What Is the Long-Short Ratio? Why Doesn’t a Majority of Traders Being Long Mean the Market Will Definitely Rise?
In crypto trading, many people see the long-short ratio rise and assume bullish sentiment is strengthening, then choose to chase long positions. But market sentiment and actual price movements do not always align. The long-short ratio can help us understand traders’ positioning bias, but it cannot directly determine how the market will move next.
First, what is the long-short ratio?
The long-short ratio measures the relative proportion of longs to shorts in a given market. However,

QuantitativeWuYange2 hours ago

The sixth trade broke even. It came within 0.1 of the stop loss and scared the hell out of me. I urgently fixed a bug: for trades in the same direction, the next signal should not appear unless the previous trade has been stopped out or exited at breakeven#Gate推出行业首个资金安全证明

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LiuBang an hour ago

What Is the Bid-Ask Spread? Why Can Even a Seemingly Small Spread Keep Eroding Returns Through Frequent Trading?
In cryptocurrency trading, many people focus only on price movements while overlooking the spread between buying and selling. Even when market prices do not change significantly, frequent trading can still incur ongoing costs from spreads and fees, ultimately affecting actual returns.
First, what is the bid-ask spread?
The bid-ask spread is the difference between the market’s best ask price and best bid price. For example, if an asset’s best bid is 100 USDT and its best ask is 100.1

AlanRogers an hour ago

$KAS pulled back to the zone it bounced from before. I think this is a nice spot.

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LiuBang 2 hours ago

What Is the MACD Indicator? How Can You Use Crossovers and the Histogram to Observe Changes in Trend Momentum?
In cryptocurrency trading, short-term price fluctuations can easily cloud judgment. MACD is a commonly used trend-following indicator. By observing the crossovers of its two lines and changes in its histogram, traders can analyze trend direction and momentum. However, it cannot accurately predict every price move and is not suitable for use in isolation from market conditions.
First, what is MACD?
MACD stands for Moving Average Convergence Divergence, and its commonly used settings ar

SmartBrother 40 minutes ago

The market has just turned slightly green, and many people are getting itchy trigger fingers, eager to go all in with one click. Hold on—switch to the order book depth and take a look. The waters below are murky, packed with bait orders, clearly a trap meant to lure you in! Today, I have to point out these pitfalls.
$BT Current price 80325, order book imbalance has surged to 72:28, and below 78500 sits a massive buy order worth over $10 million. At first glance, it looks like a steel floor, right? Wake up! From 81000 to 82000, red sell orders are stacked like a city wall—all trapped positions

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GateUser-e077a00d 3 minutes ago

$CAKE #CAKE
Broken Falling Wedge.
Bounce from multiple support zone could provide 40-45% bullish move✍️

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ChenAn an hour ago

Yesterday, the crypto market staged a textbook bear trap and reversal. In the morning, BTC and ETH both plunged on heavy volume, with the Bollinger Bands widening and diverging downward. Bearish indicators aligned across the board, panic gripped the market, and retail traders piled into shorts. Predictions that prices would break below previous lows were everywhere.
Against the trend, we anchored our decisions to key support levels: BTC held the previous-low support at 76270, while ETH held the 2245 support confluence zone. We refused to let panic dictate our moves.
At midday, a second retest

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patch 9 minutes ago

#ETH
Interim target outlook.
Friends, a closer target emerges when looking at Ethereum $ETH 's interim rally before the cycle peak. In 2019, the interim peak after the bottom reached just 25% (366.8) of the 2018 peak. In 2024, it climbed to 4,094, or 84% of the 2021 peak, 633 days after the bottom.
In this cycle, after the June 6, 2026 bottom at 1,506, it reached 2,807 on September 21; that's 57% of the 4,957 peak. At 152 days after the bottom, ETH is so far ahead of both cycles. The price path before and after the bottom is similar to both cycles: correlation is 0.83 with 2018 and 0.82 with 20

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Heinrich1 2 hours ago

The free mint window for @FungoLabs Genesis opens in a few hours and the paid side looks nothing like a regular drop.
Whitelist holders and nominees get the first 500 spots starting at 12:30 UTC.
After that the remaining 2,500 move into a sealed auction that runs a full day.
The auction side works like this:
→ you pick a price and quantity in cZAMA
→ both numbers stay encrypted until the window closes
→ the lowest bid that still fills the supply sets the price
→ every winner pays that same amount and the rest comes back
Each NFT also comes sealed so the holder decides if the art ever goes pu

CryptoMishu30 minutes ago

Democrats Continue Pushing the CLARITY Act! With the SEC Potentially Gaining More Authority, Is U.S.

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StarshineWisdomEyesSmartTravel 24 minutes ago

The most unusual detail in today’s market isn’t on the gainers list, but in the structure: $XRP is up just 2.21% over 24h, yet has moved above both MA5 (1.31782) and MA20 (1.31022), with RSI at 63.1, the MACD histogram turning positive at +0.0001704, and the price hugging the upper Bollinger Band at 1.32276—this is a classic case of “modest gains, but strengthening structure.” A comparison makes this clearer: $DOGE is also up 2.25%, but MA5 remains below MA20 and the MACD histogram is negative, making this a weak rebound;
$KORUB is down 18.27%, with the moving averages in a bearish alignmen

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Coinhusays1 an hour ago

What is the market trading now?
AI, the dollar, and U.S. Treasuries, which should be bearish, and gold and silver, which should be bullish, have basically all risen.
Risk assets—Bitcoin and the Nasdaq—also rose 2%~3% yesterday on the day of the great uprising.
Semiconductors continued to fall.
The market is currently in a quiet period. What is it trading? Nothing much.
It’s just pure positioning warfare.
After rising too much, it has to fall. That’s all.
Opened a small short position on Ethereum. ethereum:native

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Marcinthematrix an hour ago

Grant Thornton Switzerland attested the Cardano Foundation's 2025 financial statements on Cardano, with the sign-off recorded on the public ledger.
Its global network has $8.5B in yearly revenue and ~80,000 people.
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MrFlower_XingChen2 hours ago

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discoveryan hour ago

#GoldBreaksAbove4100
Safe-haven bid pushes gold back above 4,100 as macro risks are reassessed.
XAUUSD trades at 4,122.98 to 4,134.04 in late session, up 62.62 or 1.54% on day. Open 4,064.14, high 4,146.92, low 4,057.83, prior close 4,060.35. Other feeds show high 4,146.90, low 4,057.92, close near 4,063.92, with intraday high 4,146.97 and low 4,109.18. Gold at 4,116.35 up 51.06 or 1.26% and at 4,138.84 up 80.82 or 1.99% in some prints. The move puts price back over key 4,100 mark after weeks of soft trade.
Why up now? Four drivers line up.
1. Safe-haven flow. US midterms handed both chambers

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LongzhiTradingCompoundInterest10 minutes ago

For ETH tonight, the key is whether the rebound can reclaim the resistance zone.
Based on Gate ETHUSDT market data at 18:34 on November 5, the short-term outlook is range-bound and slightly weak. Watch resistance at 2425—2435; a rejection there would favor a short position. Watch support at 2411—2413; consider a short-term long only after the price stabilizes.
If the price establishes itself above 2436—2437, then watch 2444—2450. If it loses 2404 and fails to reclaim it on a rebound, beware of a retest of 2393—2380.
Wait for the levels and confirmation; set a stop-loss first, then assess the p

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Cryptoaman01 37 minutes ago

🚨 US JOBLESS CLAIMS DATA TODAY!
US Initial Jobless Claims drop at 6:00 PM IST.
↳ Previous: 194K
↳ Forecast: 197K
↳ Above 205K → Bearish
↳ 194K–200K → Neutral
↳ Below 190K → Bullish
Markets are watching closely!

𝐋𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐦®an hour ago

You wanna catch this move on $INJ .
Monthly chart.
Everything else is peanuts 🥜
That's why I say hourly charts in this time of the cycle is for kids.
And not only that you will catch the biggest move. You will also lower your stress for 90%.
Listen to your old LT 💚

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