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$ZEC’s biggest short whale appears to have finally thrown in the towel. A short position worth around $50M was closed early today, reportedly locking in a massive loss of roughly $35M. Entry: ~$671 Exit: ~$1,506–$1,535 Closed position: ~37,000 ZEC Interestingly, ZEC moved another ~$30 higher after the position was closed. Some traders believe the whale may have opened a hedge along the way, and that’s certainly possible. But if the hedge was maintained from around $444 all the way toward $1,590,Killa is calling for 88,000, but I don't even know where 70,000 is.
I just saw a trader say $BTC is going to hit 88,000. My first reaction was to check whether 88,000 is an increase or a decrease.
What others think: With 200,000 followers, topping out in May, shorting at 74,688, and reversing to long on June 5, this track record is laid out, and the comment section is full of "Teacher, guide me."
What I think: He was short in April and long in June, both times right. But this time he only mentioned the target, without saying position size, leverage, or stop loss.
The data looks like this: 88,000 is the upper target, 70,000 is the lower point, and he himself said 70,000 is "unlikely."
To follow or not: I'm a newcomer and can't even remember that his last reversal was on June 5.
So here’s the question: Do you believe in 88,000, or do you first believe he can be right one more time?
#美国加密税收与BTC储备法案获推进
#加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 #全球高利率预期再升温 $BTC SanDisk officially entered the S&P 100 today, rising 3.36%. ETH surged past 2,700+.
One is in the US stock market, the other in the crypto space. You might think they are unrelated? Actually, they are the same.
For SanDisk, index funds buy it regardless of its value; the rules say buy, so they must buy. The funds tracking the S&P 100 are worth trillions, so being included means someone has to buy you.
On the ETH side, 43.32 million tokens are staked and locked, accounting for 35% of the total supply. More than a third of ETH is locked in staking, reducing the circulating supply, naturally making the price firm. This week, ETH ETFs still saw net outflows, but the price held stronger than Bitcoin, precisely because supply is locked.
One is passive allocation in the stock market, the other is staking lock-up in crypto. Completely different markets, same logic: when supply is locked or buying is forced, the price becomes firm.
I shorted SanDisk before and got taught a lesson twice. At that time, I focused on fundamentals and thought storage was weakening. Now I understand, some price rises aren’t for fundamentals, they’re for the rules.
So in today’s market, don’t just look at the candlesticks. Look at the structure: who is locked, who is forced to buy, whose circulating supply is shrinking. These are the real hands behind the price.
How long do you think this kind of "structural rally" can last?
#闪迪正式纳入标普100指数 $SNDK $ETH $BTC 【Strategy QA Special】Question source @玲珑骰子安红豆
—— Arbitrage strategies seek potential profit opportunities by exploiting price differences or rates (Guide: https://oyidl.co/ul/DeHG7br)
In theory, as long as exploitable price differences or rates exist, arbitrage opportunities exist. However, profitability depends on whether arbitrage returns can cover the associated costs.
🔸 For example, price difference arbitrage:
Trading fees are incurred during buy and sell processes, and the price difference itself fluctuates continuously with the market. Therefore, the strategy operation can focus on changes in the “price difference rate.” If the actual price difference rate keeps narrowing, it means the available arbitrage space is shrinking; at this point, combining data on fees and arbitrage returns helps determine whether the current opportunity is still worth pursuing.
🔹 Now consider rate arbitrage:
The core source of profit is the funding rate, so attention should be paid to changes in the current funding rate. If the funding rate keeps declining, the theoretical arbitrage space also shrinks; then, combining fees, borrowing interest, and other costs helps judge whether the remaining profit margin is still sufficient.
Therefore, it’s not about the strategy making a wrong judgment and then “intelligently correcting” it by some means, but first checking whether the current arbitrage opportunity still holds: price difference arbitrage looks at the price difference rate, rate arbitrage looks at the current funding rate, and by combining actual returns and trading costs, it judges whether the strategy is still worth running.
🌟 【Capture price differences or rates when opportunities exist, and promptly stop the strategy when the remaining profit margin is insufficient to cover related costs.】
#新手必看：这里有你需要的一切 Bitcoin is really going crazy! I was so sleepy my eyelids were fighting, but a quick glance at the screen instantly energized me! BTC violently surged from 80280, rising 4.4% in one day! Look at this 15-minute chart, the MACD bars are about to break the screen. Before, people were talking about ETF outflows, institutional withdrawals, and interest rate suppression, but what happened? The US House Financial Services Committee directly advanced the Bitcoin Reserve Act, proposing a 20-year holding period! As soon as this news came out, the short sellers were trampled as the bulls charged up, wiping out all shorts completely!
ETH is also strong, breaking through 2700 directly. I held through that 100x full position before, and now looking at this number, I can only say: it was worth it! SOL is even crazier, jumping from 107 straight to 116.39, up 6.5%. The rebound leader is no joke.
But I have to be honest with you brothers: don’t chase the highs just because it’s surging now—that’s a death wish. After enduring so long, don’t catch a falling knife at the emotional peak.
Bitcoin is pulling back to stabilize between 82800 and 83200; I’m buying more here, stop loss at 82000, target between 85000 and 86000. ETH pullback buy between 2660 and 2680, stop loss 2630, target 2750 to 2800. SOL pullback buy between 112 and 113, stop loss 110, target 118 to 120.
If you have positions, take half profits and pocket them, and set trailing stops on the rest. If you’re empty-handed, control your hands and wait for the pullback.
This big profit is a gift from the market, don’t give it all back out of greed in the end.BTC current price is 84376, with 84420 above being the largest recent long liquidation accumulation zone. RSI has already reached overbought, MACD histogram is shrinking, and short-term momentum is clearly lagging. Under this structure, chasing longs has a very low cost-performance ratio and looks more like a trap set for high-position longs. Below, there is a large amount of short forced liquidations hanging at 83073; once the price retraces there, it is more likely to trigger a short squeeze rebound.
Last night, it got a bit chilly in the guard post late at night, so I lowered the window halfway, refilled some hot water in my thermos, and casually checked the liquidation heatmap again. Amazon Bedrock integrating Kimi K3, S&P acquiring OpenZeppelin—these moves by traditional institutions pushing into Web3 infrastructure are solid long-term support. The major upward trend is intact; don’t get scared off by short-term pullbacks.
For operations, lightly short between 84400 and 84600, stop loss at 85000, first target at 83500, second target near 83100. If volume directly crushes down to around 83073, close all shorts for profit and reverse to long, stop loss at 82300, with the first target at 84300. ETH is at 2583, showing weak correlation, so avoid for now. In a range-bound market, guarding your defense points is more important than guessing direction.
$BTC
#ZEC巨鲸3.8万枚空单平仓，亏损超3500万美元
@OKX星球 📊 $BTC — $80K IS THE KEY OBSERVATION ZONE Bitcoin has pulled back toward $80K after rallying from roughly $75K to $82K. At around $80,226, the 1H structure is showing weaker short-term momentum: MA5: ~$80,325
MA10: ~$80,598
MA20: ~$80,991 Price is currently below all three averages, but an hourly pullback alone isn't enough to confirm a larger trend reversal. 🔑 THE LEVELS I’M WATCHING: 🟢 $80,000–$80,100
If BTC stabilizes here and later reclaims $80,600 on the 1H chart, while holding the retesBitcoin has sent a key signal of a bear market bottom, bouncing back above the 50-week moving average this week.
Sigh, in the AI era, once the news breaks, the screen is flooded with confirmations of the bear bottom.
This bottom was on June 30th, at $58,000.
Now above $81,000, it has rebounded 39% from the bottom.
By the time this bottom confirmation light turns on, you've already missed at least 40% of the bargain.
Just hindsight, can you understand this metaphor?
Some people even compare data:
Galaxy's team says historically, out of 13 times the price pulled back to the 50-week moving average, only twice did it make new lows again, so it's stable, right?
Which two times were those?
Coincidentally, the last cycle, the crash from 2021 to 2022.
The only failure was this recent one.
Several analysts are still betting the bottom will only come in October,
so the word "confirmation" carries quite a bit of fluff.
There's another layer no one tells you.
The one shouting this signal, Alex Thorn, is the head of research at Galaxy.
What does Galaxy do? Market making, OTC big player, making a living from trading.
When everyone shouts the bottom has arrived, retail investors rush in, liquidity comes, and they conveniently offload their holdings to you.
This signal is meant to reassure those already on board, not for those who haven't bought to catch the bottom.
I'm not saying he fabricated data.
But words like "bottom confirmation" are inherently tied to traders' KPIs; if you believe in moving averages, they become effective.
This is self-deception, not a rule.
Finally, let me say it again: this kind of signal is meant for those already invested, to coax you to hold on and not run.$SAMSUNG Samsung finally closed this position 😮💨 Bought long at 190.77, fully closed at 199.96, held long for 7 days, single contract realized a return of +113.88%. It was quite annoying when it dropped near 185 earlier, but now that it's executed, I'm not as excited, just relieved—finally one less thing to worry about.
I was willing to go long at the time because the growth in storage had already been reflected in the earnings. Samsung's July 30 earnings report showed that the storage business's quarterly revenue and operating profit both hit new highs, and HBM4 sales are expanding. What I value is the products already sold, not just how impressive the next-generation chips sound.
But in studying Samsung, I think one area you can't overlook is that it sells both chips and phones, so you can't just count the benefits from price increases. In the same earnings report, the phone business's profits were affected by rising component costs. The chip side is doing better, but the end-user side might be tougher; these two accounts need to be considered together.
So my bet is that improvements in the storage business can drive overall performance, not that every Samsung business segment is improving. Going forward, I’m not just watching for "storage prices rising again," but how much of that growth actually stays in the company's profits.
Exiting at 199.96 basically fulfills the original plan around 200. After closing this position, I actually want to remind myself not to rush to switch sides—just moments ago I was hoping it would rise, so I shouldn’t start thinking it’s too expensive right after selling. Previous attempts to short after going long have already caused me trouble. After profiting from this run, I’ll allow myself to do nothing for a while.Damn! Brothers! That long BTC position I opened at 78,000 finally paid off!
Just glanced at the market, BTC shot up to 84,584, current price 84,481! Entered at 78,000, endured so many spikes, shakeouts, and nights almost getting liquidated. When the market stalled in between, I doubted and wavered, but I never sold! Now? A floating profit of 6,500 points just hanging there, it’s so thrilling it makes my scalp tingle!
Look at the news, the US House Financial Services Committee is pushing the Bitcoin Reserve Act, proposing a 20-year holding period! Once this bomb dropped, the shorts got crushed. Those who kept shouting bear market and $42,000 before, where are they now? Does their face hurt?
This big rebound, ETH surged to 2,711, SOL from 107 to 116, all three coins rallying together, clearly a short squeeze.
But as exciting as it is, I’m not stupid. The position opened at 78,000, with such a big floating profit now, I definitely won’t let the meat on the bone fly away.
My plan: take half profit between 84,500 and 85,000, pocket the principal and most of the profit. For the remaining position, move the stop loss up to 82,000; if it breaks below, I’ll run without looking back. If there’s a chance to pull back to 82,800–83,200, I’ll lightly add more with profits; if not, forget it, let the profit fly on its own.The US crypto tax and BTC reserve bill has advanced, risk appetite is warming up, and funds are flowing out to Korean computing power concept stocks like SKHYNIX. I judge the short-term bias to be bullish but the overhead trapped positions are not light. Up 2.2% in 24h to 1369.5, after surging to 1372 then retreating, with a turnover of 55,000, open interest of 39,000, and a funding rate of 0.0171% indicating a mild willingness of longs to pay, no crowding observed. The order book buy/sell ratio is 0.84, with selling pressure dominant. The previous high of 1372.3 forms resistance, and 1336.8 is the support level. Strategically, lightly buy on a pullback to 1341.2, stop loss at 1327.5, target 1368.4; if volume breaks 1372.3, chase longs to 1395.6, with position size not exceeding 20%, exit if stop loss is hit.
— For personal reference only, not investment advice, wishing you smooth trading. —
$SKHYNIX #CryptoMarketCap returns to $2.8 trillion
#美国加密税收与BTC储备法案获推进 $SKHYNIX $BTC On September 21, Bitcoin briefly surged past $84,000, reaching a new high since the end of January. It gained over 4% in the past 24 hours, and since the low of $74,913 on September 16, this rebound has pulled nearly $10,000. If you've been watching the market these days, you might feel the dilemma of "the higher it goes, the more hesitant you are to chase." Last week, the Federal Reserve raised interest rates by 25 basis points, and the "CLARITY Act" was rejected in the Senate. These two events combined made many think Bitcoin was about to crash. But what happened? Bitcoin not only didn’t crash, it actually climbed steadily from around $75,000 to above $84,000. Today, let's break down whether this rally starting from $84,000 is a true breakout or just another bull trap? Signal 1: ETF funds are "choosing sides" On September 18, the US spot Bitcoin ETF saw a net inflow of $433 million in a single day, with Fidelity's FBTC alone taking in $310.7 million and BlackRock's IBIT receiving $108.4 million. Together, these two accounted for about 97% of the day's net inflow. Even earlier on September 17, the net inflow was $159.5 million. What does this indicate? Institutional funds are concentrating their bets on Bitcoin. But at the same time, note that Ethereum and XRP ETF products were still bleeding funds during the same period. Capital has not fully returned to the crypto market but is rotating within sectors. When ETF funds concentrate on a single asset, Bitcoin's buying pressure at key levels becomes more "sticky," which also helps explain why this 82,000The previous rally moved almost straight up with barely any meaningful retracement. Now the market has flipped, and the downside move is showing much stronger pressure. $BTC dropped back from around $81,930. $ETH pulled roughly 100 points lower from the $2,670 area. $ZEC reached nearly $1,600 before falling sharply toward $1,430. What stands out is the lack of a meaningful rebound. Normally, pullbacks create choppy moves where buyers get opportunities to defend key levels. This time, sellers areFiscal "floodgate opening"? Short-term debt may see a trillion-dollar rollover, giving BTC a lifeline
Brothers, the Ministry of Finance is finally about to make a big move. Wall Street predicts that the U.S. will issue $1 trillion in short-term Treasury bonds over the next year to meet government financing needs.
My judgment is: this is a disguised signal of monetary easing. The issuance volume of short-term Treasury bonds is surging, increasing interest payment pressure. U.S. banks say the interest burden will be "larger and more volatile." Once market liquidity loosens, it will be a transfusion for risk assets like BTC.
But don’t get too excited yet. This move has a fatal side effect: a high proportion of short-term debt increases refinancing risk in the future. The Ministry of Finance must suppress long-term interest rates while stabilizing the short-term debt market, essentially walking a tightrope.
Looking at the market, BTC is holding firm above 81,000, and funds have not collapsed. Moreover, weekend geopolitical risk premiums have risen again, crude oil is strengthening in the dark market, but BTC only dipped slightly, indicating solid buying support below.
Strategy: Keep a close eye on short-term debt auction results and changes in dollar liquidity. As long as BTC holds 80,000, pullbacks are opportunities to buy in batches, but avoid high leverage. The Ministry of Finance’s "rollover" strategy could trigger bond market volatility that spills over into the crypto space at any time. 🔥 Don't assume your positions are fully diversified just because you hold multiple coins. When the US dollar strengthens, US Treasury yields remain high, or market risk appetite cools, these assets may still experience synchronized pulldowns. Currently, the market is still in a rebound phase: BTC has regained above $81,000, ETH is around $2,660, and ZEC remains strong, recently breaking through $1,500. Meanwhile, the SEC's push for tokenized on-chain trading in US stocks has become a key catalyst for recent market sentiment. ⚠️ What really matters is not "how many coins I hold," but the correlation and total risk exposure behind these positions. If multiple assets are betting on the same risk appetite, then reducing duplicate positions and reasonably controlling position sizes may be more important than simply increasing the number of coins. 👀 Pay attention to correlation, not just the number of coins. #CryptoCapReclaims2_8T #UNI21PercentRally #BTC #ETH #CORE #ZEC #CryptoUS short-term Treasury supply may increase by trillions, liquidity expectations tighten, yet SNDK strengthens against the trend. I tend to believe this is a short-term short squeeze rather than a trend reversal. Up 3.3% in 24h to 1819.4, with a turnover of only 119,000, volume is thin. Rising on the 1-hour chart but still declining on the 4-hour chart, price is close to the daily high of 1823.6, zero retracement from the 4-hour high, a key pivot point: a break above 1823.6 suggests continuation, losing 1758.5 confirms a false breakout. Buy/sell ratio 2.13, buy orders 273 vs 128, buyers dominate; funding rate -0.0111% shows shorts pay fees, open interest 51,000, crowded shorts are prone to being squeezed. Strategy: lightly long on a pullback to 1798.6, stop loss 1769.3, target 1841.7; if rally to 1824.5 is resisted, short briefly, stop loss 1837.2, target 1782.4, position not exceeding 20%.
——This is only a personal opinion, not investment advice, wishing you successful trading.——
$SNDK#ZEC whale closed 38,000 short positions, losing over $35 million
#美债短端供给或增万亿美元 $SNDK LUNA has been quite active today, surging 16% in 24 hours, with the current price back around 0.055. Such a rebound magnitude is actually not unfamiliar for this token—after all, its historical volatility has always been relatively high, with price swings often reaching extremes.
From the market perspective, this rally isn't driven by any particularly obvious single positive news; it looks more like an emotional recovery after being oversold. LUNA has been consolidating at low levels recently, with shrinking volume and weakening short-selling momentum. Once some capital enters to test the waters, it easily triggers short-term short squeezes. A 16% increase under weak liquidity conditions doesn't require a very large buy order to push the price up.
However, it’s important to note that the fundamentals of LUNA haven’t changed substantially. The Terra ecosystem’s reconstruction is progressing slowly, and the token’s utility and demand scenarios remain limited. The price movement is more a result of sentiment and capital games rather than a return to intrinsic value. Above the 0.055 level, previous trapped positions and short-term profit-taking will create resistance.
If you’re only trading short-term, setting stop-losses and avoiding chasing highs are basic rules. If you’re aiming for “doubling” or “returning to the peak,” then you might need to reassess where the actual support for this token lies. Price increases are good, but don’t let the rise itself be the reason to buy. $LUNA #ZEC38KShortClosed A large Zcash short position has reportedly been closed after ZEC’s rapid rally. Market monitoring reports that a trader’s three-month short produced a loss of roughly $36 million, with cumulative losses estimated at more than $12 million after partial closures. The episode illustrates how quickly privacy-coin momentum can overwhelm leveraged positions.
ZEC’s move has been supported by renewed attention to the NU7 upgrade, strong trading volume and possible short-covering. However, a short squeeze is not the same as fundamental demand. Once forced buying ends, price can become vulnerable to profit-taking. My view is that the most important signal now is whether spot buyers continue accumulating after leverage has been removed.This week's large token unlock wave: the market's biggest fear is not the "news," but the sudden increase in circulating supply.
XPL, H, and SOSO will undergo large token unlocks this week, with XPL unlocking tokens worth approximately $158 million, representing the main supply pressure in this event group. The market sentiment leans bearish on the related tokens: unlocks increase circulating supply, and if spot buying demand is insufficient, short-term prices are prone to early risk-off moves and amplified selling pressure post-unlock.
For traders, the focus is on the trading volume, order book absorption, and whether there is early dumping before and after the XPL unlock; if prices instead hold steady with increased volume, it indicates that capital is willing to absorb the new supply. Are you more concerned about early risk-off before the unlock or the absorption strength after the unlock? Yue Jie Weekly Review | 9.21–9.27 See Through This Week's BTC Underlying Logic, Don't Be Misled by Noise
Having traded for a long time, I often say: all market rises and falls are never decided by candlesticks, but by the macro logic chain.
This week, no need to get caught up in minor BTC fluctuations; focus solely on one core transmission: geopolitical tensions restrain oil prices, oil prices tie to inflation, inflation influences the Fed's stance, which ultimately determines the overall strength of the crypto market.
At the start of the week, the key focus is the continued tight situation in the Strait of Hormuz, with Iran's tough stance keeping oil prices high and persistent external imported inflation pressure. Tonight's official remarks are especially critical, as they will reveal the Fed's position on high inflation in advance, directly setting the tone for this week's market sentiment.
Midweek, the Fed's intensive statements are the core variable. After the recent rate hike, the policy path for the year is extremely sensitive. If the tone is hawkish, high oil prices combined with tightening expectations will increase short-term pressure on BTC; if the tone is moderate and dovish, risk assets will see a window for sentiment recovery.
Everyone should also rationally view regulatory developments: legislative progress setbacks do not mean regulatory implementation is slowing; industry standardization continues, and the market will remain in a state of expectation-driven battles, with oscillations and fluctuations being the norm.
The week's climax focuses on the PCE inflation data. All macro battles and market speculation will ultimately be verified by inflation data. If data stubbornly rises, rate cut expectations cool, and market pressure continues; if data declines healthily, the market will truly get a chance to breathe.
Additional reminder: multiple large token unlocks occur over consecutive days this week, causing concentrated selling pressure and severe volatility in small coins, with very low tolerance for errors. Avoid blind short-term speculation as much as possible.
Yue Jie always insists: trend is always more important than prediction, discipline is always more important than frequency.
The more intense the news, the more you need to stay calm, don't guess rises or falls, just follow signals, and steadily wait for certainty in the market to arrive. $BTC $ETH #加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 Originally, I just wanted to grab a quick breakfast, but the market ended up covering me with dumplings for half a year. Yesterday afternoon, I was watching $ETHFI so intently that I was almost falling asleep; the bottom was flat and just wouldn't break, and there were always buyers below.
I said at the time, the 0.6544 level is worth trying; if it holds on the pullback, that's an opportunity. After entering long, I didn't rush to shout out, just waited to see if it would give me some respect.
This morning when I opened the market, it gave me the answer directly: 0.7557, +308.98%. Feels good, brothers, this piece of meat is solidly eaten.
The market is something you wait for, and profits are something you hold onto.
Put the big chunk in your pocket first, take profit at 75%, move the stop to cost price for the remaining 25%, let the profits run if it continues to rise, and don't let gains turn sour if it falls back.
For friends who haven't gotten on board yet, listen to me: now is not the time to rush in; chasing highs easily leaves you stuck at the peak. Wait for the next signal to move, and I'll notify you immediately.
$XRP $SNDK BTC was still mentioned the most during this hour, but ETH's bullish tone was slightly higher. In the OKX community's one-hour snapshot at 16:00 China time on September 21, mentions of BTC, ETH, SOL were 67, 52, and 36; in the same window, BTC was about 58% bullish and bearish about 9%; ETH about 60% bullish and 10% bearish; SOL about 33% bullish and 8% bearish. BTC still leads in volume, ETH is slightly stronger, and SOL has the least and most neutral volume. The proportion of bullish content only describes the tone of this text, not the transaction volume. Note the gap from this hour first; I'll check the new snapshot later.Woke up to ZEC soaring directly to 1500+, which is indeed a bit outrageous, but the logic behind this trend is actually very clear.
The core catalyst is the Grayscale spot ETF (ZCSH) which launched on August 25 and has continuously attracted capital. By mid-September, AUM had exceeded $800 million, opening a compliant entry channel for traditional institutions. At the same time, the SEC officially ended its investigation into the Zcash Foundation in January this year, completely removing regulatory uncertainty.
More importantly, on-chain supply is shrinking—about 30% of ZEC is locked in shielded privacy pools, and after the halving in November 2024, new supply will be cut in half, tightening circulating tokens. Additionally, after breaking through $1000 in early September, a large-scale short squeeze was triggered; on September 4 alone, about $34.5 million in shorts were forcibly liquidated, creating a "the higher it rises, the more shorts are squeezed" positive feedback loop.
So this rally is not just pure sentiment speculation, but a triple resonance of ETF compliant funds + supply contraction + derivatives short squeeze. However, the short-term surge is too large, derivatives leverage is piling up, and correction risks are accumulating, so chasing highs requires caution.
In short, keep holding your positions $ZEC $ETH $BTC crypto total market cap returns to $2.8 trillion. The crypto total market cap returning to $2.8 trillion marks a phase of market sentiment recovery. This round of warming is led by BTC as the core leader, with funds gradually spreading from a single target outward. Some altcoins and public chain tokens have seen a catch-up rally. The underlying logic of this rebound is, on one hand, the concentrated realization of negative factors, with the market digesting the Federal Reserve's rate hike expectations; on the other hand, the SEC's tokenization-related policies have released positive signals, boosting institutional risk appetite. Spot ETF fund outflows have slowed, and derivatives shorts have been squeezed, helping market cap to quickly rebound. However, recovery does not equal trend reversal. The current high interest rate environment has not fundamentally changed, and whether the Federal Reserve will continue to raise rates remains a key variable hanging over the market. There is obvious differentiation within sectors; leading coins have sufficient liquidity, while small-cap coins show weaker upward sustainability. Once funds retreat, volatility will sharply increase. Going forward, focus on spot ETF fund flows and changes in U.S. Treasury yields. If funds cannot continue to enter, this rebound is most likely just a range-bound recovery, so avoid blindly chasing highs. This content is only a personal market observation and does not constitute any investment advice. #加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 When the mainnet goes down, the market gets nervous first; this is an old pattern.
The MultiversX mainnet was suspended due to an attacker attempting to exploit an atomicity vulnerability in the VM layer, resulting in invalid state changes on-chain. The team stated that the fix is currently undergoing shadow fork verification, after which they will coordinate deployment with validators, exchanges, and infrastructure providers, while also evaluating a recovery plan that only addresses the abnormal states and preserves the normal transaction history.
In practice, the short-term impact will first affect transfers, exchange deposits and withdrawals, and cross-chain bridge channels; sentiment-wise, holders are more concerned about whether the fix can be smoothly launched and whether exchanges will resume EGLD/ESDT deposits and withdrawals. Are you more focused on the "priority repair of abnormal states" or the recovery path that "preserves normal transaction history"?
Source: BlockBeats
#EGLD🚨 A true trend reversal often does not start with a crash but begins when trading logic fails.
The price is still temporarily strong, but that does not mean the structure will never change.
₿ $BTC → $81.4K
Watch $78.6K. If it breaks below and continues to weaken, the short-term rebound structure needs to be reassessed.
♦️ $ETH → $2.67K
$2.52K is an important observation area. Falling back below it means the recent strength may start to cool down.
🐕 $DOGE → $0.22
If the price rebounds while volume continues to shrink and market attention declines, short-term momentum may gradually weaken.
⚡ $ZEC → around $1,510
ZEC remains a market focus recently. Latest market news shows that ZEC’s transaction volume through cross-chain trading channels has significantly increased recently, with related transaction flow even multiplying several times.
But if the price falls back below $1,390, the current breakout structure needs to be revalidated.
📊 Latest market update:
The total crypto market cap is about $2.87T, BTC remains above $81K, ETH around $2.66K. The market overall has maintained some strength in the past 24 hours.
Meanwhile, BTC recently climbed back above $80K, market risk appetite has somewhat recovered; some high-volatility assets like ZEC and NEAR have also shown notable activity.
So what really deserves attention now is not: $BR pullback, wait for stabilization before getting back in!!!
Brothers, looking at this 1.4 K-line of $BR, I really feel nervous for those chasing the highs.
A fan came to ask me: "Brother Kuan, is the pullback a chance to get in?" I said straight: Stop!
At the 1.4 level, the signs of the big players unloading are too obvious. This wave is a typical shakeout, trying to bury all the leveraged longs chasing the highs. If you rush in now, you're not catching chips, you're catching flying knives.
The trading idea is simple:
Pull back near 1.00-1.05, first see if it can stabilize. If it stabilizes, then lightly go long with a stop loss at 0.95; if it breaks below, it means the manipulator has abandoned the position, run quickly. The target is first around 1.25-1.35.
If the rebound can't break through 1.30, then go short lightly following the trend, quick in and out.
Remember one thing: strong manipulator coins go crazy when rising, and even crazier when crashing. Take a bite and run, don't linger on the mountaintop wind. #加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 #SEC tokenized stock innovation exemption lands, UNI surged over 21% intraday, regulatory tone turns warmer directly igniting altcoin sentiment, BTC as a risk appetite anchor, I believe this rebound is more like a capital probe rather than a trend reversal. Up 4.5% in 24h to 83928.2, approaching the intraday high of 84234.1, but the 4-hour level is still in a downtrend channel, with 11% space from the 4h high, indicating this rally has not yet broken the mid-term resistance. Trading volume only 8.555 million, volume is thin, funding rate 0.01% shows bullish sentiment is mild and not overheated, position of 30,000 coin-based contracts changed little. Order book top 10 shows 744 buy vs 119 sell, buy/sell ratio 6.27, short-term buyers clearly dominant. Suggest light long positions on pullback to 80785, stop loss at 79865, target 83290; if rising to around 84120 faces pressure, short can be considered, stop loss 84890, target 82270. Keep position under 5%, avoid heavy positions in thin volume market.
— Personal opinion only, not investment advice, wish you smooth trading. —
$BTC#SEC tokenized stock innovation exemption lands, UNI surged over 21% intraday
#SEC tokenized stock innovation exemption lands, UNI surged over 21% intraday $BTC $SNDK Here are specific trading strategy recommendations: 📈 Strategy 1: Go long on pullbacks (preferred, follow the trend and maintain clear defense) Current price is 1817, very close to the resistance level above. Chasing on highs can easily get stuck. The best strategy is to wait for a pullback. Recommended entry level: 1805 - 1812 range (near MA20 support at 1806 and middle Bollinger Band at 1801; wait for price pullback to confirm support before entering). Stop Loss (SL): 1798 (Once it breaks below the middle Bollinger Band and the moving average concentration area, it means the short-term bullish structure has been broken and unconditional stop-loss is necessary). Take-Profit (TP): First target: 1824 (today's previous high and upper Bollinger Band resistance level, reduce positions to protect principal). Second target: 1835 - 1840 (if volume surges and breaks previous highs, open up space above). 📉 Strategy 2: Short at resistance (contrarian gamble, very light positions) If the price surges again but cannot break through with volume near the previous high, you can try to take short-term pullbacks. Recommended entry level: 1824 - 1828 range (left side touching the top, testing the previous high resistance zone). Stop loss (SL): 1833 (if a large bullish candle breaks the previous high of 1824, it indicates strong short squeezing, short positions should immediately stop loss). · Take Profit (TP): · First target: 1810 (dense support on moving averages). Second target: 1800 (psychological level of the middle band of the Bollinger Bands). 🚀 Backup strategy: breakthroughLate at night, watching the market, the screen fluorescent light reflects the flickering cigarette butts at your fingertips. In this smokeless battlefield of financial markets, there is never a shortage of chilling numbers. Just glancing at the on-chain data: a whale address suspected of being linked to Garrett Jin forcibly liquidated about 38,000 ZEC short positions with market orders within an hour and a half, swallowing a massive loss of over $35 million. Watching ZEC on the market being forcibly pushed from 1,490 to $1,530 in a short time, an increase of nearly 2.7%, honestly, it felt like watching a veteran gambler throw away his hole card before the roulette. Interestingly, this guy still held a full 202,000 ZEC spot coins, sold his short position, but the spot didn't budge at all. This is most likely not a simple chasing and selling-off of gains, but a meticulously calculated hedging endgame ultimately torn apart by extreme liquidity. Veteran players know that large-scale hedging may seem steady but is actually walking a tightrope. Especially with the NU7 upgrade about to launch on testnet on October 6 and the mainnet sprint on November 5, anticipation in the privacy sector has long been stirring. Extremely high funding rates combined with massive leverage exposure are like cold water dripping into a boiling oil pan; even the slightest disturbance can instantly swallow tens of millions of dollars in a liquidity trap. Looking at the broader market, this kind of leverage clearing is by no means isolated. Look at the $xTSLA of US stock tokens linking with tech giants, Tesla and Nvidia's capital testing under expectations of rate cut cycles, and compare the underlying currentsAptos validators down 40% in two years: More crowded after reward cuts
Aptos validators have decreased by 40% over two years: from 146 down to 84, countries from 22 to 13, with Asia almost only Tokyo still holding on.
The Four Pillars analysis noted that from October 2024 to September 2026, the number of cities dropped from 48 to 28, with nodes basically clustering back in Europe and America. The annual staking reward dropped from 7% all the way down to 2.6%, APT price fell from about $9.5 to $0.58, meaning validator annual income evaporated by about 96% in USD terms — even though the average stake per node increased by 56%, it still couldn't compensate. Performance upgrades pushed block production time under 50ms, nodes far from the cluster suffered lower proposal success rates, and combined with rising hardware and memory costs, exiting or relocating became natural.
Even if you can't get real-time explorer reconciliation screenshots from the other side, remember this first: reward cuts ≠ more decentralized nodes. After rewards are slashed and the coin price stagnates, geographically it actually gets more crowded.[A striking number, not a measure] In an interview published on September 20, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stated that 2030 will not be the end of the world, and the probability that AI will cause such an outcome is 0%. He called the related warnings doomsday narratives, arguing that such predictions lack scientific basis, and that scaring people with fear is unnecessary and irresponsible. But 0% does not come from real-world frequency statistics, probability models, or peer-reviewed studies, but rather from corporate executives' judgments about extreme scenarios. Humans have no samples of similar events to observe repeatedly, so whether 0% or other higher warning numbers are not directly measured objective probabilities. This number truly reflects Jensen Huang's choices regarding risk, regulation, and development speed. [Set New Rules First, or Enforce Old Laws First] There are roughly two governance paths surrounding cutting-edge AI. The prevention approach holds that even if catastrophic consequences are hard to estimate, as long as the potential losses are large enough, dedicated rules should be set in advance to impose constraints on high-risk capabilities, development processes, or deployment speeds. Another approach focuses on damages that can already be identified and attributable. Jensen Huang clearly supports the latter: he opposes adding new AI-specific rules and advocates prioritizing the enforcement of existing cybersecurity, unauthorized intrusion, and liability laws. According to this approach, systems do not need to first prove the probability of doomsday events, but should identify behaviors and responsible parties when intrusions, product damage, or deployment incidents occur. This approach is practical but not a proven and sufficient answer. Frontier models often cross over models$BTC has climbed back near 84,000, and this round looks more like a trade of "macro negative digestion + ETF capital inflow."
BTC is currently around $83,973, up 1.26% in 24H, and up 9.81% in the past 7 days, showing a clear recovery from around 76,000 a few days ago.
The capital flow is also improving. The US spot BTC ETF saw a net inflow of about $433 million last Friday, after two consecutive days of outflows were significantly replenished, turning the whole week back into a slight net inflow. This indicates institutional funds have not fully withdrawn.
The macro environment is still challenging. After the Fed's rate hike, the market is still pricing in the possibility of further tightening, with US Treasury yields and the dollar likely to continue exerting pressure. But BTC's recovery from 76,000 to 84,000 itself shows short-term support is not weak.
The current market logic has shifted from "rate hikes suppressing valuations" back to ETF support + risk appetite recovery + 80,000 becoming support again.
From a technical perspective, support is at 82,000–82,500, with strong support at 80,500–81,000; resistance is at 84,500–85,000, and if it holds above that, then look toward 86,500–87,000.
The key now is not chasing 84,000, but watching if spot support appears near 82,000 on pullbacks. If it holds, the recovery structure remains; if it falls back below 80,000, beware of a false breakout. 7u challenge to 100 million!
Day 31
Principal 7u, target 100 million
Currently: 4050u
Living cost: 1950u
Available funds: 2100u+
Just now Bitcoin surged sharply, short positions liquidated for 263 million USD.
Previously kept saying, this bull market:
1. From 58,000 to 82,000, that was the first wave
2. Then a pullback from 82,000 to 75,000, that was the second
3. Now entering the third wave
Breaking through 82,500 will directly go to 85,000, no chance for shorts, and the key is there is no resistance from 85,000 to 90,000.
Currently mostly holding $BNB spot; continuing to hold long Bitcoin $BTC contracts, waiting for when it hits 90,000; $PONS protocol income has recently dropped sharply, tested a few trades but stopped losses on the spot, continuing to observe.
Overall strategy remains unchanged: write content, use contracts and meme coins to earn more principal. Using a barbell strategy, on one side holding mainstream top assets, on the other pure meme.
On the meme side, have laid traps for many, principal is too small so only this strategy is used. One has risen over 30 times, not sold. Now not really profiting, considering whether to add more but worried it will bury me inside, too difficult.
#加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 It's actually not that mystical; simply put, several factors collided: BTC retook $80K, ETF funds started flowing back, global risk appetite warmed up, plus a wave of shorts were forced to stop loss. Especially once BTC broke through, shorts collectively started to "admit their mistake" — if you don't buy, it buys for you 😂. The higher the price rises, the more panicked the shorts get; the more panicked the shorts, the more buying pressure they contribute, resulting in this accelerating short squeeze rally. ETH is even simpler: big brother BTC charges ahead, little brother ETH follows with a catch-up rally. Adding to that, ETH ETF funds are flowing back, so today looks particularly strong. But don't rush to shout "the new bull market is here." What really matters now are two things: whether BTC can hold above $80K, and whether ETF funds can keep flowing in. If this is just a pulse from shorts being squeezed out, the faster it rises, the harsher the potential pullback. Also, on September 25, there's a relatively large BTC options expiry, so the next few days are likely to be eventful. The market loves to teach you a lesson just when everyone thinks "it's stable." So, rising prices are good, but don't get carried away. $BTC #ETH surges past $2700, staking and funding diverge #Exploded Exploded BTC just suddenly surged! Is it a market reversal or the bears' final "sacrifice"?
Just now BTC broke through $84,000, reaching a high of $84,275, with a significant volume increase on the 15-minute chart, showing a very fierce short-term rise.
I tend to interpret this rally as a "breakout + short squeeze" dual drive.
Public data shows BTC rose about 3% within an hour, triggering approximately $252 million in short position liquidations;
From the chart, the 15-minute EMA7, EMA25, and EMA99 all diverge upwards, price clearly above the moving averages, short-term bulls are very strong but already in an acceleration phase.
Next, focus on three levels:
Around 84,300: first resistance.
If volume supports a stable hold, next to watch is the 85,500–86,500 range.
82,600–82,000: key short-term support.
If a pullback here does not break, the strong structure remains intact.
Around 80,800: strength/weakness boundary.
If it falls back here, it means this breakout needs reconfirmation.
Currently, I’m more concerned not about "how much more it can rise," but whether 84,300 can turn from resistance into support.
In summary:
After a sharp rally, a pullback is not feared; what’s feared is a surge with volume that can’t hold. True strong markets often don’t rise straight up but break out—pull back—then break out againIn the afternoon, funds reranked the strengths and weaknesses: BTC, HYPE, or BICO turned stronger first?
$BTC Remains an anchor for risk appetite. In the afternoon, focus on whether the support zone can be supported: if the lower volume shrinks and the low gradually rises, it indicates reduced selling willingness; If volume increases and the recent high is recovered, the recovery window will open. Conversely, after breaking below the lower boundary of consolidation, the rebound will be weak and the volatility may continue to spread.
$HYPE Check whether the trend chips are stable. After consolidating at high levels, whether the low can continue to move upward is the dividing line between strength and weakness. If the pullback shrinks volume and approaches the resistance level again, it means the selling pressure above is being digested; If volume remains strong after breaking through the previous high, capital is likely to take over. If there is stagnation on high volume, avoid cashing out.
$BICO Greater elasticity, with the key being the quality of the breakout above the upper boundary of the range. If the pullback holds the previous low and active buying is strengthened, it indicates the structure has improved; If the breakout with high volume and the pullback is not broken, the rebound room is likely to open up. If the price drops quickly after a sharp rally, it should still be treated as a consolidation.
In the afternoon, let's see if BTC can stabilize its focus, HYPE can continue its rise, and BICO can break out with volume. On the downside, observe who first loses and consolidates the low. For true strength, after a breakout, sustained trading is needed, and when pullbacks occur, someone needs to buy up. #加密总市值重返2.8 trillion USD $HYPE HYPE feels pretty good to collect this time 😮💨 Opened a long at 90.009, fully closed at 94.972, in less than 3 days, a single contract realized a return of +267.18%. I had been holding at 95 before, but this time I ended near there and didn’t suddenly aim for 100.
Originally willing to go long because I valued the actual connection between its fees and the token. According to official rules, the aid foundation automatically converts allocated trading fees into HYPE, and the HYPE in the fund is destroyed. If someone is willing to pay trading fees, the income has a chance to turn into token buy orders, which interests me more than just hearing “the ecosystem is getting better.”
However, I think one thing shouldn’t be counted twice as positive: buyback and burn have different roles, but they are not two separate funds buying coins. The coins bought with the same fee are then destroyed, so it’s not like buying twice. So what I care more about later is whether the income can continuously fund this mechanism, rather than just shouting louder and louder “buyback + burn.”
That’s also why I still believe in its business but am willing to exit near 95. The same bullish reasons that supported me opening a position near 90 don’t mean I can keep holding indefinitely as it rises. To raise the target, there must be new judgments, not just a bigger appetite after seeing floating profits.
I’m quite happy this time, basically got the part I wanted to eat. Next, I have to control the urge to trade when just profitable #加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 🔥 The biggest short seller exited, and he did so with a loss of $35 million!
💥38,000 $ZEC short positions were closed in one place, and in just 1.5 hours, ZEC jumped from around 1490 to 1530. The most ironic scene occurred: the bears' stop-loss buy orders instead became fuel for the rise.
🐋 But what's really worth pondering is that after closing out his short positions, he still holds about 202,000 ZEC spot tokens. 200,000 spot + 38,000 short positions is more like hedging spot holdings rather than simply betting on ZEC price declines. Now that the insurance has been withdrawn, spot holdings remain.
🚀 Additionally, the NU7 upgrade has a clear timetable: the testnet is planned to launch on October 6, with the mainnet target on November 5. With the exit of the bear whale, market attention continues to rise.
👀 The biggest short seller left, but ZEC didn't fall. Do you think the bears have cleared out, or is there a bigger competitor ahead? #ZEC巨鲸3 8,000 short positions were closed, resulting in losses exceeding $35 million. #特朗普将会晤海湾六国, the Iranian situation has reached a critical juncture $ONE short position resistance, funding fees have cost me twice the margin
I opened a short position yesterday. Negative funding rate.
My judgment at the time was simple: the project is shutting down, the team has abandoned fixing it, and the chain has been hacked with billions of tokens minted—what reason is there for the price to rise? I shorted and waited.
As a result, from yesterday until now, 24 hours, the funding fees have eaten up twice my entire margin.
It’s not liquidation. The position is still open, but the money is gone. Settlement happens every hour, the rate keeps deducting, the price stays flat or slightly moves up. My margin balance is visibly shrinking.
I checked the data: ONE’s funding rate is absurdly negative, reaching as low as -0.88%. Negative funding means shorts pay longs. If the price doesn’t drop, shorts keep paying.
What’s more ironic is that the contract I’m watching has had its delisting announcement postponed by OKX. Originally scheduled to go offline on September 18, now the “new time will be announced separately.” The project’s chain is shutting down, but the exchange’s contract remains. Shorts pay, longs receive, and the market makers harvest in the middle.
I’ve held on until now, 24 hours, twice the margin lost, the direction was right, but the funding rate nearly killed me. This is a real-money lesson from yesterday until now.#AI降速争议未退，算力投入继续加码
Money hasn't stopped flowing. Meta, Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon's combined capital expenditures for 2026 are about $760 billion, nearly four times that of 2022. Oracle's RPO has piled up to 664 billion, TSMC has revised its full-year wafer demand forecast from "about doubling" to 1.9 times, and Nvidia has backed a $105 billion guarantee for OpenAI's lease in Ohio.
But the financing chain is starting to feel pressure. Oracle's $18 billion loan for its New Mexico data center is being quoted by banks at 89 to 91 cents on the dollar, and distribution has stalled. This is not a demand issue; the market is beginning to impose discipline on the "burn rate."
The real signal in the slowdown debate is that pricing power is shifting from "how fast model iterations are" to "how hard the physical bottlenecks are and how strict capital discipline is." The former is narrative; the latter is the ledger. Focus on two variables: the pace of HBM and power delivery, and the financing cost of AI infrastructure special debt. Computing power investment hasn't stopped, but the number of people who can get cheap money is decreasing.#After the short positions are liquidated, the most important thing is not to keep chasing
A noteworthy market signal just appeared on OKX Planet: about $2.5 billion worth of short positions were forcibly liquidated in the past half hour, indicating that the upward movement was driven by continuous passive buying. However, the liquidation scale only represents forced position closures and does not mean that new spot funds have stepped in.
Next, I will watch two things: whether ETH can hold near 2700 after the surge, and whether SOL's strength is accompanied by trading volume. If the price continues to rise but spot volume shrinks, it looks more like the final stage of a short squeeze; if buying remains after a pullback, then the trend has a foundation to continue.
So the easiest mistake to make now is to interpret "shorts being liquidated" as "it will only go up." Profits come from judgment, and also from not maxing out leverage when sentiment is at its hottest.
$HYPE $ETH $SOL #SOL延续涨势，资金与链上需求共振 🚨 Just opened OKX, and I was stunned: why are the big four all green again?
$BTC 80536, -1.36%
$ETH 2577, -2.43%
$SOL 108, -3.12%
$ZEC even worse, 1437, down -5.6% 📉
But honestly, I don't find this dip too scary for now.
It feels more like — it rose too fast a few days ago, now it's just taking a breather.
BTC pulled back from around 75,000 to above 80,000; such a short-term correction isn't surprising. As long as $BTC can hold the key 80,000 level, I personally lean towards seeing this as a consolidation rather than a sudden trend reversal.
Looking at strength and weakness is even clearer:
BTC is holding up, ETH follows the pullback, SOL is more volatile, and ZEC is clearly taking profits at a high level.
Especially ZEC, which surged from a few hundred to near 1500; a correction after such a rise is really not unexpected.
So at this point, I’m actually not eager to chase.
If it continues downward, I’ll pay more attention to whether there’s solid support around 1300 or even 1200, rather than rushing to bottom-fish just because it’s dropped.
One more thing not to forget: liquidity is naturally thinner on weekends.
At times like this, even a small amount of capital moving in or out can amplify volatility.
So my own position remains conservative, mainly BTC, with minimal altcoin trading.
#DailyOrbit Jiang Zhuoer said after touching 83-84k, there will be a big pullback, then added, "Full position in ETH spot waiting to rise."
Wait, isn't that contradictory?
Bearish on BTC, yet fully loaded on ETH. When there's a pullback, ETH has never been kind when following BTC down. The correlation is clear: whenever BTC trembles, ETH always falls even harder.
So who exactly is this "waiting to rise" for? Waiting for BTC to finish its pullback and then ETH to catch up? But you still have to endure that initial pullback.
Market makers love to hear this kind of talk. Someone calls for a pullback, retail panics and hands over their chips; someone says full position waiting to rise, retail hesitates to short. Caught in the middle, liquidity emerges.
My first reaction isn't whether to believe him, but who benefits from this statement.
Fellow insiders, do you think this is true conviction, or just finding someone to take the position off their hands?
#ETH冲高2700美元，质押与资金面现分化
#美国加密税收与BTC储备法案获推进 #加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 $ETH In the past few days, A Jian has seen a large amount of content on Chinese platforms like Twitter, Douyin, Xiaohongshu, and Zhihu focusing on two directions: portraying the failure of the Clear Act as the apocalypse of crypto, and describing the SEC exemption as a crypto milestone, which is a real conflict of perspectives. Basically, no one can summarize these two events in one sentence: the U.S. has entered a window period with no new laws but new regulations.
Few Chinese KOLs mention that during this window period products can continue to be launched but their legal status is not guaranteed, nor do they clearly explain the OIRA review and the five-year exemption expiration date in September 2031. This is how the information gap in trading accumulates little by little. DYOR#ETH surged to $2700, staking and capital flows show divergence
$ETH Ethereum price surged to $2700, which looks like a good increase on the surface, but inside the market, two completely different mindsets exist.
One group locks up Ethereum for the long term without selling it on the market. They hold their chips tightly, are not in a hurry to cash out, and won’t casually dump to push prices down, effectively supporting the market bottom. This long-term holder group remains relatively stable in mindset. $BTC
But the other group, short-term traders, think exactly the opposite. They take advantage of this price rise to quickly sell and secure profits. Large external funds are not continuously rushing in to buy; the money entering during the rise is intermittent and not as hot as imagined. $ZEC
In short, long-term holders don’t want to sell, but short-term traders want to run as soon as prices rise. The forces pull against each other, making the market very conflicted.
In this situation, the foundation for the rise is actually not solid. If Bitcoin’s market can’t hold, Ethereum will react quickly and fall. Even if the price stands above $2700, it doesn’t mean it will keep rising strongly.
Don’t just rush in because you see prices rising; you need to see if there is still capital willing to keep buying. Risks must be kept in mind.
#加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元 #美联储10月再加息概率破55% #ZEC巨鲸3.8万枚空单平仓，亏损超3500万美元
A more noteworthy event than a “whale losing money” happened in the $ZEC market: a short position of 38,000 coins held for nearly 3 months was fully closed by market orders within 1.5 hours, resulting in a loss of about $35 million. During the closing process, ZEC was pushed from around $1490 to $1530, a short-term increase of about 2.7%.
But this was not a simple stop-loss. Garrett Jin did not sell his spot ZEC holdings while closing the short position. This means the operation was essentially an "end of hedging" rather than a "complete bearish turn." The short position disappeared, but the spot holdings remain, changing the market’s selling pressure structure.
Other ZEC shorts have been forcibly liquidated before, and high-level short positions are continuously being squeezed. The exit of this largest short position may mark a turning point in the release of short pressure. The key going forward is not the loss amount, but: after the largest short has exited, how many shorts remain in the market to be squeezed further?
In the short term, watch two directions: if ZEC can hold above $1530 and break through the $1550–$1575 range with volume, more short stop-losses may be triggered, potentially amplifying a short squeeze; if it rises then falls back below $1490, this closing is more likely a one-time event, and the market will need to find a new direction.
Do not simply interpret "whale losing money = ZEC peak." What’s truly worth tracking is whether ZEC will enter a second phase of movement after the short pressure is released.🚨 On September 22, the real focus is not on "whether Iran will continue fighting," but rather—whether this war can actually be negotiated.
Brothers, the situation with Iran is a bit different this time.
During the UN General Assembly on September 22, Trump will discuss the next phase and follow-up arrangements of the Iran war with Gulf countries including Saudi Arabia, UAE, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman. Meanwhile, Iran has already conveyed negotiation terms to the US through Qatar and is currently awaiting a response.
So what the market is really watching now boils down to one word:
Negotiate.
If negotiations succeed, the market may quickly reprice "risk reduction";
If negotiations fail, geopolitical risks may heat up again.
This is also why I think $CL (WTI) and $BZ (Brent) might fluctuate repeatedly around the September 22 milestone.
But here’s an easily overlooked point👇
Crude oil prices won’t necessarily surge unilaterally just because of a "meeting."
Oil prices already factor in considerable Middle East supply risks. What will truly determine the next direction is whether there is substantive progress in negotiations and whether energy and shipping risks in the Gulf region further escalate. Today, oil prices have already retreated due to eased diplomatic expectations and supply concerns.
As for $BTC, I wouldn’t simply apply the logic of "geopolitical conflict = safe-haven buying of BTC."
In recent months, Bitcoin’s reaction to geopolitical news has resembled that of a risk asset rather than a traditional gold-like safe haven. Stop pulling, stop pulling, please pull back quickly! It can't go from 80,000 to 85,000 in one day!
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Brothers, look at the screenshot, Bitcoin is really going crazy this time!
The 24-hour low was 80,229, the high directly hit 84,234, a surge of 4,000 dollars in one go! Now it has slightly pulled back to 83,970. This increase is like a bulldozer, giving bears no chance to breathe.
I couldn't help but open a short position around 83,963, 20x isolated margin, currently slightly losing -0.81%. I know shorting against the trend is risky, but I just can't stand how exaggerated this rally is.
📊 Market Analysis:
On the 1-hour chart, moving averages are seriously diverging. MA5 (83,048), MA10 (82,314), MA20 (81,897) are all trending upwards, fully igniting bullish sentiment. But such an extreme rally has a huge deviation rate, short-term profit-taking is very rich. Technically, a pullback is urgently needed to repair indicators; it’s impossible to go from 80,000 to 85,000 in one day.
🎯 Trading Strategy:
The first target is around 82,500 (near MA10), if it breaks below, look at 81,500. Take profits on a technical pullback after a sharp rise, never be greedy.
In a big bull market, shorting against the trend must be with a small position. This is purely a bet on an overbought pullback; if right, take some profit, if wrong, get out quickly.
Bitcoin is indeed too crazy this time, daily candles are consecutively bullish, bears are getting beaten badly. But the more it’s like this, the more we must respect the market.
$BTC $ETH
#加密总市值重返2.8万亿美元
#特朗普将会晤海湾六国，伊朗局势迎关键节点
#美国加密税收与BTC储备法案获推进 What is Celo building? It is building a future trading system, but CELO is not a stock. Many people ask, what exactly is Celo doing? In short, it is building a global transaction system that spans continents, receives funds in seconds, and settles with stablecoins. Why is traditional cross-border payment slow? Because a sum of money must go through agent banks, intermediaries, compliance reviews, time zone differences, and weekend shutdowns; spending seven or eight days is not uncommon, and the fees are not low. Celo aims to solve this pain point. Celo is an Ethereum Layer 2 with a block time of 1 second and transaction fees under $0.001. Mobile phone numbers can be mapped to wallet addresses, making transfers as simple as sending a message. Stablecoins can be used directly to pay gas fees, so users do not need to buy CELO first. Currently, Celo supports more than 30 stablecoins covering 19 fiat currencies, and the MiniPay wallet has verified over 18 million phone numbers. These are not concepts, but running networks. Some say banks will be unnecessary in the future. More precisely, there will be no need for layers of correspondent banks in the future. Banks and financial institutions can still settle on Celo, but value transfer will no longer be slowed down by traditional processes. Individuals can self-custody assets, and cross-border remittances can be completed as easily as sending messages. This is the true meaning of Celo: it is not about eliminating banks, but about making global value transfer no longer dependent on bloated intermediary chains. There is an important clarification about the CELO token: CELO is not a stock, does not represent shares of Celo or the community, nor does it enjoy dividend rights. It is networked