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What is the bid-ask spread? Why can even a seemingly small spread continually erode returns through frequent trading?
In cryptocurrency trading, many people focus only on price movements and overlook the spread between buying and selling. Even when market prices barely change, frequent trading can rack up costs from spreads and fees, ultimately reducing actual returns.
First, what is the bid-ask spread?
The bid-ask spread is the difference between the best ask price and the best bid price in the market. For example, if an asset’s best bid is 100 USDT and its best ask is 100.10 USDT, the spread
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i'm surprised how strong $blob stayed through @AscendLaunch vamps.
ascend got 21 copies of it in less than a day. here's how that went.
the og
> $2.51m before ascend → $788k at the low (22:59 utc). -69%
> back to $1.65m now. +110% off the bottom
> it bottomed the same minutes its biggest copy topped. then the copy died and the og bounced
> 83% of its supply is still held by wallets that were there before ascend
> 523 holders
the 21 copies
> combined market cap: $301k. the og alone is 5.5x all of them together
> 19 of 21 are under $10k
copy #1, blob paired to hype
> launched by a wallet that la
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Trump Media just moved 4,259 $BTC (~$344M) to Crypto com 👀
That's about 30% of its 14,139 BTC stack, and noteholders can demand up to $1B in cash on Nov 30.
Selling... or just custody?
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Does BTC Still Have a Chance Tonight? How Can Beginners Catch This Move in Futures Trading!
BTC quickly rallied from around 78,300 to above 81,000, and has now returned to around 80,500 to trade sideways. Can we still trade tonight? Let me start with one point: the most dangerous thing right now isn’t getting the direction wrong, but seeing the move start and then rushing to enter.
I’ll break down tonight’s market using a multi-timeframe quantitative approach:
1. Trend filter: Use EMA20 and EMA50 to determine direction, the 4-hour chart to assess the trend, and the 45-minute chart to find trad
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Apple Intelligence has now arrived in mainland China
The three-year wait came to an end in late autumn
You can now use features like real-time translation on AirPods and Apple Intelligence
From zero to Apple Intelligence, it took us Chinese people just 3 years
Things are getting more open; looking forward to even better things
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Everything's big. Don't believe it? Come suck— I mean, come taste it.
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The data doesn't add up. $ATOM The current price is 1.5170, with a 24-hour low of 1.4150 and high of 1.5380, an amplitude of 8.7%, but trading volume is only 21.9M—this price-volume relationship is off. For a gain of over 6%, a coin with ATOM's market cap should normally have trading volume above 40M. A low-volume rally could mean selling pressure has dried up, a major player is controlling the market, or liquidity is impaired. There are three possibilities: first, the short squeeze is over, 1.41 is a firm short-term bottom, and buyers are tentatively pushing the price up; second, market make
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Delta Electronics fell from 2585 to 1270, and the AI power leader’s halving has left me more hesitant than ever
Delta Electronics hit an all-time high of 2585 in May, then closed limit-down at 1335 on October 30. In early November, it hit an intraday low of 1255, a pullback of more than 48% from its peak. Q3 earnings fell short of expectations, and foreign investors cut their price targets but still called it a “buy.” The stock’s reaction was to get cut in half. It’s the most typical case among these 19 Taiwan stocks of “fundamentals still growing, valuation collapsing first.”
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What are support and resistance levels? Why do these price zones influence traders’ decisions, yet remain far from absolutely reliable boundaries?
In cryptocurrency trading, prices often repeatedly rebound or pull back 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 pre
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What Is the Funding Rate? Why Can Perpetual Contracts Continue to Incur Holding Costs Even When Prices Show No Significant Change?
In crypto trading, many people focus only on price movements after opening a position and overlook the funding rate. For perpetual contract traders, even if prices move sideways for an extended period, holding a position may still generate additional costs or returns as long as the funding rate is nonzero.
First, what is the funding rate?
The funding rate is a mechanism for periodic payments between long and short positions in perpetual contracts, designed to keep
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Is SNDK at $1,010 a golden opportunity or a meat grinder?
Revenue surged 378%, EPS beat expectations, and the company announced an 8-for-1 stock split—yet the stock fell 27% in a week, with perpetual futures tumbling straight to 1010. Just now, the funding rate is still positive, and longs remain crowded. Is this a golden opportunity in AI storage, or a classic “buy the rumor, sell the news” slaughterhouse?
First, the surface picture: earnings were explosive, but the stock got crushed.
October 29 earnings: revenue of $11.03 billion, up 378% year over year; gross margin of 85.1%; EPS of $49.51—
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Citadel in October: Tech companies created an AI bubble reminiscent of the dot-com crash.
Citadel in November: “The setup has improved”
Earnings continue to beat while AI infrastructure valuations compressed sharply.
Started tracking my BTC results in November. ETH and altcoins didn’t move in sync. I held up to 7 positions and grew 14,000u to 52,900u in just one week. $BTC
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$BTC $ETH As the market has moved so far
there are still some signs of a general downturn
my friend has managed to hold on
At the worst point, the unrealized loss was around 8000
now it’s down to 5000
Let’s see if they can turn a profit later or take only a small loss
that’s better than the current momentum continuing to carry it downward
It should be able to test the one-hour support level
That’s why I told my friend to hold on too
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$SOL has moved, so why hasn’t trading volume followed?
$SOL is currently priced at 96.64, up 3.8023630504833594% over 24 hours, with an intraday high of 98.16 and a low of 92.49. The 1-hour and 4-hour trends are both leaning bullish, so direction appears consistently upward on the surface. But the 1-hour volume ratio is only 0.05654350438542389, indicating extremely low trading participation. Price has moved, but volume hasn’t followed. In this situation, focusing only on the color of the candlesticks can easily lead you to overestimate the move’s staying power.
The direction is still there fo
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$KAS pulled back to the zone it bounced from before. I think this is a nice spot.
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