At the same time, look $INJ vs $BTC 📸

$BTC
Is Wall Street suddenly no longer keen to short BTC?

CME Bitcoin net shorts plunge 89%

What exactly are institutions up to this time?

Damn

guys

There’s an interesting data point in crypto lately

Hedge funds’ net short positions in CME Bitcoin futures

have actually fallen 89% from their December 2024 peak

From a peak of about 116k BTC

to about 13k BTC now

the lowest level since February 2023

At first glance

does this mean Wall Street finally doesn’t want to short Bitcoin anymore?

There’s a different detail here

Many institutions previously used a strategy called basis tradin

$hana 22% up so far
making crypto simpler every day
#hana #alpha #god

$SNDK After surging 13.69% the previous day, it turned around and fell 4%! SanDisk’s price action is making things tough for those who chased the rally.

SanDisk closed at $937.46 on November 12, with an intraday low of $869.46 and trading volume of about 13.26 million shares. Such large price swings point to a serious divergence among investors.

But SanDisk’s fundamentals are not bad.

Its latest quarterly revenue was $11.031 billion, up 23% quarter over quarter, with its data center business growing 61%. Demand for storage driven by the expansion of AI computing capacity is clearly showing

What Is Cross-Exchange Arbitrage? Why Can Price Differences Between Two Platforms Be Offset by Transfer Times and Capital Lockup Costs?

The same crypto asset may be quoted at different prices on different exchanges. Traders can try to buy on the platform with the lower price and sell on the one with the higher price to capture the spread. But this seemingly simple strategy is also affected by fees, transfer speed, and market volatility.

First, what is cross-exchange arbitrage?

Cross-exchange arbitrage involves trading on price differences for the same asset across different platforms. For e

#USJoblessClaimsBeatExpectations 📊 U.S. initial jobless claims exceed expectations—are hopes for rate cuts back?

Initial jobless claims rose to 200k in the latest week, above expectations of 194k, showing signs of a slight cooling in the labor market.

But the thing is, 200k is still historically low. 👀

📉 Optimists: The labor market is starting to cool, which may ease pressure on the Fed to keep rates high.

📈 Cautious observers: CPI just came in hotter than expected, inflationary pressure remains, and one week of employment data is not enough to change the policy outlook.

With a coolin

What Is the Sharpe Ratio? How Do You Measure Whether a Trading Strategy's Returns Are Worth the Risk?

In cryptocurrency trading, a high return does not necessarily mean a strategy is good. If a strategy can generate high returns but comes with sharp volatility and significant drawdowns, we need to assess further: are those returns worth taking on the corresponding risk? The Sharpe ratio is one tool that can help answer this question.

First, what is the Sharpe ratio?

The Sharpe ratio measures the excess return a portfolio or trading strategy earns per unit of volatility risk. In general, the

What Is Trendline Trading? How Can You Identify a Valid Trendline, and Why Might the Same Trendline Be Broken Repeatedly?

In cryptocurrency trading, a trendline is an intuitive technical analysis tool. By connecting a series of price highs or lows, traders can observe the market’s overall direction and look for potential entry and exit opportunities. But a trendline is not an impenetrable boundary. No matter how neatly it is drawn, it cannot guarantee that the price will move as expected.

First, what is trendline trading?

Trendline trading involves connecting significant price highs or lows

What Is Overfitting? Why Can More Perfect Parameters Make a Strategy More Fragile?

A trading strategy performs almost perfectly in historical backtests, with a high win rate, a smooth equity curve, and a small maximum drawdown. It seems to have found a market pattern. But once it enters the real market, it may suffer frequent losses. One important reason behind this is overfitting.

First, what is overfitting?

Simply put, it means a strategy has adapted too closely to specific fluctuations and random events in historical data, without actually extracting patterns that can continue to work ov

How Does the MACD Indicator Identify Trend Changes? How Is It Different from RSI?

In the crypto market, MACD and RSI are both commonly used technical analysis tools, but they focus on different things. Understanding the difference between them can help traders get a more comprehensive view of trends and price momentum, rather than relying on a single indicator to make decisions.

First, what is MACD?

MACD examines the relationship between exponential moving averages over different periods to track price trends and changes in momentum. It typically consists of the DIF line, the DEA line, and

$PEPE ‌
The market structure has recently shifted from a sustained downtrend to a short-term consolidation and potential reversal phase. After a steep drop, the price bottomed out around the 0.000004294 level and has been forming a rounded base, pushing back up to the current price of 0.000004604. The K-line analysis shows a series of higher lows forming, and the price has successfully broken above the middle Bollinger Band (MB: 0.000004478), which is now acting as dynamic support. The Bollinger Bands are also beginning to narrow slightly, indicating a decrease in volatility and a potential s

What Is Out-of-Sample Testing? Why Can Data Not Used to Optimize a Strategy Better Test Its Real-World Performance?

In cryptocurrency trading, a strategy may perform exceptionally well in historical backtests yet quickly fail in new market conditions. The problem may not lie in the trading logic itself; the strategy may have overfit the historical data used for optimization. Out-of-sample testing is an important way to identify this issue.

First, what is out-of-sample testing?

Out-of-sample testing means using data that was not involved in strategy development or parameter optimization to i

Machi Big Brother blew up again??? This time, not just once, but over 2,100 times… damn
On-chain data on November 13 showed that Huang Licheng (@machibigbrother) had been liquidated more than 2,100 times on @papertrade_xyz, with cumulative losses of about $2.22 million and only around $400 left in account equity.
The screenshot shows him still opening ETH long positions one after another today, $100s to $1,000 per trade—one position opened, one position blown up
Still going long after being liquidated 2,100 times—this isn’t trading anymore, it’s performance art, ahhh

What Are Support and Resistance Levels? Why Do These Price Zones Influence Traders’ Decisions Yet Remain Unreliable as Absolute Boundaries?

In cryptocurrency trading, prices often rebound or pull back repeatedly in certain zones. Traders usually call these zones support and resistance levels. They can help analyze market structure, but they do not guarantee that prices will rebound or reverse.

First, what are support and resistance levels?

A support level is a zone where buying pressure may increase and a price decline may temporarily slow; a resistance level is a zone where selling pressur

gm ct ❤️
gonna be a little less active here for the next few days.
busy with a wedding in the family, but honestly, i'll miss checking in my favourite apps that frequently, catching up with everyone and all the random CT conversations. 😂
so before i disappear for a bit…
what have i missed this week? any big news, drama, or market moves i should know about?
keep me updated, fam.👇

If it looks like a range, it probably trades like a range.

Everyone wanted to buy the dip right after the failed range high breakout.

In the higher part of the range.

Nobody will be interested in the lower part of the range and will probably turn full doomer.

Never doom. The opportunity is big, and you'll miss it.

My friend has 200 Pi, brags daily. I have 5000 Pi, I stay quiet. Loud people have little, quiet people have a lot. Are you loud or quiet about your Pi? How much you got really?
#PiNetwork
#ShareWeekly
#GateSquare
#WCTCS9

#BTCDown4%BTC falls below $70k; can tonight’s 9:30 p.m. PPI print a long wick on the weekly candle?
Could the weekend bring a violent rebound? U.S. PPI tonight may be an important catalyst.
BTC has fallen to $69,199, down 6.02% in 24 hours, after hitting a low of $67,568—about 5.4% below its 200-day moving average of $73,137.
First, tonight at 9:30 p.m., the U.S. October PPI will be released. Here are four scenarios for the key data:
Strongly bullish: Headline ≤0.2%, core ≤0.2%. Inflation comes in clearly below expectations. If the dollar and Treasury yields also retreat, BTC could quickly rec