Spot-Futures Basis Widens: What Exactly Is the Market Pricing In?

In crypto markets, beyond price, trading volume, and funding rates, there is another metric worth watching: basis.

Sometimes, Bitcoin's spot price changes little, while its futures price is significantly higher than spot; at other times, the futures price is lower than spot. This difference is not merely a numerical change—it may also reflect differing expectations about future prices, funding costs, and demand for positions.

First, understand what basis is.

Basis usually refers to the difference between the futures price an

$INIT Down 18 points in 24 hours, plunging straight from 0.1474 to 0.1070. At 0.1164 now, intraday bears have already unloaded their positions. The 216M in trading volume suggests most panic selling is over, but don’t rush to catch a falling knife with a coin crashing like this—wait for the structure to form.
My plan: No chasing shorts or buying the dip at the current price. I’ll place staggered, small long entries in the 0.1100–0.1120 range, using only 20% of my position, with a stop below 0.1065. If it breaks below the previous low, I’ll admit I’m wrong and exit—no holding on. The first take

Bitcoin bearish crossover of the weekly LMACD bitcoin:native

Open interest suddenly increases—is this a new opportunity, or is risk building?

In the crypto derivatives market, alongside price and trading volume, there is another frequently overlooked indicator: open interest (OI).

When OI rises rapidly, some believe the market is attracting new capital, while others worry that large leveraged positions are accumulating and could trigger sharp volatility at any moment. How should we interpret this?

First, rising OI means the number of contracts that have not been closed is increasing.

It reflects the scale of open contracts still in the market, not s

In that 03:40 post, I said $ETH perpetuals looked bearish, with a take-profit target of 1982—the 11 o’clock candle broke straight through, and the low so far is 1927, $55 below the target. That call was right. $ETH is now at 1936, down 5.7% in 24 hours, with $6.36 billion in perpetuals trading volume, second in the market. At the same time, $BTC also fell below 70000, hitting a low of 68572. The whole market is moving down; it’s not just ETH. Once 1982 broke, there wasn’t much meaningful support below. My view: $ETH perpetuals still look bearish, current price 1936. Take profit at 1900, a

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#USOctoberPPIComingSoon

The upcoming US October Producer Price Index (PPI) report is becoming an important focus for financial markets as investors prepare for fresh insights into inflation trends and the overall strength of the American economy. The PPI measures changes in prices received by domestic producers for their goods and services, making it a valuable indicator of potential inflationary pressures before they reach consumers.

Market participants will closely examine the upcoming data to understand whether production costs are increasing, stabilizing, or declining. A higher-than-exp

Woke up and the sky had fallen 🥲—what happened? BTC dropped below 😶68k, holy crap. Anyone who knows, fill me in. Good thing I shorted MicroStrategy 🤭 #BTC $BTC

When the Market Crashes, Why Can Forced Liquidations Further Intensify the Downtrend?

In crypto markets, prices sometimes just begin to fall, then the decline suddenly accelerates. Large numbers of positions are forcibly liquidated, more sell orders enter the market, and prices fall further, triggering a series of sharp fluctuations.

This may be due to a market mechanism known as a “liquidation cascade.”

First, leverage amplifies the impact of price changes on accounts.

When using leverage, traders only need to put up part of the margin to establish a larger position. Therefore, the same p

This Microsoft outage affected even Australian intelligence agencies and the Japanese government!
This isn’t just a matter of ordinary office workers not receiving emails. Intelligence and security organizations, federal police, and Japanese government ministries and agencies were all caught up in it. The government even had to invoke a protocol asking Microsoft to prioritize restoring services in its country. The whole situation is absurd.
Downdetector outage reports peaked at nearly 130,000. Teams, Copilot, and multiple Microsoft 365 services also experienced outages. Microsoft said some ser

$BTC ‌The price is currently within the FVG zone and at the 61.8% Fibo level; if the price closes above this zone, I will enter a buy position.

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🚨 US PPI INFLATION DATA DROPS TODAY AT 8:30 AM ET!
PREVIOUS: 6.3% | FORECAST: 6.6%
ABOVE 6.6% → BEARISH
AT 6.6% → MIXED REACTION
BELOW 6.6% → BULLISH
MARKETS ARE WATCHING CLOSELY!

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You can only use them to play the game, and you need to put in real money to play.
It’s like Snake: if you crash into someone and take them out, you can take 90% of their chips.
There don’t seem to be many people playing right now. I’ll just grab the free one for now.
Not buying the paid ones!
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