What Warsh Said—and Didn’t Say: Reading Between the Lines of His IMF Fireside Chat
At 11:30 this morning, Fed Chair Warsh had a fireside chat with IMF Managing Director Georgieva at the IMF annual meeting in Bangkok. I watched the livestream from start to finish, looking for clues in his wording about an October rate hike. In the end, he said almost nothing.
Warsh’s exact words were: “I don’t prejudge the decision at any meeting. I don’t think it’s appropriate to preview what actions I might take at the remaining meetings this year.” He only made one remark while looking back at September’s ra

A few days ago, I strongly urged a friend
to bet on AVA, and it has doubled now
You ask me why my bets are so accurate
It’s all insider information🤓
Some people pick coins by looking at altcoin holdings/market cap
and trading volume
Actually, this is not much different from guessing high or low
These are all metrics that market makers can easily inflate, at a very low cost

$ARIA
UPDATE
#ARIA is getting a good volume here. In this move we can see 30%+ gain here ✍🏻
#ARIAUSDT #ARIABTC #BTC #Bitcoin #NFTs #Crypto

Bitcoin at $81,500: Bulls and Bears in a Standoff
Bitcoin is trading around $81,500 on Saturday, October 17, 2026, caught in a notable technical standoff where short-term bearish moving averages clash with a significantly healthier long-term structure.
With a market cap of roughly $1.639 trillion, daily trading volume of $13.967 billion, and a 24-hour range of $81,108.80 to $81,733.01, the market has settled into a narrow consolidation phase, leaving traders to decide whether the latest accumulation is the start of a recovery or just a pause before support gets tested again.
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🤖 NEW PREDICTION MARKET: Can Gemini 4 Argon (High) finish first on Oct. 19?
Gemini 4 Argon (High) leads at 93.5% in the Oct. 17 snapshot. Rivals need an eligible Text Arena entry; the noon ET ranking decides the result.

$USD1 has reached 1.0003USDT, but hourly trading participation is only 0.30x, making the move look somewhat weak. The price has moved, but volume has not followed. In this situation, focusing only on candlestick colors can easily lead you to overestimate the move’s staying power. The price has already broken above the 1-hour support at 1.0001, while the 1-hour resistance at 1.0004 still lies ahead. This looks more like a tentative breakout than the start of a genuine trend.
If 1.0004 is actually broken, the credibility of this rally will improve significantly. But low participation currently u

#CryptoMarketTurnsGreedy $XRP With this kind of momentum, $XRP will reach $30 so just sit tight and wait. It’s been mocked, but it really will hit $30 just watch.
$XRP

Good morning, $DOGE fam! 🤝🐕
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Happy weekend! ✌️🌦🍂
Dogecoin to the moon! 🚀🌑

Fees paid to apps on Filecoin rose 68.34% in the past 30 days to $111,353. GLIF, the network's largest app by fees, took in $91,398 of it, up 47.76% over the same window.
@Filecoin

A Bitcoin whale dormant for 12 to 13 years suddenly awakens, transferring 416.69 BTC for an unrealized profit of about $33.71 million!
On October 18, two long-dormant wallets transferred BTC worth about $33.82 million to the same address. These assets were originally worth about $105,400, representing an astonishing gain over more than a decade.
But a whale transfer doesn’t necessarily mean a sell-off. What’s really worth watching is where the funds go next: a transfer to a private wallet may not affect the market, while funds flowing to an exchange could signal potential selling pressure.
The

$ERA After hitting the day's high, it's now just stagnating. Feels like profit-takers are finally starting to act.
Take profit: 0.06396 Stop loss: 0.07138 Quick market check: $SO : Current price 103.7 - 24-hour change: -0.67%
$EPIC : Current price 0.2935 - 24-hour change: +24.31%

Let’s start with a term: weekend gold prices.
The $XAU on screen isn’t gold moving now; it’s quotes with no takers shifting around.
Only 5.97 million traded in the last hour, compared with 150 million in a single hour a few days ago.
“Breaking above 4205 means a new rally.”
I’ve heard that twice in the past three days. Here are the numbers:
1. 4205.65 was touched only once, at 10-16 22:00, and it hasn’t gone higher since.
2. Since then, over the past 34 hours, it has steadily ground back to 4164.07.
3. The 24-hour range is 4157.36 to 4173.66, a spread of 0.39%.
With a range this narrow, it’s

Most people are watching silver and waiting for a breakout. I think it needs to take a dip first. That congestion zone from a year ago still hasn’t overlapped with anything, leaving a small gap in the structure. If it really moves up from here, that would be interesting. The iHnS on gold lines up too. The hardest part of trading isn’t calling the direction—it’s waiting for a signal you can actually understand. So what’s the takeaway? I haven’t figured it out yet either. If you’re keeping an eye on this, give me a follow.

Can stablecoins also have a directional bias? Bottom line: yes, but only for mean reversion within an extremely narrow range, and $U currently has a clear edge in relative sideways strength.
Sector comparison: $SOL is trading at 103.48, with MA5 below MA20, RSI at 44.7, bearish MACD, a funding rate of -0.0022%, and a range of about 3.89% over 30 candles; $APT is trading at 0.7936, down 5.56% over 24h, with RSI at just 37.2, bearish MACD, and a range of about 10.99%. Both are below their moving averages, with weak momentum. By contrast, $U is trading at 1.0007, with MA5=1.00064 above MA20=1.

Sunday morning—time for a cup of coffee to wake you up!
SpaceX’s first full quarterly earnings report is about to be released. What the market really cares about isn’t how fast revenue is growing, but when its AI investments will start translating into profits.
Second-quarter revenue rose 92% year over year to $7.81 billion, but the company still posted a net loss of $541 million. The market expects third-quarter revenue of around $12.86 billion, with Starlink growth, AI revenue, and massive capital expenditures set to be key areas of focus.
My take: beating revenue expectations is just the fi

If you had invested $10k in the best-performing assets a month ago, the difference in returns would be astonishing...=> $NEA
=> $AD
=> $LIN

Most people are focused on a tariff breakthrough. I think the market will drop first. The court has ruled, but the tariff agenda isn’t dead—it’s just lost its easiest path. After doing this for so long, I know position sizing is always more important than calling direction. Let’s compare notes this weekend.