The Bank of Japan (BoJ) has officially raised interest rates by 0.25%, exactly as the market expected. This is the second rate hike in just three months, bringing borrowing costs to their highest level since 1995.
The tightening decision aims to curb domestic inflation and support the yen, easing the burden of higher import costs.
The BoJ’s policy normalization is clearly accelerating, continuing to pressure the unwinding of Yen carry trade positions in global markets.

$PI That's right, exactly like this—the rebound is weak, and I really don't want to close this short position.

September 18 SOL Market Analysis
Conservative: around 101.45-101.85, stop loss below 100.90, targets 102.80/103.50
Aggressive: around 102.25-102.50, stop loss below 101.80, targets 102.85/103.50
SOL current price: 102.60.
On the 1-hour chart, the overall trend is strongly bullish, with the price climbing in a staircase pattern from the low of 95.73 and bullish momentum remaining strong. The current price is consolidating at high levels, making the risk-reward ratio unfavorable for chasing the rally. A more prudent approach is to wait for a pullback to key moving-average support.
Although the u

After $ARB surged to 0.22346, I instead took 70% off first. It’s not that I’m bearish; this level is right at a key prior-high resistance, making further chasing less attractive. The move up from 0.13354 has formed a breakout–pullback–breakout structure, with each pullback holding at a higher key level, while volume expanded on the breakouts.
The key levels are clear now: the prior high is the first key level. After the breakout, a low-volume pullback that holds the upper boundary would establish a new entry setup; if it simply surges above and then falls back, it could be a false breakout. I’

A whale just held a long 1.38M HYPE position (~$119M) for 343 days, with ~$65.7M unrealized profit and ongoing funding fees. Possible sign of confident conviction in $HYPE ’s path. $HYPE

$RAY The most unusual detail today is that it surged 17.28% in 24h, yet the funding rate remains +0.0000%. The price has already moved above the upper Bollinger Band at 1.61155 (current price: 1.6675), and RSI has spiked to 77.8, but there has been no clear long-side payment on the perpetuals market—indicating that this rally is mainly driven by spot buying and forced short covering, rather than leveraged funds actively chasing longs. Under this structure, shorts are the fuel, not the counterparty.
From the long-short battle perspective, MA5=1.56576 is firmly holding above MA20=1.48933, while

Sometimes I’m too greedy. Yesterday, there were two trades, each of which could have earned over 1,000 U, but in the end I just broke even and exited. I need to get rid of this bad habit—I can’t be too greedy; once it reaches the target level, get out.

To be honest, I’m surprised this trade has survived until now; luck played a significant part. During the repeated intraday swings, $COOKIE lacked that final push every time it moved higher, resistance above was obvious, and volume failed to follow. I read COOKIE as bullish but bearish-biased. In the end, the short from 0.01111 ground down to 0.01037, +167.74%, delivering the answer.

The market is waited out, and profits are held onto.

Close 80% of the short first, protect the remaining 20% at breakeven, and let the profits run if it continues to drop. Now is not the time to charge in; ch

Solana’s long-short battle is intense in September. The probability of falling below 90 has a slight edge, with the probability of surging to 110 close behind; the two are nearly even.
The market is not optimistic about testing 120 this month; that scenario is a low-probability, high-odds event.
This means September has two equally likely scenarios: testing 110 to the upside or pulling back to 90 to the downside, with a high degree of uncertainty over the direction.

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Japan's About to Hit a 31-Year High on Rates, But the Real Trade Is in What Ueda Says Next
The Bank of Japan is widely expected to raise its policy rate from 1.0 to 1.25 percent today, marking the highest level since 1995 and the second hike in just three months, the fastest pace of tightening Japan has seen since 1990. Markets are pricing this hike at close to 100 percent probability. Which means, exactly like this week's Fed decision, the hike itself is old news the moment it lands. The real action is in what Gove

The market broadly underwent a high-level consolidation and adjustment this week.
During the period, two separate news developments affected the short-term trend, so from the candlestick perspective, the market broke upward twice in succession, but neither move ultimately formed a sustained continuation.
After the rate hike news was announced yesterday, the market found support as a 4H low signal appeared. However, after a day of rebound, BTC still failed to reclaim 7.7, so for now this can only be viewed as a rebound, and it is not yet possible to confirm that a reversal has been complete

【Bitcoin】rise📈 market is basically over, with the current high at 77500
Prepare for a test of the 77500-72500 range.

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Mainstream prediction market expectation: The CLARITY Act is unlikely to secure broad support in the Senate.
Even for the relatively lowest threshold of more than 55 votes, the probability is only 10%; for the key thresholds of 60 and 64 votes, the market assigns probabilities of around 10% as well.
Market pricing reflects the view that the bill has a very low chance of receiving broad Senate support and faces considerable obstacles to advancing.

$NEAR NEAR Rises to $3.48: Secret TVL Milestone and ETF Application
NEAR Protocol (NEAR) reached $3.48 on the morning of September 18, 2026, gaining 29.51% in the last 24 hours. Intraday trading ranged between $2,635 and $3,516, pushing market capitalization above $4.11 billion. This surge is driven by three key developments:
The Secret TVL Milestone and the NEAR@3.33 Program
NEAR’s privacy-focused cross-chain trading pipeline, Confidential Intents, reached a total locked value (TVL) of $70 million on September 15. This threshold triggered a snapshot under the NEAR@3.33 incentive program. Ac

【$SOL Signal】Long + 1H Pullback Support
$SOL 1H RSI 59.10, 4H 55.36, selling pressure is piled up above 101, and the bid depth ratio is 0.44.
🎯 Direction: Long
⚡ Entry/Limit Order: 100.7668 - 101.0700
🛑 Stop Loss: 100.0593
🚀 Target 1: 102.5861
🚀 Target 2: 103.3441
🛡️Trade Management:
- Execution Strategy: After reaching Target 1, reduce the position by 50% and move the stop loss up to breakeven. If the price falls back to the entry level, exit automatically to protect the principal.
Depth Logic: The 4H MACD histogram is shortening at 0.4242, while the 1H MACD has formed a death cross, i

☀️ GM! A new day, and the market has changed its face again. 👀
Some are still digesting the 25bp hike,
while others are already waking up with the tech rally. 📈
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👇 Drop your market mood.
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I know you haven’t dared to pull the trigger these past few days—not because you’re bearish, but because you’re afraid of buying too high. The person on my list has set his entry price at $75,000.
Tiafiro’s rules are strict: entry level, invalidation level, alignment with the higher-timeframe trend, and holding period—if all four questions can’t be answered, he doesn’t trade. That time at $82,000, the price failed to hold the H4 vacuum range, so he scrapped the plan and switched to waiting for the weekly C2.
Once $75,000 was reached, he said the Wave 5 correction was complete, and the 2.618 ex