Golden September, Silver October—Chapter 7: What Is the Essence of Futures Contracts?
The core of futures contracts is the flexible game between longs and shorts. Classic candlestick theories can easily fail in extreme market conditions and may even produce opposite signals, so they should not be blindly trusted. That is why people often say you cannot see much by looking only at candlesticks. If you enter a position based solely on candlesticks, there is little difference from gambling.
$BTC
Candlesticks are merely traces left by a market movement that has already occurred. They record past

Reuters reports exclusively that Anthropic is preparing a potentially record-breaking IPO, seeking to raise up to $100 billion at a target valuation of approximately $2 trillion.
NVIDIA is in talks to become an anchor investor, with its subscription potentially reaching as much as $10 billion. All of these figures are still under discussion, and the final plan could change.
NVIDIA was already one of Anthropic’s most important computing suppliers, announcing in 2025 that it could invest up to $10 billion in Anthropic; Anthropic also committed to purchasing $30 billion worth of Azure computing c

#SenateReleasesNewCLARITYAct 🇺🇸📜
A major development is unfolding for the future of digital asset regulation in the United States as the Senate has released an updated version of the Digital Asset Market CLARITY Act ahead of a key procedural vote scheduled for September 15.
The latest text reflects continued negotiations around how the rapidly evolving digital asset industry should be regulated. The proposed legislation aims to create a clearer market structure for cryptocurrencies and establish more defined responsibilities for regulatory authorities. The updated version also includes prov

#CoinDesk披露GateRWA永续合约全球Top3 Gate recorded substantial growth in RWA (real-world asset) perpetual contract trading volume in August and ranked among the top three global CEXs (centralized exchanges). This achievement reflects Gate’s strong growth momentum in the derivatives sector and the rapid expansion of the RWA perpetual contract market, but it also entails corresponding market and compliance risks.
1. Platform growth and competitive advantages stand out
High trading volume and market share: $64.7 billion in perpetual contract trading volume, 158% month-on-month growth, and a 12.6% market

Fairly pivotal moment for AI/memory stocks like $MU, $NBIS, $SNDK as the charts all look like this...
They're all up 100x, everyone knows most of the profit/revenue is circular financing and capex with no ROI, everyone knows tech gets cheaper over time, the underlying commodities to build are becoming more expensive and competition will only increase.
complacency shoulder?

I just casually tapped refresh, and it went up on its own, leaving me in a pretty passive position. 😤
I just opened the chart, and $SPCX had already touched 150.18, with +793.96% showing on the books. I barely did anything, yet I somehow feel a little embarrassed.
Thinking back, around lunchtime the price was still grinding around 138.37, and quite a few people were saying the move was over. I took a look at the trades, and buying volume was genuinely strengthening, with each pullback holding at a higher level than the last—the bottoming process was holding without breaking key support, whic

【$LSK Signal】Long + negative funding short squeeze/strong 1H continuation
$LSK 1H RSI 86.10, 4H RSI 84.40, MACD bullish bars continue expanding across both timeframes. Price at 0.18786 has broken above the 1H Bollinger upper band at 0.1687, while the 4H upper band at 0.1564 was quickly left behind. Funding rate -0.4023%, with short holding costs elevated. Order book Bid/Ask 1.00, OI stable. Short-term momentum is extremely overheated, negative funding is hanging over the market, and shorts are fueling longs.
🎯Direction: Long
⚡Entry/limit order: 0.1872964 - 0.1878600
🛑Stop-loss: 0.1784670
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2026.9.12 Weekend quick market chat
Last night, the market produced its biggest long-wick candle in nearly 20 days, with liquidations over the past 24h reaching $700 million, three times the usual amount;
This week's trades went pretty well, with steady profits: Monday's XAG, Tuesday's XAU, no cup-smashing on Wednesday, Thursday's XAG and BTC trades, and the ETH strategy that day set at 2403, which hit after missing by $2; last night's SUI trade brings the cumulative total to 7 trades (XAG counted twice and BTC twice). One XAG trade hit stop-loss. The Friday morning deep-squat second bottoms o

Last night I checked the copy traders’ profits and losses. We should have made the brothers about 10% in profits, but some who had set leverage adjustment multiples were liquidated. There is a fixed multiple in the image below—don’t click around randomly. Do not set the multiple above 1.5X, otherwise it’s very dangerous. Last night, our drawdown should have been 7–8% when Ethereum was pushed to its highest point. If leverage copy trading was set to 10x, those positions would have been forcibly liquidated last night. That’s why the copy traders’ profits and losses were slightly lower. Everyone

Why ONDO short sellers are quietly preparing for a move that most traders are ignoring right now.

$ONDO /USDT - SHORT

Trade Plan:
Entry: 0.3492 – 0.3518
SL: 0.3629
TP1: 0.3412
TP2: 0.3350
TP3: 0.3256

Why this setup?
Why now? The 1h price sits at 0.3506, barely above a tight entry zone between 0.3492 and 0.3518, while the 15m RSI reads 49.03, hinting at balanced but fragile momentum. The 1h ATR of 0.005181 shows the market is compressed enough for a sharp directional break, and the 1D trend being range-bound suggests exhaustion. The setup targets TP1 at 0.3412 and TP2 at 0.3350 on a short

#AugustCoreCPIBeatsExpectations
The August core CPI report presents a mixed picture that increases the risk of short-term headwinds for risk assets.
Impact on September Fed Rate Hike Probabilities
Yes, the rise in monthly core CPI reinforces expectations for tight monetary policy.
Headline vs. Core Inflation: While headline CPI (0.4% monthly; 3.4% annual) and annual core CPI (2.4%) came in line with forecasts, the 0.3% monthly increase in core inflation exceeded the expected 0.2% rate. Since the Federal Reserve places significant weight on monthly core trends to assess underlying price stic

Whoever this $2,510 $ETH seller is, I hope you lose your private keys.

This entry point wasn’t perfect; I tried a long at the second bottom on the hourly $CL chart. The moving averages had not fully turned upward yet, so I could only use a tight stop-loss in exchange for room to capture later profits.
After entry, the price action was sluggish. Several pushes higher were driven back down, making it look as though the market was about to weaken. But each pullback failed to break the key reference level from the time of entry, so I chose to reduce my trading frequency and let the position run.
Only after the key level above was broken did the move begin to flow smo

I just switched the software to the background, and it dropped straight down—are you playing hide-and-seek with me? The $PONS short position plunged from 0.7004 to 0.6055, delivering a +265.38% return. The market literally tossed gold coins at my head.

Right after I saw the bad news, the price action was still trying to hold on, but each push upward was weaker than the last, with pitifully low volume while sell orders kept piling up. I judged this to be a weak rebound and immediately signaled a short.

When it plunged during the session afterward, the speed was genuinely astonishing.

From

The profit is thin, but it grew on its own—I didn’t touch it.

I opened the chart this morning, $SKHYNIX funds quietly entered the market, and the pullback held. I only signaled scaling into long positions, keep your protection in place, and don’t chase. 1171.00 to 1372.47, +1221.47%—feels good, brothers, we nailed this move. It was truly sluggish at first, but the outcome is truly sweet.

Have a strategy before the market opens, discipline during the session, and reflection after it closes.

Take 80% off the table first, and protect the remaining 20% at breakeven; don’t let floating profi

Nobody is talking about the short setup forming inside $LTC /USDT right now.

$LTC /USDT - SHORT

Trade Plan:
Entry: 53.75 – 54.03
SL: 55.28
TP1: 52.85
TP2: 52.15
TP3: 51.11

Why this setup?
Why now? The daily trend is range-bound, but the 1h price at 53.89 sits exactly on the entry zone high, and the 15m RSI reading of 65.4 shows momentum is still leaning bullish into resistance. The 1h ATR of 0.579167 means the average hourly swing is wide enough to give the short room to breathe before hitting TP1 at 52.85, then TP2 at 52.15. This is a low-conviction fade against overextended intraday st

【$LSK Signal】1H volume triples + negative funding holds firm, go long on a pullback
$LSK 1H single-candle volume was 74M, versus an average of 21M across the previous four candles, with trading volume directly tripling. RSI is 80.14 on 1H and 79.95 on 4H. Price at 0.16337 has crossed above the Bollinger upper band at 0.1474, with the bands widening. The 4H MACD histogram at 0.0038 continues to expand, with the 1H histogram following in sync. Funding rate is -0.1227%, with shorts paying to hold positions while the price does not fall. Order-book depth imbalance is -1.66%, Bid/Ask is 0.97, and

I did absolutely nothing—I just went to the bathroom, and when I came back, the candlesticks had already done the work for me. My $TRUMP short went straight from 2.371 to 1.984, with a +1158.15% return right there in front of me. All I can say is, the market daddy is in a really good mood today.
During yesterday afternoon’s repeated consolidation, I watched the chart for quite a while. Each push upward was weaker than the last, the selling pressure was firmly in place, and volume kept shrinking. Wasn’t that an obvious lack of buying support? So I went along with it and opened a short.
Later, w