Crypto KOL Community & Market Trends

The $FTA I recommended currently has a market cap of 1.87 million.
Rome wasn’t built in a day. For a project like this that’s being promoted on the ground, any pullback could be an opportunity.
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From 5,600 to 4,000, is the gold bull market dead?
Last week it fell 4%, breaking below a round-number level, and everyone online was shouting, “Gold is finished.” But after going through central bank holdings data, I found a chilling truth—the ones fleeing are all leveraged traders; the ones scooping up the chips have stayed quiet.
First, the surface picture: brutal, just brutal.
From the January high of 5,580 to 4,000, it has lost 25%. Last week saw its worst weekly decline since June, and the daily moving averages are all in a bearish alignment: the 20-day MA is at 4,155 and the 50-day MA at 4,340, with the price below both. RSI has fallen to 27–35, oversold, but with no bullish divergence.
Everyone’s saying, “The gold bull market is over” and “De-dollarization is a hoax.”
Do you believe it?
First: the reason for the drop isn’t that gold has lost its appeal—it’s that interest rates are too high.
The 10-year Treasury yield is still around 5%.
The opportunity cost of holding gold is absurdly high—you can put your money in Treasuries and earn 5% risk-free, so why hold a non-yielding metal?
On top of that, September CPI came in hot at 3.7%, PPI was strong, and oil prices remain high. The market is pricing in a 75–80% chance of a rate hike in December. The dollar is firm, and gold is getting hammered.
It’s not that gold is worthless; it’s that the money tied up in gold is too expensive.
When rates ease, gold will be the first to take off.
Second: while you’re cutting your losses, central banks are quietly buying up gold.
Central banks in emerging markets—China, India, and Turkey—have continued adding to their reserves this year, buying more than 1,000 tons.
They bought above 4,000, and now it’s below 4,000. Have they bailed? No.
ETF holdings haven’t increased much during the pullback. What does that tell us?
Short-term speculative money is fleeing; long-term allocation money is waiting.
Third: the technicals are in the “test of faith” zone, but there’s no all-clear signal to buy the dip yet.
Strong support: 3,980–4,000 (round-number level + cluster of recent lows); if that breaks, watch 3,960–3,940 (July low), then 3,900.
Resistance: 4,040–4,075 (former support turned resistance), then 4,100–4,120; 4,150–4,200 is a cluster of moving averages.
Pattern: inside a descending channel. There’s been a rebound after a downside liquidity sweep, but until price gets above key moving averages, this is just a bear-market rally, not a reversal.
A 0.3–0.6% rebound on Monday would be an oversold bounce—don’t get excited.
Before the FOMC, any rebound could be a trap.
The bulls and bears face off—you decide
The bears say:
Rates at 5% make holding gold too costly
75–80% chance of a rate hike in December
Oil prices retreating, inflation expectations cooling
All moving averages are bearish; the descending channel remains intact
The bulls say:
Central banks are buying 1,000 tons, no question
A 25% drop from 5,600 is a deep enough correction
RSI is oversold; a technical rebound could come at any time
High debt + geopolitical uncertainty; the medium-term thesis remains intact
I’m bearish in the short term, bullish in the medium term.
But before the FOMC (October 28), anyone heavily positioned is a fool
Trading strategy
Before the FOMC (1–3 days):
Keep positions light or stay on the sidelines.
If you’re itching to short: sell into a rebound at 4,040–4,070, stop above 4,100, targets 4,000 → 3,980 → 3,960.
If you’re itching to go long: wait for 3,980–4,000 to hold and a hammer/engulfing candle to appear, then enter lightly; stop below 3,960, target 4,040–4,070
Event trading (FOMC + PCE):
Dovish statement → rebound to 4,100–4,150
Hawkish statement or hotter-than-expected PCE → break below 3,960, watch 3,900 or even lower
Trim or hedge positions before the decision; don’t bet your life on the direction.
Medium to long term:
Build positions in physical gold/ETFs in batches in the 3,900–4,000 range; don’t go all in.
Stop loss? The medium- to long-term view is based on central bank gold buying and de-dollarization, not one candlestick. But don’t let your position exceed 20% of your total capital.
Gold right now is like Bitcoin in March 2020—
The pandemic triggered a sell-off, and everyone said, “Safe-haven assets have failed.” Then it doubled six months later.
This time is the same:
You didn’t lose to gold; you lost to the illusion that “everyone else is selling.”
$BTC $ETH $XAU #BTC争夺8万美元关口 #GateWCTCS9 Global Trading Competition #USStockEarningsSeason

$BTC might be repeating history.
In 2023, Bitcoin swept support, reclaimed resistance, and rallied hard.
Now in 2026, a similar structure is forming.
Same key levels. Similar setup.
Is another major rally coming?

$BTC might be repeating history.
In 2023, Bitcoin swept support, reclaimed resistance, and rallied hard.
Now in 2026, a similar structure is forming.
Same key levels. Similar setup.
Is another major rally coming?

Came to Chongqing to check some things out and visit a friend.
This weather is perfect for catching the breeze on Nanbin Road—so comfy 🧑‍🩰

It was a risk to take this trade in these conditions
But the reaction was so clean so I entered 🫣

I recently tried Cottonia, and my biggest takeaway is that it takes AI infrastructure planning one step beyond “picking hardware by gut feel.”
When building AI applications, many developers might start by looking at the model, then estimate traffic, and finally pick a compute setup that seems sufficient. That approach sounds reasonable, but it’s easy to overlook one key point: infrastructure requirements can vary much more from one application to another than you might expect.

Moving $MSFT in and getting $rMSFT out was pretty straightforward. Honestly, the paperwork took more effort than the actual process.
Here’s how I did it 👇
1. Checked eligibility: Reviewed the supported assets list. OTC stocks and ineligible holdings weren’t accepted, and only whole shares were allowed.
2. Started the transfer: Homepage → More → Assets → Stock Transfer → Transfer In.
3. Prepared the documents: Got a brokerage statement from the last three months and made sure my name, account number, ticker, and share quantity all matched.
4. Initiated the outbound transfer: Started the process with my sending brokerage and followed its requirements.
5. Waited: @’s guidance mentioned around 10 business days, though actual processing times can vary.
6. Verified the result: Once everything was processed, I checked my Spot account for $rMSFT.
The biggest takeaway? The process wasn’t that complicated. Getting the paperwork right was where most of the effort went.
Now I’m curious 👀
Have you transferred stocks this way, or are you still figuring out how it works?
Drop your experience or questions in the replies. If you’ve completed a transfer, share what went smoothly and what slowed you down. Let’s help others avoid the same headaches.
Just remember to blur account numbers and all other sensitive details before posting screenshots.

The last U.S. midterm elections
were in November 2022
I remember it was a bear market then too
BTC fell from 69,000 to 15,000 that cycle
In November, it fluctuated around 17,000–20,000
The market didn't really stabilize until six months later, in 2023
A similar period before that
was November 2018
That was also when my losses started accelerating
and when BTC and ETH bottomed out again
By early 2019
BTC was down 85%
ETH was down 95%
I don't remember things as clearly further back
In November 2014
the A-share market was in a massive bull run
Financial stocks soared
I wonder if it had anything to do with the U.S. midterm elections at the time
The market may be influenced by more than just one factor
I'm just looking through my trading records
to find similar scenarios as best I can
and review them to see if I can find a better way to respond today

Memory is looking up!
$SKHY Soaring 4% premarket! SK Hynix is preparing to pay a $12 billion dividend to reward shareholders, funded by investment gains from its stake in Kioxia, to be announced in Wednesday’s earnings report.
Then $OpenAI announced it was resuming frontier model training, and memory stocks are among the most direct beneficiaries!
$MU is back above 900, and $SNDK $WDC $STX are all up 2%.
Only $KIOXIA is down. Kioxia says: “You’re so noble, so amazing—just sell me off to benefit everyone else, then.”😹

Nebius keeps getting battered premarket 🥴
Musk’s remark that “more than 200 new cloud companies will die off in droves” was no less powerful than a nuclear weapon.
$CRWV was at 52.94 premarket, down another 2.4%, and has fallen below its 52-week low of 53.5. $NBIS was down 3.5%, $Iren down 4%. The new cloud sector is now gripped by major panic!

$TSLA Up 2.5% premarket, now at 381.
Barclays upgraded Tesla from Neutral to Overweight today and raised its price target from 370 → 450.
The Robotaxi inflection point has arrived, with mileage surging recently and FSD penetration among new vehicle purchases in North America exceeding 75%. A merger with $SPCX could bring a 28% premium!

The messaging used by commercial KOLs is also being updated.

0.0022 DOOD, doubled in a day, everyone in the group is shouting “get in,” but I smell liquidations.
No news, no positive catalysts, NFT floor price up just 7%, yet DOOD went from 0.0011 to 0.0026, with trading volume exceeding market cap and funding at -2%—shorts are getting crushed. Is this the manipulators handing out money, or a trap they’ve dug for you?
First, the surface: the rally is enough to make you nervous.
24-hour gains of 50%+, at the extreme it surged 212% in a single day, and market cap briefly hit $38 million, while trading volume reached $100-200 million—the volume is dozens of times the market cap. This isn’t investing; the casino has opened its doors.
The NFT floor price rose just 7%, while the token doubled.
Nobody’s buying the NFTs; degenerate gamblers are going all-in on perpetuals.
First: a surge with no news is the most dangerous kind of “good news.”
No partnerships, no upgrades, no influencers touting it, yet DOOD suddenly surged 212%.
You think some positive news leaked?
Wrong. A surge with no news is, at its core, a liquidity harvest.
With a small-cap coin, a few million dollars can double the price.
Push it until you FOMO, chase the highs, and go long—then the manipulators dump their tokens on you, and you’re left standing on the mountaintop in the wind.
Second: negative funding isn’t bullish; it means shorts are carrying you—but the sedan can flip at any moment.
Funding rates are deeply negative, nearing -2% over 8 hours, with shorts paying longs and short liquidations dominating.
Sounds great?
Hell no.
Negative funding means shorts are crowded; shorts get squeezed, pushing the price higher.
But it also means longs are already extremely crowded.
Once the shorts are wiped out, buying pressure disappears, and the price goes right back where it came from.
OI has risen significantly; negative funding + short liquidations = short-term upward momentum.
But momentum isn’t a trend.
Negative funding on a small-cap coin is a piece of candy with a slap waiting behind it.
Third: the technical picture is “consolidation after a high-volume breakout,” not “the bull market is back.”
It climbed from 0.0011-0.0014 to 0.0026 on a high-volume breakout, and is overbought short-term.
Support: 0.0020-0.0018 (strong support on a retest), with stronger support at 0.0015-0.0013.
Resistance: 0.0025-0.0028, then 0.0030-0.0035 (previous high/psychological level).
Now at 0.0022, it’s caught between support and resistance.
If it can’t break above 0.0025, it’s a false breakout; if it breaks below 0.0020, the pullback begins.
Bulls vs. bears—judge for yourself
Bulls say:
Negative funding; shorts are still paying
OI is rising, and short liquidations dominate
High-volume breakout; a bottom structure is forming
Small market cap, so it can rally fast
Bears say:
A surge with no news, pure speculation
Trading volume exceeds market cap; turnover is abnormal
NFT floor price up just 7%; fundamentals aren’t keeping up
Longs are crowded; once shorts are wiped out, nobody will be left to buy
Potential selling pressure from Treasury tokens flowing to exchanges
Trading strategies
Aggressive short-term:
If it holds 0.0022-0.0023 on high volume and breaks above 0.0025, go long with a small position, target 0.0028-0.0032, stop-loss below 0.0020. Negative funding is an advantage, but set a trailing take-profit and don’t get greedy.
Conservative approach (recommended):
Wait for a retest of 0.0019-0.0021 to hold, then accumulate in batches, with a stop-loss at 0.0017-0.0018. Target 0.0026-0.0028, second target the previous high
Bearish approach:
If it breaks below 0.0020 on high volume, or shows bearish divergence/waning volume, short the rebound, target 0.0016-0.0015, stop-loss above 0.0023.
DOOD is now like the liveliest table in the casino—
Winners don’t want to leave, losers want to win it back, and the manipulators are taking their cut.
You think you’re trading, but you’re the one being traded.
A surge with no news isn’t an opportunity; it’s an invitation into a trap. $BTC $ETH $DOOD
#BTC争夺8万美元关口 #GateWCTCS9 Global Trading Competition #US Stock Earnings Season

ZEC at $1,225—would you still dare to hold it?
From $1,600 down to $1,225, a drop of 20%+. Everyone is trashing it, saying “privacy coins are garbage,” but just now, the NU7 mainnet upgrade activation time was locked in—November 5. Block times will shrink from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, tripling speed. Is this the final shakeout before the upgrade, or has the privacy narrative completely cooled off?
First, the surface: ugly, but not that ugly.
After retreating from September’s high of $1,600+, it fell 20%+ in October. Market cap: $20-21 billion, ranked in the top 10, with 24-hour trading volume of $600-800 million. It’s consolidating in the $1,200-$1,250 range, with RSI neutral and leaning choppy—not oversold or overbought. It looks like dead water, but there are undercurrents below.
First: the NU7 upgrade isn’t pie in the sky—the code is already written.
The mainnet activation height is locked at block 3,543,405, expected around November 5. The testnet has already activated early, and the Zebra 7.0.0 node software is ready.
Block times will shrink from 75 seconds to 25 seconds, tripling transaction confirmation speed
A portion of fees will go into reserves, bringing a sustainable network mechanism online
This isn’t some nonsense about “launching on mainnet next year”—it’s happening in just two weeks
Second: everyone is saying privacy coins are useless, but the data says otherwise.
The share of the shielded pool has rebounded to 29%, with real growth in privacy usage. The Q3 report shows a clear increase in transaction volume and participation in holder votes. Miners are adding to their holdings because returns are more efficient than BTC.
Grayscale’s ZCSH spot-like product is already live, with intermittent net inflows recently, reaching tens of millions of dollars on some days. Parties affiliated with the Winklevosses are also applying for a new ETF.
The institutional channel is opening up.
This is on the same level as the Bitcoin ETF narrative in 2020—nobody believed it then, and later they all kicked themselves.
Third: technically, it’s at a “break through or break down” point.
Resistance above: $1,250-$1,280 (recent highs + psychological barrier); a breakout opens the way to $1,300-$1,350, and then $1,500+
Support below: $1,200-$1,180 (key short-term level), with stronger support at $1,150-$1,100
One detail to note:
October’s pullback was 20%+, but the 7-day return is already positive, and price is tangled around key moving averages. This isn’t a crash structure; it’s consolidation after a pullback, waiting for a catalyst.
NU7 is that catalyst.
Volatility will rise around the event—liquidity sweeps in both directions, wicks triggering liquidations, then a direction is chosen.
Bulls versus bears—you decide
The bears say:
It fell from $1,600 to $1,225; the trend is broken
Privacy coins face significant regulatory risk, with the EU watching under AML rules
ETF inflows are intermittent and unstable
It fell 20% in October; confidence has collapsed
The bulls say:
NU7 activates in two weeks, tripling speed—a tangible upgrade
The shielded pool share is 29%, and real usage is growing
Grayscale’s product is live; the institutional channel is opening
Miners are adding to their holdings; fundamentals have shifted from “forgotten” to “making progress”
I believe the latter more.
Because ZEC is no longer the zombie coin worth a dozen dollars that it was in 2024—it has crawled out of the ruins and now has code, institutions, and real usage.
Trading strategy
Bullish (main strategy):
Entry: Scale into longs on a pullback to $1,180-$1,220
Stop-loss: A decisive break below $1,150 (or tighter, $1,170)
Targets: Take partial profits at $1,280-$1,320 first, then $1,400-$1,500 (a burst around NU7)
Bearish/hedging (short term only):
If a rebound to $1,280-$1,320 is rejected with a high-volume long upper wick, consider a small short position; stop above $1,350, target a retest of $1,200. Heavy countertrend positions are not recommended.
Neutral / wait and see:
If it moves sideways around $1,225, just watch for now; wait for a daily close to hold above $1,250 or break below $1,200 before acting. Volatility will be extreme around NU7; reduce leverage or hedge in advance to avoid wick-triggered liquidations.
ZEC is just like the Grayscale Bitcoin Trust in 2020—
99% of people think “privacy coins can’t go mainstream,” but once the institutional channel opened, it surged from a dozen dollars to $1,600. #美股财报季 #GateWCTCS9全球交易赛 #BTC争夺8万美元关口 $BTC $ETH $ZEC

Can you still hold ETH at $2330?
Arthur Hayes has sold out, ETFs saw $1.18 billion in outflows in October, upgrade testnet delayed, monthly chart down 13%—but whales are quietly withdrawing coins, JPM Coin has gone live on mainnet, and RSI has already plunged to 29. Is this the second half of a bear market, or one last shakeout by market manipulators using fear?
First, the surface picture: brutal, truly brutal.
ETH is down 53% from its August 2025 high of 4946. The monthly chart is down 13%, the weekly chart is down 4%, and the daily MA20 is pressing hard. ETFs saw net outflows of $1.18 billion in October, with redemptions on most trading days. Longs using leverage have been liquidated for tens of millions of dollars, and even veterans like Arthur Hayes have cut or closed their positions.
First: Is Hayes selling out a signal or noise?
When news broke that Arthur Hayes had sold all his ETH, the group chat exploded: “The big players are getting out—run!”
Hayes is a trader, not a true believer. He makes money from volatility, not market cycles. He may have sold to cut losses, rotate into other assets, or bet on a macro pullback—but he has never said ETH’s fundamentals are broken.
Exchange outflows have been high in recent months, and whales have been quietly accumulating below 2300. Lido’s validator set is still expanding, and staked ETH has hit a record high.
Second: ETFs saw $1.18 billion in outflows—is the money really leaving Ethereum?
ETFs saw net outflows of $1.18 billion in October. That sounds scary. But where did the money go? Into AI, into Treasuries, and into waiting for the FOMC.
This is rotation, not an exit.
More importantly, J.P. Morgan has expanded JPM Coin to the Ethereum mainnet. Major players like BlackRock and JPMorgan aren’t “buying ETH to trade crypto”; they’re using Ethereum as a settlement layer. RWA, tokenized assets, stablecoins—with a stablecoin market cap of $143 billion, where is the main battleground? Ethereum.
Third: The upgrade has been delayed, but the narrative isn’t dead.
Glamsterdam’s Hoodi testnet has been delayed due to an EIP security issue. The short-term narrative has cooled—that’s true.
Which Ethereum upgrade in history has gone smoothly? Before the Merge, how many people said, “It’s going to fail”?
Staking yields have fallen to 2.6%, which is indeed unattractive compared with Treasuries—but this is a necessary step in ETH’s transition from a “high-inflation mined coin” to a “low-inflation settlement layer.” Low yields mean more people are staking; more people staking means more people are bullish long term. You’re only looking at the low yields and missing the fact that 35.9% of the supply is locked up.
Technicals: oversold, but it’s not time to “buy with your eyes closed” yet.
Daily RSI is at 29-35, near oversold, with a potential rebound. The MACD is bearishly aligned, but the early signs of a bullish divergence have appeared.
Volume is rising on declines and shrinking on rebounds—the bulls aren’t eager to chase, but the bears are also running out of steam.
Resistance above is at 2360-2400; break above that and watch 2450-2500. Break below 2290 and watch 2200-2280.
Bulls vs. bears: you decide
The bears say:
Even Hayes is out; the big players are done
ETFs are seeing daily outflows; institutions aren’t buying
The upgrade is delayed; the narrative is dead
Staking yields are 2.6%, worse than Treasuries
The macro outlook is hawkish; a rate hike in December is possible
The bulls say:
Whales are withdrawing coins and accumulating below 2300
JPM Coin is live on mainnet; institutional settlement is taking shape
Staking has hit a record high, with 35.9% of supply locked up
RSI is oversold; early signs of a bullish divergence
Down 53% from ATH, so downside is limited
Trading strategy
Before the Fed (1-3 days):
A low-volume rebound from around 2330 to 2360-2380: take a small short, stop-loss at 2400, target 2300-2280.
If 2290 breaks on heavy volume, chase the short toward 2200, with a tight stop.
Bulls should only trade an oversold rebound: if 2300 holds and a bullish candle forms on heavy volume, try a small long, stop-loss at 2280, target 2360-2400.
After the Fed (1-2 weeks):
If the Fed is neutral and ETH climbs above 2400 → buy on dips, target 2500-2600.
If the Fed is hawkish or ETH breaks below 2290 → stay out and wait; reassess at 2100-2200.
ETH is just like Bitcoin in March 2020—
99% of people thought, “It’s really over this time,” only to be kicking themselves six months later.
At 2300, you’re not losing to the market—you’re losing to your own urge to chase highs and sell lows.#美股财报季 $BTC #GateWCTCS9全球交易赛 #BTC争夺8万美元关口 $ETH $SOL

The U.S.-Iran war started in late February. There was a ceasefire in April, and a temporary peace agreement was signed in June. They’re still fighting now.
Trump isn’t even pretending anymore: We might strike Iran tomorrow, or we might reach a deal. 😂 ???