-risk asset for betting on a rebound. This also explains why gold did not simultaneously lose value when risk assets broadly declined. The truly underestimated signal is tonight: the PPI is very likely to continue the downward trend of yesterday’s CPI. Even if the data unexpectedly falls below expectations, it can only bring a small rebound and cannot reverse the current downward trend. The market needs the FOMC decision and a cooling of U.S.-Iran tensions to gradually stabilize. Until then, patience itself is a position. A judgment that can be repeatedly cited: the stock index circuit breaker isThe whale who built a position at the peak is about to liquidate, losing 13.45 million
In September 2025, ETH was still around $4600. Someone started building a position then, and it kept dropping while they kept adding.
They withdrew a total of 15,810 ETH, with an average price of $4101, investing $63.85 million.
Over the past year, they have been continuously depositing 15,361 ETH into exchanges, with an average deposit price of $3226. Now ETH is around $2300; if they sell everything, the loss is $13.45 million. Only 572 ETH remain on-chain.
They kept adding for a year, from 4600 down to 1900, then held from 1900 up to 2300. Every drop was met with more buying, every rebound gave hope of breaking even. In the end, they chose to exit far from breaking even.
It's not that they didn't want to wait, they just waited enough.
Discuss in the comments: what's the worst averaging down you've seen, and to what extent?
The above is compiled from on-chain data and does not constitute any trading advice.
$BTC $ETH Brothers, out of 10 altcoins, 9 are shorted. When you see altcoins on the gainers list, they usually pump 30%, 40%, or even 80%, 90% in a day. At this time, it's all a bull trap.
My short on $AKE is a live example. Yesterday I saw it on the gainers list, it pumped 22% in 24 hours, but the sell orders were pressing down the buy orders, the price couldn't be pushed up. I shorted directly at 0.03151, today the mark price is 0.03065, floating profit +8.18%. The profit isn't big, but the direction was right — the pump is just giving you a shorting opportunity.
Why do I say altcoins on the gainers list are all bull traps? First, altcoins have no fundamental support; the pump relies entirely on capital pushing hard. The harder the pump, the more urgent the sell-off. Second, the order book shows the truth at the high point; no matter how many buy orders are placed, the price just can't hold, a typical case of wash trading to unload. Third, large unlocks and whale transfers to exchanges are all pre-set traps. For example, with AKE, 55% of circulating supply was transferred to Binance in the past 4 days, and 213 million tokens will unlock on October 21. The pump is just to distribute.
Don't chase the pump, don't believe in "takeoff." The faster altcoins pump on the gainers list, the harder they crash. Shorting at the top is the way to go, take a bite and run, don't get attached to the fight. Brothers, have you shorted this wave? Let's talk in the comments!
$BTC $ETH #美国CPI与PPI双超预期，年内能否再加息？