The government has ended the issuance of the old, machine readable, passports!
Pakistan has switched all new passport applications to e-passports, ending the issuance of machine-readable passports across the country.
The normal fee for a five-year, 36-page passport has doubled from Rs. 4,500 to Rs. 9,000, while the urgent fee has risen from Rs. 7,500 to Rs. 15,000.
Existing machine-readable passports remain valid until they expire.
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⛽ Shell says its bet in Venezuela is on gas, not heavy crude. That’s what its CEO, Wael Sawan, said—a signal that P2P traders should take note of.
The statement didn’t come out of nowhere: in June, Shell and the national government signed five agreements to advance oil and gas projects, including the British company’s participation in the Loran offshore gas field. Sawan added that they’ll continue to look at other opportunities in the country: they’re not leaving, but they want to play with specific cards.
Why gas and not heavy crude? Simple: Venezuelan crude is dense and requires imported dil

Strategy and other Bitcoin treasury firms face MSCI Global Index delisting risk
Strategy, the world's largest publicly listed Bitcoin treasury company, is facing potential removal from key global indices managed by Morgan Stanley Capital International (MSCI).
The decision, announced on October 15, introduced new financial criteria to determine whether non-operating companies qualify for inclusion in its indices. Under this framework, non-operating companies are those whose value, earnings, or core business activities derive primarily from passive financial investments rather than traditional c

$ETH is showing signs of weakness around $2,400.
The loss of both the 20 and 50 EMAs shifts the short-term focus back to support.
Here’s what matters next:
🔹 $2,315–$2,360: Buyers need to defend this zone to keep a recovery scenario alive.
🔹 $2,475–$2,515: Reclaiming this range would be the first meaningful sign of renewed bullish momentum.
Until ETH recovers this resistance zone, the risk of further downside remains.
Support is the level to watch. The next move depends on how buyers respond.

Recently got obsessed with Queen Sophia... I’ll share once I finish catching up; I haven’t posted it yet. Took profit at 94.#晒出我的持仓收益

Let me start with some jargon: liquidity sweep.
Put simply, it means pushing the price down with volume to sweep up the stop-loss orders sitting there, then pulling it back up.
That was the candle at 5 a.m. today: $HYPE .
One candle slammed it down to 77.096 / volume 266,000 contracts / usually it’s only 40,000 to 50,000.
After the sweep, it started climbing / from 77 all the way to 79.301 / over fifteen hours.
What about volume during the climb? / 40,000 to 70,000 / not a single convincing candle.
That’s what they call a low-volume grind up: the price is rising, but the buyers aren’t showing

My trading system and indicators tell me to hold the short position and continue waiting$ZEC ‌

I was wrong last round; today, I’ll make it right.
Last night at 20:22, I wrote that $SOL had no one taking the other side, so I wouldn’t chase it—the 1.36 odds weren’t worth it.
Twenty-four hours later, it has barely moved, up 0.3%.
At 5 a.m., it plunged to 101.17, then climbed back on its own.
Where was I wrong?
I only looked at the long/short ratio, not the volume.
That plunge involved 270,000 contracts; the previous candle had only 30,000.
It was stop-loss orders resting below that got hit, not longs giving up.
Now it’s back at 104.18, just 0.54% below 104.74 overhead.
Upside 0.54%, downs

Was a nice bull market guys
See you next year

CME Group lists Uniswap futures on Sunday, October 18, for trade date October 19, after self-certifying them with the CFTC. CME's crypto futures and options averaged $15.4 billion in open interest in the first half of 2026.
@Uniswap

$INTC SELLERS STILL DOMINATING! 📉🔥
Entry: 89.00 – 89.50 (Short)
SL: 90.30
TP1: 88.00
TP2: 86.80
TP3: 85.75
$INTC remains bearish on the 1H chart after a sharp decline from 97.33. Price is struggling below 90.00, keeping downside pressure alive.
Watch for a rejection near the entry zone before taking a short!

$OGN #OGN
Breaking Bullish Pennant on 4H chart.
Positive breakout could lead 50-55% rise✍️

🏦Gold Medal Finance | New York Fed October Survey Flash
1️⃣ Service sector business activity plunged, with the index falling to -20.7, its lowest level since March
2️⃣ Businesses raised prices at the fastest pace since 2022, and sticky inflation is evident
3️⃣ Input costs continued to climb, and supply chain conditions deteriorated
4️⃣ Businesses were slightly pessimistic about the outlook, while employment was flat with no improvement
💡 Key signal: Economic slowdown + stubborn inflation = early signs of stagflation. Expectations for Fed rate cuts may be pushed back further, creating a short

#GateWCTCS9GlobalTradingCompetition #ShareWeekly #WCTCS9
Gate WCTC S9: A 6 Million USDT Prize Pool, One Global Stage, and a New Test of Trading Strategy
The global trading arena is heating up! Gate World Crypto Trading Competition Season 9 (WCTC S9) brings traders together for a major competition where market knowledge, strategic execution, teamwork, and discipline can make a difference. With a prize pool of up to 6,000,000 USDT, participants have an opportunity to challenge themselves, compete for rewards, and test their strategies across multiple trading categories.
However, success is not

$BTC has large liquidity to the upside
One at $84.5K and the other above $87K
IMO, MMs will hunt these shorts in the coming weeks

Would you buy SNDK at $1275?
SNDK at 1275: perpetuals hit the previous shorts’ target over the weekend, while the stock market hasn’t opened yet. If it gaps down on Monday, are you catching a falling knife or getting buried?
Perpetuals have reached the previous short sellers’ target zone, but the Nasdaq-listed stock hasn’t opened to confirm. In the short term, it’s halfway down in oversold territory; in the medium term, it’s still a deep correction in a major bull market. Leverage must come down before the October 29 earnings report.
First: ChangXin Memory is hitting DRAM, while SanDisk makes

Saylor is back in accumulation mode.
Michael Saylor says Strategy is buying more #Bitcoin, adding another bullish signal to the institutional demand story.
The bigger question now: does this fresh buying help fuel the next $BTC leg higher?
We are so back.

There don’t seem to be any holidays coming up in the next few months, and I can’t make any money either, so I’m just going to start celebrating Chinese New Year now.
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Wishing you all a Happy New Year in advance!