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📌 After the largest selling pressure has been released, has the market really bottomed out?
Recently, several signals in the market are worth noting:
The largest passive selling pressure in July has been digested;
Some institutions have started to refocus on quality tech assets;
Market funds are gradually flowing back from high-volatility themes to core leaders.
So the question arises:
Does this mean the bottom has appeared?
The answer might not be that simple.
① The largest sellers have exited, and market pressure has indeed eased
After Leopold's position adjustments were finalized, the biggest significance for the market is:
a persistent uncertain selling pressure has disappeared.
Previously, the market worried that if large-scale positions continued to be passively sold, it would further suppress tech stock performance.
Now, these chips have been taken over by large institutions, significantly reducing short-term selling pressure.
So you will find:
Although the market hasn't fully reversed recently, many tech stocks have started to recover.
This is why some funds have begun to reassess opportunities.
② July was not a simple crash but a round of fund re-selection
Many people think:
"Is the AI rally over?"
But in reality, July was more like an internal adjustment.
Even within the AI sector:
Microsoft rose after its earnings report;
Meta, however, was questioned by the market due to increased AI investment and cost pressures.
Why?
Because the market no longer simply rewards "telling AI stories."
Now funds focus more on:
Who can turn AI investment into profit.
In the future, funds may lean more towards:
✅ NVIDIA
✅ Broadcom
✅ TSMC
These core assets with real profitability.
③ The storage sector may be undergoing a re-pricing
In the past period, the storage sector became one of the market's strongest profit drivers.
But after rising too fast, a large amount of profit-taking has accumulated.
Some storage companies' earnings reports fell short of expectations, prompting the market to reassess:
Can the upward logic continue?
So currently, funds may be shifting:
From the high-volatility, high-expectation storage sector,
towards AI core leaders with stronger certainty.
This doesn't mean storage has no opportunities,
but it implies:
The chasing phase may be over, and new opportunities need to be awaited.
④ Is this the bottom now?
My view:
The most panic-stricken phase of the market may have passed, but confirming a reversal still requires time.
Several factors are worth continued observation:
US tech leaders' earnings performance;
Whether NVIDIA's next earnings can continue to validate AI demand;
Changes in the interest rate environment;
Whether funds continue to flow back into the tech sector.
Bottoms are usually not a single point but a process.
Truly safe opportunities often appear after the market moves from panic to differentiation.
⑤ Attitudes of large funds have also diverged
Interestingly:
On one side, some believe storage still has long-term value and choose to slowly build positions through options;
On the other side, some think the short-term gains are too large and prefer to wait for further technical confirmation.
This shows:
The market is not simply bullish or bearish,
but is searching for a new risk-reward balance.
Finally:
The biggest bearish factor disappearing does not mean an immediate full bull market.
But the market is shifting from "all assets falling together" to "survival of the fittest."
In the future, the real opportunities may not be the fastest rising stocks,
but those companies that can prove:
AI investment can be converted into real profits.
The most important thing in trading is not guessing the lowest point.
But finding positions with higher odds after risk has been released. #财报观察员：本周四场开奖，Circle压轴 $BICO Traditional commodities are all weakening:
* 🟡 $XAU : -0.86%
* 🥈 $XAU : -1.71%
* ⚪ $XPT : -2.19%
* ⚪ $XPD: -2.85%
* 🛢️ $CLU: -1.06%
* 🛢️$BZU is almost flat.
* ⛽ $NGU Natural gas slightly increased.
What does this indicate?
Usually:
- Gold falling ⇒ less safe-haven money.
- $BTC rising while gold falls ⇒ money tends to shift to riskier assets.
- However, if both gold and BTC fall together, that is a sign of market sell-off.
Currently:
- BTC is recovering from the 62k area to 63.8k.
- Gold is dropping nearly 1%.
➡️ This is a signal supporting a BTC rebound.
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At this point, there are signals:
✅ Whales are net buying BTC.
✅ MACD is weakening.
✅ RSI is neutral.
✅ Gold and precious metals are all declining.
✅ BTC is holding the 63k level.
But there is still one unfavorable point:
❌ BTC has not yet surpassed EMA20 and the 20-day MA.
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My assessed scenarios
Scenario 1 (higher probability ~65%)
- BTC fluctuates between 63k–64.5k.
- Possibly one more shakeout of Long positions.
- Then it breaks up to the 65.5k–66k range.
Scenario 2 (lower probability ~35%)
- BTC loses 62.3k.
- Liquidity sweep down to about 61.5k–62k before forming a bottom.
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What I will watch for
If in the next few sessions simultaneously:
- BTC breaks above 64.5k with high volume.
- Whale money continues net buying.
- Long/Short ratio decreases toward a more balanced level (too many Longs).
Then that will be a more reliable signal that BTC is entering a new uptrend, and altcoins usually benefit after BTC.
Currently, I lean toward the view: BTC is in an accumulation and bottoming phase rather than having fully confirmed a reversal. To confirm an uptrend, the market still needs a breakout surpassing key technical resistance zones.
#30YrYieldTopOrStart #EarningsWeekAhead #OKXTraderVoices Circle is the grand finale, the real focus is not on how much money was made
This week, four important earnings reports will be released one after another, with Circle closing the show
Circle is the company behind USDC, and its main revenue comes from interest generated by reserve funds
Therefore, with US Treasury yields at high levels, short-term income may increase
But the market is more concerned about USDC's circulation, market share, and the company's future outlook
Market outlook: neutral before earnings, choose direction after the announcement
If revenue exceeds expectations, USDC scale grows, and the company raises its outlook, it is favorable to be bullish on Circle and the stablecoin concept
If profits are good but USDC growth stalls, a rebound is more suitable for taking profits
A drop in Circle's stock price does not mean USDC will deviate from $1; the two should not be confused
#财报观察员：本周四场开奖，Circle压轴 The most interesting thing about $BTC and $ETH this week is not the price fluctuations, but the shift in capital battlefield.
After reading Lookonchain's weekly report from July 27 to August 2, my first impression is: liquidity in the crypto space is indeed contracting, but the desire to trade has actually increased.
The total market cap of stablecoins decreased by $2.55 billion in one week, which is a clear sign of marginal capital outflow. Normally, when "cash" on exchanges decreases, trading activity should also decline.
However, the opposite happened.
DEX spot trading volume rose by 12.77% week-over-week, perpetual contract volume increased by 20.15%, and the total weekly DEX perpetual trading volume reached $129.05 billion. Among them, Hyperliquid contributed $55.89 billion, up 38.16% week-over-week, accounting for about 43.3% of the total on a single platform.
Less money, but faster turnover.
This looks more like capital moving from stablecoin watch positions into high-frequency trading and derivatives, rather than a full recovery of risk appetite. For HYPE, the synchronous growth of Hyperliquid's trading volume and protocol revenue is a fundamental signal, but if the volume increase is mainly driven by leverage, it could also amplify subsequent liquidation volatility.
Corporate holdings data also show contrasts.
Ten listed companies collectively reduced their BTC holdings by 319 coins, worth about $20.2 million; Strategy alone reduced by 1,638 BTC, worth about $102.4 million. In other words, Strategy's selling was offset by about 80% through BTC accumulation by other companies, so it cannot be simply interpreted as "all institutions are retreating."
On the ETH side, BitMine bought 10,399 ETH, worth about $19.3 million, at an average price of around $1,856. While BTC corporate holdings slightly declined, ETH saw new institutional buying, indicating that corporate funds have not completely left the crypto market but are reallocating among different coins.
Regarding protocol revenue, PUMP's weekly income was about $9.23 million, up 18.64% week-over-week; Hyperliquid earned about $8.34 million, up 13.16%. Whether PUMP and HYPE can maintain their strength going forward depends not only on token prices but also on whether trading volume and revenue growth are sustainable.
The keyword this week is not "capital flight."
It is stablecoin reduction, rising leverage, BTC holding divergence, and localized ETH accumulation. Trading is hotter, but the safety cushion is thinner.
This is only a personal market observation and does not constitute investment advice. DYOR.
#交易之声：你的经验值得被听到 $This wave of US stock + BTC rebound boils down to two key things:
1. Trump hinted over the weekend that he won't strike Iran for now, causing oil prices to plummet (Brent briefly dropped over 5% to 83-84). When oil prices fall, inflation pressure eases, and the market shifts from risk-off to risk-on.
2. Last Friday, tech stocks performed strongly; Amazon's cloud business exceeded expectations, surging 15% after hours. The Nasdaq closed up 1%, and the S&P 500 rose 0.7%.
BTC touched 63600-63800 on Monday, now retreating to oscillate between 62600-63100.
Key levels: Support: 62800 (200-week moving average), then 62000 below. Resistance: 63800-64000, with 65000 being truly significant.
Currently, it's still a corrective rally, not a trend reversal. ETF fund flows are unstable, Coinbase premium is weak, and August seasonality is also bearish.
Don't chase the highs; wait for a pullback near 62800 before reassessing. To truly confirm the direction, we still need to see if 65000 can be taken out. This round of $BTC pullback should have peaked, preparing to continue bottom-fishing:
1. ETF continues to bleed (largest short):
7-day net outflow of 530 million, 30-day cumulative outflow of 2.16 billion. Institutions are voting with their feet, this is the toughest mid-term suppression.
2. Federal Reserve's divided decision suppresses risk appetite. Although the rate was maintained at 3.5–3.75% in July, internal division + inflation warnings, with talk of possible tightening. BTC has become everyone's priority sell-off target.
3. Retail bulls are too crowded, a contrarian indicator lights up:
Retail long-short ratio directly reached 66% long / 34% short, overwhelmingly bullish, historical patterns show such crowded bulls are easily crushed.
4. Regulatory uncertainty: SEC froze Nasdaq Bitcoin options approval, awaiting CME legal challenge results. Compliance derivatives timeline delayed, institutions lose one tool.
My judgment—sideways grind between 60–66K, may even break below 60K due to clear bill failure.No one is talking about Bitcoin anymore
Posts mentioning BTC on X have dropped to about 130,000 per week. ETH is even worse, with 40,000 posts
The last time it was this quiet was in 2020
Back then, ETFs hadn't been born yet, Wall Street hadn't entered, and institutions were still watching
Now? Institutional money has come in, retail investors have gone silent. Tweet volume has fallen back to 2020 levels, but the market structure is completely different from back then
Historically, every time tweet volume drops to this level, it's either the bottom or close to it
My judgment: when no one is talking, that's often the time to pay the most attention; real opportunities are never found in the hype 🙃The South Korean stock market suffered another heavy blow on August 3, prompting regulators to accelerate deleveraging efforts. The market's short-term high volatility pattern is difficult to break. On Monday, the KOSPI index plunged 5% to 6241 points, and the KOSDAQ index's decline triggered the sidecar mechanism, forcing a 5-minute suspension of program trading. Major stocks like Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix fell more than 7% in a single day, releasing concentrated market panic.
Currently, South Korean regulators are adopting a "control the increment, digest the stock" approach to suppress market volatility, which remains at historically high levels. In the short term, regulatory pace is accelerating, and the risk of leveraged ETF redemptions is worth attention. Before mid-August policy implementation, the Korean stock market may maintain high volatility and oscillation, while in the medium term, it will return to fundamentals such as memory storage. #韩股重挫5%，存储多空信号对峙 The real Achilles' heel under the illusion: the ultimate tug-of-war between ethics and interest rate spreads, what exactly is the iron lock jamming CLARITY?
This is not a multiple-choice question at all.
Among the two core sticking points of the "Payment Stablecoin Clarity Act" (CLARITY Act) currently made public, the so-called "ethics clause on federal officials and members of Congress holding tokens" hyped up by the media is merely a political smokescreen. The true ultimate deadlock that welds stablecoin legislation shut is the "stablecoin yield and interest clause" hidden in the shadows of the balance sheet, which determines the life and death of traditional commercial banks' liability side.
Retail investors and many crypto media outlets keep watching the partisan bickering daily, seeing Democratic lawmakers slam the table accusing Republicans of loosening the conflict-of-interest thresholds for officials holding digital assets, watching both sides argue heatedly over moral bottom lines and administrative audit details. Everyone thinks that as long as the two parties each give a little on whether officials can buy coins and how to report them—these "ethical trifles"—and reach a compliant moral compromise, this two-year-stalled bill can be smoothly resolved in the fall.
But if you think the ethics clause is the biggest stumbling block, it means you completely misunderstand what really determines the flow of geopolitical financial power—it’s never about moral integrity, but the cold "survival of interest rate spreads."
Because the interest clause physically undermines the foundation of traditional commercial banks.
This tears off the most hypocritical moral facade from the congressional debate table.
Let's break down the deadly financial noose behind the interest rate spread.
Allowing compliant stablecoins to provide interest yields, in the eyes of Wall Street and the Federal Reserve, is tantamount to approving a batch of "borderless shadow banks" not regulated by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), yet freely circulating 5% U.S. Treasury yields on-chain.
Currently, in the era of high U.S. Treasury yields at 5.28%, the interest on demand deposits at U.S. small and medium commercial banks is still suppressed around 0.5%. If stablecoin interest becomes legal, a mass deposit flight would directly evolve into an uncontrollable bank liquidity disaster.
Without cheap deposit liabilities, a bank’s credit leverage will completely break down.
The ethics clause is political putty; in an election year, the two parties can raise the threshold today and, with some interest exchanges elsewhere tomorrow, mold this moral clay into any shape at will.
But on the issue of stablecoin interest and deposit outflows, the banking lobby has absolutely no room for negotiation or compromise.
This shakes the core interest privilege of the Federal Reserve-commercial bank sovereign fiat currency system.
I used to follow macro legislation myself and was a political naive led by media PR. I blindly followed the news, thinking that once the ethics avoidance plan was settled, the compliant stablecoin sector would explode and I could recklessly open long positions in the secondary market. Until later, I had dinner with an uncle who is an executive at a traditional commercial bank. He calculated the multiplier backlash effect of interest spreads on bank credit scale for me, and I suddenly broke out in a cold sweat. It turned out that the compliance opening I was counting on was, in their eyes, a direct war to copy the old playbook. I immediately cut all my arbitrage expectations on interest-bearing stablecoins.
This macro intuition, bought with real money liquidation, saved my only principal at the beginning of August.
Politicians will compromise ethics for votes, but bankers will never compromise interest spreads for crypto.
A question for you: Facing this most sacred red line of sovereign fiat currency privilege, do you really think a few crypto lobbyists’ compromises can make Wall Street hand over the life-saving deposits, or are you just wishfully playing along with these financial powerhouses in a hopeless congressional drama?
#CLARITY法案错过休会窗口 🚨 August 7th could be a very critical time point.
After August 7th, the U.S. Congress will enter recess.
If the "Clear Act" is not formally advanced to a key stage within the next few working days, it will most likely have to wait until Congress reconvenes in September to continue discussions.
After September, the White House and Congress's top priority will likely be the budget bill.
After all, if the budget talks fail, the U.S. government could face a shutdown risk, which has a bigger impact.
So, from the timeline perspective, the advancement of the "Clear Act" may continue to be postponed.
This is also why many people are starting to lower their expectations for it to pass in 2026.
Of course, until the last moment, no one can be 100% certain of the outcome. CORE's 5 Most Easily Misunderstood Issues Right Now: How to View Mobile Mining, Whale Lockups, and Dual Staking?
1. About "Mobile Mining" — Must Clarify Concepts First, Otherwise Promotion Becomes Misleading
In the early days, the "cloud computing power" people got by clicking the Satoshi App on their phones was essentially a token distribution event, completely different from Bitcoin ASIC miners running SHA-256 PoW mining to secure the network.
The true security foundation of the CORE mainnet is Satoshi Plus: Bitcoin miners delegate their computing power to Core validators (without changing Bitcoin's main business, earning CORE rewards for free) + CORE holders stake for governance + BTC holders do non-custodial time-locked staking.
In short: what you get on your phone is a "meal ticket," while BTC computing power delegation is "guarding the vault." Calling the former mining is a dimensionality reduction misinterpretation of BTC's native consensus. Please fix the concept firmly in community discussions.
2. Will Node Staking Whales Give Up When Costs Drop from $6 to $0.02?
Some won't, some will; it needs to be viewed separately.
A significant portion of node staking is hard lockup for running the network— to earn validator rewards and governance weight, you must lock CORE/BTC according to rules. This is a different decision system from retail investors watching K-line trades. Long-term funds view BTCFi infrastructure on a multi-year basis and won't fully liquidate just because CORE dropped from 6.14 to 0.02.
But "long-term staking" ≠ "never moving": institutions have redemption cycles, LP expirations, and financial report pressures. The single address unstaking 440 BTC in July 2026 is an example. Rational conclusion: lockups are a positive signal but not an "immortal pass" to never sell.
3. CORE Price Is 0.02, So Why Are There Still 2400+ BTC Lying in Dual Staking?
Because the BTC holders who entered never intended to sell BTC.
The logic of the BTC base holders is: I hold BTC for 3-5 years; cold wallet storage is idle, so why not lock BTC into Core with non-custodial time locks, stack CORE staking to reach Dual Staking Boost/Super/Satoshi tiers, and get free CORE rewards plus lstBTC liquidity. They are betting on CORE ecosystem's long-term value, not today's 0.02 or 0.03 price fluctuations. The lower the price, the higher the "sunk cost" in CORE staking, but the BTC principal remains untouched; whales don't care.
4. Why Do Whales Stake CORE Instead of Selling BTC During BTC Bull Runs? The Logic Ordinary People Don't Understand
Ordinary traders think "sell to take profit when price rises," whales think "BTC is real estate on the balance sheet."
Base allocation: selling 10-20% in a rally is enough to improve cash flow; the remaining 80% is meant to be held through cycles;
Betting on the sector: optimistic about BTCFi turning dormant BTC into interest-bearing assets, locking BTC early into foundational infrastructure, betting that in 3 years CORE will be the BTCFi base and locked BTC will earn compounded CORE rewards;
It's not pure "project support," but an asset allocation of "idle BTC + long-term options," with a side bet on the sector.
5. With CORE's Narrative Established, Will Similar Projects Like Mining on Watches, Cars, Refrigerators Appear?
Definitely, but most won't survive a full cycle.
DePIN + lightweight terminal customer acquisition costs are extremely low; mining on watches/cars/routers is just a traffic shell. Whether a project succeeds doesn't depend on what the terminal looks like but on three things:
Whether the underlying public chain truly has external security backing (CORE has BTC computing power; clones do not)
Whether there are real, billable application scenarios (like SatPay, lstBTC, Colend lending)
Whether there is independent cash flow separate from token inflation (fee buyback and burn, stablecoin interest spread)
Projects relying solely on "mining on watches to give away tokens" without business support are short-term hype schemes, not BTCFi. $XRP single transaction is $86,000, while $BTC is only $14,000, this data is quite interesting
Just saw a set of data on TradingView, quite interesting.
The average single transaction size of XRP has reached $86,680, ranking first among the top ten coins by market cap. How much is Bitcoin? $14,200. Ethereum is even lower, $3,280.
The average amount transferred per XRP transaction is 6 times that of BTC and 26 times that of ETH.
This implies two things:
First, the XRP chain might not just be retail investors playing.
A high proportion of large transfers means either institutions are reallocating, whales are moving funds, or exchanges are shuffling wallets. Whatever the case, these are not retail investor activities.
Second, the XRP chain is being used as a "transfer tool."
In the past 6 months, $2.6 billion of tokenized RWA has been added on XRPL, ranking second among all public chains. Stablecoin transfer volume has also increased by 10.8% in the past 30 days, reaching $4.28 billion. Someone is using XRP to move large sums of money, and it's becoming more frequent.
But interestingly—the money is moving on-chain, yet XRP price is only $1.07, down 0.8% in 24 hours. The chain is active, but the price is stagnant. This indicates these transfers might not be buying pressure but fund reallocations, not new capital inflows.
On the other hand, ETF data is also interesting. Bitcoin spot ETFs saw a net outflow of $61.53 million last week, ending three consecutive weeks of net inflows. Fidelity's FBTC had an outflow of $85.18 million. But Ethereum ETFs had net inflows for the fourth consecutive week, adding $27.42 million last week.
On one side, XRP single transactions are $86,000, big money moving on-chain; on the other, Bitcoin ETFs are flowing out while Ethereum ETFs are flowing in; XRP price is stagnant while institutions are reshuffling.
My own judgment: big money is indeed moving, but probably not buying, just reallocating. ETF funds are shifting from BTC to ETH, and large on-chain transfers are increasing—these signals together suggest funds are being reallocated rather than rushing in.
I won’t add positions or cut losses at this point. Historically, August is the worst month for BTC, so I’ll wait until it passes.
Let's discuss in the comments, do you think these $86,000 single transactions are institutions entering or whales moving funds?This round of $BTC pullback should have peaked, preparing to continue bottom-fishing:
1. ETF continues to bleed (largest short):
7-day net outflow of 530 million, 30-day cumulative outflow of 2.16 billion. Institutions are voting with their feet, this is the toughest mid-term suppression.
2. Federal Reserve's divided decision suppresses risk appetite. Although the rate was maintained at 3.5–3.75% in July, internal division + inflation warnings, with talk of possible tightening. BTC has become everyone's priority sell-off target.
3. Retail bulls are too crowded, a contrarian indicator lights up:
Retail long-short ratio directly reached 66% long / 34% short, overwhelmingly bullish, historical patterns show such crowded bulls are easily crushed.
4. Regulatory uncertainty: SEC froze Nasdaq Bitcoin options approval, awaiting CME legal challenge results. Compliance derivatives timeline delayed, institutions lose one tool.
My judgment—sideways grind between 60–66K, may even break below 60K due to clear bill failure.The problem exposed by Coldcard this time is even more troublesome than "hardware wallets can also have vulnerabilities."
Coinkite officially confirmed that some older firmware seeds may only have about 72 bits of entropy, with the normal expected 128 bits. A 56-bit difference means the theoretical search space is reduced by about 7.2×10¹⁶.
Many people, seeing that the new firmware version has been fixed, tend to think the matter is over there. But devices can be upgraded; previously generated mnemonic phrases will not be upgraded accordingly. The new firmware protects seeds created in the future, preventing a set of existing weak seeds from being re-converted into 128-bit entropy.
To determine whether the mnemonic phrase is within the scope of influence, the key is to look at the version in which the mnemonic phrase was generated, not the version currently displayed on the device:
Mk2/Mk3 involve 4.0.1—4.1.9;
Mk4/Mk5 should pay attention to seeds generated before the remedial version 5.6.0 or 6.6.0X;
Q should focus on seeds generated before 1.5.0Q or 6.6.0QX.
The official team also made an exception: adding at least 50 independent, private dice inputs when generating seeds can provide extra entropy.
Hardware wallets isolate private keys, but random quality is the foundation of the entire security. No matter how hard the shell is and the foundation leaves gaps, assets originally preserved offline can still become calculable targets.
#Coldcard安全事件升级, fourth wave attack warning US-Iran Return to Negotiation Table, Crypto Market Receives a "Complex Positive"
Last week, Trump made strong statements on social media, claiming the military's "guns were loaded" and ready to launch a high-intensity military strike on Iran. Even the US State Department urgently advised its citizens in the Middle East to consider evacuation.
However, within less than two days, the situation took a dramatic turn.
Trump suddenly reversed course on Air Force One, announcing the cancellation of the planned military action and instead initiating talks on Monday. Previously, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, and other countries had successively mediated, and Iran expressed willingness to delay the conflict.
After the news broke, the capital markets quickly responded.
Brent crude oil plunged more than 7% during trading, briefly hitting a low of $81.55 per barrel. WTI crude also fell below the $80 mark, erasing nearly one-third of the significant monthly gains accumulated earlier.
Meanwhile, cryptocurrencies and risk assets rebounded. Bitcoin surged above $63,000, mainstream coins like Ethereum and SOL generally rose, US stock index futures climbed in tandem, and spot gold broke through $4,080.
Many in the market began celebrating the easing of the geopolitical crisis and anticipated a sustained rally in risk assets.
However, from Bitcoin’s perspective, the easing of tensions does not equate to a straightforward positive.
Breaking down the logic, the market is actually facing two completely opposite evolutionary paths.
The first path points to a positive impact: the sharp drop in oil prices reduces inflationary pressure, opening policy space for the Federal Reserve to cut interest rates later.
With improved liquidity expectations, valuations of various risk assets, including cryptocurrencies, are likely to be reshaped. Previously, high oil prices were the biggest obstacle to a shift in monetary policy, and now the oil price trend undoubtedly reinforces the rationale for rate cuts.
The second path points to negative impact: the cooling of localized conflict directly leads to a rapid decline in risk aversion. The "risk premium" previously embedded in gold and Bitcoin begins to fade, potentially triggering short-term outflows of some safe-haven funds.
In recent times, the tense Middle East situation objectively strengthened Bitcoin’s role as a "digital hedge," but now this premium is being stripped away by the market.
Comparing the two, when oil prices plunged sharply, Bitcoin only showed a slight follow-up rise, indicating that the second concern still suppresses the asset’s upside, and the market has not fully committed.
Investors hesitate because the situation itself still harbors many risks.
Iran’s officials publicly denied claims of "actively seeking peace" and emphasized that navigation order in the Strait of Hormuz cannot simply return to the pre-conflict state. Considering this standoff has lasted for months, such sudden strategic shifts are not unprecedented.
In fact, the development of crypto assets does not depend on geopolitical turmoil; its long-term core support lies in the continuous dilution of fiat currency purchasing power. The decline in commodity prices precisely creates conditions for central banks worldwide to reopen monetary easing.
In the short term, the withdrawal of safe-haven funds inevitably puts some pressure on prices; but from a medium-term perspective, improved inflation conditions are crucial for macroeconomic recovery. As long as the trend of monetary easing is not interrupted, phased price adjustments instead serve as important tests of asset resilience.
The most critical question now is: will the upcoming dialogue truly materialize?
Some regional mediators claim talks are nearing conclusion, and the US hinted at some consensus on key strait issues; however, Iran clarified that specific navigation arrangements do not equate to a full restoration of strait order.
One side claims breakthroughs, the other remains cautious.
Therefore, the current sharp capital market fluctuations merely reflect a repricing of the fact that "a full-scale conflict will not erupt in the short term."
As for whether geopolitical peace can last, we still need to wait for the next phase of developments to unfold.#USIranNegotiationsOilPriceSignificantlyDrops 一种强烈的信念正在形成——以太坊的市场动态正在经历根本性转变，该资产展现出越来越理性的行为，表明重大机构影响力正渗入价格发现过程。这一成熟化是以太坊从加密原生资产向主流金融工具演变的关键一步，其交易动态日益复杂化。 最近的周五回调正好发生在传统金融收盘时，看起来像是机构在主导而非历史上加密市场常见的散户驱动波动。这一时机具有重要意义，因为表明专业交易者在周末前积极管理仓位，形成了与传统资产管理模式更为一致的模式，而非加密原生交易行为。以太坊过去一个月未跟随比特币高贝塔系数运行的事实进一步支持了机构影响力增强的论点。历史上，以太坊往往对比特币呈现高贝塔，即同向波动更大。最近的脱钩表明以太坊正在发展自己的交易动态和独立于比特币价格行动的叙事。 当前交易行为感觉不再像Jane Street的交易，而更像是Citadel、贝莱德和其他大型机构做市商积极参与以太坊市场。这种市场微观结构的转变反映了加密交易日益机构化以及参与这一市场的投资者基础日益成熟。以太坊开始表现得像一个真正的理性化资产，其价格发现由基本面因素驱动，而不仅仅是加密原生资金流。这种转变是资产发展中的关键一步，可能对其未来价格轨迹Bitcoin Market Analysis on August 3 🧵
BTC's short-term structure is currently still in an upward continuation pattern, which is a typical bullish continuation setup. As long as the consolidation and accumulation phase completes smoothly, the price is very likely to continue pushing higher.✅
From a technical pattern perspective, the current market is gradually forming an inverse head and shoulders pattern, which is what we commonly call a reverse head and shoulders. The right shoulder structure is not yet complete; once the right shoulder is built and the neckline is effectively broken, it will confirm a trend reversal and open up new upward potential.📈
In terms of trading, existing long positions at low levels should continue The AI industry is undergoing another significant shift in market landscape, with cheaper frontier model pricing widening the performance gap between application layer winners and hardware vendors. This trend continues the rotational pattern of AI investments seen in previous quarters, as AI models become more accessible and less costly, shifting the value chain from hardware providers to application and service companies. The market is pricing in another round of declines in inference economics, which will have a profound impact on the AI ecosystem. The SOXX index closed at 497, down 1.6% in pre-market trading, highlighting the pressure on chip suppliers. Storage companies such as Micron (MU) fell 3.3%, SanDisk (SNDK) dropped 2.9%, and Western Digital (WDC) dropped 2.2%, reflecting market concerns about the sustainability of their growth. Other hardware-related stocks such as Arm (ARM) fell 2.2% and AMD dropped 1.4%, both of which were hit. In stark contrast, the application layer performance was up 2.6%, Google (GOOGL) rose 1.7%, Amazon (AMZN) rose 1.6%, Oracle (ORCL) rose 1.8%, and Meta (META) rose 1.4%. This differentiation confirms the market judgment—the benefits of cheaper AI models are flowing to application and service providers rather than hardware vendors. AI model pricing competition is intensifying. DeepSeek's V4-Flash is priced at $0.14 per million input tokens, $0.28 per output token, with testing costs around $0.28#SPCX首份财报将公布，千亿美元解禁在即
The pressure of a $100 billion unlock is looming, and Musk's "big talk discount" is being realized.
SpaceX's first quarterly report hasn't been released yet, but the stock price has already halved from the June high of $225 to $108, nearly 20% below the $135 IPO price, with the market having already given its answer in advance.
The core contradiction is: 911.5 million shares worth over $100 billion will be unlocked on August 6, while the current public float is far smaller than this number. Who will take them? Unless the financial report delivers earth-shattering good news, selling pressure is almost inevitable.
So what counts as "earth-shattering"?
Not a 50% growth in Starlink—the market already knows that. Not "landing on Mars next year"—Musk says that every year but always misses the mark; the market is now desensitized to long-term PPTs and needs a near-term, verifiable, commercially profitable catalyst.
The only thing that could calm the market is an announcement of a moon landing this year or next. Not 2030, not "planned," but a specific timetable, concrete contracts, and clear revenue expectations. But given SpaceX's history of delays, this probability is very low.
Musk's problem is: when he's right, he boasts wildly; when he's wrong, he acts as if he never said anything. The market is pricing in this "big talk discount." Without solid achievements, on the day the financial report is released and before the unlock, the stock price will struggle to hold.
A drop is, with high probability, the only direction.Just saw some news that Michael Saylor, who always shouts "only buy, never sell," his Strategy company just filed documents showing that from the end of July until now, they secretly sold 1,637 BTC, converting it back into $102 million in cash.
This old guy holds over 840,000 $BTC, making him the largest holder among publicly listed companies worldwide. He used to boast loudly, saying he would never sell. What’s going on now that he’s secretly selling?
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#韩股重挫5%，存储多空信号对峙 $XAG buddy, at this 57.36 level, you absolutely cannot bet on the Fed's news! You must follow my "Data Landing Strategy":
【How to bottom-fish / go long?】 (Light position ambush before data landing)
· Left-side catch-the-knife position: Don't touch it now! If you insist on ambushing, patiently wait for it to pull back to the 55.00 - 55.50 range (near the previous low). If the 1-hour chart falls here and can't break lower, showing a long lower shadow, you can only use an extreme micro position of 3% of your total capital to establish a base position, betting that the Fed might dovetail!
· Absolute life-saving stop loss: firmly set at 54.00! As long as the 1-hour closing price breaks below 54.00, it means the Fed's bearish news is confirmed, immediately cut losses without hesitation and exit!
· Right-side chase (confirm direction): Don't jump the gun! Wait until the Fed finishes speaking and the market fluctuates violently. If the price breaks through and holds above 62, then enter to chase and kill the long positions!
【How to short?】 (Top testing and trial)
· The only shorting position: If it rebounds to 61.00 - 61.50, and you find the Fed's news leaning hawkish, directly take a very small short position with a stop loss, aiming to profit from the pullback to 57.
· Short stop loss: set at 62.50. Once it breaks through, it means the Fed has fully loosened policy, immediately accept the loss and retreat!Last week's comment about "Meme coins being a bet on the duration of jokes with leverage" seemed to have struck a nerve within the crypto community. This observation reveals the fundamental vulnerability of meme coin investments and has sparked widespread discussion about token sustainability based on network culture and social popularity. Reflecting on these reactions, we are even more convinced that Meme coins no longer have long-term sustainability, for reasons far beyond common surface issues like pumping and selling, running away, and pre-running bots. The fundamental issue is that every modern Meme coin is essentially an oracle tracking off-chain attention—it is a tokenized representation of attention generated by a particular network meme or cultural moment. This reliance on external attention creates inherent vulnerability, as memes and cultural references typically have limited lifespans and public attention fades quickly. More complexly, the actual users purchasing these tokens have not expanded beyond the crypto community, so the investor base is limited to the existing crypto community. This means that meme coin investors are essentially betting that their crypto fans will remain interested in a certain meme. Tokens like PEPE, DOGE, SHIB, BONK maintain a certain stickiness because the memes they represent hold special significance for the crypto users driving the trades. These tokens are rooted in crypto culture, and their meanings and references resonate with the trading community. But even these mature meme coins face huge challenges in maintaining long-term attention. In crypto trading, the fastest way to liquidate positions is through leverage; And the fastest way to completely reset itAfter SpaceX hit a historic low of 104.83 just after the market opened, it quickly rebounded back above 112. From the market language perspective, this should be the last time before the earnings report to sweep the long position stop-loss zone.
There is still one and a half full trading days left until the after-hours earnings report on August 4th. If the earnings report is excellent due to the rumored steady growth in Starlink subscriptions, combined with the huge unrealized gains from the previous 200 million shares of short borrowings, the demand for short covering and risk hedging will also be strong.
It is said that the cost basis for these 200 million short shares is around 140, so taking profits now would be very considerable. The only thing determining the market now is the earnings report. If the data exceeds expectations so much that it overshadows the massive unlocking coming on the 6th, then on the 5th there is a chance for a short squeeze jump above 130.
The definition of this outperformance is whether Starlink can reach $3.82 billion in revenue and $1.42 billion in operating profit, and whether the AI business’s approximately $10.2 billion capital expenditure has started to generate sufficient income.
From the data, Starlink had about 10.3 million users at the end of Q1, nearly doubling year-over-year, but ARPU dropped nearly 25%.
The premise to ignite a short squeeze is: revenue and profit margins significantly exceed expectations, AI revenue is realized, capital expenditure and cash burn do not continue to spiral out of control, and management provides credible third-party computing power orders and future guidance. If it can close above 110 today and recover to 113.5–115 before tomorrow’s earnings, that would be a relatively good scenario.
Whether my SPCX position can break even depends on this earnings report; if it can rebound above the issue price, I can also stop my losses.
$SPCX 👑 $QUEEN MARKET UPDATE 👑
💎 #PYTH / USDT (Pyth Network)
• Current State: First-party financial oracle network holding steady horizontal support across recent sessions.
• Support Zone: $0.28 - $0.32
• Resistance Zone: $0.38 - $0.43
• Strategy: Core Web3 data layer asset. Accumulate within value zones ahead of broader network expansion. #韩股重挫5%，存储多空信号对峙
The KOSPI crashed again today, down 5%, with Samsung and SK Hynix both dropping over 8%. Just a week ago, it hit the largest single-day gain in history, and today it gave it all back.
The reason is quite simple: South Korean financial authorities are tightening measures on leveraged ETFs, reducing the leverage ratio for single-stock leveraged ETFs to 1.5x. Leveraged funds are being forcibly unwound, naturally causing the market to collapse.
Institutions are still bullish. Nomura raised Samsung's operating profit forecast for 2028 to 770 trillion KRW, and Bank of America says memory demand will continue to rise through 2028. Fundamentals look good, but the market is falling because short-term price drivers are forced deleveraging, not fundamentals. This is very similar to crypto—some projects are favored by institutions long-term, but that doesn't prevent them from being hammered short-term by leverage. Fundamentals determine the long-term direction, but short-term trends are decided by who is forced to sell.
Another signal worth noting is that the Roundhill DRAM fund reduced its Samsung holdings by about $432 million and added ChangXin Memory Technologies to its portfolio. ChangXin's listing is changing the global capital allocation and asset structure in the memory sector. The big three are becoming the big four, pricing power is being redistributed, and who is overvalued or undervalued is the root of the divergence.
Mapping this to crypto, two signals emerge: new liquidity in the South Korean crypto market will be under short-term pressure; the pattern of improving fundamentals and loosening regulation is also happening in crypto.
My view remains unchanged: after removing excessive leverage, market pricing efficiency will improve. Short-term pain may not be a bad thing in the medium to long term.
$ETH $SOL $BEAT [The White House plans to discuss a regulatory framework with AI companies including OpenAI on Tuesday, establishing a voluntary review mechanism before model release]
1. The core point of this regulatory plan is a voluntary review mechanism, not a mandatory law. Compared to the previously feared strict regulatory bans in the market, the policy is clearly more moderate, significantly alleviating systemic negative expectations in the AI sector and benefiting tech giants in continuing to advance large model iterations.
2. The policy direction sends a clear signal: the U.S. seeks to balance innovation and risk. The government no longer imposes blanket restrictions on AI development, choosing instead to negotiate and co-govern with leading companies. OpenAI, Google, and other leaders will further strengthen their compliance advantages, and the industry’s Matthew effect will continue to intensify.
3. Bullish operational strategy reference. There is no need to panic sell AI-related assets in the short term; instead, use emotional pullbacks to build positions in core leaders. Continuously track the details of Tuesday’s meeting implementation; if the terms remain lenient, the AI sector is expected to see valuation recovery. Positioning should be done in batches, focusing on companies with self-developed large model capabilities, avoiding pure concept plays.
Overall, this regulatory framework leans toward moderation, dispelling extreme market pessimism and providing mid-to-long-term benefits to leading companies that truly possess AI technological barriers.$3.4 BEAT, do you dare catch this flying knife?
First, look at the surface: it’s crashed hard, but someone is secretly buying the dip.
From the $11 ATH in June down to 3.3, halved twice. Dropped nearly 7% in 24 hours, over 20% in a week. If you chased at the $11 peak, your face must be green now.
On August 1, when 21.25 million BEAT (worth $68 million) unlocked and flowed into the market, the price didn’t crash; instead, it rose 11% to $4.49, even briefly hitting $4.7.
First thing: the unlock didn’t dump the market because someone was burning tokens like crazy.
21.25 million BEAT entered circulation, accounting for 6.9% of the circulating supply at that time. Normally, such a big supply shock would push the price down at least 20%.
What happened? Buyers directly absorbed the selling pressure.
Why? Because Audiera’s “revenue-to-burn” mechanism is working—the platform uses nearly 100% of weekly revenue to buy back and burn BEAT. In the last week of July, 797,000 BEAT were burned (worth about $1.84 million). Total burned has exceeded 17 million.
Second thing: institutions are buying, whales are accumulating.
On the unlock day, August 1, BEAT surged 17% to a six-week high of $4.7, driven by whales actively buying large amounts.
Retail investors panic “the unlock will dump the market,” while big players use the panic to accumulate cheaply.
Third thing: fundamentals haven’t collapsed, the narrative remains.
Audiera is a Web3 rhythm game + AI music platform on BNB Chain (“Dance & Earn”), with a total token supply of 1 billion, circulating about 310-330 million.
Weekly revenue nearly 800,000 BEAT (about $2 million), all used for burning.
Agent Economy roadmap released; AI agents will autonomously generate, own, and trade value.
This is not a pure meme coin; it’s a GameFi project with real revenue, a burn mechanism, and an AI narrative.
Key levels
Resistance above: 3.60-3.80 → 4.20-4.50 → 5.00+
Support below: 3.20-3.30 → 3.00-3.10 → 2.60-2.8
Short-term traders:
Light long positions near 3.20-3.35 support, stop loss at 3.00, target 3.60-3.80. If it breaks below 3.00 and confirms, exit decisively, target 2.60-2.80.
Swing traders:
Wait for volume to push above 3.80-4.00 before entering on the right side, target 4.50-5.00. Or wait for a pullback to the strong support zone at 3.00-3.10 to build positions gradually.
Long-term believers:
Only suitable for very small positions (1-2%), betting on Agent Economy + continuous burning driving value recovery. But remember—the risk of altcoins going to zero always exists, don’t go all-in. $BEAT In my opinion, the problem does not lie in the diversification of Crypto.
We can never restrict teams with ideas and creativity from building something new.
My stance has always been:
The market's reward mechanism is flawed, and the market lacks a real punishment mechanism to restrict those who never follow the rules.
Years of experience have taught me one thing:
Engage in business and industry outlook discussions with teams that have ideas, creativity, and idealism.
However, do not work with them or start businesses together, and try to avoid investing in their projects.
When investing, choose the "scammers."
Because they know how to get a Token listed and push up the price.
Yes, this statement might sound unpleasant.
But there is a clear internal logic behind it.
Those decent, idealistic teams seem to have a strange moral fastidiousness.
They prefer to wait for "market value discovery" rather than aggressively marketing their projects.
Even when seeking cooperation, they carry a kind of aloofness that few can resonate with.
This leads to:
Their projects are hard to be noticed and even less likely to be FOMOed by the market.
Scammers are different.
When scammers do this, they have only one goal:
Find a good story → seek various partnerships to increase project credibility → full throttle marketing machine → get listed and market-make → exit.
The whole process is very smooth.
Because their goal is very clear:
They are after financial returns.
We cannot expect everyone in the market to have reliable discernment.
That is unrealistic.
Originally, helping users identify project integrity and value should be done by the upstream of the industry chain.
But unfortunately, not only have they not done this, but everyone has also collectively formed and amplified the entire scam.
Yes, this is the crypto version of a pig-butchering scam.
If these problems are not solved, we are just redefining what a "good project" is, which is only scratching the surface.
Over the past years, we have changed narratives countless times and redefined countless times.
And then?
Before a real and effective punishment mechanism is in place, the entire industry will inevitably slide toward scams.
It's simple: if making money is easy, no one wants to work hard to earn money.
What ultimately forms and strengthens is:
Scams look more attractive.
Then, through the continuous internal competition and cycle of bad money driving out good money, the entire industry keeps heading in a worse direction. $BTC $ETH Sudden $BTC buying on Binance and OKX after ISM PMI jumped to a 50-month high.
Looks good.Chip Migration: Retail Investors Flee, Foreign Capital Returns, South Korea's Storage Sector Completes a Full Deleveraging Cycle
Capital flow in the South Korean stock market saw a complete reversal at the end of July.
For almost the entire year, foreign investors have been selling while retail investors have been buying.
The lower the stock price fell, the more retail investors rushed in, with all funds concentrated in Samsung Electronics, SK Hynix, and leveraged ETFs.
Foreign investors sold as much as retail investors bought, all on leverage.
But in the latest trading day, this reversed.
Foreign investors had a single-day net purchase of nearly 7.3 trillion KRW, while retail investors had a single-day net sale of nearly 10 trillion KRW — marking the most extreme chip exchange record this year.
Those South Korean retail investors who had been bottom-fishing all along finally started to exit on the rebound.
Some had been trapped too long and hurried to exit once back to cost; some were forced to reduce leverage due to margin calls; others were redeeming leveraged ETFs, triggering automatic liquidation.
After a series of continuous sharp declines, margin calls, and forced liquidations, retail investors' cash reserves have bottomed out, and their risk appetite has diminished.
Foreign investors are exactly the opposite.
Valuations have dropped, crowding has eased, leverage has been cleared, and South Korean semiconductors are no longer as expensive.
Global capital is recalculating and sees this as a buying opportunity.
The previous script was: foreign investors exit, retail investors buy.
Now it is gradually becoming: retail investors exit, foreign investors buy.
One day’s data can’t prove a reversal, but chips are indeed changing hands — from highly leveraged retail investors back to global institutional hands.
In a market that has already fallen deeply, such a turnover is often the first step at the bottom.
Retail investors are running, foreign investors are catching. Where have we seen this script recently?
Buy the moat, ride the bull — buy the moat, hold the long bull.
$SKHY $MU #USStocks #AStocks #Storage #Semiconductors #Chips🔈🔈@okx has officially launched a new feature allowing Pre-IPO Pre-Market Perpetual trading for the world's leading companies right now: $SPACE , $OPENAI , and $ANTHROPIC .
#OKX is the first Tier 1 exchange to let users access and trade based on market expectations for top tech companies even before they IPO.
💥Notably, liquidity is building up pretty quickly just a short time after launch - Around over $400 million shows the market is genuinely interested in this narrative.
✅Personally, I think this is a pretty noteworthy development direction for the crypto market in the near future.
In the past, retail investors had almost no chance to access narratives like this early on; it was only for big funds or private investors...Retail usually only starts paying attention once the IPO has happened and most of the narrative is already priced in.
Right now, the gap between traditional markets and crypto is gradually narrowing.
Of course, this is still a futures product, so it comes with high risk, especially for narratives with strong volatility. Folks joining in should still prioritize careful capital management. The cryptocurrency market experienced another dramatic emotional reversal over the past weekend, vividly demonstrating the digital asset's high sensitivity to political headlines and statements from top figures. What was originally a typical low-liquidity weekend consolidation period was completely transformed by a breaking news—former President Trump first made aggressive military threats, triggering a sharp global volatility in risk assets; Bitcoin and Ethereum plunged sharply in response, with traders cutting down to avoid risk. However, just 24 hours later, Trump changed his stance, saying diplomatic channels still existed, and the market immediately staged a V-shaped reversal, with BTC and ETH almost regaining all lost ground. This "every word and action is the market" situation highlights that today's crypto traders must not only pay attention to on-chain data and technical charts but also constantly monitor political posts. This round of volatility over the weekend was essentially a rapid pricing and fading of geopolitical risk premiums. As Trump's tone softened, crude oil prices plunged about 6%, and the risk premiums that had surged due to supply disruption concerns quickly evaporated. Storage chip sectors such as SanDisk (SNDK), SK Hynix, Micron (MU), and Samsung have also fully recovered their losses, demonstrating the semiconductor industry's high sensitivity to geopolitical news—after all, these companies' supply chains span the globe, and any escalation of conflict could trigger a chain reaction. Looking ahead to Monday, Nasdaq futures rose pre-market trading, and SQQQ, shorting the Nasdaq, may come under pressure, with risk appetite clearly returning. However, investors remain vigilant, as the situation in the Middle East remains uncertain, and any new statements could once again shake up the marketCryptocurrency bullish scenario.
0. Institutional funds accelerate inflow through clarity.
1. US corporate earnings surprises do not appear; currently consistently below consensus, gradually causing fatigue with stocks.
2. That said, stocks cannot crash severely, because if that happens, rebound expectations will cause funds to flow back into stocks.
3. US long-term Treasury yields (10-year, 30-year) decline, making the US easing environment looser.
4. To achieve that, harassment of Jeremy Robinson must stop, and geopolitical conflicts need to reduce somewhat.
5. At the same time, block the yen and delay Japanese interest rate hikes as much as possible.
6. With the above conditions met, to continuously generate yields, cryptocurrencies with legal safety nets attract hedge funds and institutions.
7. Slowly rising, retail investors begin to gather. Crypto ETFs from asset management companies flourish.
8. A major bull market arrives, and everyone starts printing money.
Congratulations everyone.😘#30年期美债，顶部还是新起点？
This week, you don't need to watch every event in the US stock market.
There are really only three key lines:
What the Federal Reserve says,
Whether AI earnings can continue to hold up,
And whether employment data will change rate cut expectations.
1️⃣ First, look at the Federal Reserve.
After the quiet period ends, officials will start speaking intensively.
What the market cares about most now is not whether they will cut rates immediately, but whether their tone has changed.
If they continue to emphasize inflation and employment resilience, rate cut trades might be suppressed.
If they start sending more dovish signals, sentiment for growth stocks, tech stocks, and crypto assets will be more comfortable.
2️⃣ The second line is the AI core earnings.
This week we have companies like Palantir, AMD, Advanced Micro Devices, Vertiv, and Datadog.
They seem to be in different sectors, but behind them all is the same question:
Has AI demand cooled down?
Palantir looks at AI software commercialization.
AMD focuses on AI chips and data centers.
Advanced Micro Devices looks at server shipments and orders.
Vertiv focuses on data center power, cooling, and infrastructure.
Datadog looks at cloud monitoring and enterprise AI usage.
If these companies continue to report good revenue, orders, and guidance, it means AI capital expenditure is still ongoing.
Then the entire chain of semiconductors, servers, storage, and power equipment will still have short-term positive sentiment.
3️⃣ The third line is employment data.
Thursday and Friday's initial jobless claims, productivity, and nonfarm payroll reports may directly affect the market's interest rate outlook.
What the market likes most now is:
The economy not being too bad,
Employment not being too strong,
And inflation continuing to decline.
Because if employment is too strong, rate cut expectations will be suppressed.
If employment is too weak, there will be recession concerns.
So the US stock market is actually very picky now; good data doesn't necessarily mean a rise, and bad data doesn't necessarily mean a fall.
For ordinary investors, the focus this week is not guessing which day the market will rise or fall.
I'm more concerned about a few questions:
Has AI earnings been disproven?
Has data center demand slowed?
Can AMD and Advanced Micro Devices continue the AI hardware logic?
Will employment data change the pace of rate cuts again?
If the main lines are intact, short-term fluctuations are mostly sentiment-driven.
If earnings and guidance start to collectively weaken, then it's not just a simple pullback, but the market needs to reprice.
The core of this week's US stock market is not about many events.
It's about whether the AI main line and rate cut expectations can continue to hold up the market. A strong conviction is beginning to form that Ethereum is undergoing a fundamental transformation in its market dynamics, with the asset demonstrating increasingly rational behavior that suggests significant institutional influence over price discovery. This maturation represents a crucial step in Ethereum's evolution from a crypto-native asset to a mainstream financial instrument with sophisticated trading dynamics. The recent Friday pullback that occurred right into the TradFi close appeared t#波动雷达：币种异动观察
Strategy sold another 1,638 $BTC last week at an average price of $63,957. BitMine continued buying 10,399 $ETH last week at an average price of $1,909. Both happened simultaneously, but in completely opposite directions.
One is selling, the other is buying. One has an unrealized loss of 10.8 billion, the other 8.9 billion. The two largest corporate treasuries are responding to the same market with completely opposite actions.
But the real signal is not in these two numbers themselves, but in the lines of Japan and Russia.
On the same day, Japan's Ministry of Finance officially confirmed joint purchases of yen with the United States for the first time since 1998. Bassett said, "We will not hesitate to participate in further joint interventions." Another piece of news did not make the trending list but may carry more weight—VTB and Sberbank's dollar clearing channels were officially closed, cutting off Russia's dollar settlement channels.
Looking at these two events together, the dollar is being redefined as a "conditional currency." For Japan, there is joint intervention support; for Russia, the channel is directly cut off. The boundaries of the dollar system are being redrawn—not that the dollar is ending, but the question of "who can use the dollar and who cannot" is becoming increasingly clear.
When the dollar becomes a "conditional currency," the narrative around crypto assets will change accordingly. Stablecoins' role in cross-border payments will continue to rise because global trade needs a non-aligned settlement tool. The narrative of $BTC as a store of value will be reexamined—because when you realize that dollar channels can be cut off, the demand for truly decentralized assets will not disappear.
Strategy is selling, BitMine is buying. The directions differ, but the underlying logic may be the same: the two largest corporate treasuries are reacting in their own ways to changes in the same dollar system. Who is right or wrong may depend on where the dollar line ultimately falls. At least for now, there are bets on both directions. It's been a while since I shared some solid content, so I'll talk about the possible BTC scenarios I currently believe in and my upcoming approach.
⚠️ Important disclaimer: The following is just my personal analysis and does not constitute any investment advice. Elliott Wave Theory is a probabilistic analytical tool; the market can have unpredictable black swan events. Please make independent judgments and bear your own risks.
First, look at the two sets of five waves in the chart: Chart 1 shows the bull market cycle we just experienced. Chart 2 shows a larger-level five-wave:
January 2019 3,349.92 (Wave 1 start)
June 2019 13,970 (Wave 1 end / Wave 2 start)
March 2020 3,782.13 (Wave 2 end / Wave 3 start)
November 2021 69,000 (Wave 3 end / Wave 4 start)
November 2022 15,476 (Wave 4 end / Wave 5 start)
October 2025 126,199 (Wave 5 end)
BTC has completed a full five-wave cycle on the large timeframe. Currently, it is in an overlapping period of the large and small five waves, which could also be an overlap of the large ABC wave and the small abc wave.
Without other assumptions, let's suppose we are currently in the overlap of the large ABC wave and the small abc wave:
Small wave a: dropped to 60,000 in February this year (completed)
Small wave b: rose to 82,850 in May this year (completed)
Small wave c: currently ongoing
According to the historical "one-year bear" pattern, the low point of this bear market should appear around October this year.
This small wave b rebound only reached 82,850, which is just 0.382 times the small wave a — a typical weak b wave. After a weak b wave, a strong c wave (a killing c wave) is highly probable.
So if these small waves a and b hold, small wave c will most likely break below 60,000.
In the last bear market, BTC dropped 77.6%. If this cycle follows the standard C wave (C = A × 0.618), the target is 41,950 (a drop of about 66.8%). If it falls to around 38,000 (a 70% drop), it means the market is replicating the "standard script" of the last bear market, delivering a deep correction.
This small abc wave can be seen as the A wave part of the large ABC wave. The upcoming bull market cycle will then proceed with the large B wave.
Since the next phase is a bull market cycle, the most reasonable path is: the large B wave becomes a strong B wave (an overshoot), breaking above the large A wave high (126,199), targeting Fibonacci levels 1.218 (153,710), 1.382 (174,407), and the extreme 1.618 (204,189).
A strong B wave also aligns best with institutional interests (BlackRock, MicroStrategy, and other whales mostly have cost bases between 30k-60k), and it does not break the four-year BTC bull-bear cycle pattern (after a strong B wave, the large C wave is likely a weak C wave, which will adjust the next bear market cycle without a deep drop).
Therefore, my current plan is:
If a major drop occurs in the next three months, increase the hourly BTC dollar-cost averaging amount;
If I see coins starting with 4, manually add positions;
If I see coins starting with 3, continue bottom-fishing with large positions;
In this cycle, allocate large positions to BTC, smaller positions to BNB, and even smaller positions to OKB.
This is the most reasonable scenario I can think of. If the next three months unfold as expected, then all that remains for me is to put knowledge into action.
Of course, there is a small probability that bulls will fiercely defend the 60,000 level, trading time for space, and complete the adjustment through prolonged consolidation without breaking 60,000.
For this scenario, I have also considered it. As long as the bull-bear cycle timing arrives, I must hold spot BTC positions. No matter how the market moves, I must be on board for the next bull market cycle!
A scenario is just a scenario; the market is ever-changing. All wave counts and price targets are probabilistic analyses. Please judge based on your own capital and risk tolerance, and proceed with caution.The artificial intelligence sector is experiencing another significant shift in market dynamics as cheaper frontier-model pricing widens the performance gap between application-layer winners and hardware suppliers. This trend represents a continuation of the rotation that has characterized AI investing over recent quarters, with the value chain shifting from hardware providers toward application and service companies as AI models become more accessible and cost-effective. The tape is pricing ano$BTC market may have entered a tense state where a sharp directional choice could occur at any moment.
On August 2nd, on-chain data indicated that Bitcoin has accumulated up to 890,000 BTC at the single price level of $63,000, showing an extreme distribution. Excluding the 550,000 BTC locked by Coinbase in the $83,000 to $84,000 range, the accumulation at this price level may have exceeded 1 million BTC, about 5% of the total circulating supply. Historically, exceeding this scale usually triggers a significant volatility event. Currently, the combined accumulation at the $62,000 and $63,000 price levels accounts for about 8% of the circulating supply, and the concentration of chips within a 5% range of the spot price has simultaneously risen to 13%. Although it has not yet reached the historical high-probability trigger line of 15%, it has surpassed the level that caused severe volatility in May, officially entering the warning zone.
Analysts emphasize that an excessively high chip concentration means a sharp increase in price sensitivity. When chips are too densely concentrated in a narrow range, even slight price changes can intensify the turnover of sensitive chips, triggering violent redistribution either upward or downward.
The massive short-term chips accumulated near $63,000 currently form a potential volatility fuse, and any external event could become the ignition point. The market may have entered a tense state where a sharp directional choice could occur at any moment. Will there be significant changes in the near-term market? $BTC $ETH
Those interested can try to predict.
Or is it 50% chance of rising, 50% chance of falling?
Personally, I think it’s safer to watch the market trend with this data.
If guessing, it’s somewhat like gambling with about a 50% probability.##2026 Bitcoin #30-year US Treasury, top or new starting point? "Market Flash" — In one sentence: I believe the current rebound has not yet confirmed a trend reversal. US stocks and BTC are rising simultaneously; has the trend really reversed?
Over the weekend, Trump was still shouting "the gun is loaded," but in less than 48 hours, he suddenly announced the cancellation of strikes and said negotiations would restart.
After the announcement, the market quickly entered a "risk-on" mode:
Brent crude oil plunged about 7% at one point, falling back to around $81;
US stock futures collectively rallied, with the semiconductor sector turning from decline to rise;
₿ BTC quickly rebounded with volume, approaching just below $64,000 again.
But my judgment remains unchanged: this is not yet enough to confirm a trend reversal; it looks more like an emotion-driven rebound.
There are four main reasons:
First, geopolitical risks have not truly been resolved.
Iran denied the news about the "Strait of Hormuz reopening," and Trump's policy reversals are not the first time. What really impacts the market is not a statement but whether an agreement is actually implemented.
Second, BTC has historically not been the biggest beneficiary of geopolitical conflicts.
During past Middle East escalations, oil prices usually reacted most directly, while BTC was more influenced by US dollar liquidity, interest rate expectations, and ETF capital flows.
Third, what the market is really trading is interest rate cut expectations.
The biggest current logic chain is:
Oil price falls → Inflation expectations decline → US Treasury yields fall → Fed rate cut expectations heat up → Risk asset valuations recover.
If this logic continues, it is a medium-term positive for both BTC and tech stocks.
But if it is just short-term volatility caused by easing geopolitical tensions, the sustainability of this rebound remains questionable.
Fourth, the real test has not yet begun.
The $63,800–64,000 area above BTC remains an important resistance zone and a key level repeatedly tested before.
With positive stimuli, the price may at most rebound to the $64,500–65,200 range, near the 0.786 Fibonacci retracement level.
Meanwhile, tonight’s Palantir earnings report, the capital flow after the official US market open, and this week’s nonfarm payroll data could all reshape market expectations.
Therefore, I am more inclined to define the current market as:
A risk-on repair driven by news, not a confirmed trend reversal.
What will truly determine BTC’s next phase direction remains:
Whether ETF funds continue to flow in;
Whether Fed rate cut expectations further strengthen;
Whether the US tech sector can sustain its rally;
Whether BTC can effectively hold above key resistance levels.
"Which side are you on today?"
Which category do you think this rally belongs to?
A: The trend reversal has begun, and BTC will continue to advance.
B: An emotion-driven rebound triggered by news, which will soon fall back.
C: Continued consolidation, waiting for nonfarm data to provide direction.
Feel free to share your reasons; I want to see whether people now believe more in "geopolitical risk easing" or "rate cut expectations repricing."
My BTC short position below has already been closed early for profit; profit-taking requires flexibility.🔴 $PUMP Liquidated Long Alert
🔴 $PUMP Short Setup
Entry Zone: $0.00209 – $0.00213
🔸 TP1: $0.00205
🔸 TP2: $0.00200
🔸 TP3: $0.00194
SL (Stop Loss): $0.00216
PUMP recorded a long liquidation of $1.5698K at $0.00211, indicating that bullish positions were forcefully closed as selling pressure accelerated. The liquidation reflects strengthening bearish momentum and increased market volatility. If sellers remain in control, PUMP could continue moving toward the listed downside targets.
Trade with proper risk management.
Do you think sellers can keep this momentum going? 👇
#30YrYieldTopOrStart #CreatorRewards #DailyOrbit $UB is a very tricky coin! Currently, 60% of the circulating currency is highly controlled within its top three addresses, so watch your position carefully! However, its stretching cost is much higher than other meme coins! Because the platform is too clever, they fear others will come in to snatch the chips! Whether you buy or sell, it charges a 5% tax. This indicates that the project team does not want others to get the chips, but to put it plainly, its stretching cost is much higher than other meme coins.A data bomb has been dropped in South Korean politics. According to a poll cited by Yonhap News Agency, President Lee Jae-myung's positive approval rating for his administration has dropped to 45.9%, the lowest point since he took office last June. Even more noteworthy is that negative reviews have surpassed the 50% mark for the first time. $SNDK This 0.4 percentage point dip is backed by three consecutive weeks of decline. Although the drop is not large, the iconic figure of "negative more than half" is enough to put pressure on the Blue House. According to data from polling firm Realmeter, the continued stock market plunge may be the last straw that breaks public confidence. When ordinary people watch their stock accounts shrink, their patience with those in power will naturally be quickly exhausted. $SKHYNIX However, an interesting phenomenon occurs at the party level. Despite the cooling personal approval ratings for the president, the ruling Democratic Party actually saw its support rise by 3.8 percentage points to 45.1%. Meanwhile, the largest opposition party, the People Power Party, dropped by 2.9 percentage points to 37.7%. This divergence of "the president loses points, the party scores points" reflects the delicate mentality of South Korean politics: the public may be expressing dissatisfaction with Lee Jae-myung himself, but has yet to make up his mind to blame the entire ruling party. The opposition parties also failed to effectively exploit the president's predicament to their own advantage. For Lee Jae-myung, 50% of negative reviews are a loud wake-up call. If the overall economy, especially financial markets, cannot stabilize quickly, this newly broken "psychological defense" may evolve into a longer-term political wound. Next📉 Is anyone still talking about Bitcoin now? From what I've observed, posts mentioning BTC on Platform X have dropped to about 130,000 per week, and ETH is even worse, with only around 40,000 posts. The whole market is so quiet it feels surreal; the last time it was this quiet was in 2020.
🧊 But don't forget, what was the situation in 2020? ETFs hadn't been born yet, Wall Street was still watching from the sidelines, and institutional funds had barely entered. And now? Institutional money has actually come in, but the retail market is silent. Social media buzz has returned to the level of four years ago, but the market structure has completely changed.
🔍 Historical data tells us a simple rule: whenever market discussion shrinks to this level, it often means prices are near the bottom or hovering around the bottom area. Not every silence is an opportunity, but every big opportunity is born when no one is paying attention.
🤔 My judgment is: when everyone stops talking about the market, that's when you should be extra alert. Real opportunities never come from the noise but quietly brew in the calm. 🙃#HYPEJapanFirstBuy
Excavating the eastern wall of the seventh layer, the soil color brought up by the Luoyang shovel suddenly shifts from grayish brown to deep red—that is the strata speaking. The on-chain data at 3 a.m. is like a freshly unearthed bronze artifact, rusted yet with clear inscriptions: a long-dormant whale slowly turns over from the staking layer.
This turn amounts to 1.89M HYPE, equivalent to 106 million USD. The wake crosses the HyperEVM bridge like a tomb raider carving a passage in the tomb wall, neither rushing to buy nor sell, just lurking in the shadows. Who exactly is this expert? Reviewing their base holdings, 2.886M tokens at a cost of 19.79 USD each, with unrealized gains exceeding 104 million USD. In the long river of history, this pattern is too familiar—not the panic of ordinary retail investors, but the confidence of those who have entered the main burial chamber and seen the golden mask.
Don’t jump to conclusions yet. Digging deeper, there is a second skeleton in the corner. A Japanese listed company named Eole has left its fingerprint on-chain for the first time: a target amount of 10 billion JPY, currently only dusted with 610,000 USD. This is the first shovel of soil from a Japanese listed company in the HYPE strata. What do you see? I see mummies and living people on the same stage—the mummies symbolize the symbolic act of losing even their lives but unable to move the coffin; the living is that whale, sweeping back and forth with a spotlight in the dark corridor, searching for cracks in the main coffin chamber.
There is an old rule in archaeology: dividing gold and fixing the tomb is not based on a compass but on tracing the underground water upstream. The exit path of large funds does not pass through the market, while the entry declaration of small capital is noisy and conspicuous. From a stratigraphic perspective, the gnawing marks of small insects are always more noticeable than the footprints of beasts. Eole’s 610,000 USD, in contrast to the 106 million, is like a funerary pottery figurine at the tomb entrance—the importance lies not in the material but in the position it stands.
The whereabouts of this batch of HYPE is the direction of the undercurrent. Funds move out from the staking layer but do not enter the trading floor, like the coffin has been lifted but stopped in the middle of the corridor, waiting for a certain time, a certain feint. Chips of this scale usually surface only at key historical fault lines. Who was the last to do this? Do you remember those lost civilizations? What they left behind were not ruins but treasures neatly arranged in the strata—all bearing the marks of the same skilled hands.
That Japanese company and that whale are now drawing their respective marks on the same stratigraphic map. One is the official archaeological team, carefully marking the excavation squares within the allowed rules; the other is a professional tomb raider who has long understood the entire underground system thoroughly. The golden mask must ultimately be worn by the face that can truly wield it, and that one in 120,000 position shows history is repeatedly engraving the same sentence with a chisel: signals always precede substance.
From the depths of the strata comes the echo of iron clashing with stone. In the world of money, big players never make noise. They quietly reseal the entrance to the entire mausoleum.#“AI股神”基金清仓，美光单日涨超15%
Wall Street's dramatic play has traders calling it magical!
A young genius fund, hailed as the AI stock god for its AI computing power logic, previously made four times profit in half a year by fully investing in storage chips with multiple leverage, managing over $40 billion at its peak, enjoying great glory. However, after a sharp drop in the AI sector, heavily held Micron and SanDisk fell consecutively, and the leverage directly crushed the entire fund, forcing a discounted liquidation of 16 billion in stocks, dumping all its chips to Fortress Capital.
The most ironic part is that right after the chips changed hands, the storage sector immediately took off, with Micron soaring over 15% in a single day and SanDisk's gains approaching 26%, while a group of AI hardware stocks collectively rebounded strongly. Simply put, the stock god's underlying logic was not wrong at all; the AI boom inevitably drives memory chips up. The loss was due to greed and full leverage, causing a liquidation during a pullback, perfectly collapsing just before the market took off.
The market truth is heartbreaking: the previous price decline was largely due to this fund's passive selling pressure. After a massive chip clearance, the market lost continuous selling pressure, and funds immediately dared to enter and bottom fish. Many retail investors regret missing out on the big rise, but who would dare to bet early on a leveraged fund's liquidation turning point? Now, despite the market's excitement, after experiencing this episode, it's clearer than ever that no matter how good the sector logic is, it can't withstand the drawdowns of high leverage. Blindly chasing hot AI small caps will sooner or later be harvested by severe volatility. $SNDK This is my favorite lazy indicator for judging a bounce: watch the alts.
BTC has bounced from around 63k, but most altcoins still look asleep. SOL has shown a bit more strength, yet the majority of the market hasn’t really followed. To me, that’s an important clue.
In a healthy rally, money doesn’t stop with Bitcoin. It usually rotates into large caps, then mid-caps, and eventually smaller alts. That’s when you get the classic “everything is pumping” feeling.
Right now, I don’t see that rotation. It feels more like capital is hiding in the safer names instead of reaching for higher risk. Deadass, that’s more consistent with a relief bounce than the start of a new trend.
Could that change? Sure. But until I see broader participation, stronger volume, and alts beginning to outperform instead of just reacting, I’m not chasing random green candles.
I’d rather keep my dry powder than FOMO into altcoins just because BTC bounced a couple thousand dollars.
$BTC $SOL #30YrYieldTopOrStart #USJapanYenIntervention #EarningsWeekAhead $AXTI buddy, if you bet your entire fortune at the 67.80 level hoping it will break through 70, you're just throwing money to the manipulators like a fool! You must follow my "defensive counterattack strategy":
【How to bottom-fish / go long?】(Strict defense)
· Left-side catch-the-knife position: Absolutely do not touch it today! Patiently wait for it to pull back to the 56.00 - 58.00 range. If the 1-hour chart falls here and can't break lower, showing a very long lower shadow, you can lightly enter a base position with 5% of your total capital, betting on it to bounce off the 5-day moving average.
· Absolute life-saving stop loss: firmly set at 53.00! As long as the 4-hour closing price falls below 53.00, it means the manipulators have completely smashed the bottom; immediately cut losses without hesitation and do not hold any illusions!
· Second buying point (right-side chase): If you're stubborn and want to bet on a breakout, wait for a volume breakout and a firm hold above 70.00 before entering to ride the main upward wave.
【How to short?】(Top testing and trial)
· The only shorting position: closely watch the 68.80 - 69.20 range (previous high resistance). If it rebounds here and you notice volume suddenly shrinking on the intraday chart, with a weak push up and a long upper shadow, directly open a very small short position, betting it will be pushed back!
· Short stop loss: set at 70.20. Once it strongly breaks above 70.20, it means the manipulators are forcing a short squeeze; immediately take the loss and retreat!#ENA
$ENA is forming a rising wedge on the 15M chart 👀📈, with price pushing toward the $0.091–$0.092 resistance zone.
Momentum remains strong, but this pattern needs caution. Holding above $0.087–$0.088 support keeps bulls in control; a clean resistance breakout could invalidate the bearish risk 🔥
Bulls are pressing resistance — breakout confirmation is key.
$ENA #ENA #Crypto #Altcoins #CryptoTrading#韩股重挫5%，存储多空信号对峙
I went long on Micron at 793 in this wave: this trade is only for the rebound, not betting on a reversal
I went long on Micron at 793 in this wave, and it has now reached 815.
This trade is not about guessing the bottom at the lowest point.
The market first dipped to around 772 at the open, then recovered to 787, and climbed back above 795. I am trading the oversold rebound after confirming the bottom.
Changxin Storage's capacity expansion indeed gave the market a reason to continue cutting valuations.
But this is not a sudden disaster for Micron.
After the negative news was fully released, support started to appear at low levels, and short covering will also bring a period of recovery.
The first resistance to watch is 818–823, and if stronger, then 840–850.
The 840–850 range is not drawn based on a feeling.
A few days ago, there was obvious selling pressure around 841.8 and 848.36, which is naturally a concentrated area of short-term trapped positions.
However, I will not mechanically short just because it hits 840.
Only if it breaks into 840–850 with volume but fails to rise, cannot hold above 850 on the 15-minute chart, and then falls back below 840, will I consider reversing the position.
If it holds above 850 with volume, the short plan is canceled, and the rebound may continue toward around 875.
My overall bias is still bearish for now.
Not because I am bearish on Micron's current profits, but because the downtrend structure has not truly reversed, and the market is still preemptively trading concerns about China's capacity expansion and the peak of the storage cycle.
So this long position is only for the rebound, not betting on a reversal.
First take the rebound profits, then wait for the shorts to give new signals.